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57-551: The software was developed in 1994 by Thomas Boutell and others. GD originally stood for "GIF Draw". However, since the revoking of the Unisys license, it has informally stood for "Graphics Draw". Support for drawing GIFs was dropped in 1999 when Unisys revoked the royalty-free license granted to non-commercial software projects for the LZW compression method used by GIFs. When the Unisys patent expired worldwide on July 7, 2004, GIF support

114-490: A Harvard Business school case activity about the split. It turned out that the Arthur Andersen board passed a resolution saying he had to resign if he did not get at least an incremental $ 4 billion (either through negotiation or via the arbitrator decision) for the consulting practice to split off, hence his quick resignation once the decision was announced. Accounts vary on why the split occurred—executives on both sides of

171-542: A dozen military and civilian agencies. As part of the acquisition, Unisys has a licensing agreement with SAIC to continue providing its software to federal clients. In June 2020, Australia’s Home Affairs’ biometric identification system, built in part through partnership with Unisys, was launched. In June 2021, the company announced the acquisition of Unify Square, which provides software and services which help enterprises manage collaboration and communication platforms like Zoom and Microsoft Teams. In November, Mobinergy,

228-557: A factor in the enactment of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002. Born May 30, 1885, in Plano, Illinois , and orphaned at the age of 16, Arthur E. Andersen began working as a mail boy by day and attended school at night, eventually being hired as the assistant to the comptroller of Allis-Chalmers in Chicago. In 1908, after attending courses at night while working full-time, he graduated from

285-471: A mobile device management software company, was acquired; and in December, Unisys acquired CompuGain, an Amazon Web Services Advanced Consulting Partner. In July 2021, Unisys partnered with Vodafone to help the company boost its IT services. The two launched “Vodafone Digital Factory,” and Unisys helped Vodafone clients with technologies like AI, virtual, and augmented reality, and blockchain. In May 2022,

342-1027: A software-based fabric architecture running on Intel processors. Unisys operates data centers around the world. In March 2022, Vision-Box awarded Unisys two digital workplace solutions contracts to help build automated “SmartGates,” electronic security gates, at New Zealand’s Auckland International Airport and Australia’s 10 international airports. California State University used Unisys’ CloudForte and Managed Security Services to integrate its hybrid-cloud environment. After acquiring Compugain, Unisys furthered its cloud capabilities, including hybrid cloud and cloud optimization, agile cloud migration, cloud-native capabilities, and data governance. In November 2020, Unisys updated its Stealth platform to include visualization and dashboard tools to make it easier for an organization to track security in real-time. The new version made it possible for cybersecurity teams to see relationships between all network endpoints, including multiple clouds and edge computing platforms. Unisys

399-424: A supplier diversity program, which is a program that “encourages using companies owned by either minorities, veterans, women, or historically underutilized companies as suppliers.” In 2006, Unisys committed to reducing its carbon footprint by 75% by 2026. It achieved this five years early in 2021. A year later, the company announced a new goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2030. The company also participates in

456-453: A thousand in 2010. The contest culminates in an event where five finalists present their papers before a panel of judges that comprise academicians and technologists. Prizes include the latest technology gadgets, internship projects and career opportunities with Unisys. Unisys earned a score of 100% on the 2021 Disability Equality Index. The company was recognized as a “Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion.” The Disability Equality Index

513-551: A time "trial plaintiffs were making retirement decisions" and while it was advising them about the benefits the company would provide during retirement. Also in 2007, Unisys was found guilty of willful trademark infringement in Visible Systems v. Unisys (Trademark Infringement). Computer company Visible Systems prevailed over Unisys Corp. in a trademark infringement lawsuit filed in Massachusetts federal court. In November 2007,

570-482: A viable business on even a limited scale. Ownership of the partnership has been ceded to four limited liability companies named Omega Management I through IV. Arthur Andersen LLP operated the Q Center conference center in St. Charles, Illinois , until day-to-day management was turned over to Dolce Hotels and Resorts in 2014, but Andersen retains ownership. In 2018, that relationship ended, and day-to-day management returned to

627-429: A way that Andersen could have been convicted without any proof that the firm knew it had broken the law or that there had been a link to any official proceeding that prohibited the destruction of documents. The opinion, written by Chief Justice William Rehnquist , also expressed skepticism of the government's concept of "corrupt persuasion"—persuading someone to engage in an act with an improper purpose without knowing that

