Two tech companies with Philly ties just joined forces to make it easier for college students to get financial aid

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Two big Montgomery County tech companies, Boomi and Unisys, are working together to cut through software and record-keeping clutter at the largest U.S. college system.

Two tech companies with Philly ties just joined forces to make it easier for college students to get financial aid

Unisys, once a computer manufacturer that rivaled IBM, now sells cloud server solutions and other computing infrastructure and services to longtime clients, including Cal State, which uses PeopleSoft and Oracle systems to link records at 23 campuses around the nation’s most populous state.Since 2019, Unisys “did all the work to modernize their infrastructure and take it into the cloud,” said Unisys president and chief operating officer Mike Thomson.

The Boomi-Unisys arrangement replaces what California officials called a weeks-long “manual, labor-intensive, multistep,” process of locating grant information, copying and transferring files, and processing data, with instant updates and replies. Nine of the campuses are already connected under the new arrangement, with the other 14 to follow this spring.

 

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