Unisys launches turnkey cloud services
Connecting state and local government leaders
The company's Digital Government Accelerators are a suite of best practices and tools to help state and local agencies transform their digital operations.
To help state and local government agencies take advantage of efficiencies offered by the cloud, Unisys has launched Digital Government Accelerators, a suite of best practices and tools to help agencies transform their digital operations.
The Accelerators include turnkey solutions for rapid cloud deployment; digital services optimization; permitting, licensing and compliance; and hybrid Office 365 deployment.
“Over the past two years, we have learned and gained understanding through research across all of our regions on how government struggles to find new, innovative ways to do business,” Director of Digital Government at Unisys Public Sector Shawn Kingsberry told GCN. “This is an easy way for them to consume information, socialize it and drive realization and value to government agencies, which then provides value to the citizens.”
The rapid cloud deployment service lets agencies orchestrate the administration, governance and security of private, public and hybrid clouds from a variety of providers through asset management, catalog and monitoring capabilities.
For digital services optimization, Unisys augments ServiceNow's ServiceWatch suite of application and infrastructure tools to help agencies get visibility into their systems, detect anomalies and prevent digital services outages.
The permitting, licensing and compliance accelerator uses CSDC Systems’ AMANDA platform to automate and integrate workflows to support reviews, renewals, audits, legal actions and compliance activities. AMANDA is currently being used by the Michigan Gaming Control Board, a Unisys client.
To make it cost effective for agencies, Unisys offers the digital accelerators via an operational expense model rather than as a capital expense.
“You do need to set up a defined number of seats to get the cost down, and we do all of the road mapping, strategic planning and execution,” Kingsberry said. “In the [Hybrid 365] model, we are roughly starting off with 5,000 seats so customers can see roughly the amount of time that it would take to stand up the environment and move forward.”