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684-772: Is a joint initiative of Disability:IN and the American Association of People with Disabilities . It is a “comprehensive benchmarking tool to measure disability workplace inclusion.” In November 2021, Unisys launched its UGrow program to help its employees grow internally. The program makes different courses available; each one focuses on skills needed by Unisys employees. Company employees also have access to Unisys University, which offers free certifications for over 100 different skills. A few examples include courses focused on management and team leadership skills, communication skills, and culture courses. The courses are organized around Unisys’ core business functions. Unisys has

741-478: Is an annual technical paper contest for tertiary students from India in October 2009. The contest allows students to explore the possibilities and complexities of cloud computing in areas such as automation, virtualization, application development, security, consumerization of IT and airports. The contest has drawn participation from universities across India, with over 570 institutes taking part in 2009 and more than

798-745: Is extensively used with PHP, where a modified version supporting additional features is included by default as of PHP 4.3 and was an option before that. As of PHP 5.3, a system version of GD may be used as well, to get the additional features that were previously available only to the bundled version of GD. Unisys Unisys Corporation is an American multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company founded in 1986 and headquartered in Blue Bell , Pennsylvania . The company provides digital workplace , cloud applications and infrastructure , enterprise computing , business process , AI technology , and data analytics services. Unisys

855-474: Is no putting the company back together." In his post-mortem of the Enron scandal, Conspiracy of Fools , journalist Kurt Eichenwald argued that even if Andersen had escaped the Enron scandal, it would have likely been brought down by the massive accounting fraud at WorldCom . The WorldCom fraud came to light just days after Andersen was convicted of wrongdoing at Enron. As a result, Andersen has never returned as

912-726: The Bank of China , Somos , Henkel , Flowserve , The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), MASkargo (the cargo division of Malaysia Airlines ), Nutreco , California State University (CSU), Air India , RAMS Home Loans, and the Georgia Technology Authority. Unisys systems are used for many industrial and government purposes, including banking, check processing, income tax processing, airline passenger reservations, biometric identification, newspaper content management, and shipping port management, as well as providing weather data services. Additional projects include

969-595: The Baptist Foundation of Arizona and WorldCom . On May 31, 2005, in Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States , the Supreme Court unanimously reversed Andersen's conviction because of errors in the trial judge's jury instructions. The Supreme Court held that the instructions were too vague to allow a jury to find that obstruction of justice had occurred. The court found that the instructions were worded in such

1026-666: The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University with a bachelor's degree in business. That same year, at age 23, he became the youngest Certified Public Accountant in Illinois. In 1913, Andersen and Clarence DeLany founded an accounting firm as Andersen, DeLany & Co. The firm changed its name to Arthur Andersen & Co. in 1918. Arthur Andersen's first client was the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company of Milwaukee . In 1915, due to his many contacts there,

1083-441: The U.S. government and was found guilty of failure to supply adequate equipment in 1998. In 1998, Unisys Corporation agreed to pay the government $ 2.25 million to settle allegations that it supplied refurbished, rather than new, computer materials to several federal agencies in violation of the terms of its contract. Unisys admitted to supplying re-worked or refurbished computer components to various civilian and military agencies in

1140-538: The 2012 verdict of the Labour Court of Budapest , Unisys acted illegally and was ordered to pay unpaid wages and benefits, legal costs, and three months' average salary as compensation. Arthur Andersen Arthur Andersen LLP was an American accounting firm based in Chicago that provided auditing , tax advising , consulting and other professional services to large corporations. By 2001, it had become one of

1197-597: The Andersen name. As a result, Andersen Consulting changed its name to Accenture on January 1, 2001, and Arthur Andersen, having the right to the Andersen Consulting name, rebranded itself to "Andersen". Four hours after the arbitrator made his ruling, Arthur Andersen CEO Jim Wadia resigned. Industry analysts and business school professors alike viewed the event as a complete victory for Andersen Consulting. Wadia would provide insight on his resignation years later at

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1254-647: The Carbon Disclosure Project and UN Global Compact. In 1987, Unisys was sued with Rockwell Shuttle Operations Company for $ 5.2 million by two former employees of the Unisys Corporation, one a subcontractor responsible for the computer programs for the space shuttle. The suit filed by Sylvia Robins, a former Unisys engineer, and Ria Solomon, who worked for Robins, charges that the two were forced from their jobs and harassed after complaining about safety violations and inflated costs. Unisys overcharged

