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Triton College Goes to the Head of the Class with Unisys Mainframes as Linchpins of IT Infrastructure; New Unisys ClearPath Capabilities Enrich 29-Year Relationship, Enabling Secure Business Operations and Enhanced Student Services.


BLUE BELL, Pa. -- Triton College Triton College is a two-year community college located in River Grove, Illinois, a suburb 14 miles (23 km) northwest of downtown Chicago. Triton College offers an education as well as career-oriented learning opportunities. , located in River Grove River Grove, village (1990 pop. 9,961), Cook co., NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago on the Des Plaines River; inc. 1888. Sports equipment and wire cables are made. , Ill., one of the nation's premier two-year institutions of higher education higher education

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, is drawing on new features of Unisys (NYSE NYSE

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:UIS (graphics, programming) UIS - A VMS graphics programming interface package for VAXstations. ) ClearPath Libra servers to modernize its information technology infrastructure. The rich Unisys software toolsets on the college's two new Libra 300 systems, which support commodity applications in a mainframe environment, allow the IT organization to build Web interfaces that enable more than 17,000 students to register, schedule classes, check grades and pay for classes.

"Triton College has been a Unisys customer for 29 years, and throughout that time Unisys systems based on the ClearPath platform have been the backbone of our IT infrastructure," said Kevin Kennedy Kevin Kennedy may refer to:
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, associate vice president of Information Systems for Triton College. "As the college grows, our services to students must expand as well, so we need an infrastructure to support that growth. Our new Libra systems are certainly instrumental in making that expansion of services seamless. In fact, our new Libra 300 systems have already improved the speed and efficiency of student registration for our current spring term."

Unisys servers are designed to power a real-time infrastructure that allocates computing power as necessary to support a client's strategic business processes.

"Unisys has consistently led the market in developing high-capacity, high-performance servers to anticipate and meet users' evolving IT requirements in business and academia - and we're proud that Triton College benefits from that innovation," said James Tucker, vice president, ClearPath Platforms, Unisys. "With their capability to combine increasing transaction-processing power with open software environments, mainframes are resurgent re·sur·gent  
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 as linchpins in real-time infrastructure that directly and dynamically enables strategic business processes. By delivering an optimal combination of power and openness, Unisys server solutions help customers such as Triton College realize the benefits of secure business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets  - breakthrough constituent services, greater agility in IT management with minimized risk and higher availability, improved operational efficiency and enhanced cost control."

About Triton College

Triton College is one of the nation's premier two-year institutions of higher education. Located in River Grove, Illinois
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River Grove is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 10,668 at the 2000 census.
, just 14 miles from downtown Chicago, the school offers outstanding educational value in a dynamic environment, rich in academic and cultural resources as well as career-oriented learning opportunities. Triton's attractive 100-acre campus features state-of-the art facilities, thriving arts and athletics programs, and a comfortable, friendly atmosphere. The college's programs are some of the most innovative in the nation, emphasizing community involvement and personal attention while maintaining high academic standards. Over 17,000 students enroll at Triton each semester, yet our average class size is only 20.4 students.

About Unisys

Unisys is a worldwide technology services and solutions company. Our consultants apply Unisys expertise in consulting, systems integration, outsourcing, infrastructure, and server technology to help our clients achieve secure business operations. We build more secure organizations by creating visibility into clients' business operations. Leveraging Unisys 3D Visible Enterprise, we make visible the impact of their decisions--ahead of investments, opportunities, opportunities and risks. For more information, visit www.unisys.com.

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