Application Modernization and Outsourcing

The Next Productivity Leap: Regaining Control of Your Application Suite

In today’s world of anytime, anywhere connectivity through social networks and mobile applications, the demand for instant-on, personal choice and just-in-time capacity is exploding. This high demand for the always-connected government and market place is driving application utilization upward. There are more applications available than ever before - standard apps, mission-critical proprietary apps - all needing to coexist in a way that provides a superior citizen, consumer and worker experience.

The complexity, duplication, and shortage of skills and budgets have begun to create a barrier to application productivity. Without a smarter approach, business and government environments cannot keep pace with the increasing demand for innovation and, at the same time, support older application technology. One quick answer to the struggle of maintaining applications has been to rip and replace, but that often means more disruption and cost to the government or business and, many times, results in an unsatisfactory outcome.

The Ultimate Question: Are You Controlling Your Applications, or Are Your Applications Controlling You?

The challenge is how to reduce application footprints, costs and risks while supporting a growing expectation around innovation and user experience. But adding more technology to gain productivity does not meet either goal. The answer is not to add more or to rip and replace, but to extract more business value from fewer, existing applications and to take advantage of emerging application delivery models, such as Cloud and Software as a Service.

Regain Control of Your Application Suite

• A smaller application footprint will drive more efficient use of physical resources
• Decreased maintenance costs will free up budget for more strategic and innovative programs
• Less staff dilution from application silos means more time to focus on building the business
• Less risk from holistic security testing will drive more business continuity and loyalty

Unisys understands how to help clients make "less is more" a reality in their application environment - extracting greatest value from core applications while developing a roadmap for future application modernization.

Our Portfolio

Our Application Modernization service offerings include:

• Transformation services - Implementation and integration services to help clients evolve their application systems to meet current/future business needs and achieve competitive agility, while continuing to preserve and leverage the intellectual property and core business processes established by their existing applications. Our core services include Application Optimization, Application Re-Architecting, ClearPath Modernization and Integration, and SOA Design and Implementation.
• Customer program management services - Services to drive delivery efficiency, consistency, and quality for clients' application modernization initiatives. Our solutions provide standardized processes and tools for full program management services; program governance models and performance measurement; and, delivery models based on a combination of onsite, remote, dispatched, and dedicated resources. Unisys is committed to continuous improvement, and customer satisfaction.

Our Products

Our transformational product set—Agile Business Suite and Business Information Server—has been designed with the client in mind and provides advanced reporting, information mining, program management, modelers, debugging, and scripting capabilities.

Our Insights and Trends section provides a venue for current articles, podcasts, analyst reports, and Thought Leaders to help your organization stay ahead of the trends and issues that affect operations.

Unisys in the News

• IT Unprepared For Flood Of Consumer Devices, Apps

  An article in InformationWeek highlights the new IDC/Unisys research - and how it finds enterprises are under increasing pressure to manage and support iWorkers' devices and applications.

• Modernizing Your Applications - Beyond SOA

  Nick Evans of Unisys discusses modernizing your applications beyond SOA.

• What's the deal with application outsourcing?

  U.S. government now looking to take advantage of global market for IT services according to Unisys Jeff Irby.

Point Of View Papers

• The CIO conundrum in communications

  With the communications industry undergoing fundamental business changes – the entry of new competitors, the rapid decline of traditional revenue streams and consumer empowerment – CIOs and the IT teams they lead face their own unique set of challenges.

• Boomers Transfer Knowledge to Gen Y for Legacy Apps

  There are several drivers that compel an IT organization to spend effort on the knowledge transfer of legacy applications: a maturing workforce, the outsourcing of application maintenance, and mergers and acquisitions resulting in application consolidation. This paper provides best practices and techniques to minimize the risks involved in knowledge transfer.

• Unisys technology perspective

  It’s nearly impossible to look into IT in the federal government without bumping into service-oriented architecture. SOA can help you achieve business agility, bringing government and military the possibility of creating an information sharing environment.

