Unico has been providing a full product life cycle suite of services to our clients since 1984. During this time we have overseen multiple generations of applications from initial concept through to business as usual. The services we provide have formed the backbone of our client’s businesses. We use a collaborative approach, working with our clients rather than working on them, build long term partnerships founded on shared success.

We’ve realised that many clients want to move away from the large, multi-year transformation projects, breaking programs of work into smaller, more manageable chunks providing faster time to value and more efficient use of scare resources. At Unico, we adopt a flexible approach to working with our clients to find the most effective way to deliver new capabilities, as fast as possible.

Together we:

• Focus on what really matters and help you Differentiate;
• Connect with our people, clients, communities and our environment; and
• Deliver on our promises.

Differentiate

Unico works with clients to identify, focus on, and deliver those business capabilities that will have the greatest impact on their business. Our consultants use methodologies based on, and aligned with, global business and technology best practices and standards, providing them with effective, efficient and scalable tooling aligned with their organisational processes and goals.

• Business-Technology Strategy. Our technology strategy practice extends best practice Business-Services Architecture methodologies with scenario-based planning to provide a lean and effective approach to technology strategy, enabling our clients to balance conflicting demands and deliver an efficient and effective IT estate.
• Technology Roadmap Development. Our pragmatic approach to technology roadmap development looks beyond the initial technology installation to consider the full solution life-cycle, and ensure that potential benefits are realised and captured.
• Pragmatic Innovation. Our approach to innovation–tightly integrated with best practices from technology and business strategy management–provides clients with a methodology that balances risk and disruption with business value, making the chaos that is innovation work for them.
• Bespoke development. Some capabilities are so important to the business that they will drive the entire value of the organisation, and a tailored, bespoke solution is the only option. Unico’s skilled team has a long track record of delivering, supporting and renewing those essential solutions which form the backbone of your organisation.

Connect

Unico has a long history of creating solutions that bringing together the right information, at the right time, to drive the best possible business outcome. These are solutions which are central to the smooth operation of our client’s businesses. We are able to deploy our trusted professionals with unparalleled knowledge of business processes and integration technology to ensure that each new solution is integrated into the fabric of your enterprise, working with your existing systems and work practices, rather than against them.

• User Interaction. Working from initial concept through iterative wireframe-based design to prototypes, we deliver outcomes that put your most valuable asset—your knowledge workers and clients—at the centre of the UI design and development process.
• Business Process Management. Our skilled BPM practice can bring the full array of BPM technologies to bear on your problems, working with your operational excellence team to efficiency and agility throughout your organisation.
• SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture). Our SOA team takes a pragmatic approach to SOA, leveraging methods that combine global best practice with our 20 years of experience in delivering reliable software solutions, to work with you in applying the appropriate level of abstraction and technology to deliver the business outcome required without getting lost in the hype.

Deliver

Our proven delivery methodologies have been aligned with global best practice, adopting well respected tools such as Prince2, PMBOK, COBIT and ITIL. For over 25 years we have been proud to stand behind the solutions we deliver, taking a life-cycle approach to solution design and delivery which ensures that our solution is always available and able to support the business.

• Program and Project Management. We take a practical approach to managing either a single project or a whole program of activity. We bring to the table a full Project Management Office (u-PMO) capability comprising a full library of tools, templates and processes which we use to help de-risk all of our projects.
• Project Execution. Our breadth and depth of expertise enables us to take a life-cycle view, ensuring that technology solutions are fit for purpose, intelligently engineered, and managed across the complete life-cycle to maximise quality and value to the client. Our solutions span ground-up custom development on core technologies such as C++ and Java, through to leveraging best of breed frameworks and infrastructure such as Oracle Fusion and Redhat enterprise suites.
• Testing. Our testing methodology combines our deep experience in delivering performance, dependable solutions, supporting the high transaction loads that form the backbone of our clients business, with global best practice in test planning, testing automation and continuous integration, to ensure the quality of delivered solutions, from unit through to user acceptance, performance and soak testing.
• Sustain. Unico is proud to stand behind the solutions we deliver. Our sustain practice has been supporting high-volume, core operational systems for over twenty years, providing network and applications management services 24×7.