Fujitsu Forum Showcases Human Centric Innovation as Business Growth Enabler for the Digitally Balanced Enterprise

Luxembourg, November 17, 2015 At Fujitsu Forum Munich 2015, Europe’s largest single-vendor technology event, Fujitsu showcases how Human Centric Innovation is enabling thousands of customers around the globe to achieve their goals and transform their businesses for sustainable success. In keynotes, breakout sessions and on the exhibition floor, Fujitsu shares insights on how ‘digitally-balanced enterprises’ are best placed to realize the value of networks that allow us to connect with data and, in turn, derive insight, ideas and digital innovation from them.
In a world full of businesses and economies racing to digitize, tomorrow’s winners are confidently beginning their transformation journey from a position of balance. Fujitsu enables customers globally to capitalize on digital opportunities with confidence, helping them to balance ICT and digital innovation by maintaining robust IT infrastructures that are secure and scalable, but also to properly ensure ICT is agile and responsive to business needs.

Duncan Tait, Director and Corporate Executive Officer, EVP and Head of EMEIA at Fujitsu says: “As the digital revolution sweeps through industry after industry, businesses and economies are facing exponential growth in both complexity and risk. For leaders this means making difficult choices that will often determine whether they will thrive in a digital world. Fujitsu enables customers globally to capitalize on digital opportunities with confidence, by helping them to balance ICT and digital innovation.”

Among the milestones toward Human Centric Innovation are the following announcements being made at Fujitsu Forum:

• Enabling Digital Transformation: Fujitsu’s innovative service delivery is enabling Schneider Electric’s digital workplace transformation. The global specialist in energy management and automation, selected Fujitsu to provide long-term, end-to-end transformation of its workplaces and onsite services across over 80 countries in Europe, Middle East, Africa and South America (over 50,000 users) with a 16-month transition period already underway. This is a great example of how Fujitsu enables companies around the globe to get ahead of the competition with higher workplace productivity, through flexible and secure access to data and applications.
• Global launch of MetaArc: Fujitsu embraces the reality of two-speed IT landscapes with the global introduction of FUJITSU Digital Business Platform MetaArc that provides comprehensive foundations for cloud and digital businesses of the future. It enables customers to digitalize with confidence by combining vision for the evolution of existing cloud platforms, solutions and managed services with unrivalled integration and orchestration capabilities for Fujitsu’s own and third-party cloud services.
• Acquisition of UShareSoft, SAS: Fujitsu is making this key acquisition of all of UShareSoft's shares to further accelerate the expansion of its global cloud business, as well as to establish a new cloud services R&D center in Europe. Fujitsu will incorporate UShareSoft’s primary software product, UForge, into the automated building services of FUJITSU Cloud Service K5, a core product of MetaArc, to bring further efficiencies to the building, migration and delivery of systems in multi-cloud environments. Together with Fujitsu Enabling Software Technology GmbH and Fujitsu RunMyProcess SAS, this acquisition will further raise Fujitsu’s profile in the global cloud market.
• Two SELECT Partner Awards honor the best of Fujitsu’s channel: During Fujitsu Forum, finalists and winners will be announced for the SELECT Global Innovation Award, which acknowledges partners‘ contribution to innovative use of integration, mobility, big data, security, cloud, integrated computing, and software-defined connected infrastructure solutions. In addition, as part of the annual SELECT Partner Awards, Fujitsu will name winners in four categories: Infrastructure Partner, SMB Partner, Best Ambassador, Best Newcomer.
• New top-of-the-range 2 in 1 STYLISTIC tablet: The FUJITSU Tablet STYLISTIC R726 empowers users to evolve the way they work, provides ultimate mobility, and meets individual styles and needs – with or without a keyboard, in a powerful yet compact touch device.