Unisys Corporation, a global IT solutions company, announced it has acquired Unify Square, an experience management provider for secure collaboration and communications platforms, for $152.5 million on a cash-free, debt-free basis. Unisys is funding the transaction with cash on hand.
The transaction enables Unisys to leverage Unify Square’s Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) offerings to help advance its experience-focused digital workplace services solution set.
“The acquisition of Unify Square will enhance Unisys’ digital workplace services business to drive increased revenue growth and improved profitability and cash flow,” said Peter Altabef, chair and CEO of Unisys. “The UCaaS market, in which Unify Square operates, is expected to be among the fastest-growing segments of the digital workplace services market. Unify Square’s capabilities will enable Unisys to deliver higher-value solutions to its clients that enhance their productivity and employee satisfaction.”
The integration of Unisys’ and Unify Square’s digital workplace services capabilities will help clients achieve seamless collaboration and experience parity through employee experiences and agile ways of working that enable innovation anytime, anywhere and on any device. Unisys and Unify Square will now be able to help clients achieve outcomes through:
- Accelerating transformation – Companies can accelerate their digital workplace journeys, quickly and seamlessly moving from legacy on-prem communications platforms to modern cloud-based collaboration applications with less disruption and with immediate benefits.
- Proactively assessing experience through real-time analytics – Companies can assess, analyze and improve employee experience across multiple platforms while enhancing IT operational performance with real-time analytics.
- Enabling comprehensive governance and management – Through built-in compliance and security capabilities, Unify Square solutions provide a policy framework and robust functionality to create policies to simultaneously cover all collaboration platform security and lifecycle management scenarios.
Unisys Digital Workplace Services deliver advanced workplace solutions to help clients transform their digital workplaces and create exceptional end-user experiences. Unisys InteliServe incorporates change-management capabilities and a user-centric design to deliver a frictionless employee experience that plugs into human resources, finance and business applications.