October

• Fujitsu and SAP Introduce SAP-Native Loss Prevention Solution Extension for Retail London, United Kingdom, October 09, 2019 - Fujitsu’s unique retail solution enabling the reduction of losses at the point of sale is now available directly from SAP as a Solution Extension. This flexible, SAP-native web-based tool – part of Fujitsu’s Connected Retail portfolio of offerings – flags suspicious anomalies at the point of sale (POS), helping organisations detect and prevent both fraud and wider business process issues.

• Fujitsu Transforms Front Desk Operations with the fi-800R London, Europe,United Kingdom, October 08, 2019 - PFU (EMEA) Limited, today announced the launch of the fi-800R, a new image scanner designed for the front desk environment, combining passport, ID and document scanning.

• Fujitsu Startup Accelerator Program Launches in Europe – Drives Faster Transformation Innovation for Customers and Rapid Scalability for Innovators London, United Kingdom, October 02, 2019 - Fujitsu today launches its Fujitsu Accelerator program in Northern and Western Europe, offering tech startups faster access to real market opportunities and harnessing the creativity of an array of quality-tested disruptive technology providers to help drive digital transformation.

September

• Fujitsu Achieves AWS Managed Service Provider Status London, United Kingdom, September 24, 2019 - Fujitsu has achieved AWS Managed Service Provider Status for its capabilities in accelerating cloud transformation.

• A nation on pause: UK plc holding back on a digital future London, United Kingdom, September 04, 2019 - 58 percent of UK public and private sector leaders say that public nervousness around new technologies is holding them back, according to Fujitsu’s ‘Driving a Trusted Future in a Radically Changing World’ report. What’s more, almost half (44 percent) are worried that they could miss out on the benefits of technology innovation, simply because they haven’t planned radically enough to fully embrace it and truly transform their organisations. This is particularly interesting given that, in a world where the UK needs to be fit to compete, making progress in digital transformation is vital to our future success (as 73 percent of business leaders also said).

August

• Fujitsu Quantum–Inspired Digital Annealer Delivers Securitisation Optimisation for main incubator London, United Kingdom, August 29, 2019 - Fujitsu today announces the successful conclusion of a loan portfolio management Proof of Concept (PoC) with Commerzbank’s research and development unit, main incubator GmbH1, leveraging the Fujitsu quantum computing-inspired Digital Annealer. Focusing on receivables from vehicle leasing contracts, the PoC optimised the selection process for a loan portfolio.

• PFU announces its presence at GITEX London, Europe,United Kingdom, August 28, 2019 - PFU (EMEA) Limited today announced its presence at GITEX Technology Week, where it will be announcing a new flagship product designed to transform front desk scanning operations across multiple industries.

• Fujitsu Leverages Blockchain to Tackle Fraud and Piracy of Digital Assets London, United Kingdom, August 22, 2019 - Fujitsu today introduces the new fraud-busting DocumentFlow, an easy-to-use web-based application that uses blockchain technology to track the validity of any digital file or asset, including documents, audio and video files, images and files from almost any application. DocumentFlow joins the Fujitsu Flow suite of blockchain-as-a-service offerings, alongside InvoiceFlow, an application to guard against invoice fraud.

• Fujitsu Paves the Way to Exascale Computing With Powerful New NEXTGenIO Hardware Platform London, United Kingdom, August 19, 2019 - Fujitsu is pushing the boundaries of high performance computing (HPC) with a newly-developed hardware cluster that will increase the pace of scientific research and lead to better and faster understanding of complex systems, such as weather forecasts. The platform’s groundbreaking computing performance has been successfully validated at EPCC, the University of Edinburgh’s supercomputing centre, and handed over by Fujitsu for release to operations. Fujitsu created the prototype in a close co-creation process with hardware and software vendors, universities and research institutes as part of the NEXTGenIO1 research and development project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program.

• Fujitsu RunMyProcess Selects ImageWare Systems to Secure Billions of IoT Devices London, United Kingdom, August 19, 2019 - Fujitsu RunMyProcess today announces that it is adding advanced authentication to its DigitalSuite process integration and business workflow platform. This guarantees data security and user access control on IoT devices through the integration of IoT DNA Security® biometric technology from ImageWare Systems, Inc.

