Unisys 'future-proofs' mainframe legacy applications.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. ) has announced its new Application Modernization Service, a comprehensive set of service offerings for customers running all legacy and mainframe environments. The Service, drawing on Unisys expertise in consulting and integration and heritage in technological innovation, is designed to address the problem of mission-critical applications lagging behind the pace of business change. "Unisys is ending application agility-lag," said Joe McGrath, president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , Unisys. "The new Unisys Application Modernization Service allows organizations to retain the most valued qualities of legacy systems--security, availability and reliability--while using the newest open standards-based tools to make their data centers more agile. For a long time, 'legacy' has been a dirty word. Now that customers can incorporate the future into their legacy applications, it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a to embrace the legacy." Any application is fixed in time as soon as it is implemented, and as time goes on, it becomes more out of step with the business it runs. Yet, these applications are also the crown jewels crown jewels Ornaments used at the coronation of a monarch and the formal ensigns of monarchy worn or carried on state occasions, as well as collections of personal jewelry consolidated by European sovereigns as valuable assets of their royal houses and the offices they of mission critical computing, containing vital competitive advantage in the intellectual property they compile over the years. The Unisys Application Modernization Service is the industry's most practical, step-by-step service designed to help CIOs securely overcome application agility-lag in the industry's multi-trillion dollar mainframe application inventory. This signals a vital shift in the current view of mainframe computing. Unisys Application Modernization Service helps customers ensure that business processes are driving their technology, rather than allowing technology to limit business agility. The Service, available for users of any mainframe or legacy environment, including aging IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (NYSE:IBM) systems, begins with a full assessment of current assets Current Assets Appearing on a company's balance sheet, it represents cash, accounts receivable, inventory, marketable securities, prepaid expenses, and other assets that can be converted to cash within one year. and needs. Based on Unisys 3D Visible Enterprise methodology, the Service gives companies a holistic view into the cause-and-effect relationships between shifts in technology, business processes and strategy. This allows the mainframe to become the centerpiece of a service-oriented architecture, the most agile and economical technology model in the industry today. Through the service, Unisys engineers, using automated software tools, help customers make necessary updates more quickly and without the risks associated with untested applications. It also modernizes critical applications without losing the decades of optimization work invested in them--protecting investments and gauging results at each step. The latest ClearPath Dorado mainframe, also unveiled today (see separate release), brings the security and resilience of legacy systems into the rapidly unfolding future of open systems software development. Embracing a variety of open source standards--Linux, JBoss, J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. , .Net, among others--Dorado allows a new generation of applications and application developers to access one of the most secure and dependable platforms on the market. |
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