Unisys brings in-depth knowledge, competency in cutting-edge technology, and secure business operations to SAP customers worldwide. With Unisys expertise, you can achieve this by reducing risk for the most challenging business requirements, including end-to-end process integration, capacity planning, and the providing the reliability and performance needed to support enterprise SAP solutions. The ES7000 server platform, running either Microsoft or open source software, provides the enterprise-class performance, reliability, and scalability of much more expensive Unix systems.

Alliance Overview

For more than 10 years, Unisys and SAP have had a successful, global relationship for services, consulting, systems integration, and IT. Our combined expertise can help you to:

• Improve productivity through enhanced user collaboration, enterprise knowledge management, and personalized access to critical applications and data
• Improve enterprise data reporting, management, and consolidation to ensure cross-system data consistency and integrate business processes all along the extended value chain
• Link business-to-business and application-to-application processes to seamlessly connect SAP and non-SAP applications
• Consolidate platforms to allocate computing power to meet changing business needs
• Integrate automated sensing devices, including radio frequency identification (RFID) readers and printers, Bluetooth devices, embedded systems, and bar-code devices
• Deploy a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to consolidate and standardize basic business processes and to leverage existing investments to compose new, distinctive business processes
• Migrate business applications from legacy and Unix-based environments to Microsoft or open source landscapes

Key Customer Benefits

Unisys serves SAP customers in more than 20 of the world's largest countries and in virtually every industry segment. Acting as a single point of accountability for complex project management, Unisys consultants are skilled in legacy and third-party system integration. Integrated 3D Visible Enterprise (3D VE) combines the strengths of SAP application software with Unisys' deep industry and technical knowledge. With the unique 3D VE methodology, Unisys can look at SAP customer needs from a layered perspective and create visibility throughout all levels of the enterprise, including strategy, processes, applications, and IT infrastructure. Unisys provides the most scalable hardware platforms for SAP deployments on Windows or open source environments in the high-end market.

Capabilities and Industry Expertise

Unisys is a global provider of services and technology with specific strengths in the financial sector, public services, government and defense, transportation, manufacturing, retail, pharmaceutical, and communications industries. Customer service and support groups provide global, world-class service to manage and maintain data centers and networks.

More than merely delivering applications or technical solutions, Unisys provides enterprise solutions that support strategic objectives and challenges, such as sustainable business growth, increased efficiency, and cost management.

Unisys has a proven track record with SAP NetWeaver platform, including SAP NetWeaver Exchange Infrastructure, SAP NetWeaver Portal, SAP NetWeaver Mobile, and SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence components, as well as RFID and knowledge management technology. Unisys also has proven expertise in the Web Dynpro development environment; upgrading, migrating, and consolidating SAP environments; the SAP Supply Chain Management and SAP Customer Relationship Management applications; and the integration of legacy, SAP, and non-SAP environments.

Unisys technology reduces the cost, risk, length, and complexity of SAP implementations. The ES7000 platform can handle more than 26,000 concurrent SAP sales and distribution users running Microsoft Datacenter and SQL Server 2000.

Testimonial

"SAP has always placed great value on good relationships with its partners. That's why we are pleased to point out the good collaboration with Unisys. Unisys has been working with SAP users since 1999. Its ES7000 has the performance, reliability, and scalability of much more expensive RISC systems."
Horst-Udo Schulte, Vice President of Global Technology Partners, SAP

Alliance Focus Areas

Unisys focuses on the following areas:

• Joint go-to-market, marketing, and business development engagements
• Solutions to manage and control disaster risk and limit subsequent liability
• The deployment, consolidation, and management of SAP data centers and operational environments
• The management and delivery of end-to-end SAP software deployments

About Unisys

Unisys is a worldwide IT services and solutions company with more than 31,000 employees. Our consultants apply expertise in consulting, systems integration, outsourcing, infrastructure, and server technology to help customers quickly and efficiently achieve secure business operations. With 85% of revenue coming from services, along with a long heritage in providing powerful, enterprise server technology, Unisys has the capabilities needed to help large organizations apply IT for business advantage and success.

Unisys consultants, industry experts, and infrastructure specialists work with customers to understand their business challenges and to develop integrated, secure solutions that help them achieve their business goals. Unisys complements these services with some of the industry's most powerful, innovative enterprise server technology. With this combination of service and technology, along with core competencies in strategic growth areas, Unisys can provide value-added solutions that handle your organization's most business-critical information requirements. For more information, visit Unisys online or e-mail the company.

Contact

Karl-Heinz Cypris, VP Global Strategic SAP Alliances