MELBOURNE, Australia and
BLUE BELL, Pa., Oct. 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Unisys
Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today announced that VicRoads has awarded a
contract to provide state-of-the-art Digital Workspace Services to
increase employee effectiveness and collaboration across the
agency's approximately 3,500-employee workforce.
VicRoads – a new client for Unisys – plans, develops and manages
the arterial road network and delivers road safety initiatives and
customer-focused registration and licensing services for
Victoria, the second most populous
state in Australia.
"Victoria is growing rapidly
with a million more people to call Victoria home in the next 10 years. VicRoads
is based across Victoria with
3,500-person workforce. We want to be close to the communities we
serve and need technology that supports a large and dispersed
workforce," said Dr. Dale Andrea,
VicRoads' Chief Information Officer. "We selected Unisys to be our
technology partner for infrastructure and digital workplace
services not just because of the comprehensive offering but because
they understood how we were rapidly transforming our workplace
culture and the need to have a truly modern, flexible and
collaborative workplace enabling us to deliver the innovative
services that Victorians want."
Under the seven-year contract, Unisys will modernize VicRoads'
workplace using Workspace Productivity as a Service (WPaaS) based
on Microsoft Office 365 productivity software and services,
delivering innovative workforce productivity capabilities including
integrated communications such as Skype for Business Voice-over-IP,
instant messaging and conferencing.
Lysandra Schmutter, vice
president Public Sector, Unisys Asia Pacific said, "We are helping
VicRoads transform how the agency works by providing modern
workplace technology services and tools to support enhanced
productivity, mobility and collaboration. Such an environment
promotes the creative and innovative thinking required to develop
the citizen services and infrastructure to keep up with the changes
in how we use our roads."
As part of the engagement, Unisys will transform VicRoads'
current workplace infrastructure by migrating the existing
on-premise data center to a secure certified hybrid cloud
environment, providing flexible on-demand services that can be
quickly and easily scaled to meet the agency's business needs. The
WPaaS platform is delivered through both a private cloud, to meet
the security and resilience requirements for sensitive information
and systems, and through Microsoft Azure for all other workloads.
The hybrid cloud will be managed by a single framework, the Unisys
Cloud Management Platform, to make it easy to manage and migrate
workloads between the different cloud environments as requirements
change.
Information in the hybrid cloud will be protected using Unisys
Stealth(core), a software-defined security solution that lowers
risks by using identity-based, micro-segmentation techniques and
encryption to create segments within an organization where only
authorized users can access information, while those without
authorization cannot even see that those endpoints exist. The
entire platform will be securely managed and monitored by a 24x7
managed security service.
Mark Forman, vice president of
the global Public Sector business at Unisys, said, "Unisys is
committed to helping government agencies use technology and leading
practices to meet citizen needs and address new challenges.
VicRoads has a comprehensive strategy for reducing accidents,
improving the environment and adapting to citizen and business
needs in the digital economy. By proactively transforming their
workplace, VicRoads is creating an environment to foster the
innovation and operating capabilities needed to deliver on its
strategy. We are excited to be selected as VicRoads' partner for
modernization."
Unisys works with government clients globally to drive
innovation and transform citizen-centric services through
leading-edge digital initiatives, including cloud deployments,
applications modernization, security solutions and advanced data
analytics. Supporting more than 300 government organizations around
the world, Unisys provides solutions that facilitate the transition
to digital government. For more information on Unisys' Public
Sector solutions and impact,
visit www.unisys.com/industries/government/public-sector.
Forward-Looking Statement
Any statements contained in this release that are not historical
facts are forward-looking statements as defined in the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All forward-looking
statements rely on assumptions and are subject to various risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from expectations. In particular, the contract is non-exclusive,
VicRoads may appoint other suppliers to provide similar or
substitute services and the estimated value of the contract is
based on various assumptions concerning the volume of VicRoads'
usage of the services and annual inflation adjustment. Because
VicRoads' usage of the services may be lower than is forecast and
because VicRoads also has the option to terminate the contract
prior to the expiry of the seven-year term, the estimated value of
the contract is not guaranteed. Additional discussion of factors
that could affect Unisys future results is contained in periodic
filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
About Unisys
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specialises in providing industry-focused solutions integrated with
leading-edge security to clients in the government, financial
services and commercial markets. Unisys offerings include security
solutions, advanced data analytics, cloud and infrastructure
services, application services and application and server software.
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