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Fujitsu Consulting and Project Assistants Announce Strategic Alliance to Produce a Market-leading IT Project Management Tool

Fujitsu and Project Assistants will jointly develop and launch an integrated enterprise project management and methodology solution

Edison, NJ, March 6, 2006 — Fujitsu Consulting today announced an alliance with Project Assistants, a leading provider of enterprise portfolio and project management consulting, development and training. Through this alliance, Fujitsu Consulting and Project Assistants will launch Macroscope® EPMSuite – a best-of-breed combination of Fujitsu’s market-leading Macroscope methodology, and Project Assistants’ KnowledgeCentral enterprise project management tool.

The joint solution, Macroscope EPMSuite, is being designed to instill a tighter project management discipline and a standardized approach to systems delivery. The intended business impact of this approach is to reduce project and maintenance costs and to accelerate the path toward achieving measurable value. The offering is being built upon Microsoft’s Enterprise Project Management (EPM) technology platform.

“It is our desire to build an offering that will deliver business value faster and at a lower cost,” said Serge Deschamps, vice president, Macroscope and Knowledge Management, Fujitsu Consulting. “Ultimately, this collaboration between Fujitsu Consulting and Project Assistants will help our customers institutionalize project and program management best practices.”

Project Assistants’ CEO Gus Cicala offered these comments on the new alliance: “Our partnership will meet the challenge of combining best in class software engineering and project execution through an innovative integration of established Macroscope methodology and the KnowledgeCentral portal.” “Microsoft is extremely pleased to see valued partners such as Fujitsu Consulting and Project Assistants collaborate on a solution that will extend the Microsoft EPM platform to deliver real business value to our collective client base”, explained Michael Anguilo, General Manager of the Microsoft Project Product Group.

“Fujitsu Consulting and Project Assistants have track records of innovation and market leadership - allowing them to develop outstanding offerings such as the Macroscope EPMSuite. The business solution is also a showcase for Microsoft technology and how it can help address pressing business-specific needs.”

This alliance reflects Fujitsu Consulting’s strategy to develop key alliances with value-added, industry leading technology providers to further enhance Macroscope’s project delivery capabilities.

For more than 10 years Fujitsu has continuously evolved Macroscope to meet the needs of global customers. Many world-class organizations rely upon Macroscope’s integrated suite of business and IT methodologies to manage and prioritize their IT projects, accelerate project completion, accurately estimate project resources and lower the costs of IT and business projects.

For more information about Macroscope, see us.fujitsu.com/Macroscope or ca.fujitsu.com/en/macroscope.

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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 4.7 trillion yen (US$44.5 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005.
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About Fujitsu Consulting

A trusted provider of management and technology consulting to business and government, Fujitsu Consulting is the North American consulting and services arm of the $44.5-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 IT governance, information management, legacy systems modernization and application outsourcing. 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.
For more information, please see: us.fujitsu.com/consulting

About Project Assistants

Project Assistants is a leading provider of consulting services, custom development, education and products for enterprise project management solutions. Our primary clients include organizations in diverse industries that base their businesses on mission critical projects that require enterprise-wide project management methodologies, processes and tools and an organization to support them.
Founded in 1996, Project Assistants is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware with international delivery capability. A leading Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and Microsoft Office Project Premier Partner, Project Assistants was recently recognized in Inc 500 as one of “America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies.”
For more information, please see: www.projectassistants.com

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