There is a lot of exciting news in this issue of Bridging the Gap. With the formation of Fujitsu America last month, we broadly expanded our products and service offerings. We feel the merger went very smoothly – much more smoothly than might be expected. The reason? All of the Fujitsu companies share the same [...]

On April 20, Fujitsu announced that IDG’s Computerworld, the “Voice of IT Management,” had selected it as one of the top Green-IT Organizations for 2009 for the second consecutive year. Fujitsu was number five on the 2008 ranking. This honor is part of the IT media outlet’s annual Top Green-IT Organizations feature, which was published [...]

On May 12, Fujitsu America introduced the Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX900 Blade Server as part of the first global release of a PRIMERGY server under the Fujitsu brand name.
The BX900 Blade Server employs the versatile, highly-reliable BX920 server blades that provide high performance and maximum redundancy with minimum rack space, power consumption and cabling effort required.
The [...]

Fujitsu was among the select companies that Forrester Research invited to participate in its April 6, 2009, report “The Forrester Wave(TM): Global IT Infrastructure Outsourcing, Q1 2009.” In this evaluation, Fujitsu was selected as a strong performer in global IT infrastructure outsourcing.
The Forrester team, led by Principal Analyst Paul Roehrig, Ph.D., evaluated each leading global [...]

On April 30, Fujitsu Limited reported consolidated operating income of 68.7 billion yen (US$702 million*) for fiscal 2008 (April 1, 2008 – March 31, 2009), surpassing its target as a result of a 4.7% increase in Technology Solutions income.
Net sales for fiscal 2008 were 4,692.9 billion yen (US$47,888 million), a decrease of 12% compared to [...]

Bazaarvoice, the market and technology leader in hosted social commerce applications that drive sales, has announced that Fujitsu has launched the Bazaarvoice social commerce platform with Ratings & Reviews™ at www.shopfujitsu.com. Now consumers and business professionals can easily access authentic and credible opinions of their peers as they research Fujitsu LifeBook® notebook and Stylistic® [...]

The recently-issued Special Volume 2009-4 of the Fujitsu Scientific & Technical Journal (FTSJ) introduces the current state of human-centered design (HCD) in Japan and other countries and describes how HCD is progressing throughout the Fujitsu Group in many areas. This special issue describes processes and organizational restructuring to promote HCD, the development of HCD-related guidelines [...]

Hospice of Michigan (HOM), the largest hospice program in Michigan and the second-largest
nonprofit hospice in the country, provides palliative care – comfort measures and pain control – for people with a terminal illness. The approach to palliative care is a team effort, directed by the patient, family members, and physicians, and supported by nurses, social [...]