Fujitsu Consulting

Top Marks Awarded to Fujitsu in $2.2 Million Deal with Calgary Board of Education

Fujitsu Consulting to accelerate upgrade of the Board’s information systems, putting much-needed library resources in the hands of students, educators

Calgary, AB, June 3, 2004 — Fujitsu Consulting and the Calgary Board of Education (CBE) today announced an innovative partnership that will facilitate the replacement of the Board’s aging library information system with a state-of-the-art Integrated Media System (IMS). The agreement, valued at $2.2 million over five years, will make it possible for K-12 students, teachers and parents of the city’s public school system to access library holdings, licensed databases and education-content websites, from school or home.

By utilizing an Application Service Provider (ASP) model to deliver the IMS, Fujitsu Consulting, in partnership with Bell Canada and Sagebrush Corp., will offer the CBE a cost-effective service strategy whereby the school board pays for the IMS based on overall system use. The ASP model has the advantage of being scalable to meet the future needs of the CBE without large up-front capital investments for application development, integration services and infrastructure upgrades.

By initiating this process and serving as the initial client for the innovative, state-of-the art IMS service and assisting Fujitsu Consulting's design work, the CBE benefits from being one of the first K-12 school systems in Canada with an advanced capability to access and utilize information that is valuable to educators and students alike.

Fujitsu partners in the CBE agreement include Bell Canada, who will provide the infrastructure services, and Sagebrush Corporation, who will provide industry-leading K-12 library information systems. As part of the agreement, Fujitsu Consulting and its partners intend to market the IMS ASP model to school boards throughout Canada.

“This is a great opportunity for the Fujitsu Consulting team to utilize powerful information technology to enhance the learning experience,” stated John Rose, president and CEO of Fujitsu Consulting, North America. “Every consultant looks forward to projects that have a lasting and positive impact and the IMS system promises to provide far-reaching benefits not only in Calgary but to students and educators everywhere.”

“We are very excited by this partnership, and the tremendous potential the project has for our school communities,” said Lynn Nishimura, Board Chair, Calgary Board of Education. “We recognize the importance of integrating technology and learning. This will certainly provide an enormous springboard for our students.”

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About Fujitsu Consulting

A trusted provider of management and technology consulting to business and government, Fujitsu Consulting is the consulting and services arm of the $45-billion Fujitsu group. Fujitsu Consulting integrates the core expertise of the Fujitsu companies and its partners to deliver complete business solutions in the areas of Information Management, Legacy Modernization and Managed Services. Through its full range of consulting, implementation and IT management services and its industry-recognized strategic approach, Macroscope®, Fujitsu Consulting enables clients to build more value into their IT investments and drive their leadership in the marketplace.

About Fujitsu

Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting technologies, highly reliable computing and communications platforms, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts uniquely position Fujitsu to deliver comprehensive solutions that open up infinite possibilities for its customers' success. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.7 trillion yen (US$45 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004.
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