Fujitsu Wins Microsoft Japan Partner of the Year 2024 <SAP RISE on Microsoft Cloud>
To top it off, seven Fujitsu engineers were recognized as winners of the Microsoft Top Partner Engineer Award
Fujitsu is thrilled to announce that it has won the Microsoft Japan Partner of the Year 2024 <SAP RISE on Microsoft Cloud> , which has been recognized by Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd. with its headquarters based in the Minato-ku, Tokyo. Adding to this success, seven Fujitsu engineers were honored as winners of the 2024 Microsoft Top Partner Engineer Award by Microsoft Japan, as well.
[Overview of the recognitions]
- Microsoft Japan Partner of the Year 2024 <SAP RISE on Microsoft Cloud>
Fujitsu was awarded the Microsoft Japan Partner of the Year 2024 <SAP RISE on Microsoft Cloud> by Microsoft Japan in recognitions for its successful launch of RISE with SAP, premium supplier option via Higher with Fujitsu, a comprehensive cloud ERP solution that utilized Microsoft Azure, and its achievements in supporting customers' digital transformation.
Microsoft Japan Partner of the Year is an award honored by Microsoft Japan to partners who have gained significant customer trust and achieved exceptional results during the past year. This marks Fujitsu’s sixth consecutive recognition since 2019.
And the Microsoft Japan Partner of the Year 2024 <SAP RISE on Microsoft Cloud> recognizes partners who have delivered an impactful SAP RISE solution on the Microsoft Cloud platform for our customers. In the SAP-related field, Fujitsu was selected as a finalist in the SAP on Azure, category at the Microsoft Partner of the Year awards 2023 held by Microsoft Corporation with its headquarters based in the USA.
Fujitsu also received the Microsoft Japan Partner of the Year award for three consecutive terms from 2019 to 2021. The recent award in the SAP RISE on Microsoft Cloud category is Fujitsu's fifth overall recognition.
- 2024 Microsoft Top Partner Engineer Award
Moreover, seven Fujitsu engineers were recognized as winners of the 2024 Microsoft Top Partner Engineer Award in three categories: AI, Azure and Security. The awardees are as follows:
- AI category: Daisuke Okamoto, Ryo Ochi, and Rintaro Nakahodo
- Azure category: Inoue Kodai, Yokotsuka Sadaaki and Koga Masakazu
- Security category: Hikaru Suzuki
The Microsoft Top Partner Engineer Award acknowledges engineers who have made significant contributions to projects, introduced advanced technologies, or promoted Microsoft technologies within their organizations.
In May 2023, Fujitsu announced a strategic, 5 year global partnership with Microsoft Corporation to develop and deliver innovative cloud solutions that accelerate customers’ sustainability transformations.
To take this further, Fujitsu has been collaborating with Microsoft to deliver skilling initiatives across all solution areas to enable cloud sales and engineering training and certification for 28,000 employees in all Fujitsu regions – Japan, Europe, Asia, and Americas to streamline deployment of Fujitsu Uvance solutions.
Commemorative photo of the Microsoft Japan Partner of the Year 2024 event on July 31, 2024.
Takashi Kiryu, SVP, Global Business Applications Business Unit Co-Head, Fujitsu Limited, comments:
“Fujitsu, as Japan’s first premium supplier for RISE with SAP, has developed RISE with SAP, premium supplier option via Higher with Fujitsu, a comprehensive cloud ERP solution under Fujitsu Uvance, and has launched the service since this fiscal year. Taking advantage of our win of the Microsoft Japan Partner of the Year 2024 <SAP RISE on Microsoft Cloud>, we will strengthen our collaborative approach with Microsoft Japan and accelerate our business development.”
Tetsuzo Nakahara, SVP, Head of Strategic Alliance, Fujitsu Limited, comments:
“We are honored that Fujitsu was recognized as the winner of the Microsoft Japan Partner of the Year 2024 <SAP RISE on Microsoft Cloud>, and that seven Fujitsu engineers have been recognized as winners of the 2024 Microsoft Top Partner Engineer Award. With this award, Fujitsu will promote the business of SAP RISE on Microsoft Cloud under Fujitsu Uvance, with the aim of creating a sustainable society. Moving forward, we are eager to drawing on these capabilities and expertise of engineers in various fields such as AI, Microsoft Azure and Security. We also look forward to synergizing through our collaboration with Microsoft to accelerate customers' sustainability transformation.”
Satoshi Asano, Managing Executive Officer, Global Partner Solutions, Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd., comments:
“I would like to express my sincere gratitude for Fujitsu’s continued cooperation with Microsoft Japan and the acceleration of the business. In recognition of Fujitsu's outstanding performance, we are pleased to present the Microsoft Japan Partner of the Year 2024 <SAP RISE on Microsoft Cloud>.
At the same time, we presented seven Fujitsu engineers with the 2024 Microsoft Top Partner Engineer Award to honor their achievements.
The Microsoft Top Partner Engineer Award is an important initiative for us as we recognize the broad contributions that enhance the business and help support promote Microsoft technologies.
We hope that this award will support the substantial knowledge and experience of each of the winners and will be a boost for their business from us.
Microsoft Japan will continue to work closely with Fujitsu Limited and the award winners to contribute customers’ AI transformation.”
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