Unisys wins $2.2M contract from Malaysia Airlines to redesign freight operations processes.BLUE BELL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 1995--Unisys Corp. Tuesday announced that it has received a contract, valued at $2.2 million, from Malaysia Airlines to provide information management services and solutions for the airline's freight shipment operations. Unisys will provide business process redesign, systems integration and human factors consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" to implement an open client/server solution comprising Unisys personal computers and graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to software, SCO UNIX An enhanced version of Unix System V Release 3.2 for Intel processors from SCO. In 1989, SCO Unix was introduced as a major upgrade to SCO XENIX with more security, networking and standards conformance. servers and Telxon bar-coding hardware. When the new freight-handling process is implemented, Malaysia Airlines will become the first Asia-Pacific carrier to offer the benefits of bar-code technology to its freight shipment customers. Such benefits include quantum improvements in the ability to accurately locate, in real time, any item being shipped at any point in its journey. The results will include streamlined clearance, faster collections of shipping fees and reduced warehouse dwell time The time cargo remains in a terminal's in-transit storage area while awaiting shipment by clearance transportation. See also storage. . The volume and diversity of freight handled by the airline present unique challenges in ensuring shipment accuracy and timeliness. Malaysia Airlines, which ships about 300,000 tons of freight annually and handles about 1,200 air waybills air waybill air n → Luftfrachtbrief m every day, experienced 35 percent growth in its 1994 freight business. The contract represents an example of Unisys success in applying a services-led strategy to win business at new-name accounts outside of its installed customer base. Until now, Malaysia Airlines has acquired virtually all of its information systems from 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) . The airline chose Unisys for its freight management expertise, its ability to integrate an open client/server solution made up of technologies from a variety of vendors and its ability to protect the airline's existing investments by complementing installed IBM systems. Business process redesign is fundamental to the ultimate success of the solution. It examines and transforms workflow, business rules and individual tasks to ensure that processes to be automated by information technology are aligned with the current business environment. "Upon considering the benefits of bar-coding, it became quickly apparent that the advantages could be fully realized only in light of a careful analysis of the processes the technology would automate," said Baharudin Ngah, Director Cargo, Malaysia Airlines. "Because of its depth of experience in freight automation, Unisys was able to propose not only technology, but also a completely new freight handling process that enhanced workflow and document processing Processing text documents, which includes indexing methods for text retrieval based on content. See document imaging. at Malaysia Airlines cargo centers system-wide." "Our contract with Malaysia Airlines represents the convergence of key Unisys strengths: a long track record in providing specific freight management solutions, a proven business process redesign methodology and global presence needed to ensure the ongoing success of the solution," said Gail Blauer Jones, vice president, Unisys Transportation Line of Business, Freight Management Segment. "We believe that by leveraging these strengths, Malaysia Airlines is positioned for leadership in the rapidly emerging Asia-Pacific freight services marketplace." Malaysia Airlines, which transports over 12 million passengers annually, is Southeast Asia's largest airline. Its route network includes destinations in all five continents, with over 50 international destinations in 33 countries. -0- Unisys is a registered trademark of Unisys Corp. -0- IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corp. -0- SCO (The SCO Group, Lindon, UT, www.sco.com) A leading vendor of Unix operating systems for the x86 platform. SCO had also offered Linux, but abandoned the line in the spring of 2003. The SCO Group is the combination of two companies: Utah-based Caldera, Inc. is a trademark of the Santa Cruz Operation See SCO. Santa Cruz Operation - (SCO) A supplier of Unix systems for Intel microprocessors. They supply Xenix and Open Desktop. Founded in 1979, SCO became a public company in May, 1993 and trades on the Nasdaq National Market System under the symbol SCOC. Inc. -0- UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). is a registered trademark, now licensed exclusively by X/Open Ltd. CONTACT: Unisys Corp., Blue Bell Steve Holzman, 215/986-5098 |
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