WELLINGTON, New
Zealand and BLUE BELL,
Pa., Nov. 22, 2017
/PRNewswire/ -- Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today announced
it has been selected by the New Zealand Ministry of Education to
design and support a new digital Education Resourcing System (ERS).
The ERS will deliver funds more efficiently for early childhood,
primary and secondary school education providers.
The Ministry of Education is a new client for Unisys. One of the
Ministry's key responsibilities is to ensure education providers
have the resources and support they need, including administering
the determination and delivery of funding and other resources.
The Unisys solution will replace the current manual, paper-based
system with a modern cloud-based solution that provides an online
digital services channel and streamlined automated workflow to
enable the efficient delivery of funding for schools and early
learning providers. The new system will offer the Ministry greater
flexibility to enact policy changes more rapidly, model the effects
of proposed changes and provide greater policy insights.
The 10-year digital transformation engagement covers the design,
development and support of the system, which will be delivered via
an Application-Platform-as-a-Service (APaaS) model. The solution
has been developed and will be deployed using the Microsoft Azure
App Service and the Oracle Policy Automation Cloud Service, each of
which will be delivered from Australia. Unisys is an Oracle Global Platinum
partner and a Microsoft partner under the Unisys Strategic Alliance
program. The contract to develop the system was signed in
June 2017.
Unisys and the Ministry are using Agile and DevOps methodologies
to develop the new system. They are working as a joint team that is
physically co-located at the Ministry's offices to drive
collaboration and respond quickly to changes.
Katrina Casey, Deputy Secretary
for Sector Enablement and Support at the Ministry of Education
said, "We've engaged Unisys to develop this new system to modernize
and improve resourcing processes within the Ministry and throughout
the wider education sector. It will also enable future policy
changes to be delivered in a more cost-effective and timely manner.
We'll be working with the sector over the coming years as we're
committed to ensuring the system works for all users."
The Ministry's move to APaaS is in line with the New Zealand
Government's measures to accelerate the adoption of public cloud
services by government agencies.
Lysandra Schmutter, vice
president, Public Sector, Unisys Asia Pacific said, "At Unisys, we
are passionate about education and the need to deliver it in ways
to help younger generations excel. We look forward to helping to
digitally transform the New Zealand Ministry of Education's
resourcing system so it can take advantage of best-of-breed digital
and cloud-based technologies toward this end."
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
http://www.unisys.com/industries/government/public-sector.
About Unisys
Unisys is a global information technology company that
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.
For more information, visit www.unisys.com.
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