ClearPath OS 2200 ClearPath Dorado Series, Business Benefits

Your business strategies and information technology need to be carefully aligned. In fact, your IT infrastructure should add significant value to your business model.
 
With new ClearPath Dorado Series Servers and services and the latest advances in mainstream computing, your IT acquisitions become aggressive investment opportunities for the business itself. 

Look at the valuable contributions ClearPath Dorado servers can make to your business:

• Turn your business challenges into revenue opportunities.

  Marketplace events and seasonal periods can cause tremendous amounts of online traffic and unpredictable system workload spikes. To seamlessly accommodate them, you can choose ClearPath servers with Pay-for-Use business models and metering technology. How does this help? These servers are delivered with extra processing power that’s “always on” and available for use – instantaneously. And, you pay only for the resources you use, as you use them.
• Use Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to quickly create new business connections.
  Our business connectivity services help you leverage an SOA approach that accelerates the pace of creating connections to new clients, partners, and market opportunities. We can help you plan an SOA approach that enables you to more rapidly create new composite business services from your existing business processes. Several SOA technologies are available for the OS 2200-based environment such as Java EE enabling you to reuse your existing assets or create new SOA-based components.
• Enjoy a highly secure Java environment.
  Exposing your servers to a web environment can be risky business given today’s ever more intelligent hackers, viruses, and worms. Java is a relatively secure environment, but it’s not without flaws. Running your Java-based web applications in an environment as secure as OS 2200 is a major advantage.  ClearPath Java offers many other benefits. It enables you to implement SOA-based applications, integrate, and reuse your existing ClearPath applications in your Java applications running on diverse operating environments—all this using industry-standard skills and tools. Read more about our Secure Java solutions.
• Enjoy Open Source Economics
  Now you use many of the Open Source products in your ClearPath OS 2200 environment.  JBoss Application Server allows you to run Java EE natively under OS 2200.  ClearPath IDE for Eclipse provides many Open Source products, including Eclipse and Unisys value-added products that automatically generate Java access to existing OS 2200 COBOL applications and OS 2200 databases.  Plus other development tools and frameworks. All qualified, integrated, tested, packaged, and released by Unisys.
• React quickly to business and service-level demands.
  Non-metered ClearPath Dorado servers offer you Capacity on Demand options and resource allocation capabilities that let you match capacity to your needs on a real-time basis.
• Unlock your legacy core business systems.
  Your ClearPath OS 2200 legacy applications are valuable assets that embody major investments in human and capital resources. And they're making vital contributions to your ongoing success. The safest and most cost-effective strategy going forward is to capitalize on these investments, for example, by evolving towards SOA. Unisys offers Application Modernization services for Dorado Servers that optimze and streamline the evolution of your ClearPath based core business systems.

• Maximize your IT investments.

  ClearPath Servers extend the value of your most important IT assets — your ClearPath core systems, applications, data, and staff — and enhance your return on these investments. Our Application Value program quantifies the benefits.

• Consolidate your servers and save.

  ClearPath Servers let you easily accommodate OS 2200 and Intel® workloads from distributed locations. You save costs and reduce complexity with fewer servers and locations to manage, and lower your networking overhead. Our Server Consolidation consultants can show you just how much you could save.

• Plan ahead for business continuity.

  Planning for the possibility of a catastrophe that compromises your business operations is part of a responsible IT strategy. We'll work with our world-class partners to help you develop and implement economical business continuance strategies that are tailored to your specific requirements. Get the level of confidence you want with ClearPath Business Continuity solutions.

• Boost your developers productivity.

  Our Modern Application Development Tools boost the productivity of your new and seasoned developers through the use of a modern, PC- based environment and Open Source tools and frameworks.
• Get the most out of your data resources.
  Our ad-hoc query tools provide a full set of commands for transforming your data into information.  Information can be gathered in real time from disparate production data sources thus providing you with up to the minute information that is used for making informed decisions. 

• Capitalize on new market opportunities.

  Our Rapid Application Development Environments let your developers quickly generate systems that incorporate business rules, multiple databases and transactions to capitalize early on emerging opportunities.

• Let your ClearPath Servers manage themselves with Autonomic Computing.

  Our Operations Sentinel software  simplifies operational control, maximizes availability and minimizes your support efforts and costs