1311-468: The Milwaukee office was opened as the firm's second office. Andersen believed education was the basis upon which the new profession of accounting should be developed. He created the profession's first centralized training program and believed in training during normal working hours. In 1927, he was elected to the board of trustees of Northwestern University and served as its president from 1930 to 1932. He

1368-432: The act is unlawful. The firm collapsed by mid-2002, as details of its questionable accounting practices for energy company Enron and telecommunications company Worldcom were revealed amid the two high-profile bankruptcies. The scandals were a factor in the enactment of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002. After the collapse, some parts of the company continue to exist: the company's consulting services were split out before

1425-519: The allegations. In 2007, Unisys was found guilty of misrepresentation of retiree benefits. A federal judge in Pennsylvania ordered Unisys to reinstate within 60 days free lifetime retiree medical benefits to 12 former employees who were employed by a Unisys predecessor, the Burroughs Corporation. The judge ruled that Unisys "misrepresented the cost and duration of retiree medical benefits" at

1482-409: The collapse and continue today as Accenture and Protiviti , while some of the former partners formed a new firm in 2002 focused on tax services, now called Andersen Tax . The 2005 Supreme Court ruling theoretically left Andersen free to resume operations. However, CNN reported that by then, Andersen was "nearly defunct," with about 200 employees remaining from a high of 28,000 in 2002. Following

1539-498: The company joined the Plug and Play Enterprise Tech program. This allowed Unisys to source and partner with technology startups to access and use early-stage emerging technology. Unisys offers outsourcing managed services, systems integration and consulting services, application management and device management software, high end server technology, maintenance and support services, and cybersecurity services. In line with larger trends in

1596-487: The contract. Unisys denied wrongdoing. In 2006, The Washington Post reported that the FBI was investigating Unisys for alleged cybersecurity lapses under the company's contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security . A number of security lapses supposedly occurred during the contract, including incidents in which data was transmitted to Chinese servers. Unisys denies all charges and said it has documentation disproving

1653-421: The court entered an injunction and final judgment ordering Unisys to discontinue its use of the "Visible" trademark, upholding the jury's award to Visible Systems of $ 250,000 in damages, and awarding an additional $ 17,555 in interest. Visible Systems claimed Unisys wrongfully used the name "Visible" in marketing its software and services. The jury found the infringement by Unisys was willful. Visible Systems appealed

1710-464: The decade. The consultants, however, continued to resent transfer payments they were required to make to Arthur Andersen. In August 2000, at the conclusion of International Chamber of Commerce arbitration of the dispute, the arbitrators granted Andersen Consulting its independence from Arthur Andersen, but awarded $ 1.2 billion in past payments (held in escrow pending the ruling) to Arthur Andersen, and declared that Andersen Consulting could no longer use

1767-443: The early 1990s, when the contract required the company to provide new equipment. The market price for the refurbished material was less than the price for new material which the government paid. In 1998, Unisys was found guilty of price inflation and government contract fraud, with the company settling to avoid further prosecution. Lockheed Martin and Unisys paid the government $ 3.15 million to settle allegations that Unisys inflated

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1824-409: The era of quarterly earnings reports. The firm has been alleged to have been involved in the fraudulent accounting and auditing of Sunbeam Products , Waste Management , Asia Pulp & Paper , the Baptist Foundation of Arizona , WorldCom , as well as Enron , among others. The consulting wing of the firm became increasingly important during the 1970s and 1980s, growing at a much faster rate than

1881-404: The failed merger that at the end of the discussion, the partners at the table realized they had different views of business, and the potential merger was scrapped. In 1989, Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting became separate units of Andersen Worldwide Société Coopérative . The two businesses spent most of the 1990s in a bitter dispute. Andersen Consulting saw a huge surge in profits during

1938-464: The final judgment, believing the court wrongly excluded the issues of bad faith and disgorgement of an estimated $ 17 billion in unjust profits from the consideration of the jury. In 2010, Unisys Hungary terminated the local Workers' Union representative Gabor Pinter's employment contract with immediate effect for raising concerns about unpaid overtime and the company's non-respect of the health regulations in its local Shared Services Center . According to

1995-497: The firm's accounting in October 2001) came to the following assessment: "The evidence available to us suggests that Andersen did not fulfill its professional responsibilities in connection with its audits of Enron's financial statements, or its obligation to bring to the attention of Enron's Board (or the Audit and Compliance Committee) concerns about Enron's internal contracts over the related-party transactions". On June 15, 2002, Andersen

