Vendor Analysis
published on Feb 01, 2012
Report Overview:
This NelsonHall vendor assessment analyzes Unisys' offerings and capabilities in Virtual Desktop Services. Unisys is one of a number of Virtual Desktop Services companies analyzed in NelsonHall's comprehensive industry analysis programs.
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall's Virtual Desktop Vendor Assessment for Unisys is a comprehensive assessment of Unisys' virtual desktop offerings and capabilities designed for:
- Sourcing managers monitoring the capabilities of existing suppliers of virtual desktop services and identifying vendor suitability for IT services, end-user computing services and virtual desktop technology and services
- Vendor marketing, sales and business managers looking to benchmark themselves against their peers
- Financial analysts and investors specializing in the IT services sector.
Scope of this Report:
The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of Unisys' virtual desktop offerings, capabilities, and market and financial strength, including:
- Analysis of the company's offerings and key service components
- Revenue estimates
- Identification of the company's strategy, emphasis and new developments
- Analysis of the profile of the company's customer base including the company's targeting strategy and examples of current contracts
- Analysis of the company's strengths, weaknesses and outlook.
Key Findings & Highlights:
Unisys has recently reorganized its virtual desktop offerings, which until 2011 included:
- A specific hosted desktop solution: Virtual Office as a Service
- Virtual desktop as part of managed desktop services contracts. While Unisys had developed preferred architectures and technologies, the company was adapting each solution to the specific client needs.
Unisys is using its Eagan, Minnesota (U.S.) tier-3 datacenter for its virtual desktop offering. Monitoring of servers is done from the company's operations in low-cost countries
Unisys targets large enterprises and especially its large enterprise client base for its virtual desktop offering. It is also responding to RFPs from non-clients.