Open Source Unisys Enterprise Asset Modernization

Leveraging Today's IT Assets to Build Tomorrow's Infrastructure

Unisys Enterprise Asset Modernization (EAM) can update your technology infrastructure efficiently and cost effectively, helping it better meet today’s needs and strategically positioning it for future growth. The process doesn’t have to be complex, costly, or time-consuming. In fact, with a better understanding of your existing IT assets, and a foundational plan in place, you could be very close to having this optimized infrastructure.
 
Unisys EAM provides an incremental approach to modernization, helping you intelligently meet changing business needs to update older software and systems while improving business agility. We are a leader in this modernization effort, offering a comprehensive set of valuable, innovative services.

Unisys EAM Benefits:

• Provide agility to update and optimize businesses by extracting valuable operations knowledge to a level independent of technology, leveraging existing IT assets in new ways
• Solve problems associated with outdated technology by moving applications to more modern, industry-standard platforms
• Enable the re-use of legacy assets by “wrapping” them in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), which allows new functionality and integrates old software, enabling the preservation of existing intellectual property
• Translate applications to new languages and offers services to redetermine results, creating a maintainable final application in the new language
• Assure uninterrupted operations by allowing old and new applications to coexist during a transition period
• Reduce costs through more efficient application operations, maintenance, and use of IT staff

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Why Choose Unisys for Modernization?

• Thought leadership. Unisys is a thought leader in the greater modernization community, using its position as a member of the not-for-profit computer industry consortium, Object Management Group (OMG), to develop industry standards and best practices. We add more value through our intellectual property, software, hardware, and services.
• Innovation. We provide a portfolio of solutions and expertise that address each new and unique project. For example, our proprietary KMA (Knowledge Mining and Abstraction, a Unisys Knowledge-based Modernization approach) solution has been recognized by analysts to be a more effective approach to EAM – one that adds integrated value by leveraging knowledge and understanding, exposing all of the asset value and logic hidden in legacy applications. Using KMA and other tools, our innovative modernization approach offers a clear, overall insight into your infrastructure.
• Unique methodologies. Modernization requires a methodical and systematic approach. Unlike competing solutions, Unisys EAM uses unique, proven methodologies that deliver comprehensive, end-to-end, integrated solutions. In addition to KMA, we offer our proprietary Unisys Blueprinting Methodology, which enhances enterprise visibility. These methodologies create predictable process models and eliminate the risks associated with transformation.
• Application wrapping. We “surround” legacy assets as services in an SOA and integrate those services with new applications.
• Language-to-language translation. This part of the EAM solution focuses on translating applications to more modern languages that can be maintained and extended using more readily available skills.
• Platform migration and rehosting. Unisys experts move applications to more modern, industry-standard platforms.
• One-stop shopping. We are a large, long-standing system integrator with the experience, skills, and offerings required to meet the modernization needs of enterprises across industries, from the public sector to large commercial enterprises, and beyond. Unisys has decades of experience working in complex mainframe environments and handling infrastructure management. Plus, our partnerships with industry-leading providers enable us to deliver complete solutions that address even the most complex, sophisticated, and specialized areas of transformation.
  

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Looking to the Future

Unisys understands that finding a place to start is monumental, and we are here to help.

We offer a series of customized workshops that cover both business and technology issues related to modernization, including: the analysis of the application portfolio, the evaluation of modernization approaches and the cost/benefit of each, the development of your specific modernization roadmap and the creation of the business case for modernization. Unisys and our partners are committed to working with you to develop a complete picture of your environment, producing valuable and necessary information that supports a case for modernization and your vision for the future.

Unisys EAM embodies today’s modernization approach and applies all of Unisys rich resources to develop and execute market-driven projects around industry standards and best practices. Our low-risk, high-return set of services, software, and platform solutions transform critical legacy assets to lower-cost, agile systems – and positions enterprise technology to support upcoming changes. We have the resources to help you build a business case for modernization and present it to project stakeholders for consideration and investment.

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