Unisys Honored as Microsoft Azure Innovation Partner of the Year by Microsoft's Enterprise Partner Group

Award recognizes creative use of Azure for service management and cloud resource provisioning

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Aug 27, 2015, 08:00 ET

BLUE BELL, Pa., Aug. 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today announced that the company has received the Azure Innovation Partner of the Year award from Microsoft's Enterprise Partner Group.

Microsoft Enterprise Partner Group presented Unisys with the award during the 2015 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, held recently in Orlando, Florida.

The award recognizes Unisys' innovative use of Azure in a range of solutions, including global deployment of the Unisys Edge Service Management solution on Azure and creation of an application that enables users of the ServiceNow^® enterprise cloud platform to automate provisioning of IT resources on Azure. The provisioning application is among the first in the market to provide that capability for the ServiceNow platform.

"We are proud to receive this recognition from Microsoft," said Paul Gleeson, global vice president, Edge Services, Unisys. "We are committed to helping our clients rapidly and confidently take advantage of new digital service models, including as-a-service infrastructure, and Azure provides a powerful, cost- efficient hosting platform for those solutions. We look forward to working with Microsoft on new offerings for Azure."

"By expanding the range of innovative, 'as a service' solutions' for Azure, Unisys has helped Microsoft significantly in reaching new communities of clients worldwide who can benefit from our powerful, flexible technology," said Stephen Boyle, vice president, U.S. Partner Strategy and Programs, Microsoft, who conferred the award.

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