WTK CA-Unicenter Demo

One of Sense8’s classic “business” demos was a proposed 3D user interface on top of Computer Associates’ flagship Unicenter product. Branded as CA-Unicenter TNG, the demo would allow you to “fly” from a spinning map of the globe, down to a map of your IT network and ultimately inside servers to address issues or add additional software.

https://techmonitor.ai/technology/ca_uses_explorer_as_unicenter_tng_web_interface

I was never sure if this interface actually shipped with Unicenter or was just a technology demonstrator. From what I can tell from this article in ITPro Today, it was available as the “WorldView” 3D interface.

https://www.itprotoday.com/compute-engines/unicenter-tng

And this Xerox brochure includes an image of the WTK GUI.

Later in my career, while selling HP OpenView, CA-Unicenter would be a perennial competitor. I must say, the 3D interface never came up in customer discussions so I suspect the metaphor did not become a major differentiator. But it was a good story at the time.

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