Wednesday March 17, 8:01 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Objective Systems Integrators
Unisys Signs Global VAR Agreement with OSI
Unisys to Deliver Operational Support Systems to Telecom Industry With OSI's NetExpert(R) Solutions
FOLSOM, Calif., March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS - news), a global leader in providing information technology solutions to solve business problems, and Objective Systems Integrators (Nasdaq: OSII - news), a supplier of service and network management solutions, today announced a global value-added reseller agreement. As part of its strategy for helping communications industry clients improve services to their customers, Unisys will integrate and resell OSI's NetExpert® framework products and applications for service delivery, assurance and usage.
NetExpert will help Unisys deliver comprehensive communications management solutions including integrated Business Support Systems (BSS) and Operational Support Systems (OSS). Benefits to service providers will include consistent support for large-scale global implementations requiring the integration of multiple systems, customization focused on addressing business operational objectives, and support services provided through regional Unisys offices.
This reseller agreement enables Unisys and OSI to significantly increase their presence in the telecom sector with integrated OSSs that interface with billing, customer care and other service-level management functions. To compete effectively in today's turbulent communications market, service providers need systems that can integrate and automate business processes. Unlike proprietary systems, OSI's integrated approach enables functions such as fault, configuration, accounting and performance management to interact with other systems in an open systems environment.
''Unisys chose NetExpert for its flexibility and ease of customization to individual customer requirements,'' said Darrell Jennings, vice president and general manager of Unisys Worldwide Communications. ''Given the massive opportunities created by worldwide deregulation of telecommunications, this alliance strengthens our ability to pursue large-scale systems integration projects on a global basis.
Jennings continued, ''In building network management systems for the telecom industry, we select world class products. We chose OSI's service and network management products for their strong support of multivendor environments and adherence to the ITU's Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) model. By building support for TMN into NetExpert and providing gateways to non-TMN systems, OSI is ahead of the industry.''
Jim Souders, OSI's executive vice president of sales and marketing, said, ''Unisys has a global reputation for putting the right information technology to work to solve business problems. This, combined with OSI's proven service and network management solutions, offers telecom companies clear competitive advantages. Now more than ever, service providers need the edge that an efficient, integrated system can provide. OSI is pleased to work together with Unisys for a bigger share of the global OSS business.''
Unisys and OSI are members of the TeleManagement Forum (TMF), a non-profit global consortium dedicated to improving the management of services and networks through the cost-effective integration of support systems.
About Unisys
Unisys is more than 33,000 employees helping customers in 100 countries apply information technology to solve their business problems. Unisys solutions are based on a broad portfolio of global information services including systems integration, outsourcing, ''repeatable'' application solutions, consulting, network integration, remote network management and multivendor maintenance and support, coupled with enterprise-class servers and associated middleware, software and storage. Repeatable solutions are focused on key vertical markets including telecommunications, financial services, transportation, government, publishing and other commercial markets. Headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, in the Greater Philadelphia area, Unisys had 1998 annual revenue of $7.2 billion. Access the Unisys home page on the World Wide Web -- unisys.com -- for further information.
About OSI
Objective Systems Integrators, Inc. (www.osi.com) supplies communications service providers with advanced software solutions that simplify service and network management in complex multivendor environments. OSI's family of products offers an integrated system for performance, fault, configuration and accounting management. Using OSI's integrated solutions, service providers can offer innovative, high quality services cost effectively on leading platforms. More than 200 customers around the world have installed NetExpert®, the company's flagship operations support system (OSS) framework product. OSI has headquarters in Folsom, Calif., with offices worldwide.
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