History
Affinité Europe was formed in September 1991 by Duncan Starkey and Louise LeMarquand, both previously Unisys employees. The company initially specialised in software and services for Unisys ClearPath, A and V Series and LINC mainframe users.
Duncan was previously a member of the Unisys Professional Services Capacity Management team specialising particularly in Unisys A and V Series. He has some 20 years experience in this field and has worked with an impressive list of customers both in the U.K. and abroad.
Louise has over 25 years experience in the computer industry, 14 of these in the Unisys environment. Her last role with Unisys was as a senior consultant specialising in Office Automation. She too has worked with some of the largest Unisys users in the UK.
Mark Davies is Customer Support Director at Affinité Europe and has over 20 years experience in the computer industry. He joined Affinité Europe in 1996 from British Gas, adding his technical expertise to the team.
Distributors
Affinité Europe is the exclusive European and African distributor for the Affinité Corporation in the USA, whose president is Jim Cogan (ex Joseph and Cogan Associates) The company offers a comprehensive integrated set of software tools for Performance Monitoring, Capacity Management, A Series Security and PC integration.
Since May 1997, the company has expanded into LINC (on any platform) with the Acclaim product, written by Pete Nockels, a well known U.K. LINC expert. Acclaim is an investigation and re-engineering tool for LINC development.
Affinité Europe itself developed the DB-Wise tool for DMSII testing.
Since October 2000, the company has become the prime re-seller in Europe for the ClearPath Security software; Safe & Secure. Developed and maintained by acknowledged experts in this field LOCUM Software Solutions, Safe & Secure has been a valuable addition to Affinité Europe.
We also offer the range of specialist Unisys A Series & ClearPath MCP automated operations tools from Metalogic. Announced at the UUA2002 Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, Affinité will market the full range of products in Europe and Africa.
The most recent additions to the product portfolio are Board M.I.T. the comprehensive toolkit solution for advanced Business Intelligence implementations.
Services
We also offer a range of services such as Performance Reviews, Capacity Studies, Training, a Capacity Monitoring Programme and Initial Impact Analyses.
Affinité Europe will provide your staff with Skill Transfer expertise to enhance their knowledge and understanding of your system. This will enable greater effectiveness in future performance and capacity management.
The Company
The offices of the company are based in West Yorkshire, in the UK. Affinité uses a number of other staff on a contract basis. The company has a number of agents involved in the sales and marketing of Affinité products in Europe and Africa. For Southern Africa contact Pretoria Software Solutions (PSS).
Affinité Europe is an Authorised Unisys Partner. We also have an agreement specifically within Europe Africa Division for Unisys Professional Services staff to use GPM in addition to the worldwide agreement for two other products. We are active members of the Congress of Unisys Users UK and regularly attend exhibitions and other events..
In order to provide a good support service we make extensive use of e-mail and the Internet. This is particularly useful for coping with time differences. It can be used to log questions, faults and new feature suggestions, and also to distribute software patches etc. We also have staff who speak English and French.
To help protect customers' investment in software, Affinité has set up a worldwide escrow agreement, based at the National Computing Centre in the U.K. where the software sources have been deposited. Any of our customers may subscribe to this service.
Over the last fifteen years, the company has established and maintained an excellent customer base, with all our users enthusiastic and willing to be referenced.