• Fujitsu RunMyProcess Joins Google Cloud Partner Program London, United Kingdom, August 06, 2019 - Fujitsu RunMyProcess, the high-productivity cloud platform provider, today announces it has joined the Google Cloud Partner Program as a Certified Technology Partner. As a result, Google G Suite customers gain new, disruptive abilities from RunMyProcess DigitalSuite to quickly build applications that automate processes and connect enterprise systems.

July

• Fujitsu Earns Overall Positive Vendor Rating by Gartner, Inc London, United Kingdom, July 25, 2019 - Fujitsu has announced that it received a Positive vendor rating1 this year from Gartner Inc. in a newly-published report.

• Fujitsu Simplifies and Accelerates Digital Transformation Projects with New Streamlined, Fast WebModeler Module for RunMyProcess DigitalSuite London, United Kingdom, July 23, 2019 - Fujitsu today announces enhancements to RunMyProcess DigitalSuite¹ - the high-productivity cloud platform - designed to lift organisations ahead of their competitors by speeding up and simplifying the development of digital transformation projects.

• New Fujitsu Study Highlights Importance of Trust as Foundation for AI-based Decision-Making London, United Kingdom, July 19, 2019 - The necessity of trust to achieve long-term business success – especially as a foundation for decision-making based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) – is highlighted in a new study published today by Fujitsu. This finds that organisations are more likely to succeed in digital transformation when their approach includes measures to drive trust, such as long-term perspectives, empathic leadership and measures to empower employees.

• Fujitsu Consigns Passwords to History with New PalmSecure Biometric Offering London, United Kingdom, July 15, 2019 - Fujitsu today launches a new, extended range of PalmSecure-based biometric security solutions that consigns passwords to history by making biometric ID easy to use across a wide variety of day-to-day applications.

• Fujitsu Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Outsourcing and Hybrid Infrastructure Managed Services, Europe Munich, EMEIA, July 10, 2019 - Gartner has once again named Fujitsu a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Outsourcing and Hybrid Infrastructure Managed Services, Europe1. This is the seventh consecutive year that Fujitsu has been named a Leader.

• Fujitsu’s AI Advances Cut Costs for Visual Inspection London, United Kingdom, July 04, 2019 - Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe today announces two new technologies that significantly reduce the cost of AI solution creation for visual inspection applications. The novel solution uses a new type of defect detector that is trained on normal (non-defective) data, reducing dataset creation costs as well as enabling the detection of previously unseen patterns. This is combined with an AI-accelerated Graphical User Interface (GUI) that facilitates rapid cluster labelling based on automatically identified regions of interest, creating high quality training datasets. The combined result is highly accurate, automatic, unsupervised defect detection (discovering 80-90% of regions of interest automatically) with 50–100x faster dataset training and labelling.

• Fujitsu Applies Innovative AI Text Mining to Automate Medical Notes Coding London, United Kingdom, July 04, 2019 - Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe today announces a new AI technology that enhances Electronic Health Record (EHR) management, automating the processing of unstructured (free text) medical notes and achieving time savings of more than 90% with significantly improved accuracy. Ensuring compliance with mandatory medical classifications, Fujitsu’s new automatic medical coding solution extracts the annotations in typically less than 1 minute, compared to 15 minutes required for manual clinical note annotation. Unlike previous generation technologies, Fujitsu’s AI text mining technology combines semantic knowledge and Natural Language Processing (NLP) with Deep Learning in order to analyse medical notes and extract valuable data.

• Fujitsu’s New Technologies Reduce the Cost of AI Solution Creation for Visual Inspection Applications London, EMEIA, July 04, 2019 - At the annual Fujitsu Innovation Gathering today in London, Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe announces two new technologies that significantly reduce the cost of AI solution creation for visual inspection applications. The novel solution uses a new type of defect detector that is trained on normal (non-defective) data, reducing dataset creation costs as well as enabling the detection of previously unseen patterns. This is combined with an AI-accelerated Graphical User Interface (GUI) that facilitates rapid cluster labelling based on automatically identified regions of interest, creating high quality training datasets. The combined result is highly accurate, automatic, unsupervised defect detection (discovering 80-90% of regions of interest automatically) with 50–100x faster dataset training and labelling.

