Unisys has issued its results for the third quarter and revised its revenue guidance for the full year. The company’s revenues for the quarter came in at $757.6 million, a 10.1 percent increase over revenues of $688.3 million in Q3 of 2018. Much of this was on the back of growth in its US federal…
Biometrics News – Healthcare Biometrics Unisys has been awarded a contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide Artificial Intelligence solutions for the government agency. The five year contract with a potential value of $49 million is aimed at enabling the HHS to use automation and other innovative solutions to…
Unisys has renewed its contract with the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) to facilitate the creation of secure biometric driver’s licenses, marine licenses, and accreditations. The two organizations first joined forces back in 2009, and TMR has issued more than 4.5 million smart licenses to Queensland residents in the decade since. Now…
The 2019 Unisys Security Index suggests that people are increasingly worried about their safety in large venues. The survey found that the vast majority of Americans (83 percent) were worried about physical harm as the result of an attack at a large-scale event like a concert or a sports game, with a full 22 percent…
The Unisys Corporation’s Maria Allen is heading to the 2019 FinTech Americas conference to participate in a panel discussion that will delve into the benefits offered (and the challenges posed) by embedded banking innovations. “Advances like embedded banking enable digital banking services to be delivered in real time, when and where the customer needs it,”…
Taking stock of FindBiometrics’ most popular articles this week, there’s no clear through line. And maybe that’s the point: In early 2019, biometric technologies have spread across a diverse array of applications spanning a range of industries. And there’s considerable variety in the biometric technologies themselves, with a number of modalities now in the middle…
Unisys is expanding its security offerings with the launch of Stealth(identity), a new biometric identity management software platform geared towards enterprise clients. Stealth(identity) will allow companies to automate the biometric enrollment process for large numbers of users, thereby reducing overhead costs while improving the overall customer experience. The platform offers support for fingerprint, face, voice,…
“Unisys highlighted four major contracts established during the third quarter in its corporate update, including a deal to provide the US Army with biometric software…” Unisys has issued its Q3 results showing strong growth for the IT solutions provider. Revenues for the quarter came in at $688.3 million, up 3.3 percent year-over-year, and marking the…
Biometric and artificial intelligence technologies will have a big year in the financial services sector, and will help smaller banks to offer cutting-edge solutions to their customers, predicts Unisys. The company says that this is the year that “biometric authentication will go mainstream”, according to a statement announcing its predictions. And that mainstreaming process will…
Europeans are really warming up to biometric authentication, suggest findings from a new Unisys survey. The company has found that 68 percent of Europeans say they would trust an organization more if it used the technology. The survey polled 3,500 individuals across the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland, in August of…
Unisys has announced a new digital banking platform meant to facilitate a broad range of services via mobile device or desktop, and featuring biometric security. Called Elevate, the platform is targeted at financial institutions seeking to offer cutting-edge digital and mobile banking technology to their customers, enabling everything from paying bills to applying for mortgages. The solution…
“Earlier this year, the Unisys provided technology for a biometric screening trial conducted by the CBP at a major US-Mexico land crossing, and it has also helped with biometric screening trials conducted by the CBP at two major airports. “ The US Customs and Border Protection agency has contracted Unisys to help authorities identify the people…
Biometrics industry professionals are seeing major opportunities for wearables in law enforcement, according to new survey data from Unisys. The company polled 54 individuals at this year’s Biometrics Institute Asia Pacific Conference, and found considerable enthusiasm for applications of biometric wearable technology in law enforcement and security, with 63 percent agreeing that this “is the…
Nationwide Building Society has won the Retail Banking Security Innovation of the Year award for a mobile solution developed with Unisys and BehavioSec. The award was bestowed at this year’s Retail Banking Conference & Awards. The recognition is for an app developed by the companies this year which uses behavioral biometrics to authenticate users. That…
Unisys has won a contract to provide the Netherlands’ Custodial Institutions Service (Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen, or DJI) with a new custody management system. According to the terms of the 10-year contract, the system will be rolled out starting next year, and will ultimately be in place at prisons across the country. The system will revolved…
Behavioral biometrics company BehavioSec has announced a partnership between itself, Nationwide, and Unisys. The central focus of the team up, which has been taking place over the past few months, has been the development of a prototype app aimed at making behavioral biometrics a standard feature in digital services. While the company and its partners…
Unisys technology is helping the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency to conduct is biometric screening trial at the Otay Mesa border crossing between San Diego and Tijuana, the company has announced. The project, launched late last year, is meant to test the viability of using biometric technology to effectively screen and track non-US…
Global IT solutions provider Unisys has launched a new Justice, Law Enforcement and Border Security Initiative, and has appointed a 20-year FBI veteran to lead it, the company has announced. The initiative is aimed at helping governments around the world in several areas, including border traffic processing, cloud-based IT infrastructure setup, public safety consulting, and…
Unisys is once again helping the US Customs and Border Protection agency to implement biometric passenger screening at a major US airport. It’s an expansion of the pilot project first implemented at the Dulles International Airport in Virginia, which concluded in the middle of last year. Now, initiating what could be a much larger-scale expansion…