Unisys

Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) is a global provider of information technology services and programs, headquartered in Bell Blue, Pennsylvania of the United States and incorporated in Delaware.

History Unisys office in Leeds, West Yorkshire

Unisys was formed in September 1986 through the merger of the mainframe corporation Sperry and Burroughs, which merged Sperry with Burafs for $ 4.8 billion. The name was chosen in an internal competition, when a trainee from the United Information System, Charles Ayub, came up with the short name Unisys. At that time it was the largest merger in the computer industry and Unisys became the second largest computer company with a revenue of $ 10.5 billion annually. During the merger, Unisys had about 120,000 employees.

In addition to hardware, both Burroughs and Sperry are U. s. (U.S.) government has a history of working on contracts. Unisys has been providing hardware, software and services to various government agencies.

Immediately after the merger, the trademarks of mainframe systems in the market - the mainstream product of Unisys and its competitors like IBM - started declining for a longer period and at some point it was still going on at some rate is. In response, Unisys maintains the flow of profitable revenues from maintaining its trademarked mainframe hardware and installed base of applications, with high level servers (for example 32 processor window servers) as well as information technology (IT) services such as Strategic decision to move system integration, outsourcing and related technical services.

Important events in the company's history include Unisys 2200/500 CMOS mainframes, including development in 2200 series in 1986 and Micro A, first desktop mainframe in 1989, Unisys ES7000 server in 2000, and business rules and workflow in 2004. The Unisys Blueprint method includes.

In 1988, it was necessary for the company to acquire the synthetic technologies of CTO manufacturers.

In March 2006, Unisys sold its Japanese distributor's $ 374 million stake. Sales were made to keep the company functioning and provide 3,600 employees, which was about 10% of the number of Unisys employees at the time, free of work. J. Edward Coleman replaces J.J. McGraw was replaced as CEO and President.

On November 11, 2008 the company came out of the Standard & Poor's 500 index Until the trading closed on November 7, the market capitalization of the company had fallen from the minimum $ 4 billion to the S & P 500 to about $ 313 million. Products, services, and customers

Parallel to the larger information in the American information technology industry, the amount of Unisys rising revenue comes from services rather than sales of equipment. For services, from 65% in 1997, this ratio reached 88% in 2008. Unisys clients are usually large corporations or government agencies, and include Washington Mutual, New York Clearinghouse, Dell, Lufthansa Systems, Lloyds TSB, EMC, Swift, various state governments (for unemployment insurance, licensing services). s. Various branches of the Army, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), many airports, general service administration, U. s. Transportation Security Administration, Internal Revenue Service, Nettel, Spanish Telefonica etc. are included.

Unisys System uses a number of industrial and governmental purposes, including banking, resource investigations, income tax processing, air passenger passenger reservation, biometric identification, shipping port management as well as providing meteorological data services. Unisys developed the software for the original Doppler Weather Radar NEEXRAD and since the weather provides data, it is equipped with radar, satellite and electricity etc. Unisys U. s. Uses the world's largest RFID network for the army and searches for 9 million containers in a year from 1500 nodes in 25 countries. It also creates universal identification cards for citizens of South Africa.

The company is engaged in ongoing contracts for consulting and outsourced IT services in connection with one-time contracted jobs. These services include the creation of hardware and software and integrating them, providing hosting and data, business process outsourcing, outsourcing support desk and end-user service, management of secure cloud, operating procedures and planning changes and providing security services. Is included.

Its devices include ES 7000 server families, which use Intel processor such as Xeon or Itanium chips. These servers run the open source of Linux operating systems from Microsoft's Windows Datacenter and other Windows operating systems and / or Novell or Head Hats. ES 7000 has been certified by the Guinness Book of World Records to create a record of hosting a lot of players simultaneously, rather than a single game server.

The company's mainframe line, ClearPath, not only to run the mainframe software; But the Java platform and the Jaboos Java EE application server are both capable of running together. The ClearPath system is available either in Unisys 2200-based systems (Speri) or in MCP-based systems (Burroughs).

Unisys has been offering the user-Centric_Proactive_IT_Management solution to the customer. , This solution is called the Frontline Performance Intelligence Platform, which reduces this specific cost by handling by automating events and disturbances outside the system, and enhances user's productivity and consumer satisfaction. However, through this partnership, Unisys is formulating a strategic component for its outsourcing and support services to manage widely end user experience. Conflict

The LZW Data Compression Algorithm, which is a common GIF image file format, but after declaring its patent, Unisys attracted everyone's attention in 1994. For a more complete discussion on this issue, see Graphics Interchange Format # Unisys and LZW patent enforcement.

In the mid-1980s, for the investigation of corruption, Unisys targeted the "Operation Ill Wind". As part of the agreement, all employees of Unisys were required to receive ethical training every year, which is still going on.

In 2003 and 2004, Unisys kept the influential campaigner Jack Abramoff in the company, in his two years, his company paid $ 640,000. In January 2006, Abramoff apologized for the five offenses relating to various types of crimes related to federal campaign activities, although none of their crimes were linked to Unisys in any way. The promotional activities of Abromoff and its partners are now under a major federal investigation.

In October 2005, the Washington Post has reported that, with the permission of 24,983 hours not allowed for contracting labor and overtime, the maximum rate for a maximum of 131.13 dollars per hour for the company is approximately 171,000 hours The bill came from 1 to 3 billion dollars. Unisys denied this disturbance.

In 2006, the Washington Post reported that the FBI was investigating cyber security flaws allegedly under the company's contract with the Homeland Security Department of the United States. It is estimated that some security flaws, including the transmission of data to the Chinese server, occurred during the contract. Unisys denies these allegations and said that he has legal documents to deny these allegations.

After the vote on the no-confidence motion from the Board in 2008, which McGrath stepped down and replaced Gateway Inc. Former CEO J. Edward Coleman came. Federal Area President Greg Baroni was also fired.

On June 30, 2008, Unisys announced that the company did not select the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for the second phase of the Information Technology Infrastructure Program. Unisys announced plans to register formal protest against TSA's decision with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in July. On August 20, TSA announced that it allowed all competitors including Unisys and Northrop Grumman to bid bids, after being initially not selected, formal protest was lodged at GAO from both of them and the Federal Aviation Administration Had opposed TSA's decision in the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Dispute Resolution.

2009: Unisys U.U. s. Reduced the number of employees; "We were able to evacuate a large number of people from US based jobs and they were replaced with two people outside India." (Richard Marcelo, President of Technology, Consultant and Integrated Solutions). The company also split a reverse stock split in ten, in October 2009, under an attempt to raise the prices of shares and prevent recruitment.

2010: Unisys sold its medical processing health information management service Molina Healthcare for $ 135 million. Also see them Notes

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