• Fujitsu Applies Innovative AI Text Mining to Automate Medical Notes Coding London, EMEIA, July 04, 2019 - At the annual Fujitsu Innovation Gathering today in London, Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe today announces a new AI technology that enhances Electronic Health Record (EHR) management, automating the processing of unstructured (free text) medical notes and achieving time savings of more than 90% with significantly improved accuracy. Ensuring compliance with mandatory medical classifications, Fujitsu’s new automatic medical coding solution extracts the annotations in typically less than 1 minute, compared to 15 minutes required for manual clinical note annotation. Unlike previous generation technologies, Fujitsu’s AI text mining technology combines semantic knowledge and Natural Language Processing (NLP) with Deep Learning in order to analyze medical notes and extract valuable data.

• Fujitsu Makes Tablets Tougher with the New STYLISTIC Q509 London, United Kingdom, July 02, 2019 - Fujitsu today introduces the toughest tablet in the STYLISTIC family, the Q509.

• Fujitsu Showcases ‘Trusted’ AI Technologies at 2019 Fujitsu Innovation Gathering in London London, EMEIA, July 01, 2019 - Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe will be hosting the seventh annual Fujitsu Innovation Gathering on July 4th, showcasing the latest cutting-edge technologies from Fujitsu Laboratories’ global R&D activities. Taking place alongside the London leg of the annual Fujitsu World Tour, the Fujitsu Innovation Gathering will highlight the challenges of digital transformation and its delivery, combining thought-provoking keynotes, insightful breakout sessions and a comprehensive exhibition with seven world-first technology demonstrations. These include Fujitsu’s innovative data filtering technologies applied to combat money laundering, a new 360-view accountable AI framework applied to improving trust in motor insurance services, Topological Data Analysis (TDA) shedding new light on arrhythmia, and Fujitsu’s state of the art Trusted ID exchange technology.

June

• Fujitsu Awarded VMware Systems Integrator of the Year for First Deployment of VMware Cloud on AWS in the UK and Ireland London, United Kingdom, June 19, 2019 - Fujitsu has been recognised as VMware UK and Ireland Systems Integrator of the Year, one of VMware’s highest accolades. The honor is in recognition of Fujitsu’s deployment of the first VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services from a UK cloud and the growing number of collaborative transformational customer installations in both private and public sectors.

• Fujitsu Brings the Future of Human Centric Artificial Intelligence to Supercomputing London, United Kingdom, June 11, 2019 - Fujitsu is bringing the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the annual ISC High Performance conference, which takes place from June 16-20 in Frankfurt, Germany. At the event, Fujitsu will showcase groundbreaking technology innovation that optimises business processes and leverages the benefits of AI, highlights Fujitsu’s Deep Learning Unit (DLU) and provides a chance to learn about the latest development status and technical detail of Fugaku – the successor to the K computer.

• Fujitsu and Kongsberg Digital Tackle Maritime Greenhouse Gas Emissions with AI-powered Fuel Optimisation Service London, United Kingdom, June 07, 2019 - Fujitsu today announces a new Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered Vessel Fuel Optimisation digital web service enabling maritime firms to cut fuel costs for large vessels and meet new low-sulfur fuel regulations – reducing greenhouse gas emissions – all without requiring elaborate ship re-engineering or major expenditure by ship owners and operators.

May

• Fujitsu expands best-selling fi series with the new high volume fi-7800 & fi-7900 production scanners Hayes, UK, Europe,United Kingdom, May 28, 2019 - PFU (EMEA) Limited, today announced the launch of the fi-7800 and fi-7900 A3 production scanners, the latest devices in Fujitsu’s flagship fi series

• Fujitsu Recognised as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed Mobility Services, Global London, United Kingdom, May 16, 2019 - Fujitsu today announces that it has been recognised as a Leader1 in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed Mobility Services (MMS)

• Businesses Can’t Wait Any Longer for Quantum Computing, Fujitsu Study Confirms London, United Kingdom, May 15, 2019 - Business leaders are impatient for the arrival of quantum computing and eager to take advantage of the disruptive process optimisation it promises, according to new research released today by Fujitsu and conducted by independent analyst firm PAC, a teknowlogy Group Company.

