Bangalore: Unisys Corporation, an American global information technology company founded in 1986, established its local arm Unisys India in Bangalore in 2004.
Gradually, over these years Unisys India’s role and significance has increased immensely. It is one of the six strategic global delivery centres that the company has globally.
And to strengthen technology development capabilities, Unisys also set up the India Technology Centre in 2016, which has now become a strategic and integral part of company’s technology innovation, projects support and business development.
“The India Technology Centre is a strategic and integral part of Unisys’ technology business and the centre is responsible for not only the development or the support projects, but also driving a culture of innovation to enable next-generation ideas for our clients. At a broad level, the ratio between new development and support work that happens here is about 70:30,” says K Nageswara Rao, Vice President - India Technology Center, Unisys.
“The centre plays a pivotal role in championing cutting-edge research that ensures Unisys’ place as a domain leader in the industry and bringing in a paradigm shift in the way we think about security as well as current disruptive trends like DevOps, Analytics and Visualization, etc.,” adds Rao.
Interestingly, the India Technology Centre and Unisys India’s overall operations and functions are no different from its Blue Bell headquarters in Pennsylvania, US, as Rao says in the words of Unisys CEO Peter Altabef, “Everything we do, we will also do in India.”
“This is true for our technology products also. Here at the India Technology Centre, we work on a wide range of products that includes core systems level (such as interface products to the OS layer), database, networking/communication, security, systems management, and application development environment,” informs Rao.
“For many of these products, the complete end-to-end engineering responsibility is carried out by this centre. Leadership provided to our global organization from this centre includes areas like System Testing, Information Development (technical documentation), UI/UX, and Infrastructure services,” he explains.
The India Technology Centre is the largest centre out of the six global technology centres of Unisys Corporation. Overall, Unisys India has around 5000 people and it is actively involved in the development and design of company’s all core products.
The centre operates out of Unisys India’s two large facilities located at Purva Premier on the Residency Road and RGA Tech Park on the Sarjapur Road, Bangalore.
In fact, over 20 percent of all patents across the company level are filed from the India Technology Centre.
“In the last few years, the centre has increasingly contributed to the development of the market, products as well as core software development and has been recognized as an equal and significant partner among all the centres, in a truly global engineering environment,” emphasizes Rao.
Given the centre largely focuses on technology innovation; it leverages and works on new as well as in-house technologies. “We leverage all the modern technologies such as Java, .Net, Linux, along with our time-proven and secure ClearPath Forward MCP and OS 2200 technologies,” informs Rao.
“ClearPath Forward security is unmatched / unsurpassed and MCP and OS 2200 remain, as Peter Altabef puts it, “the only operating systems (OS) in the market, in which data has never been forcibly extracted”. And in tune with our sharpened focus on security, at this center, we build secure products for digital transformation using the cloud, web, and mobile technologies,” he adds.
In a bid to drive and foster innovation internally, the centre hosts various events for employees such as Hackfest – a hackathon where employees are asked to bring out creative technological ideas and solutions to solve some present and future problems.
For instance, a recent Hackfest led to over 100 unique innovation ideas on a campaign around designing safe cities of the future. Make it Your Day, a non-competitive event where the staffs put aside their daily rresponsibility for a day to learn something new also saw similar response.
Besides these internal events and activities, the company also engages externally with varsities and local event organised by local bodies like Nasscom and others on the innovation front to tap talent.
“We also partner with the academia to nurture innovation among engineering students in India. One of our key initiatives, Unisys’ Cloud 20/20, has been running for the better part of a decade and is one of India’s largest annual technical project contests,” points our Rao.
“In its 9th year now, the contest aims to spark innovative thinking around the latest disruptive technologies, and to help engineering students develop real world solutions for some of our most pressing business and societal challenges,” further he elaborates.
The initiative over the years has attracted more participation from top varsities and a steep incremental curve in the complexity and quality of submissions.
“This year’s edition is expanding the culture of innovation to a larger audience and aims to bring together technical and business experts, CXO and other working professionals through parallel events such as a tech series and hackathon,” concludes Rao.
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