Unisys and EMC Expand Relationship in Enterprise Content Management
Unisys Corp. has announced that it has expanded its alliance with EMC to jointly market EMC Documentum, a market-leading unified enterprise content management software platform. The global cross-industry agreement enables Unisys to expand its team of Documentum-certified consultants who implement and deploy EMC enterprise content management solutions.
The agreement represents an expanded element of Unisys's existing relationship with EMC, David Tierno, vice president for the EMC Strategic Alliance, Unisys, told 5 Minute Briefing. EMC and Unisys have worked together since 1991, “mostly centered around their storage technology, their heritage products, aligned with our hardware heritage and then recently our systems integration capabilities,” he said. According to Tierno, “We have worked with Documentum for certainly the last five or six years on an opportunistic basis in specific verticals. This agreement that we announced is really taking that relationship to the next level.”
Unisys has developed a standards-based interface between its 3D Blueprinting modeling methodology and EMC’s Documentum. This interface enables Unisys to deploy Documentum solutions designed with 3D Blueprinting modeling tools more rapidly and securely. Unisys 3D Blueprinting allows clients to model and better understand the interconnections of their various enterprise content management activities, such as data administration; records, contract and case management; regulatory compliance; and other information-intensive tasks.
“We go to market by industry, largely across public sector, financial services and commercial industries and our customers look to Unisys for that deep industry domain expertise and our systems integration, outsourcing, consulting capabilities around specific business domain areas within each of the industries,” said Tierno. The value to clients with this teaming relationship between Unisys and EMC is “a defined point of view on an approach to solving business problems in those industry sectors around those specific solution areas that we have developed vertical competence.”
The advantage to the client, noted Tierno, is a combination of the joint expertise, faster time to market –“because we, in many cases by integrating EMC technology into our solution offerings, are able to accelerate the implementation aspects of a project or some of the configuration requirements in the underlying technology.” It reduces the project time, it also develops greater repeatability, lowers project risk, “things along those lines - that ultimately lead to a higher quality deliverable and a satisfactory outcome for the client,” he added.
“Unisys brings expertise in content management in a wide variety of private industries as well as the public sector, and its blueprinting approach provides a value-added service for Documentum customers,” said Mark Lewis, president, Content Management and Archiving division at EMC, at the time of the announcement. “We look forward to leveraging the decades-long relationship between Unisys and EMC to continue to develop innovative technology solutions together.” For more information, go here.
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Deadline for UNITE 2008 Conference Presentations April 24
The call for presentations for the UNITE 2008 Annual Technology Conference continues. Presentations are due by April 24 and can be submitted at the UNITE Web site. The site features UNITE Wish Lists to assist in developing an abstract; Guidelines for Preparing an Abstract, including tips and hints on preparing an abstract; a Lab Information Requirements Questionnaire Form; and an Abstract Entry Form to submit a session abstract for the UNITE Technology Conference.
UNITE has announced new opportunities for UNITE 2008 Annual Technology Conference attendees to save on registration fees. The conference will be held October 19-22, 2008, at the Caribe Royale Orlando in Orlando, FL. For every full paid 2008 conference attendee an organization sends, an additional person may register for only $400. Organizations that sent delegates to either the 2007 Valley Forge conference or the 2006 Anaheim conference are eligible for this program. Additionally, new attendee organizations are eligible to register either one or two delegates for the Orlando Conference for $400 each. New attendees are individuals from organizations that did not send representatives to either of the last two UNITE conferences.
For more information on registration opportunities for the Orlando conference, and details on submitting an abstract for the conference, go here.
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TeamQuest Technology Summit To Focus on Capacity Management, Training and Virtualization
TeamQuest Corp., a leader in IT Service Optimization (ITSO) software, will hold its TeamQuest Technology Summit in Tucson, AZ, April 14-15. "Customers requested a strong emphasis on our core abilities and how they can manage the virtual environment," said director of corporate marketing Craig Olson.
According to the company, capacity management has taken a backseat to virtualization with the popularity of virtualization. However, many companies who have embraced virtualization are finding themselves tackling an old problem in a new paradigm - virtual server sprawl. With presentations aimed at management of the virtual environment, the Summit is intended to help organizations learn the differences among vendors and the role capacity management should play.
Offering the opportunity to network with peers, IT leaders from all over the world openly discuss the challenges and solutions for topics such as virtualization, capacity planning, aligning IT and business, and IT service optimization at the Summit. "This event provides one-to-one access to our leadership, engineers and customers," Olson said. In addition, the San Diego Zoo chief technology officer will share his experiences with IT complexity and aligning IT to business outcomes. Robert Erhardt, who worked for Disney prior to the zoo, will show how IT influences the zoo experience for guests and animals.
Attendees can register for two days of TeamQuest software training, enabling them to utilize the modeling capabilities of TeamQuest Model and accurately predict resources required to support consistent service delivery at appropriate risk levels with confidence, take advantage of IT Service Analyzer’s ability for proactive IT service performance analysis, problem diagnosis, root cause analysis, drill down, and reporting; and utilize IT Service Reporter to create periodic performance reports customized with a corporate logo and explanatory information, and make those reports available to IT or business unit management.
To view the TTS agenda, go here.
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VMware Automates the Entire Virtual Machine Lifecycle
VMware, a leader in virtualization solutions, has announced the general availability of VMware Lifecycle Manager, a new product that provides control over the virtual environment, showing who owns a virtual machine, when it was requested, who approved it, where it is deployed, how long it has been in operation and when it is scheduled to be decommissioned.
VMware Lifecycle Manager also gives IT managers the ability to measure and chargeback the use of virtual machines to individual department owners. This automation and control of the virtual machine lifecycle is intended to eliminate manual and repetitive tasks that often introduce errors, and it also enables the business to be in strict compliance with IT policies and standards.
“VMware Lifecycle Manager allows customers to fully automate the provisioning, charging back and decommissioning of virtual machines,” said Raghu Raghuram, vice president of products and solutions at VMware. “VMware Lifecycle Manager is integral to the many new products VMware is bringing to market to offer unprecedented levels of automation and control across data centers.”
VMware Lifecycle Manager enables customers to create a catalog of standard IT services; streamline requests and approvals; track and control virtual machines; eliminate manual, repetitive, and error-prone tasks; assign Chargeback Metrics; and integrate with existing management tools. VMware Lifecycle Manager is now available for purchase through VMware’s network of distributors, resellers and OEMs. For more information, go here.
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