UNICOM Global

UNICOM Global
Founded 1981
Headquarters Mission Hills, California, United States
Website https://www.unicomglobal.com/

UNICOM Global is a US-based IT company, headquarted in Mission Hills, California. It is the parent company of the formerly NASDAQ-listed UNICOM Government, Inc. (then known as GTSI), whom it acquired in June 2012.[1][2][3][4]

It is also the parent company of USRobotics and Firetide. It has acquired a number of products from IBM – System Architect, Focal Point, Purify, solidDB and the PowerHouse programming language.

In 2006, they acquired SoftLanding Systems,[5] who were one of the "Big Three" change management vendors on the IBM i platform.[6]

In 2015, its subsidiary Unicom Government was one of 6 vendors jointly awarded a $652 million U.S. Army contract for enterprise IT modernization.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Unicom completes GTSI stock purchase, merger close, Washington Business Journal, June 18, 2012.
  2. ↑ Affiliate of UNICOM Systems, Inc. and GTSI Corp. Announce Completion of Merger, June 21, 2012.
  3. ↑ David Hubler, GTSI stock purchase completed; Unicom merger nears, Washington Technology, June 18, 2012.
  4. ↑ Jill R. Aitoro, As predicted: GTSI brand is no more, Washington Business Journal, March 7, 2013.
  5. ↑ Prickett Morgan, Timothy (2006-10-30). "SoftLanding Systems Acquired By CICS Specialist Unicom Systems". The Four Hundred. Retrieved 2016-03-22.
  6. ↑ Woodie, Alex (2016-02-08). "Where's MKS Implementer? Alive and Well At PTC". The Four Hundred. Retrieved 2016-03-22. The IBM i business is not what it used to be, and each of the Big Three change management vendors has a lower profile than it once did. Aldon, of course, is now part of Rocket Software, while SoftLanding Systems was long ago gobbled up by Unicom Global, a conglomerate with a different culture from that of SoftLanding.
  7. ↑ Feldt, Brian (2015-06-15). "World Wide Technology wins portion of $652 million U.S. Army contract". St. Louis Business Journal. Retrieved 2016-03-22. The contract calls for World Wide, a systems integration company founded by David Steward and Jim Kavanaugh in 1990, to work on the enterprise IT modification contract along with other major industry players such as IBM Corp., Dell’s Federal Systems unit and Unicom Government Inc.


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