Thank You to All Our Customer Presenters in 2006
A tip o’ the hat and sincere thanks to all of our customers who gave their time in 2006 to present their success stories at industry-related events. We look forward to continuing these relationships and creating new ones in 2007.
Richard Roseman, Vice President Information Technology, News America Marketing
“Modernizing Business Practices: Tools for Innovation and Cost Reduction”
Computerworld Premier 100, March 5-7, Palm Desert, CA
Tom Orsi, Vice President of Marketing Systems, Thomson Learning
“The Magic Portfolio — Cutting Costs and Improving Sales Efficiency Using Tablet Technology”
Gartner Wireless & Mobile Summit, March 27-29, Detroit, MI
Steve Abernathy, Director of Marketing Technology, Shaw Industries, Inc.
“Mobilized Empowerment—Shaw Industries Streamlines Sales”
CIO100 Symposium, August 20-22, Coronado, CA
Andy Gomez, Sr. Vice President, Shared Application Services and
Tim Dooley, Vice President, Technology Manager, Enterprise BPM Architecture
Bank of America
“Enterprise Adoption of BPM at Bank of America”
Gartner ITxpo Symposium, October 8-13, Orlando, FL
Joe Tront, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech
“Engineering Wide-Scale Adoption of Tablet PCs at Virginia Tech”
Gartner ITxpo Symposium, October 8-13, Orlando, FL
Tanya Townsend, Director of Information Technology, Saint Clare’s Hospital
“Developing an Effective All-Digital Healthcare Environment”
Gartner Healthcare IT Summit, November 13-15, Coronado, CA
Congratulations to Tanya for winning the “Best Case Study Presentation” award.
Todd Christy, Managing Director of Infrastructure and Security, US Airways
“Legacy Modernization at US Airways”
Gartner Data Center Conference, November 27-December 1, Las Vegas, NV
If you’re interested in joining our speaking and/or customer success story program, please contact krichardson@us.fujitsu.com.
Fujitsu has successful presence at Oracle OpenWorld
Fujitsu Computer Systems, along with Fujitsu-Siemens, Fujitsu Consulting and FCPA, participated in this year's Oracle OpenWorld as part of the Fujitsu Group. OOW was held in San Francisco October 22 – 26. We used this event to announce FlexFrame™ for Oracle (1.0B) to the event's 42,000 visitors, launching this solution into the US market. FlexFrame for Oracle will be available in the first half of 2007 in the United States. FlexFrame for Oracle has been available for several months in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa).
The speaker session, "FlexFrame for Oracle: Adaptive Infrastructure Solution for Oracle Database and Oracle Application Server 10g" was met with keen interest and led to approximately 20 demonstrations of FlexFrame for Oracle at our booth. Overall, the feedback was exceptionally positive.
In addition to the interest generated by FlexFrame for Oracle, we enjoyed a tremendous amount of activity at our booth. The booth was well situated in the front of the hall, along with the highest level sponsoring vendors (e.g., Sun, EMC and CapGemini). We’ve selected the same placement for OOW 2007.
US Airways Presents at Gartner Data Center Conference
At the recent Gartner Data Center Conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada, attendees were presented with a success story from US Airways. Todd Christy, Managing Director of Infrastructure and Security at US Airways not only faced migrating legacy applications to an open systems platform, he also faced the daunting challenge of merging two airline infrastructures into one seamless operation. As if that wasn’t enough, he needed to optimize IT resources and vendor relationships in order to maintain business continuity, reduce TCO and improve operational efficiency.
In order to accomplish these goals, US Airways partnered with Fujitsu to provide PRIMEPOWER (Fujitsu Solaris-based servers) and multi-vendor maintenance services. The Fujitsu engineering team, in collaboration with the US Airways IT team, provided services for all mid-range and IBM mainframe servers, conducted performance and reliability checks, and managed the migration of legacy platforms.
The result? Increased capacity, reliability and performance that resulted in fewer delays, significant savings, and faster resolution of issues with zero operational impact.