2052-430: The following: A study sponsored by Unisys and conducted by IDC revealed the gap between the activities and expectations of the new generation of "iWorkers" and the ability of organizations to support their needs. The results showed that organizations continue to work with standardized command and control IT models of the past and are not able to profit from the widespread use of newer networked technologies. Cloud 20/20

2109-480: The information technology industry, an increasing amount of Unisys revenue comes from services rather than equipment sales; in 2014, the ratio was 86% for services, up from 65% in 1997. The company maintains a portfolio of over 1,500 U.S. and non-U.S. patents, and in the 1990s controversially monetized its patent on technology underlying the GIF image file format . In 2014, Unisys phased out its CMOS processors, completing

2166-462: The intent being to provide the same service the same way to all customers in all locations. For many years, Andersen's motto was "Think straight, talk straight"—an axiom passed on from his mother. During the early years, it is reputed that Andersen was approached by an executive from a local rail utility to sign off on accounts containing flawed accounting, or else face the loss of a major client. Andersen refused in no uncertain terms, replying that there

2223-406: The majority of its American operations to other accounting firms such as KPMG , Ernst & Young , Deloitte & Touche and Grant Thornton International . At this time, Arthur Andersen had lost most of its business and two-thirds of its 28,000 employees. The indictment also put a spotlight on the firm's faulty audits of other companies, most notably Waste Management , Sunbeam Products ,

2280-511: The migration of its ClearPath mainframes to Intel x86 chips, allowing clients to run the company's OS 2200 and MCP operating systems alongside more recent Windows and Linux workloads on Intel-based systems that support cloud and virtualization. The company announced its new ClearPath Dorado 8380 and 8390 systems in May, 2015. These new systems allowed the company to transition its ClearPath server families from proprietary CMOS processor technology to

2337-427: The more established accounting, auditing, and tax practice. In a further effort to take advantage of economies of scale , Price Waterhouse and Arthur Andersen discussed a merger in 1989 but the negotiations failed, mainly because of conflicts of interest such as Andersen's strong commercial links with IBM and PW's audit of IBM, as well as the two firms' radically different cultures. It was said by those involved with

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2394-671: The new CEO. Joseph McGrath served as CEO and President from January 2005, until September, 2008. On October 7, 2008, J. Edward Coleman replaced McGrath as CEO and Chairman. On November 10, 2008, the company was removed from the S&;P 500 index when the market capitalization of the company had fallen below the S&;P 500 minimum of $ 4 billion. In 2010, Unisys sold its Medicare processing Health Information Management service to Molina Healthcare for $ 135 million. On October 6, 2014, after six years as CEO and chairman, Unisys announced that Coleman

2451-496: The prices of spare parts sold to the U.S. Department of Commerce for its NEXRAD Doppler Radar System, in violation of the False Claims Act , 31 U.S.C. § 3729, et seq. "[T]he settlement resolves allegations that Unisys knew that prices it paid Concurrent Computer Corporation for the spare parts were inflated when it passed on those prices to the government. Unisys had obtained price discounts from Concurrent on other items Unisys

2508-475: The profitable revenue stream from maintaining its installed base of proprietary mainframe hardware and applications. In 1988, the company acquired Convergent Technologies , creators of Convergent Technologies Operating System (CTOS). In 1990, Blumenthal resigned. James Unruh, formerly of Memorex and Honeywell , became the new CEO and Chairman after Blumenthal's departure and continued in both roles until 1997, when Larry Weinbach of Arthur Andersen became

2565-514: The ruling, William Mateja, a former counsel to the US Attorney General who had supervised the Andersen appeal, told NPR that he did not believe the government would seek a retrial because, "there's nothing left of Arthur Andersen, and to spend the taxpayers' money on another prosecution would be just—defy common sense." Echoing this, United States Chamber of Commerce vice president Stephen Bokat pronounced Andersen "dead," and said that "there

2622-519: The scandal because they ordered subordinates to shred relevant documents. Because the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission does not accept audits from convicted felons, the firm agreed to surrender its CPA licenses and its right to practice before the SEC on August 31, 2002—effectively putting the firm out of business. It had already started winding down its American operations after the indictment, and many of its accountants joined other firms. The firm sold

