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3. SOA and Standards Will Close the Gap between Legacy and Open Systems

Enterprises’ increasing adoption of service oriented architectures (SOA) requiring interaction between legacy and open systems will help to bridge the divide between the two environments, yielding an optimal blend of lower cost and maximum functionality.

With its roots in industry standards, open source software will provide an exceptional value-vehicle for integration of transactions, processes and data as the technology matures in 2007 – especially in complex areas such as high-volume transaction integration between heterogeneous platforms.

4. Open Source Providers Will Boost SI and Channel Distribution Strategies

Enterprise open source buyers continue to evolve from a visionary, easily serviced constituency to an early adopter and mature-state market with more sophisticated requirements. As a result, open source technology providers will necessarily depend more heavily on systems integrators and specialist vertical-solutions providers to distribute their technology in solutions focused squarely on specific industry requirements. Those who build and create stacks will look to channels to go up-market and create an ecosystem around SIs, value added resellers (VARs) and independent software vendors (ISVs) to compensate for their own thin resources in technology support and marketing muscle.

5. The Smart Money Will Be on Driving Business Growth and Innovation

Most organizations see open source as a way to reduce costs – for both technology acquisition and ongoing ownership. Many are now using or will use SOA to drive top line business growth, allowing new services to be deployed for new markets from existing applications or as a more efficient way to develop new applications. Unisys expects far-sighted organizations in 2007 to be looking to open source to develop even more of an “edge” to increase their competitiveness and drive innovation.

Unisys Open Source Solutions: Improving Clients’ Visibility into Their Business

The Unisys 3D Visible Enterprise (3D-VE) approach drives Unisys open source solutions. This approach gives clients visibility into the links among the four key dimensions of their business – strategy, process, applications and infrastructure – and enables them to gauge opportunities, risks, impacts and costs that can block effective execution. Unisys consultants help clients identify the most critical business processes that can benefit from open source, and deploy applications and infrastructure using the best open source tools and Unisys services to help achieve key benefits of secure business operations – breakthrough customer service and satisfaction, improved competitive advantage, minimized risks, improved operational efficiency and more effective cost control. The Unisys 3D-VE approach gives clients a deep understanding of what's possible with technology, along with the critical capability to map it to business problems and solutions to drive tangible results.

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