The two companies will deliver solutions based on the industry-standard Unisys e-action Enterprise Server ES7000 and Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server as well as Microsoft .NET Enterprise Server applications to solve specific e-business challenges.
This alliance will leverage the Avanade and Unisys global technology, services and expertise in enterprise computing, providing customers with unprecedented levels of scalability, availability and manageability for Microsoft-based environments in the data center. The solutions delivered by this alliance will integrate complete e-business technologies and support customers’ needs to achieve levels of performance and reliability previously available only in a mainframe or large-scale UNIX environment.
Together the two companies will:
Provide customers with the advanced mainframe-class enterprise capabilities of the Unisys ES7000 and the Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server network operating system.
Assist customers in accelerating time to market and provide the high levels of availability that are essential to demanding e-business environments.
Offer customers the benefit of the Unisys worldwide services infrastructure comprising some 9,000 service personnel who support the delivery of Managed Network Services. Unisys service engineers and consultants provide world-class ISO 9001 certified managed deployment and support services for the Microsoft enterprise environment globally.
Over the past year, the increased capabilities of the Windows 2000 platform to support transaction-intensive e-business — enabling a faster time to market and lower overall costs — has dramatically spurred demand by large-scale enterprises for highly available and scalable e-business solutions based on Microsoft technology.
Both Unisys and Avanade have expertise in Microsoft Windows 2000 design and architecture, said Brian Valentine, senior vice president of Windows at Microsoft. These skills, combined with Unisys Cellular MultiProcessing technology and global deployment resources, will establish a new level of capability to build and deploy Microsoft .NET offerings for mission critical solutions in the data center.
Avanade and Unisys will work together to optimize the performance of Microsoft .NET Enterprise Server applications on the Unisys ES7000, packaging scalable solutions to provide rapid deployment, reduce price/performance and cost of ownership, and offer mission-critical support to customers, while maximizing the performance of hardware, software, and end-to-end life-cycle support and services.
