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Contents

  • FUJITSU AT A GLANCE
  • FUJITSU SERVICES
  • FUJITSU IN SOUTH AFRICA
  • OUR SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES
  • OFFICES IN SOUTH AFRICA
  • OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE
  • DIRECTORS
  • LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT
  • PARTNERSHIPS
  • FUJITSU AND MICROSOFT PARTNERSHIP
  • QUALITY STANDARDS AND ACCREDITATIONS
  • KEY CUSTOMERS OF FUJTISU SERVICES IN SOUTH AFRICA
  • CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AT FUJITSU

FUJITSU AT A GLANCE

Fujitsu is a leading provider of IT-based business solutions for the global marketplace. With approximately 175,000 employees supporting customers in 70 countries, Fujitsu combines a worldwide corps of systems and services experts with highly reliable computing and communications products and advanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.6 trillion yen (US$47 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009.

DID YOU KNOW?

  • Fujitsu is the world's fourth-largest IT services provider and No.1 in Japan.
  • Fujitsu is among the world's top five providers of servers.
  • Fujitsu customers include nearly half the Fortune Global 500.
  • Fujitsu innovations have garnered over 34,000 patents.
  • Fujitsu is included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes.

CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS

Fujitsu Limited,

Shiodome City Center,

1-5-2 Higashi-Shimbashi

Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-7123, Japan

ESTABLISHED - June 1935

PRESIDENT - Kuniaki Nozoe

BUSINESS SEGMENTS:

  • Technology Solutions
    • System Platforms
      • System Products
      • Network Products
    • Services
      • Solutions / Systems Integration
      • Infrastructure Services
      • Others
  • Ubiquitous Product Solutions
    • PCs / Mobile Phones
    • Hard Disk Drives
    • Others
  • Device Solutions
    • LSI Devices
    • Electronic Components
    • Others

Employees - 175,422 (Fujitsu Group worldwide as of September 2008)

Revenue* - 4,692.9 billion yen

Consolidated financial figures for fiscal year ending March 31, 2009.

FY2008 Consolidated Net Sales by Business Segment, including Intersegment Sales

FY2008 Consolidated Net Sales by Business Segment, including Intersegment Sales

Note: Percentage breakdown for each segment is calculated as segment's net sales / (total consolidated net sales + elimination). US$1 = ¥98. FY 2008 is fiscal year ended March 31, 2009.

Note: Regional sales outside Japan are sales to customers based in those regions by Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Group companies, including subsidiaries within or outside that region. Sales of Fujitsu Siemens Computers are not included in EMEA total. US$1 = ¥98. FY 2008 is the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009.

Fujitsu in South Africa

R&D Expenditure* - 249.9 billion yen

Stock Information - Fujitsu Limited shares are listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Code: 6702), as well as the Osaka, Nagoya, Frankfurt, London and Swiss exchanges.

Key to this success is our world-class human resource and large-scale system construction capabilities and know-how. Through collaboration among our subsidiaries and affiliates, we are able to pool the knowledge of the Fujitsu Group in order to offer high-quality, locally attuned solutions.

Fujitsu Services

Fujitsu Services is the European IT services arm of the (€42 billion) Fujitsu Group. Its core strengths are the delivery of IT and applications and infrastructure development, management and outsourcing across desktop, networking and data centre environments – together with a full range of related services, from business consulting through integration and deployment.

Fujitsu in South Africa

Fujitsu group is in the process of integrating it’s operations in South Africa following the global acquisition of the Siemens equity in the Fujitsu-Siemens Computers Joint Venture. As part of this process, Fujitsu Services Plc. directly acquired the 30% shareholding held by our previous BEE partner, Yard Capital, and Fujitsu-Siemens was rebranded to Fujitsu Technology Solutions (Pty) Ltd.

The integration of Fujitsu Technology Solutions (Pty) Ltd. with Fujitsu Services (Pty) Ltd. to form one Fujitsu company, both globally and locally, is proceeding as planned with completion of the process expected well before year end.

Strategic discussions are currently underway with a view to transition the Fujitsu Siemens BEE equity partner, into a broader equity role within the combined operation. Fujitsu continues to fully support the dti scorecard approach, under which our current certification was achieved and, post this transition phase, commit to retaining or improving our rating.

The South African operation is fully integrated with the global Fujitsu Model. As part of this, it is the location for the Fujitsu Southern Hemisphere call centre supporting >17000 Europe/UK based end users, a Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) facility which has been entrusted with the support of >1700 servers for Finnish customers, as well as a S/W development and support centre for Fujitsu in Europe.

Fujitsu offers a full array of IT services, from IT consulting and systems integration to managed services and outsourcing. An important benefit for our customers is the ability to harness the expertise and resources of the world wide network of Fujitsu companies to augment our local capabilities.

Fujitsu focuses in a number of vertical markets across South Africa including:

  • Airlines
  • Local & Regional & Central Government
  • Financial Services
  • Healthcare
  • Education

Our Solutions and Services

  • Airline Operations and Planning Systems
  • ERP systems
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Call Centres • Business Intelligence
  • Electronic Health Records
  • Application Implementation
  • Application Development
  • Outsourcing
  • Infrastructure Managed Services
  • IT Security Solution & Consultancy
  • Identity Management
  • Enterprise Document Management
  • IT Consulting
  • Programme & Project Management
 Fujitsu Offices in South Africa
South Africa

Ownership Structure

MIKE STARES - MANAGING DIRECTOR NORDIC AND CHAIRMAN SOUTH AFRICA

Directors

MIKE STARES - MANAGING DIRECTOR NORDIC AND CHAIRMAN SOUTH AFRICA

Mike is responsible for the business performance and growth in the Nordic territories covering Sweden, Denmark and Finland as well as South Africa.

