Unisys and IBM to collaborate on Business Blueprinting.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 a collaboration for its Unisys Business Blueprinting initiative with 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) , involving IBM's WebSphere business integration portfolio and Rational development tools. Unisys Business Blueprinting is a comprehensive consulting, development and delivery strategy that builds models that link business processes to the software and systems that support them. Unisys Business Blueprinting allows clients to visualize how changes would affect not only the IT infrastructure but also the business itself. This enables them to rapidly assemble new business structures--new in terms of people, processes, and technology--to prepare for shifts in the market, shifts in the organization, or shifts in the technology. Unisys is applying this approach to the arena of high-volume, business-critical systems in the industries the company serves. As part of this process, Unisys has standardized on IBM's Rational Enterprise Suite as a key component of its solution development tool set. Unisys also has added to the Rational Unified Process The Unified Software Development Process or Unified Process is a popular iterative and incremental software development process framework. The best-known and extensively documented refinement of the Unified Process is the Rational Unified Process or RUP. to provide Unisys clients with predictive cost estimation, business architecture modeling, and traceability between business models and technical implementation. Business Blueprinting also supports IBM's WebSphere portfolio as an implementation platform for clients who want to deploy applications in the 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. environment. Clients can take advantage of WebSphere's applications server to integrate business processes across their enterprise for high transaction volume environments. "Unisys is known for its deep industry knowledge in 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, communication, media and the public sector," said Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive, IBM Software. "The use of WebSphere and the Rational tool set combined with the Unisys Business Blueprinting methodology will deliver real value to those customers. We look forward to jointly identifying and pursuing opportunities in these key markets which Unisys serves worldwide." "IBM's world-class development tools and recognized WebSphere capabilities, combined with our Business Blueprinting methodology, provide a unique, powerful solution to our clients," said Joe McGrath, president of Unisys Enterprise Transformation Services. |
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