Podcasts

• Application Demands from an “Always-Connected World”

  In this recent interview, area of strength leader and President of Worldwide Consulting & Integration Services Dominick Cavuoto and chief marketing officer Ellyn Raftery discuss the progression of applications from siloed, internal productivity enhancers to customer-touching, mission-critical, industry-oriented applications.

Webinars

• Are You Ready for Consumer-Powered IT?

  IDC just completed a new research study, sponsored by Unisys, with the focus on gauging end-user usage patterns and preferences around productivity devices and corporate support/policy. The survey conducted across 10 countries and 2,800+ end users shows surprising results that you won’t want to miss in this on-demand webinar.

• City of the Future: A CIO Panel on Technology Strategies for Serving the Citizen

  The city of the future must be able to address the citizen of the future. In order to make that happen, CIOs across the globe are developing technology visions to support the municipality’s vision. This webinar provides strategies from city CIOs and Unisys for modernizing citizens’ access to information and services.

• As Mobile and Portable Devices Proliferate, So Do Your Risks

  As more mobile devices are used by greater numbers of employees and customers, your security war expands. Some of the topics this webinar discusses are keeping your enterprise assets safe and still meeting the mobile access demands of the work force, policies and security practices in place that extend to mobile devices, and future uses of mobile devices.

Videos

• IDC Consumer Video Podcast: "A Consumer Revolution in the Enterprise"

  The Unisys-Sponsored Consumerization of IT Research consists of two separate but linked surveys that measure attitudes about, usage of, and ability to support a rapidly growing number of consumer devices in the workplace. John Gantz, Chief Research Officer and Senior Vice President of IDC, discusses the results of the consumer research and what it means for the enterprise.

• Modernization

  Today, business and government leaders need to innovate, anticipate and evolve to be successful in a global marketplace, and to do this they are turning to IT. By leveraging next-generation technologies in the areas of security, high-performance infrastructure and world-class reliability, leaders are realizing agility, growth and success.

• IDC Business Video Podcast: "Are you Ready for the Consumer Revolution?"

  The Unisys-Sponsored Consumerization of IT Research consists of two separate but linked surveys that measure attitudes about, usage of, and ability to support a rapidly growing number of consumer devices in the workplace. John Gantz, Chief Research Officer and Senior Vice President of IDC, provides a comparison between the consumer and business results.

• IDC iView: A Consumer Revolution in the Enterprise

  This iView is a multimedia browser-based tool that delivers the results of the consumer research content (from Unisys-Sponsored Consumerization of IT Research) in digital, mixed-media format. John Gantz, Chief Research Officer and Senior Vice President of IDC, provides audience-essential data, based on the research, and commentary on market considerations.

• Application Modernization and Outsourcing Credential Video

  With Unisys Application Modernization and Outsourcing services, global organizations have been able to streamline purchasing, increase processing productivity, and reduce costs. Learn more about Unisys clients and see how they benefit from Unisys Application Modernization and Outsourcing solutions.

• Application Modernization and Outsourcing - Overview

  Unisys understands how to help clients make "less is more" a reality in their application environment—extracting greatest value from legacy applications while developing a roadmap for future application modernization.

Thought Leaders

• Andrew Gordon

  Andrew Gordon is director, SOA and Open Source Solutions with Unisys Federal Systems. He is responsible for leading the SOA and Open Source business vision for Federal Systems, shaping the Federal strategic SOA and Open Source solutions portfolio and helping federal government clients harness the power of SOA and Open Source.

• Burak Bilir

  Burak Bilir is an enterprise architect within the Chief Technology Office at Unisys Corporation. He has 18 years of experience in the IT industry focusing on business and enterprise architecture, emerging technologies, and solution portfolio development.

• Sam Racine

  Sam is an experienced facilitator, specialist in computer-mediated communicator, and designer of human-computer interfaces.

• Suzanne Carter

  Suzanne Carter is vice president, Commercial Industries, Unisys Asia Pacific. She is responsible for developing and leading the Unisys Transportation, Communication, and Consumer and Industrial Products practices in Asia Pacific.