Clickmarks Forms Strategic Alliance with Unisys; Clickmarks' Mobile Voice and Data Solutions to be Offered to Unisys Accounts Worldwide.Business Editors & High Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 2001 Products Include Wireless Information Portals, Add-on Telco Services & More Clickmarks, a provider of software infrastructure and products for wireless carriers and enterprises, today announced a strategic alliance enabling Unisys Corporation (company) Unisys Corporation - The company formed in 1984-5 when Burroughs Corporation merged with Sperry Corporation. This was when the phrase "dinosaurs mating" was coined. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :UIS (graphics, programming) UIS - A VMS graphics programming interface package for VAXstations. ) to sell Clickmarks' mobile data solutions to Unisys customers worldwide. The relationship will give more than 2,000 Unisys salespeople sales·peo·ple pl.n. Persons who are employed to sell merchandise in a store or in a designated territory. around the globe a wide variety of products capable of meeting the mobile information and pervasive computing Refers to the use of computers in everyday life, including PDAs, smartphones and other mobile devices. It also refers to computers contained in commonplace objects such as cars and appliances and implies that people are unaware of their presence. needs of Unisys' financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , transportation, communications, publishing, commercial and public sector clients. The agreement permits Unisys to promote and resell all Clickmarks products, ranging from its customizable "Habitat" information portals to revenue-generating add-on services for wireless carriers and enterprises. Unisys plans to private-label the products with a "Powered by Clickmarks" co-brand, incorporate them in its price book, and train its entire sales force to sell the solutions into its vertical markets. Unisys already has several customers in Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. for Clickmarks products, including an immediate OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and contract to deploy Clickmarks' voice solution to a major mobile operator. "We have telco customers that want to offer new mobile voice and data products to their subscribers, banking customers that want to make account information pervasively available on wireless devices, enterprise customers that want to wireless-enable their legacy applications, and customers in every sector that need other kinds of data mobilization," said Bennet bennet excludes the devil; used on door frames. [Medieval Folklore: Boland, 56] See : Protection Bayer, Vice President and General Manager of the Unisys Mobile Business Group. "Clickmarks has a broad solution set and significant competitive advantages that will help us meet these needs and add important new capabilities to our portfolio of e-business services." Clickmarks' Enterprise Habitat(TM) for enterprise users and Mobile Habitat(TM) portal infrastructure for wireless carriers allow end users to access their most frequently needed information in a single location, without having to switch applications or navigate through non-essential screens. Each Enterprise Habitat can include key information from enterprise applications, production systems, databases and data warehouses, as well as e-mail and content from any Web page. For wireless carriers, a Mobile Habitat can include any content the carrier or the end user desires. Information is automatically updated to reflect changes in customer history, inventory levels, stock prices or other data built into the habitat by the user. Clickmarks also offers an M-Commerce Toolkit(TM) that enables wireless carriers to quickly and inexpensively wireless-enable any merchant partner's e-commerce site; an add-on wireless phone service called ReACT!(TM) that allows users of Web-enabled phones to store notes and send revenue-generating Short Message Service (SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. ) text messages; a solution for wireless-enabling an enterprise's Web content without programming; and other products. "Unisys' interest in our products indicates the demand in the marketplace for mobile voice and data solutions, and this agreement essentially gives us a global sales force that can place our solutions in major enterprises and organizations around the world," said John Huyett, President and Chief Executive Officer of Clickmarks. "This is clearly a milestone for Clickmarks as well as an important step in bringing the advanced capabilities of wireless technology to large numbers of users." About Unisys Unisys is an e-business solutions company whose 37,000 employees help customers in 100 countries apply information technology to seize opportunities and overcome challenges of the Internet economy The Internet Economy refers to conducting business through markets whose infrastructure is based on the Internet and World-Wide Web. An Internet economy differs from a traditional economy in a number of ways, including: communication, market segmentation, distribution costs, and price. . Unisys people integrate and deliver the solutions, services, platforms and network infrastructure required by business and government to transform their organizations for success in this new era. The company offers a rich portfolio of Unisys e-@ction Solutions for e-business based on its expertise in vertical industry solutions, network services, outsourcing, systems integration and multi-vendor support, coupled with enterprise-class server and related technologies. The primary vertical markets Unisys serves worldwide include financial services, transportation, communications, publishing and commercial sectors, as well as the public sector, including federal government customers. Unisys is headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania Blue Bell is a census-designated place (CDP) in Whitpain Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, its population was 6,395. , in the Greater Philadelphia area. For more information, visit www.unisys.com. Investor information can be found at www.unisys.com/investor. About Clickmarks Clickmarks is the leading provider of mobile software infrastructure and applications that allow enterprises to conduct mission-critical business anytime, anywhere. The Clickmarks Software Platform allows mobilization of any existing Web and enterprise application as well as creation of new mobile applications, such as branded wireless portals A Web site that supports a user with a smartphone or alphanumeric pager. It may offer a variety of features, including providing a springboard to other (WAP based) wireless sites, the ability to select content to be pushed to the user's device as well as providing a point of entry for (for wireless carriers), m-commerce solutions or interactive voice applications, for the widest array of current and future wireless, broadband and voice devices. Clickmarks, founded in February 1999, has attracted major clients and partners, including Vodafone, and is headquartered in Fremont, California For the unincorporated community in Yolo County, California, see . Fremont (IPA: /ˈfriːmɒnt/) is a city in California that was incorporated on January 23, 1956, from the merger of five smaller communities: , with offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.clickmarks.com or call 510-979-2010. |
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