Management Seminar for Reduction of Total Cost of Ownership ("TCO")

September 02, 2004

Fast Facts

Fujitsu strategies for TCO reduction in IT usage

Total Cost of Ownership ("TCO") reduction needs to get beyond the hype and start getting practical. That is why Fujitsu is introducing practical technologies and business enhancement processes that can facilitate better integration of the IT world into the world of business.

In today’s sessions we will highlight a number of complementary strategies and solutions that enable IT technology to create business opportunity and reduce the cost of acquiring business advantage.

Practical and Reliable business enabling

Fujistu’s approach is to enhance both the practicality and reliability of IT equipment for improved business deployment. Also on offer are business-focussed solutions that use that reliability to reduce operating costs and improve the business bottom line.

Now as companies and government agencies move to the next stage of IT based business management; reliability, together with better and more flexible control of process, is even more important.

In particular, business competitiveness and process efficiency will be improved, ensuring that organisations have fewer impediments to meeting their market and public service goals.

The seminar sessions:

Today’s seminar includes a number of sessions, which explain the work Fujitsu is undertaking to reduce customers’ TCO through a combination of IT infrastructure reliability and better business process building and management.

Session 1:
EAI and BPM - Demystifying the buzzwords

Enterprise Application Integration ("EAI") and Business Process Management ("BPM") are buzzwords, which have been getting a lot of publicity over the past 2 to 3 years. Much has been made about the way these integration strategies will change the way businesses operate and how they reduce the Total Cost of Ownership of IT systems.

This introductory session is designed to explain the truth behind these buzzwords. It will explain what EAI and BPM are and show how these strategies can be used to drive down costs, promote flexibility and improve return on investment.

The drivers for integration are business drivers not technology drivers. Integration is all about using existing business systems more easily and economically. This helps the creation of Agile Enterprise where organisations can change their business processes to suit changing conditions more rapidly and with minimum cost.

The session will also briefly introduce Fujitsu’s Interstage Integration Suite, which is designed to help ease business process integration within enterprises.

Session 2:
Challenges and Requirements in TCO Reduction

Trends in IT use are changing from systems that assist the business, to systems that do the business. This means the requirements for reliability; availability and management of IT within the business are also changing.

What is now required in doing business using IT are ways of taking advantage of the technology without adding to the overall business costs. A more Holistic view needs to be taken of the costs of IT. Only then can there be real reductions in TCO and an understanding of the benefits that can offset those costs for improved business profitability.

Session 3:
Building Platforms for reduced TCO

Fujitsu is already in the reliability business. This session explains why this is important for ensuring reduced costs. Also introduced will be examples of new Fujitsu innovations in server consolidation, fault tolerance and cost effective technology for searching of multiple databases. Such technologies also point the way forward for autonomics and the even greater levels of system integration reliability required with the next generation of IT based business systems.

Session 4:
Realising Benefits and TCO Reduction with EAI and BPM

Organisations continue to be faced with increasing pressures to do more with less. They are expected to lower the Total Costs of Ownership for their IT systems while at the same time improve the Return on Investment for existing and new IT systems. Additionally the IT systems themselves are under pressure to provide increasing benefits to all parts of the organisation.

This session looks at the ways EAI and BPM can, and do, help organisations achieve these objectives. It discusses the reasons why organisations look to integration strategies such as EAI and BPM to control costs and discusses typical benefits that can be achieved. It also looks at business pitfalls, which can be encountered along the way to implementation.

Real life examples, where these integration strategies are being used at two Fujitsu customers, show how to achieve real and sustained TCO reduction and higher Return on Investment. Nippon Oil a very large energy supplier has used Fujitsu’s EAI product - Interstage Integration Manager - to significantly improve their financial bottom line. iJet Travel Intelligence has used Interstage Business Process Manager to build a business model which can respond rapidly to changes in the business environment - including those associated with the 11th September 2001.

Also provided are guidelines on how these concepts cam be successfully implemented to ensure your TCO reduction and improved ROI.

Session 5:
Interstage Shunsaku Data Manager (XML Search)

Fujitsu Interstage Shunsaku Data Manager is a system for storing and searching large quantities of XML data directly without having the usual complications associated with setting up and managing a large database. Interstage Shunsaku Data Manager uses a grid-like architecture to distribute the query in parallel across a number of inexpensive servers and achieve a performance that is normally associated with high-end database servers. Power and flexibility make this data warehouse an ideal solution for businesses with large data requirements.