Fujitsu Positioned in Leader Quadrants of Three Independent Software Research Reports
Sales for Fujitsu Interstage Suite in North America and Europe Grew by 150 Percent
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 25, 2007- Fujitsu was positioned in the leader's quadrant in three new Gartner Magic Quadrant reports on Application Infrastructure, New Service-Oriented Business Application Projects, and Back-End Integration Projects. Fujitsu was also placed in the Challenger Quadrant for Composite-Application Projects.
Fujitsu has seen accelerated demand for its Interstage® Suite, one of the world's broadest lines of application infrastructure software products. Sales for the Fujitsu Interstage Suite grew exponentially in 2006 with the North American and European markets alone recording a 150 percent increase in sales during this period as customers and partners made Interstage Suite products their solution of choice to design, deploy and manage their applications by utilizing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach.
According to Gartner, "The combination of product evolution and convergence has resulted in overlapping capabilities in what were considered separate product categories. The separation of development tools and runtime middleware has also blurred." (*1)
"We believe the leadership position of Fujitsu on these various Magic Quadrant reports reflects the overall depth and breadth of our products and services, which are laser-focused on solving the real-world needs of the customers we talk to every day," said Ryosuke Mori, executive vice president, Software and Strategy, at Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation. "Our standard-based Interstage solutions provide the most flexible path for adapting and managing the lifecycle of their applications and the lifeblood of their organizations."
Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure, 2Q07 (*1)
Gartner's new category of software, "application infrastructure," includes "the majority of runtime middleware, as well
as application development and management tools that support the new generation of application styles based on SOA, event-driven
architecture and business process management (BPM) technology."
Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for New Service-Oriented Business Application Projects, 2Q07 (*2)
According to this report, "New service-oriented business applications require a complex collection of capabilities in runtime-enabling
technologies and development tools." Leaders in this Magic Quadrant "combine insightful understanding of the realities
of the market, the ability to influence the market's direction, the capability to attract and keep a following, and the capacity
to lead. A leader has the proven ability to deliver on its vision and to support its customers through periods of stability,
as well as periods of change. Leaders control most of the market's business activity and are the primary influencers of market
evolution."
Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects, 2Q07 (*3)
Leaders in this Magic Quadrant have "a proven and comprehensive integrated product set, as well as a sizeable installed
base of reasonably satisfied clients. They have an ample installed base of products to cross-sell their integration solutions
to, and have demonstrated their ability to anticipate technology and market trends over the years by extending their offers
with composite, application-enabling technology."
Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Composite-Application Projects, 2Q07 (*4)
Fujitsu was placed in the Challenger Quadrant in this report, which focuses on "new, user-centric applications front-ending
pre-existing . . . applications. The new application logic developed for the composite application . . . typically is meant
to provide a new (multichannel) front end to one or more established applications, increasingly in the context of SOA initiatives."
Challengers in the Magic Quadrant "have demonstrated that their technology can support the implementation of numerous, large, business-critical composite-application projects and have built platforms capable of effectively competing and often winning against the leaders."
Fujitsu Interstage Suite is a broad family of modular, real-time application infrastructure software products that gives companies the capability to build flexible and scalable solutions. The Interstage Suite is implemented in more than 8,000 companies, representing more than 175,000 installations worldwide. The Fujitsu business process-driven approach to SOA fosters bringing business and IT professionals together to define, refine, automate, analyze, and optimize vital business processes while leveraging an enterprise's existing infrastructure. With Interstage and CentraSite™, an SOA governance and management solution, enterprises have all the ingredients they need to ensure seamless collaboration using shared processes, resources, and information through a single interface. For more information, visit www.fujitsu.com/interstage.
CentraSite™ offers maximum visibility into an SOA by providing a central registry and repository of SOA metadata, along with analysis of this data and the ability to incorporate centralized policies. It creates an environment for improved governance by enabling organizations to store, track, and analyze processes and their underlying services, including interdependencies, resulting in greater business agility and cost effectiveness. CentraSite has been openly designed for complete, yet loosely coupled integration with the Fujitsu Interstage Suite, Software AG's crossvision SOA suite, and solutions from more than 30 CentraSite Community Strategic Sponsors and other top-tier SOA solution providers.
CentraSite 3.1, released on June 11th, offers enhanced out-of-the-box support for the third-party tools offered by members of the CentraSite Community, a collaborative network of independent software vendors and system integrators that work together to ensure their products interoperate through CentraSite. This effort helps enterprises more quickly develop customized solutions while also facilitating the management of their heterogeneous environments. For more information, visit www.centrasite.com.
About Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Fujitsu Computer Systems is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) committed to the design, development and delivery of advanced computer systems, application infrastructure software products, and managed services for the business enterprise. Through its TRIOLE(TM) strategy, the company offers a complete line of scalable and reliable servers, storage and middleware solutions, high-performance mobile and client computers, as well as professional services. Fujitsu Computer Systems has established itself as a strategic solutions provider to the world's leading organizations by offering technology innovation, customer choice, exceptional product quality and reliability, as well as outstanding customer service. See http://us.fujitsu.com/computers for further information.
About Fujitsu
Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting device technologies, highly reliable computing and communications products, 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 5.1 trillion yen (US$43.2 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2007. See http://www.fujitsu.com for further information.
About the Magic Quadrants
The Gartner Magic Quadrant are copyrighted May 2007 and June 2007 by Gartner, Inc., and are reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
(*1) Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure, 2Q07, Gartner, Inc., June 1, 2007 by Simon Hayward, Massimo Pezzini, Jess
Thompson, and Yefim V. Natis.
(*2) Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for New Service-Oriented Business Application Projects, 2Q07, Gartner,
Inc., May 31, 2007 by Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Jess Thompson, Kimihiko Iijima, Michael Barnes, Daryl C. Plummer, and
Simon Hayward.
(*3) Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects, 2Q07, Gartner, Inc., June
7, 2007, by Jess Thompson, Michael Barnes, Kimihiko Iijima, Benoit J. Lheureux, Paolo Malinverno, Yefim V. Natis, Massimo
Pezzini, Roy W. Schulte, and Simon Hayward.
(*4) Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Composite-Application Projects, 2Q07, Gartner, Inc., June 7, 2007,
by Massimo Pezzini, Michael Barnes, Kimihiko Iijima, David Gootzit, Yefim V. Natis, Daryl C. Plummer, Jess Thompson, Dale
Vecchio, Janelle B. Hill, and Simon Hayward.
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