Unisys 'Future-proofs' Mainframe Legacy Applications; New Application Modernization Service Uses Open Standards to Reinvigorate Mainframe Applications

Business Wire, Sept 29, 2004

BLUE BELL, Pa. -- Unisys Corporation (NYSE:UIS) today announced its new Application Modernization Service, a comprehensive set of service offerings for customers running all legacy and mainframe environments. The Service, drawing on Unisys expertise in consulting and integration and heritage in technological innovation, is designed to address the problem of mission-critical applications lagging behind the pace of business change.

"Unisys is ending application agility-lag," said Joe McGrath, president and chief operating officer, Unisys. "The new Unisys Application Modernization Service allows organizations to retain the most valued qualities of legacy systems - security, availability and reliability - while using the newest open standards-based tools to make their data centers more agile. For a long time, 'legacy' has been a dirty word. Now that customers can incorporate the future into their legacy applications, it's time to embrace the legacy."

Any application is fixed in time as soon as it is implemented, and as time goes on, it becomes more out of step with the business it runs. Yet, these applications are also the crown jewels of mission critical computing, containing vital competitive advantage in the intellectual property they compile over the years. The Unisys Application Modernization Service is the industry's most practical, step-by-step service designed to help CIOs securely overcome application agility-lag in the industry's multi-trillion dollar mainframe application inventory. This signals a vital shift in the current view of mainframe computing.

Unisys Application Modernization Service helps customers ensure that business processes are driving their technology, rather than allowing technology to limit business agility. The Service, available for users of any mainframe or legacy environment, including aging IBM (NYSE:IBM) systems, begins with a full assessment of current assets and needs. Based on Unisys 3D Visible Enterprise methodology, the Service gives companies a holistic view into the cause-and-effect relationships between shifts in technology, business processes and strategy. This allows the mainframe to become the centerpiece of a service-oriented architecture, the most agile and economical technology model in the industry today.

Through the service, Unisys engineers, using automated software tools, help customers make necessary updates more quickly and without the risks associated with untested applications. It also modernizes critical applications without losing the decades of optimization work invested in them - protecting investments and gauging results at each step.

The latest ClearPath Dorado mainframe, also unveiled today (see separate release), brings the security and resilience of legacy systems into the rapidly unfolding future of open systems software development. Embracing a variety of open source standards - Linux, JBoss, J2EE, .Net, among others - Dorado allows a new generation of applications and application developers to access one of the most secure and dependable platforms on the market.

Go to http://www.unisys.com/cp/dorado/modernization for more information on Unisys Application Modernization Service.

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