BLUE BELL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 29, 2004--  

   Thomson ONE Analytics gets a significant performance boost with  
Unisys ES7000 servers and the Intel(R) Xeon(TM) Processor MP

   Unisys Corporation (NYSE:UIS) has been engaged by Thomson  
Financial, an operating unit of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE:TOC,
TSX:TOC) and leading provider of information and technology solutions
to the worldwide financial community, to help provide 55,000
institutional investors, portfolio managers and financial analysts
with uninterrupted access to the company's Thomson ONE Analytics
application. The enterprise-class system from Unisys and Intel
Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) helps employees receive the
up-to-the-minute financial information they need to make faster
investment decisions.
   Thomson Financial turned to Unisys and Intel to help design a new  
platform based on Intel Xeon Processor MP and Unisys ES7000 servers,
and to help migrate the users of Thomson's industry-leading First Call
Web application to its new Thomson ONE Analytics application.
   "If information is the life-blood of Thomson Financial's Thomson  
ONE Analytics application, then the Intel Xeon processor MP and
Itanium 2 processor-powered ES7000s are its heart," said Richard
Dracott, general manager, enterprise marketing and planning for
Intel's Enterprise Platforms Group. "Thomson's decision to support its
critical data tier with both processors speaks to the complementary
strength of Intel's enterprise server platforms for data intensive
applications."
   In a matter of months, Thomson ONE Analytics grew from supporting  
500 users to supporting 55,000. The application achieved a 100 percent
uptime while providing a 200 percent improvement in hardware
performance, significantly higher speeds and greater availability.
   "Thomson Financial customers expect extremely fast and reliable  
product performance," said Jeremy Lehman, senior vice president,
technology, Thomson Financial. "When we migrated 55,000 customers from
First Call Web to Thomson ONE Analytics, we turned to Unisys and Intel
for their expertise with big, powerful systems. We grew the number of
users by 10,000 percent, with 400 percent faster speed overall,
building on ES7000s and Xeon MP."

   A Successful Migration  

   Thomson ONE Analytics is a real-time, integrated analytical  
workflow solution for institutional investors, offering world-class
content combined with powerful analytical tools and intelligent
navigation. Thomson ONE Analytics enables clients to monitor markets,
portfolios and securities, identify and analyze investment
opportunities, and communicate their findings.
   Migrating customers from First Call Web to Thomson One Analytics  
was one of the largest migration projects, based on the number of
users, in the financial industry. It included transforming the
application from one that provided static data to one that now offers
integrated workflow and is scaled for lightning-fast and reliable
service, offering all of Thomson Financial's components to the full
range of Thomson customers.
   Thomson Financial's overall growth is attributed to the  
acquisition of smaller firms with market-leading applications in
individual segments, and the ability to scale and integrate those
applications into Thomson Financial's core offerings.
   Today, the Thomson ONE Analytics application runs on two  
16-processor ES7000 servers featuring the latest Intel Xeon processor
MP and Microsoft Windows 2000 Data Center Server. These servers store
mission-critical databases that house six months of qualitative
research data. In addition, an eight-processor ES7000 server based on
Intel Itanium(R) 2 processor technology and the 64-bit version of
Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition, provides investors
with faster, higher-volume access to more than five years of
historical financial data.
   "Thomson ONE Analytics' user growth was outpacing the ability of  
its commodity server environment to support the required speed and
availability," said Chander Khanna, vice president, platform
marketing, Unisys. "By comparison, the ES7000 with the Intel Xeon
processor MP delivers significantly improved performance, higher
availability and enough scalability to support 10 times its previous
workload at a lower cost of ownership."
   The database is under tough demands to provide fast information.  
Investors query the research data, in many cases using an incredibly
complex, highly demanding set of query conditions. By consolidating
the application's workload onto two servers, Thomson Financial can now
provide customers with access to that data in near real time.

   About Thomson Financial  

   Thomson Financial is a US$1.5 billion provider of information and  
technology solutions to the worldwide financial community. Through the
widest range of products and services in the industry, Thomson
Financial helps clients in more than 70 countries make better
decisions, be more productive and achieve superior results. Thomson
Financial is part of The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), a
leading provider of value-added information, software tools and
applications to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax,
accounting, financial services, higher education, reference
information, corporate training and assessment, scientific research
and healthcare. With revenues from continuing operations of US$7.6
billion, The Thomson Corporation lists its common shares on the New
York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE:TOC; TSX:TOC).

   About Unisys  

   Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and  
solutions company. Our people combine expertise in consulting, systems
integration, outsourcing, infrastructure and server technology with
precision thinking and relentless execution to help clients, in more
than 100 countries, quickly and efficiently achieve competitive
advantage. For more information, visit www.unisys.com

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