Application Modernization and Outsourcing

The Next Productivity Leap: Regaining Control of Your Application Suite

In today’s world of anytime, anywhere connectivity, the demand for “instant-on,” personal choice and “just-in-time” capacity is exploding. The demand from the always-connected 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.

The complexity, duplication, and shortage of skills and budgets have begun to create a barrier to application productivity. Business environments cannot keep pace with the increasing demand for innovation and at the same time, support older application technology without a smarter approach. One “quick” answer to the struggle of maintaining applications has been rip and replace, but that type of answer often means more disruption and cost to the business and, many times, 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, risks etc. 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 you already have in your footprint.

Regain Control of Your Application Suite by Taking the Next Productivity Leap Where Less Can Be More

• 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 legacy 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.

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.

• 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.

Videos

• The Unisys approach to enterprise modernization

  Cem Tanyel, VP and GM, Unisys Application Services, discusses a holistic approach to modernization and examples of successful transformations that produced measurable new business value.

• 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.

• Cem Tanyel

  Cem Tanyel is vice president and general manager of Applications Services at Unisys Corporation. In this role, Cem leads all Unisys application software development, assembly, and support activities globally.

• David Luther

  David Luther is the vice president of Solution Management in Global Financial Services at Unisys Corporation. He has worldwide responsibility for leading the Solution Management group in defining and managing the company's software and services offerings to the financial industry.

• Sam Racine

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