UNITEd Once Again

UNITE 2017, the annual conference for the International Unisys User Association, took place from October 30th through November 1st in Atlanta, Georgia.

Members of the UNITE organization joined together with the Unisys user community to share their experiences, meet friends new and old alike, and learn about all of the things Unisys is doing to keep pace with the rapidly changing business and technology worlds.

There was a good slate of Agile Business Suite (AB Suite®) and EAE content once again this year.

The “AB Suite Release 6.1 Technical Update” session offered an overview of some key new capabilities and enhancements packed into the latest AB Suite release: DevOps support, new DMSII and MCP interoperability features, improvements to the development experience, and new XML and Client Framework capabilities.

During “More than just Cool Web Pages or an App,” attendees learned how the old adage that “no man is an island” applies to their EAE and AB Suite applications. To that end, the session explored the inputs and outputs that make these applications tick, as well as some of the strange and wonderful ways internal users, external customers, and business partners have been interacting with clients’ systems for years.

The DevOps craze took center stage during “DevOps – Bringing Developers, Operations, and Even Users Closer Together.” Attendees received an overview of the change-management and DevOps features available in EAE and AB Suite, then took part in an open discussion about how they currently manage and coordinate the development and release of complex application updates.

And as is tradition for a UNITE conference, we concluded with “EAE and AB Suite Birds of a Feather,” an open discussion that allowed users to share how they’re leveraging EAE and AB Suite to address specific operational and technical challenges at their sites.

It was another great year at UNITE. We thank the UNITE members who helped organize and run the event, the session presenters, and everyone who attended the conference.