• Fujitsu and Veeam Partner To Offer Simplified Backup and Recovery London, United Kingdom, May 14, 2019 - Fujitsu and Veeam are focusing on simplifying backup and recovery for customers running mission-critical virtual machines in the data centre.

• Fujitsu Brings Cloud Services Direct to Customer Environments with PRIMEFLEX for Microsoft Azure Stack London, United Kingdom, May 13, 2019 - Fujitsu customers are now able to unlock the agility, cost control and fast-paced innovation of cloud computing, even for on-premises workloads, with PRIMEFLEX for Microsoft Azure Stack.

• Fujitsu Delivers Greater Threat Visibility and Enhanced Security Control with New Unified Endpoint Security Managed Service London, United Kingdom, May 09, 2019 - Fujitsu today launches a new Unified Endpoint Security (UES) Managed Service that provides complete visibility and enhanced security of endpoint devices.

• Fujitsu Introduces World’s Lightest Business Convertible in its class London, United Kingdom, May 08, 2019 - Fujitsu today introduces the world’s lightest business convertible PC, the LIFEBOOK U939X with integrated inductive charging pen garage. Fast and agile as a clamshell notebook, the super-slim U939X also folds flat, converting into a powerful Windows-based tablet.

• Fujitsu launches Degree Apprenticeship Programme to support STEM skills development in Manchester and Warrington area London, United Kingdom, May 01, 2019 - Fujitsu launches a new Degree Apprenticeship Programme to develop UK Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) skills and to empower the workforce of the future.

April

• Fujitsu launches new Virtual Desktop-as-a-Service platform to help channel partners accelerate their transition to become service integrators London, UK, United Kingdom, April 03, 2019 - Fujitsu today launched its new virtual Desktop-as-a-Service (vDaaS) offering to channel partners and service providers in the UK, as part of its recently launched service provider program. This is the first channel offering that combines the expertise of Fujitsu services and products in the UK. It will enable Fujitsu’s channel partners and service providers to leverage the full strength of Fujitsu to grow annuity-based business, without up-front risk, and focus on business competence and service integration rather than maintaining a technology stack.

• Fujitsu Accelerates Performance of Critical Enterprise Data Workloads with Portfolio of Turbo-Charged x86 Servers London, United Kingdom, April 02, 2019 - Fujitsu today announced that it has been awarded a two year £2.2m contract through the Digital Outcomes and Specialists (DoS) framework with the Department for Education and the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA). The contract delivers the Beta to Live phase of its Academies and Free Schools Systems Integration Programme to provide a number of digital services to improve the management of academies and free schools.

March

• Fujitsu awarded £2.2m Digital Outcomes and Specialists contract with Department for Education (DfE) London, United Kingdom, March 27, 2019 - Fujitsu today announced that it has been awarded a two year £2.2m contract through the Digital Outcomes and Specialists (DoS) framework with the Department for Education and the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA). The contract delivers the Beta to Live phase of its Academies and Free Schools Systems Integration Programme to provide a number of digital services to improve the management of academies and free schools.

• Fujitsu Opens an Array of New Possibilities for the Manufacturing Industry at Hannover Messe 2019 London, United Kingdom, March 25, 2019 - Fujitsu will demonstrate how the manufacturing industry can take a quantum leap to disruptive innovation and step-change efficiencies, with a wide-ranging array of showcases on its booth at Hannover Messe Industrie (HMI), taking place in Hanover, Germany from April 1-5, 2019 (Hall 7, Booth E16).

• Fujitsu Digital Annealer Revolutionises Problem Solving with Quantum Acceleration London, United Kingdom, March 07, 2019 - The second generation Fujitsu Digital Annealer is now enabling organisations to make a rapid and affordable leap to solve complex combinatorial optimisation problems – enabling breakthroughs in areas such as optimising manufacturing processes, minimising traffic congestion and enabling financial services providers to align investment portfolios against ever-changing risk landscapes. Powered by pioneering quantum -inspired technology1, the Fujitsu Digital Annealer delivers unprecedented disruptive new solutions including prioritising rollout locations for next-generation mobile networks to maximise customer uptake, drug discovery, and molecular simulations.