Mike has worked within the IT industry for over 30 years starting in ICL and then Fujitsu Services. He has held various Senior Managerial positions including Managing Director of different Subsidiaries and Business Units. He was appointed to his current position of Managing Director Nordic and Chairman South Africa four years ago in 2003.

MARK WILSON - SVP MIDDLE EAST AFRICA (MEA) AND INDIA

MARK WILSON - SVP MIDDLE EAST AFRICA (MEA) AND INDIA

Twelve years ago, Mark joined Siemens and held various positions in finance and management. In 2002, he was appointed as Managing Director of Fujitsu Siemens Computers in South Africa. In April 2007, Mark was appointed as the Senior Vice President of the Middle East Africa and India Region.

"If I hadn't pursued this path, I would have loved to have spent time in nature being a nature conservationist,"says the 1980's music fan. "I am extremely optimistic about the news (of the Fujitsu purchase of Siemens’ share in the joint venture), as I enjoy change and I hope that we will be able to take what exists today and take the good and make it better."

NEIL CLAASEN – FINANCIAL DIRECTOR AND ACTING MANAGING DIRECTOR

NEIL CLAASEN – FINANCIAL DIRECTOR AND ACTING MANAGING DIRECTOR

Neil Claasen joined Fujitsu Services South Africa in June 2009 in the position of Financial Director (FD), which will see him assuming full financial responsibility for the Fujitsu group of companies in South Africa.

Claasen is not new to the Fujitsu group, having been the FD for Fujitsu Siemens Computers SA from 2001 to 2007 and the regional FD for Fujitsu Siemens MEA from 2008.

Claasen studied at the University of Pretoria, graduating with a B-Com degree in Finance & Marketing in 1994. He spent the next three years, from 1995 to 1997, studying and working in Germany as part of Siemens' Management Development Programme. From 1998 to 2001, Neil held various Finance-related roles within the Siemens South Africa group of companies.

Leadership & Management Structure

Leadership & Management Structure
Leadership & Management Structure

Partnerships

Collaboration is part of our culture – it is an approach that informs all our business relationships. We maintain long-term partnerships with industry leaders like Microsoft, Sun, CA and Oracle, for example, spanning decades of co-operation.

We work with best of breed hardware and software companies, and continually develop imaginative partnerships with other industry specialists, to ensure effective support for new business models. So, in a world where these new models are evolving by the hour, we have the skills, knowledge and instincts to assess and evaluate the options, and find the optimum solution mix for you.

Partnerships

At the same time, we provide that vital, single point of contact that means lower overheads for you, and protection from the complexities of the supply chain. It also means you can be confident that any issues that arise during implementations or operations will be properly - and promptly - resolved.

Fujitsu and Microsoft Partnership

Fujitsu Services and Microsoft have a global partnership which helps customers to accelerate the deployment and management of new Microsoft technologies to deliver ongoing business value to our customers. This relationship translates to cost savings within your environment, whilst ensuring the highest levels of performance. The focus is on minimising the risk, disruption and cost to your business – and providing a more agile platform for the future. The partnership is geared to help you take advantage of world-class Microsoft technologies more easily – backed by Fujitsu’s real-world IT services expertise.

Fujitsu is a global certified Microsoft partner. Locally in South Africa, Fujitsu is a managed partner of Microsoft South Africa with a dedicated account manager and access to both technical and business resources in Microsoft.

Partnership with Microsoft highlights Fujitsu’s commitment and technical competence within the Microsoft technology and business solution space. Microsoft has shown its commitment to Fujitsu on numerous business deals by supporting Fujitsu’s initiatives and business approach. To complement the partnership with Microsoft, Fujitsu Services in SA has entered into a partnership with K2. K2, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, is helping companies around the globe to drive their businesses to increase profitability, decrease costs, improve shareholder value, and maintain compliance efforts. K2 is involved in numerous early adopter programs with Microsoft. They are committed to ensuring their products leverage the next generation of Microsoft products and technologies, and spend a significant amount of research and development to maximize customer and partner investments in their K2-based solutions. For this reason Fujitsu Services chose to align with K2 as a key provider of Process driven solutions.

Quality standards and accreditations

In South Africa we first achieved ISO 9000 registration in 1987.

Fujitsu operates a quality management system that is registered to the international standard EN ISO 9001 for design, development, production, installation and servicing. In South Africa we first achieved ISO 9000 registration in 1987.

In 1988 the group was the first to achieve this registration for all of UK operations (at that time to BS 5750) and, in 1999, registered all parts of the organisation throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa under a single global registration.

The registration body is the British Standards Institution (BSI) and the registration reference is FS00445. In the UK, where relevant to the activity carried out, the above registration includes compliance to the TickIT Guide that relates to software development.

Fujitsu was the first IT Company in South Africa to be accredited to ISO 9001 standards in 1993 which it has consistently implemented since then.

Key Customers of Fujitsu Services in South Africa

  • Air Portugal (TAP)
  • South African Airways
  • Asiana Airlines
  • Mango Airlines
  • Imperial Holdings
  • Highveld Steel
  • Standard Bank
  • Provincial Government
    • Western Cape
    • KwaZulu Natal
    • North West Province
  • 40% of SA Municipalities, with major contracts within the last 6 months being awarded at
    • Nelson Mandela Bay Metro
    • Rustenburg Local Municipality
    • Matjhabeng Local Municipality
    • Msunduzi Local Municipality
    • Mangaung Local Municipality
    • City of uMhlathuze
Municipality

Fujitsu Services (PTY) LTD

Address:
Technology Village, 43 Homestaed Road, Rivonia
Ext 18 Sandton, PO Box 3467, Rivonia 2128