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State of California Department of Industrial Relations Selects Unisys and Hansen to Automate Licensing and Case Management

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RANCHO CORDOVA, California - June 1, 2005 – Hansen Information Technologies (Hansen®), a leading provider of software solutions for government, today announced that it was selected to provide a comprehensive solution for the State of California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR), in partnership with Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS). The team of Unisys and Hansen was selected to provide application software and professional services to DIR's Division of Labor Standards and Enforcement (DLSE) to streamline the business processes of its Bureau of Field Enforcement, Wage Claim Adjudication, Licensing & Registration, and Legal Units.

"Scalability of Hansen's solutions and their expertise in delivering case management solutions, were key factors in our decision to team with Hansen," said Mark Danis, Vice President and Managing Partner, Unisys North America Public Sector. "We look forward to helping streamline DLSE's business processes and workflows used to manage and enforce statewide labor laws."

The Division of Labor Standards and Enforcement monitors, investigates, adjudicates, and enforces labor law violations within the State of California, covering employer-employee relationships and regulations. Responsible for improving the working conditions for nearly 16 million California wage earners, DLSE handles approximately 50,000 new cases each year from 19 field offices and their headquarters. DLSE also licenses businesses in certain industries.

"We are delighted to team up with Unisys on this important statewide initiative to help enhance business processes," stated Chuck Hansen, Hansen's Chairman and CEO. "Ensuring the fair and equitable treatment of employees is the responsibility of all California employers. To work with Unisys and the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement to deliver tools to manage their day-to-day operations, is not only a huge win for our own company, but a positive influence to our society."

Investigators of DLSE's Bureau of Field Enforcement concentrate their efforts in industries that are commonly known to operate in the underground economy, have a history of labor law violations, and tend to pay less than the minimum wage.

During 2002, investigators conducted 1,470 inspections in the restaurant industry and 1,703 in the garment industry, issuing 803 civil citations to restaurant owners (55 percent non-compliance) and 992 to employers of garment workers (58 percent non-compliance); the greatest number of violations found involved failure to carry Workers' Compensation insurance coverage. Investigators also issued citations for violations relating to garment manufacturing registration requirements and citations for paying employees in cash without the required itemized wage deduction statement. In 2002, DLSE bureau investigators collected over $23 Million in wages owed to California employees.

DLSE will be implementing Hansen's Licensing, Case Management, Cashiering, and Citizen Relationship Management (CRM) solutions. DLSE will also implement the Hansen web-based Executive Dashboard, Hansen's real-time data store that eliminates the need to support independent data warehouses. In addition, the project will enhance the State of California's web portal to offer web-based CRM, Licensing, and Case Management for use by employers and employees. Interfaces will be developed for legacy systems at the Internal Revenue Service, State Franchise Tax Board, and Superior Court. The project will be completed in approximately 15 months.

About the State of California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement
The mission of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) is to vigorously enforce minimum labor standards in order to ensure employees are not required or permitted to work under substandard unlawful conditions, and to protect employers who comply with the law from those who attempt to gain competitive advantage at the expense of their workers by failing to comply with minimum labor standards. DLSE is one of six divisions of the State of California's Department of Industrial Relations (DIR), working with the Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC), the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH), and Division of Apprenticeship Standards (DAS), State Mediation & Conciliation Service (SMCS) and Division of Labor Statistics and Research (DLSR). For more information, please visit the Department of Industrial Relations web site at www.dir.ca.gov.

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.

About Hansen Information Technologies
Hansen is the world's leading provider of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications that help manage the operations of government. Hansen's integrated suite of performance management solutions include Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Building Permit, Business Licensing, Business Intelligence, Citizen Relationship Management (CRM), Code Enforcement, Financials, GIS, HR & Payroll, Property Tax, Timesheet Reporting, Transportation, Utility Billing, and Web Portal applications. Major customers include 15 of the 25 largest city and county governments in the United States. Headquartered in Rancho Cordova, California, the company employs over 250 people with offices in Auckland, London, Melbourne, Mississauga, Perth, and Sydney. For more information, please visit Hansen's Web site at www.hansen.com.