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Positioned for Growth - Both Planned and Unanticipated

Overview Fiserv VISION is an information technology services company, firmly focused on the financial industry, with over 800 employees and annual revenues that top $100Million. The company needed server technology that can deliver additional capacity on demand while providing a solid foundation to support future growth. As a solution the company deployed the modern mainframe - ClearPath Plus Server Libra Model 180 - with its revolutionary Capacity on Demand features.

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Publisher	Unisys	File Format	HTML
Date Published	June 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Mainframes, Business Intelligence - Data Warehousing

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