DALLAS, Oct. 14, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today recognized 10 clients and partners with Lighthouse Awards for their vision and leadership in applying modern technologies to mission critical IT challenges. Unisys conferred the awards at its global Universe 2014 client and partner event, being held this week in Dallas.

This is the first year that Unisys is recognizing partners and clients as part of the new Lighthouse Client Advocacy Program. Eight of the winning organizations received the Lighthouse Innovation Award, and two received the VIP Channel Partner Award.

The list of this year's winners includes:


    --  Companhia Estadual de Aguas e Esgotos (CEDAE): The Brazilian water
        treatment and sewage utility modernized its IT infrastructure with
        mobile applications to improve operating speed and customer service.
    --  Elekta: The Swedish-based company providing clinical solutions for
        treating cancer and brain disorders transformed its end-user support
        through new service desk functionality, including guided self-help and
        automated services, in addition to end-user support for email, desktop
        and mobile applications.
    --  General Services Administration: This independent agency responsible for
        managing real estate, acquisition and technology across the U.S. federal
        government created a dependable, secure, fast, and highly scalable
        infrastructure to manage its mission-critical functions.
    --  McDonald's Australia and New Zealand: Unisys provides service desk,
        on-site and remote support services to McDonald's chain of more than
        1,000 company-owned and franchised restaurants across Australia, New
        Zealand and the South Pacific region, including point of sale devices,
        back-office PC equipment, peripherals, wireless networks, customer order
        display units and cameras.
    --  New Zealand Transport Agency: This transport solutions agency modernized
        the Driver and Vehicle Registry System to enable new online and mobile
        channels and flexibility to respond to legislative changes more quickly.
    --  Roma Capitale: The municipal authority for the city of Rome will migrate
        part of its applications to the Forward! by Unisys platform to
        consolidate some of its key applications including electoral data and
        buildings planning applications.
    --  SMS/800: The Toll-Free Number management company for North America
        adopted a common IT Service Management (ITSM) platform, based on the
        Edge Service Management by Unisys solution, to integrate delivery of
        data center, help desk, application software, and website support by
        multiple business partners.
    --  Braxton Grant Technologies (VIP Channel): This leading IT value-added
        reseller applied the award-winning Unisys Stealth cybersecurity software
        to secure a Microsoft Windows XP environment for a major chemicals
        company.
    --  RealServeIT (VIP Channel): This solutions consultancy with expertise in
        application/desktop delivery and management partnered with Unisys to
        solve mission critical client issues in the networking, security, and
        virtualization markets.

"We are proud to recognize the vision and innovation of these 10 recipients for the first Lighthouse Awards," said Quincy Allen, senior vice president and chief marketing and strategy officer, Unisys. "Working with Unisys, these organizations demonstrated true creativity in applying innovative, modern technology to solve real-world mission critical problems, with tangible benefits for their organizations and end users."

Unisys executives and selected partners and clients will be available for media interviews at Universe 2014.

About Unisys
 Unisys is a global information technology company that solves complex IT challenges at the intersection of modern and mission critical. We work with many of the world's largest companies and government organizations to secure and keep their mission-critical operations running at peak performance; streamline and transform their data centers; enhance support to their end users and constituents; and modernize their enterprise applications. We do this while protecting and building on their legacy IT investments. Our offerings include outsourcing and managed services, systems integration and consulting services, high-end server technology, cybersecurity and cloud management software, and maintenance and support services. Unisys has more than 23,000 employees serving clients around the world. For more information, visit www.unisys.com.

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