UniPrise Systems

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{{Infobox company

| name=UniPrise Systems, Inc.

| logo=UniPrise Systems wordmark.svg

| type=Private

| industry=Software

| founded={{start date and age|1993|11}} in Irvine, California

| founders={{ubl|Joseph Perry|Randy Knapp|Robert Mowry}}

| defunct={{end date and age|1998}}

| fate=Dissolution

}}

UniPrise Systems, Inc. was a privately held software company with its headquarters in Irvine, California. The company was founded in November 1993 by Joseph Perry, Randy Knapp, and Robert Mowry.{{cite book | last= | first= | date=2003 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i5IcAQAAMAAJ | title=Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies | publisher=Gale Research | page=4467 | isbn= 9780787658960| via=Google Books | volume=45 | number=2–8}} Software development, engineering and technical support were located in North Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

UniPrise specialized in compilers and database products for the Unix environment. In 1997 they signed an agreement with Hewlett-Packard corporation to bundle their database monitoring software with HP OpenView systems management software.{{cite journal | last=Campbell | first=Ronald | date=July 6, 1997 | url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/272928046/ | title=Irvine software firm gets Hewlett-Packard contract | journal=The Orange County Register | publisher=Freedom Communications | page=K16 | via=ProQuest}}{{cite news|last=Fitzloff|first=Emily|title=HP OpenView expands realm for Informix, Oracle systems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eDwEAAAAMBAJ&q=uniprise+source%3Acomputerworld&pg=PA50|accessdate=December 25, 2012|newspaper=InfoWorld|date=July 7, 1997}} As of 1998 products included:{{cite web|last=UniPrise Systems |title=Mission Statement |url=http://uniprise.com/info.html |accessdate=December 22, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19980214171711/http://uniprise.com/info.html |archivedate=February 14, 1998 }}

• IMPERA – a management tool for distributed database systems.
• Access/DAL – database access middleware.
• UniPrise PL/I for UNIX.
• PL/I for OpenVMS{{cite web |title=Software Product Description - PL/I for OpenVMS Systems |url=http://h30266.www3.hpe.com/PDFs/PLI.pdf |website=Hewlett Packard Enterprise |accessdate=Jan 10, 2020}}

The company abruptly went out of business in 1998. Seventeen employees filed a lawsuit against the company's chairmen the following year, citing unpaid wages, business expenses, and benefits.{{cite journal | last=Lewis | first=Diane E. | date=October 24, 1999 | url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/405299289/ | title=Start-up crashed, staff burn | journal=The Boston Globe | page=F4 | via=ProQuest}} The case was settled in 2001.{{cite web | last=Employee Benefits Security Administration | date=October 30, 2001 | url=https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ebsa/ebsa20011030 | title=Labor Department Settles with a Software Company and Its Former Executives for Federal Pension Violations | publisher=United States Department of Labor}}