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In 1837, E. Remington & Sons introduced the first commercially-viable typewriter. Remington then delivered its UNIVAC computer to the U.S. Census Bureau, and makes history in 1952 by predicting the election of the country's president before the polls closed.

Almost 132 years and several strategic acquisitions later, the company is now called Unisys and is an established IT services and solutions provider with more than 36,000 employees in over 100 countries worldwide. Services, which include outsourcing, infrastructure management, systems integration and consulting, currently account for 81 percent of the company's total revenues.

Unisys specializes in delivering products and services to six key vertical markets: financial services, public sector, communications, transportation and commercial. Its product offerings include the Unisys ClearPath mainframes and servers, and the ES7000 Real-Time Enterprise servers designed for Microsoft Windows environments.

The company's clientele includes Northwest Airlines, BMW Bank, HSBC and GE Capital Bank, all of which have awarded long-term service contracts to Unisys. The Government of Malaysia is also a customer, having turned to Unisys for help in developing a multipurpose smart card to be distributed to 17 million citizens. The smart card, called MyKad, consolidates a Malaysian's driver's license and identification card for use in bill and toll payment, ATM banking and parking/public transport.

New Zealand's tax collection and administration department also uses the Unisys ClearPath system, with two Libra 580 servers, which have helped the Inland Revenue reduce its disaster recovery time from 72 hours to minutes, and achieve an estimated 20 percent cost reduction.

This company is listed in Storage Management, Software Infrastructure, Services.

Financials

Fiscal year-end Dec	FY05	FY04	FY03	FY02	FY01
Global full-year revenue (US$millions)	—	5,800.0	5,900.0	5,600.0	6,018.0
Global full-year net income (US$millions)	—	38.6	258.7	223.0	-67.1

Average year-on-year revenue growth over 4 years	-1.0 %
Average year-on-year net income growth over 4 years	121.1 %
Percentage of revenue from Asia	—
Percentage of Asian revenues from channel	—

Operations:

Founded	United States/1873
First Asian office	Australia/1986
Global employees	36,000
Employees in Asia	3,800
Asian countries: Total 9	China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
Notes	Data correct as at September 2005. Information was compiled by ZDNet Asia from sources such as official reports, corporate Web sites, and Hoover's. ZDNet Asia strived to get the latest information but does not guarantee the correctness or completeness of the data. The information provided on this site is for general informational purposes only and is not an offer to buy or sell any securities.

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