EDS Selects CA's Unicenter TNG to Manage High Profile Legal System in United Kingdom.SLOUGH, U.K.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 1999-- EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. : "Unicenter TNG TNG Training TNG The Next Generation TNG Tongue TNG The Newspaper Guild (Union) TNG Transitional National Government TNG Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (national facility of the Italian astronomical community) Allows Us To Be Much More Proactive In Our Management Of IT Systems" EDS and Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) today announced that CA's award-winning Unicenter TNG enterprise management solution has been selected to assist EDS in controlling an extensive and mission-critical courts system across the UK. The Local County Courts Systems (LOCCS) project was awarded to EDS by the Courts Services, an agency of the Lord Chancellor's Department The Lord Chancellor's Department was a United Kingdom government department. It was founded in 1885 as the Lord Chancellor's Office, to give the Lord Chancellor a staff answerable to him. It increased greatly in powers after the Courts Act 1971. that oversees the administration of justice across England and Wales England and Wales are both constituent countries of the United Kingdom, that together share a single legal system: English law. Legislatively, England and Wales are treated as a single unit (see State (law)) for the conflict of laws. . LOCCS is responsible for managing the infrastructure that supports the royal, county and crown courts. The (pound)25 million (U.S. $40.4 million) budget for the LOCCS project included the rollout of new hardware and software to all 233 county courts servicing over 5,000 users, as well as software development and maintenance. After deciding to replace BMC Patrol See PATROL. at LOCCS, EDS selected Unicenter TNG for its ease-of-use, integrated functionality, automation and end-to-end management. The EDS Court Service team will be using Unicenter TNG for network, event, and performance management in addition to advanced help desk and workload scheduling. Rollout of Unicenter TNG in a Digital UNIX See Tru64 Unix. environment involves more than 300 servers at 233 county courts, 78 crown courts and the Royal Courts of Justice. "We took our evaluation of enterprise management tools very seriously," said Richard Walmsley, Operations Manager See datacenter manager. for The Court Service Account at EDS. "When we assessed CA's solution, we identified four distinct benefits, including high system availability, improved service level availability, automation to overcome limited resources and a reduction in the total cost of running the system. Unicenter TNG allows us to be much more proactive in our management of IT systems, putting in place the preventative measures that will save us time and money." The biggest challenge identified on the project was the ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. link and its ability to manage the IT system cost-effectively. Previously, the ISDN line had to remain open at all times, an extremely expensive endeavor. Now, LOCCS will be able to disconnect the main Unicenter TNG manager from the remote agents, minimizing the use of the ISDN link and allowing the agents across 300 local servers to act independently. These agents will be able to automate certain repairs themselves, monitor local thresholds and alert the head office to any serious problems. "Efficient legal preparation requires a common interface for the presentation and sharing of documents due to the inherently complex nature of coordinating multiple information resources, and their associated IT environments," said Walmsley. "Unicenter TNG will automate and simplify the monitoring of processes, removing many of the management headaches." Sean Larner, general manager and senior vice president of CA Europe, said the deal was a three-stage project, which includes input from CA Global Professional Services on the project design. About EDS EDS is a leader in the global information services See Information Systems. industry. The company's 110,000 employees specialise in applying a range of ideas and technologies to help business and government improve their economics, products, services and customer relationships. EDS, which serves clients in 45 countries, reported global revenues of over (pound)10 billion in 1997. In the UK, EDS employs over 12,500 people at more than 120 locations. Its UK clients include Vauxhall, BP, the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. , the DSS (1) (Digital Signature Standard) A National Security Administration standard for authenticating an electronic message. See RSA and digital signature. (2) (Digital Satellite S , the Inland Revenue, and Rolls-Royce. EDS can be visited via the Internet at http://www.eds.com. EDS is the team sponsor of Derby County Football Club, and official information technology provider to the London Marathon. EDS is a Founder sponsor of The Lowry, the National Landmark Millennium project for the Arts, based in Salford and the second largest Millennium project in the UK. About CA Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CA), the world leader in mission-critical business computing, provides software, support and integration services in more than 100 countries around the world. CA has more than 13,000 employees and had revenue of $5.1 billion in calendar year 1998. For more information about CA, please call 516-342-5224 or email info@cai.com. CA's World Wide Web address is www.cai.com. All referenced product names are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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