Fujitsu Australia acquires TELentice IP

Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand, a leading provider of business, information technology and communications solutions has today announced the acquisition of the global rights to the TELentice IP Technology platform, further enabling Fujitsu to significantly grow its digital media business on a global scale.

The award winning digital signage software, TELentice Technology is an addition to Fujitsu Australia’s existing offerings that rely on digital media as a communications means for both internal and external communications channels. Furthermore, the TELentice Technology allows Fujitsu to take the lead in evolving a product suite that is in strong demand, while maintaining a competitive edge in the global market.

"TELentice Technology empowers Fujitsu to continue to evolve the product suite of digital media solutions and maintain a competitive leading edge in the global market,” states Rod Vawdrey, Chief Executive Officer, Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand. “The purchase of the leading edge TELentice software will bring stability and growth in our digital signage market around the word.”

Fujitsu Digital Media Solutions has now become the Fujitsu global capital for providing end to end Digital Media Solutions, with its Centre of Excellence based at Fujitsu Docklands in Melbourne. The Centre of Excellence provides real time customer service and an experimental environment to continue to evolve digital media investment and R&D.

“The acquisition of TELentice technology will further enhance Fujitsu’s strong position in this market and will draw in over 10 years of IP in delivering Digital Media Solutions,” states Alistair Latham, Group Executive Director, Infrastructure Solutions and Support, Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand. “Fujitsu Australia can now manage the roadmap of this award winning industry leading solution with the assistance of FAST who developed the TELentice IP. This will ensure that we retain stability and leadership in this area.”

Fujitsu offers a total end to end solution for the digital media market and FAL have been delivering ongoing rollouts for various customers for quite some time including specific end point devices such as screens, digital media players and interactive displays, strategic partnerships, managed services including scheduling of media, hosting.

“Fujitsu Digital Media Australia is a market leader delivering digital media solutions to a number of blue-chip customers for the use of both external and internal communication medium. All global support will be carried out by Fujitsu Australia”, states Franca Surace, Manager Digital Media Solutions, Fujitsu Australia and New Zealand.

All Fujitsu subsidiaries and resellers will have the opportunity to purchase the TELentice Software, support services and FAL designed digital media hardware appliances including Digital Screen Displays, Digital Media Players and Interactive display technology. FAL has become the R&D hub for innovation and delivering unique Digital Media Offerings for a large number of blue-chip customers globally including fully managed services.