Fujitsu Microsoft Solution Centre

A passion for innovation

The increasing pace of change in IT challenges business to keep up and maintain expertise in emerging technologies. This makes it difficult for organisations to exploit new technology quickly and effectively for business improvement.

The Fujitsu Microsoft Solution Centre (the Centre) provides a centre of excellence and a resource for our customers focused on products from leaders in the field - Fujitsu, one of the world's leading IT companies, and Microsoft, the world's largest software company. The Centre is a place where Australian business and government can innovate using some of the world's best technology.

Microsoft is a company that shares Fujitsu's vision and who we believe is well placed with its .NET strategy to deliver the next generation of computing: rich services delivered to anybody, anywhere and on any device. This presents enormous opportunities for our customers.

The Centre's mission is to help Fujitsu's customers understand and evaluate how the latest technology from Fujitsu and Microsoft can be used to improve their business, and to help build the solutions.

Benefits to our customers

Our Centre will enable customers to:

• Reduce the cost of IT through greater efficiency, better services and fewer problems
• Attract and retain customers through improved customer service, attractive new services and exploitation of new channels such as mobile phones
• Exploit the opportunities new technology brings to offer new products and services to market and to enter new markets

This leads to increased agility and responsiveness whereby organisations can rapidly respond to changes in their environment to adapt, survive and flourish in an increasingly fast-changing and competitive world.

For customers seeking to find new business opportunities with Microsoft .NET, the priorities are innovation, quality of technical skills, security and speed of execution. These are all qualities Fujitsu has placed at the heart of the Centre's design, charter and ethos.

We understand no software exists in a vacuum and we can help customers integrate their innovative Microsoft-based solutions into their existing IT infrastructure.

The Centre is also the headquarters for our national Microsoft Solutions Group.

Using the Centre

In the Centre customers can:

• Understand the implications of the Microsoft .NET strategy
• Understand the Fujitsu offerings and how to leverage the .NET strategy
• Run proof of concepts with a skilled partner
• Receive strategic and technical briefings
• Use specialist consultants as a sounding board for business opportunities
• Build, test and demonstrate new business solutions in a modern facility

Facilities

he Fujitsu Microsoft Solution Centre is situated in Fujitsu Australia's head office based in Sydney. Facilities available to customers include:

• State-of-the-art boardroom equipped for Web broadcasting and full audio visual facilities
• A private and secure air-conditioned lab environment, with the ability to host up to 15 workstations and 10 servers with demonstration facilities linked into boardroom
• 25 Microsoft consultants skilled in the Microsoft .NET architecture, product set and development tools
• 500 sq metres of office space
• Three meeting rooms (capacity of eight per room)

The Centre can be used in conjunction with a variety of Fujitsu services, some of which include:

• Proof of concept services
• Application testing
• Infrastructure deployment
• Design and planning services
• Product evaluation
• Solution integration