If you’re interested in learning some of the history behind the Fujitsu-US Airways collaboration (when US Airways was still America West), go to this link.
Fujitsu offers discount program to employees of participating organizations
The Fujitsu Corporate Employee Purchase Program is designed to allow employees of participating organizations to buy products directly from Fujitsu at a discounted price.
The benefits this program employees and the family members of participating organizations include the following:
· An 8% discount on Fujitsu products, including ultra-portable notebook computers, Tablet PCs, accessories and refurbished products
· Convenient and secure 24/7 online ordering, order status, and shipment tracking through our Web site (www.shopfujitsu.com ) or toll free number (1-800-385-4878).
· Innovative quality products from a leader in ultra-mobile computing solutions
· Special promotional offers from Fujitsu such as free shipping and clearance sales
· The ability to purchase by credit card
For participating organizations, the Fujitsu Corporate Employee Purchase Program is an attractive benefit to offer to their employees.
If you are interested in participating in this program, please email Mieko Lin at mlin@us.fujitsu.com, or call her at (408) 764-9737.
Fujitsu Tablet PC key to customer sales automation program
In a recent article published in Computing Canada, the close relationship between Canadian eyewear supplier Suntech and Fujitsu was outlined. Suntech armed its sales force with the Fujitsu P1510D convertible Tablet PC, and the results have been dramatic in terms of changes productivity and accuracy.
SunTech decided upon the Fujitsu Tablet PC because it was big enough to display its sales templates, but small enough to carry in a briefcase or knapsack. It was also fully functional so reps wouldn’t have to go home and use a desktop to check their e-mail.
According to Mike Chang, SunTech’s IT Manager, as soon as sales reps enter a wireless environment, they’re able to send orders. “We physically will send data back to a sales rep, which will update his inventory, receivables and also customer profiles,” said Chang.
To read the entire article, go to the business.ca website here.
InfoWorld article on data center consolidation
In a November 20 InfoWorld cover story, “Simplify the workplace with IT datacenter consolidation”, Leon Erlanger highlighted the consolidation strategy of Fujitsu customer First American, a leading financial information provider.
According to the article, high availability was the key consideration for First American. “As the company became a major information provider, we knew we had to provide super reliability in a very modern datacenter,” says First American CTO Evan Jafa. First American has so far consolidated 25 locations to two datacenters, which it built from scratch to provide high-density power and cooling. Jafa is quoted as saying that getting help from vendors is a key ingredient to consolidation success. Jafa says, “We got a lot of help and used a lot of best practices from our primary partners Fujitsu, HP, and IBM.”
To read the entire InfoWorld article on this important subject, go to the article here.
PRIMEQUEST 540 achieves outstanding TPC-C Benchmark rating
The PRIMEQUEST server product line was recently upgraded to dual-core Itanium 2 9000 series “Montecito” processors. Benchmark publications for SPEC CPU2000 and SAP SD 2-Tier have so far shown impressive performance improvements.
The PRIMEQUEST system now excels in the most demanding TPC-C benchmark. The PRIMEQUEST 540 with Oracle 10g database and Red Hat Enterprise Linux signify an important list of achievements:
- Intel, Itanium and Linux world records
- Best-in-class among Itanium vendors in performance per core
- The 16-socket 32-core PRIMEQUEST 540 outperforms the 64-core HP Integrity Superdome based on single-core Itanium 9M
- 65% better than Unisys ES7000/One with 16 dual-core Xeon x7000 processors at 749,839 tpmC
- Linux is shown to be Enterprise Ready again with this complex 3-Tier data center benchmark
- IBM advantage is no longer in the mythical “factor of 2 and higher” as claimed for Oracle environment
To view the benchmark certificates, go to the following links:
PRIMEQUEST 540 TPC-C Benchmark Certificate:
http://www.tpc.org/results/individual_results/Fujitsu/fujitsu_primequest540_16p32c_tpcc_es.pdf
TPC-C Benchmark Ranking