2679-655: The split cite greed and arrogance on the part of the other side. The executives on the Andersen Consulting side maintained it was a breach of contract when Arthur Andersen created a second consulting group, AABC (Arthur Andersen Business Consulting) which competed directly with Andersen Consulting in the marketplace. Following the 2001 scandal in which energy giant Enron was found to have fraudulently reported $ 100 billion in revenue through institutional and systematic accounting fraud , Andersen's performance and alleged complicity as an auditor came under intense scrutiny. The Powers Committee (appointed by Enron's board to look into

2736-625: The time and made Unisys the second-largest computer company with annual revenue of $ 10.5 billion. W. Michael Blumenthal became CEO and Chairman. Soon after the merger, the market for proprietary mainframe-class systems, the mainstream product of Unisys and its competitors such as IBM , began a long-term decline that continues, at a lesser rate, today. Unisys responded by making the strategic decision to shift into high-end servers, including 32-bit processor Windows Servers and information technology (IT) services, such as systems integration, outsourcing, and related technical services, while holding onto

2793-405: The world's largest multinational corporations and was one of the "Big Five" accounting firms (along with Deloitte , Ernst & Young , KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers ). The firm collapsed by mid-2002, as details of its questionable accounting practices for energy company Enron and telecommunications company WorldCom were revealed amid the two high-profile bankruptcies. The scandals were

2850-514: Was "not enough money in the city of Chicago" to make him do it. The railroad fired Andersen, only to go bankrupt a few months later. Arthur Andersen also led the way in a number of areas of accounting standards. Being among the first to identify a possible sub-prime bust, Arthur Andersen dissociated itself from a number of clients in the 1970s. Arthur Andersen struggled to balance the need to maintain its faithfulness to accounting standards with its clients' desire to maximize profits, particularly in

2907-417: Was also chairman of the board of CPA examiners of Illinois. Andersen, who headed the firm until his death in 1947, was a zealous supporter of high standards in the accounting industry. A stickler for honesty, he argued that accountants' responsibility was to investors, not their clients' management. This gave rise to the uniform look of all the so-called "Arthur Androids", as employees referred to themselves,

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2964-467: Was convicted of obstruction of justice for shredding documents related to its audit of Enron. Although the Supreme Court reversed the firm's conviction, the impact of the scandal combined with the findings of criminal complicity ultimately destroyed the firm. Nancy Temple (in the firm's legal department) and David Duncan (lead partner for the Enron account) were cited as the responsible managers in

3021-422: Was formed in 1986 through the merger of mainframe corporations Sperry and Burroughs , with Burroughs buying Sperry for $ 4.8 billion. The new company's name was chosen from over 31,000 submissions in an internal competition when Christian Machen submitted the word "Unisys", which was composed of parts of the words "united", "information", and "systems". The merger was the largest in the computer industry at

3078-418: Was purchasing from Concurrent at Unisys' own expense in exchange for agreeing to pay Concurrent the inflated prices". In October 2005, The Washington Post reported that the company had allegedly overbilled on the $ 1-to-3-billion Transportation Security Administration contract for almost 171,000 hours of labor and overtime at up to the maximum rate of $ 131.13 per hour, including 24,983 hours not allowed by

3135-424: Was stepping down effective December 1, 2014. On January 1, 2015, Unisys named Peter Altabef as its new president and CEO, replacing Edward Coleman. Paul Weaver, who was formerly Lead Independent Director, was named Chairman. In February 2020, SAIC announced plans to acquire Unisys Federal, the company’s federal defense contracting operation, for $ 1.2 billion. The company’s federal customer list included over

3192-620: Was subsequently re-enabled. Version 2.0 added support for truecolor images, alpha channels , resampling (for smooth resizing of truecolor images), and many other features. The "Fly" command line interpreter allows for image creation ("on the fly") using GD. GD scripts can thus be written in potentially any language and run using this tool. Its native programming language is ANSI C , but it has interfaces for many other programming languages. GD supports numerous programming languages including C , PHP , Perl , Python , OCaml , Tcl , Lua , Pascal , GNU Octave , Rexx , Ruby and Go . GD

3249-732: Was the first to develop a server architecture that supported four operating environments to run simultaneously on the same computer system in a single virtualized partition. In 2013, Unisys won a $ 650 million Enterprise Computing Center Support contract to support the computer systems used by the Internal Revenue Service. Unisys launched their business process consulting service in 2004. This service called Business Blueprints helped developers create high level models of their own software. The company partners with Rubicon Technologies to deliver business process solutions. Unisys’ partnerships include: Clients include Bank ABC, Hershey ,

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