• Fujitsu Invests in Extension of VME Mainframe Platform with Acquisition of Gresham’s VME Software Business London, United Kingdom, March 05, 2019 - Fujitsu today announces a milestone in the continuing development of its Virtual Machine Environment (VME)¹ mainframe business, with an agreement to acquire Gresham Technologies plc’s VME software business.

February

• Fujitsu Introduces Flexible Licensing Options for Integrated Backup Appliance ETERNUS CS200c London, United Kingdom, February 28, 2019 - Fujitsu introduces new software licensing options for its all-in-one backup solution Fujitsu Storage ETERNUS CS200c powered by Commvault. The new options are designed to make it easier for customers to benefit from an integrated backup appliance and ensure maximum licensing flexibility and investment protection.

• Fujitsu Highlights Growing Demand for Multi-Cloud Flexibility London, United Kingdom, February 20, 2019 - Fujitsu today publishes new research highlighting the growing demand for flexibility, proven orchestration skills and consolidated management for hybrid IT and multi-cloud estates, as organisations maintain a careful balance between the agility of cloud computing and the risk of complexity and vendor lock-in.

• Smart shopping malls thrill visitors, drive profit Hoofddorp, EMEA, February 20, 2019 - Shaping visitor experiences to maximize money spent. Driving in-store sales through smartphone notifications. Justifying premium mall rents with hard traffic data and lowering operating costs.

• Fujitsu Shows How Connected Retail Boosts the Bottom Line at EuroCIS 2019 London, United Kingdom, February 19, 2019 - At Europe’s leading retail technology trade fair EuroCIS, Fujitsu is showing retailers how to benefit from its Connected Retail approach, with innovative solutions that enhance customers’ shopping experience while also reducing operating costs to increase the bottom line. Fujitsu is on Booth #F21 in Hall 9 at EuroCIS, which takes place in Dusseldorf, Germany, from February 19-21, 2019.

January

• PFU partners with The Watercolour World to document paintings for the digital age Hayes, UK, Europe,United Kingdom, January 31, 2019 - PFU (EMEA) Limited, the world’s leading scanner manufacturer, today announced it has partnered with The Watercolour World to help it digitise and document paintings on to a single geographically-indexed and fully searchable library.

• Fujitsu Recognised as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed Workplace Services, Europe London, United Kingdom, January 23, 2019 - Leading analyst firm Gartner has recognised Fujitsu as a Leader in its latest Magic Quadrant for Managed Workplace Services, Europe for the third consecutive time.

• Fujitsu Introduces ETERNUS LT140: The Last Line Defence Against Ransomware London, United Kingdom, January 23, 2019 - Fujitsu today introduces a new tape system that provides the last line of defence for organisations facing ransomware and other malware attacks. The Fujitsu Storage ETERNUS LT140 simplifies the process of running and managing the backup and archive of corporate data for entire organisations. In case of ransomware strikes, securely held offline backups can be used to restore data to a point in time before the attack – providing failsafe recovery.

• Fujitsu Drives Data Centre Transformation with Hyper-Converged Infrastructure for SAP HANA® London, United Kingdom, January 21, 2019 - Fujitsu today announces new options for enabling businesses to run mission-critical SAP HANA® workloads on a hyper-converged infrastructure. These options will allow businesses to manage and scale advanced, fully-virtualized SAP solution environments.

• Fujitsu Reduces Investment Risk for Service Providers with uSCALE Smart Financing Options London, United Kingdom, January 17, 2019 - With IT-as-a-service becoming more and more popular, Fujitsu today introduces the financial solution uSCALE, providing service providers with cloud-like sourcing options to increase their agility in responding to quickly changing customer needs, while reducing their own investment risk.

• Enterprises Expect DevOps to be Mainstream Within Five Years, Finds Fujitsu Survey London, United Kingdom, January 10, 2019 - Enterprises are expecting rapid advances in the uptake of DevOps at scale over the next five years, according to new survey findings¹ by Fujitsu. With its focus on unifying software development and software operation, the majority of organizations with more than 500 employees surveyed see DevOps as a valuable approach to cope with continuous change, enabling greater agility and decreasing cost.