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Fujitsu Announces European Availability of Systemwalker, its leading Enterprise Systems Management Suite

Proven High Reliability Enterprise Systems Management Suite Supporting More Than 25,000 Customers

London, 21st March 2006 — Fujitsu Software Corporation today announced the European availability of its Systemwalker suite, a family of integrated products that provides industrial-strength management of mission-critical operations for global enterprises. The Systemwalker suite, offers essential management tools such as system administration, performance monitoring, asset management, and job management to automate and support these management headaches. As the best selling integrated operations management software in Japan, more than 25,000 customers have reduced the cost of IT system management by efficient and automated system operation through the Systemwalker suite.

With high-reliability capabilities which enhance operational stability of large-scale systems whilst reducing system management costs, Systemwalker is a key product for Fujitsu and integral to its TRIOLE philosophy. Based on the industrialisation of IT through the integration of services, software and hardware, the TRIOLE process enables increased business efficiency, higher business continuity and improved business agility.

“Fujitsu Systemwalker solution has been developed from a business as well as a technical perspective, with a particular emphasis on ease of setup, which means that it is easy to define and then support the more critical business services with an organisation,” said Teresa Jones, senior analyst, Butler Group.

Principle function areas of Fujitsu’s integrated Enterprise Systems Management suite include:

• Enterprise Management:
  
  • Lifecycle Management: which includes the monitoring, deployment recovery and management of hardware and software applications.
  • Security Management: Desktop series providing full comprehensive desktop protection.
  • Job Management: Including scheduling and job management through Operation Manager
• Service Management:
  
  • Service Quality: Automates reporting to ensure agreed service levels are achieved.
  • Systems Monitoring: Provides end-to-end monitoring of Web based SOA solutions.

“In today’s global, fiercely competitive and fast moving business environment, systems management can be a hurdle to success or enable success itself. Through our established customer base, we are pleased to have already alleviated most of that pain for thousands of organisations, and aim to do the same for their European-based counterparts,” said Declan Jones, Director, Fujitsu Software Europe. “Whether businesses opt for individual Systemwalker components or choose the full integrated solution suite, they can now keep their IT systems in close alignment with their business strategies and goals, giving them the competitive edge.”

Systemwalker is built around the concept of Policy-based Systems Management, where policies can be defined and enforced across the enterprise. This concept provides added security and reliability against business critical system errors by the automation of alerts when parameters exceed pre-defined thresholds.

Fujitsu Systemwalker suite is available across Europe from today, with pricing starting at Euro10,000. Further information on the full suite of Systemwalker products can be found on: http://www.fujitsu.com/systemwalker

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About Fujitsu Software Corporation

Fujitsu Software Corporation, based in Sunnyvale, California, is part of the Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) family. Fujitsu Software Corporation leverages Fujitsu’s international scope and expertise in developing and providing information technology solutions, including more than 4,000 software developers worldwide. For further information on the full suite of Systemwalker products visit: http://www.fujitsu.com/systemwalker

About Butler Group

Butler Group (www.butlergroup.com) is Europe's leading independent IT Research and Advisory organisation. Its mission is to ensure that its clients are the most comprehensively informed IT and business managers on current, emerging, and future technology matters, and their impact on business - in short, "Analysis without compromise". Butler Group has established an enviable reputation for the impartiality and incisiveness of its research and opinions. This is evidenced by a client base encompassing over 40% of the top 100 companies in each of Butler Group's key markets. Butler Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Datamonitor Plc (www.datamonitor.com)

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