Unisys Corporation and its client, the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA), have been honoured jointly with a special recognition award at the 2014 Information services group (ISG) Paragon awards for Australia and New Zealand.
The award recognises a twenty-year relationship, including a recent business transformation programme to increase the agency’s flexibility and reduce the cost of its IT infrastructure that included the migration of more than 1.7 billion driver and vehicle records.
“Unisys showed a clear understanding of our business goals and the need to use IT to meet them. They designed and implemented a transformation programme that modernised our existing systems by migrating them onto a Windows platform,” says NZTA chief information officer Craig Soutar.
“This reduced system complexity and increased flexibility as well as provided the opportunity to develop new online and mobile channels to engage with customers.
“We are delivering business transformation without the need to completely rip out and replace our systems, and continued to deliver services to customers in the process,” he says.
The NZTA estimates that it saved approximately NZ$80 million through the modernisation effort compared to the cost of replacing the registry systems.
ISG’s Paragon Awards celebrate and promote organisations and relationships within the sourcing community that have demonstrated high performance leadership and best practices in the sourcing and service management fields.
“Our two-decade relationship with NZTA thrives on collaboration as well as mutual understanding of the relationship between business and IT goals,” says Unisys New Zealand country manager Steve Griffin.
