While the company’s inception happened in the 1980s, its history goes back to its oldest predecessor, the American Arithmometer Company which was created in 1886. Another part business of the company is Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation which is known for developing the world’s first commercial digital computers. Today, the revenue of the company heavily relies on the services they offer. Part of these services include the creation and integration of hardware and software systems. They also provide outsourced help desks and End User Services, business processing outsourcing, Secure Cloud and other security services.
Their service offerings account for 88% of their revenue while the rest are from the equipment and products they sell. The systems they market are mainly used in the industrial and government segments. The Unisys Systems, the flagship product of the company is used in airline passenger reservations, check processing, banking, income tax processing, shipping port management, biometric identification, newspaper content management and even in providing weather data services. They are also known for their global initiatives in the IT services industry. The Consumerization of IT is one of the studies that they have funded together with Security Index, Cloud 20/20 and Social Collaboration.
The global data centers they operate are ISO certified and are compliant to the Global Process Standards (GPS) for Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) processes. These centers are located in Brazil, United Kingdom, Australia, Sweden, New Zealand and in the United States. They have over 22,000 employees around the world who are helping in the generation of their annualized revenue of more than $3.46 billion. The business was once part of the S&P 500 Index and was released after its market capitalization fell below $4 billion.