On January 14, Fujitsu Transaction Solutions Inc. announced its “Pervasive Green” initiative in the retail industry, a company-wide mission to develop and promote products that are both created and used in an environmentally friendly manner. 

“Protecting and preserving the environment is very important, and as a company – from our parent Fujitsu Ltd. to our sister companies – we’ve taken steps to improve our products and manufacturing processes in a way that will positively impact the environment,” said Ed Soladay, chief operating officer at Fujitsu Transaction Solutions. “We want environmental responsibility to reach all parts of the retailing industry, and will develop and promote retail technology products that not only improve a retailer’s operations and bottom line, but improve their environmental footprint as well.” 

If you are interested in reading more about the Pervasive Green initiative, click here. 

Located on the Microsoft Redmond, WA campus, the Microsoft Partner Solutions Center (MPSC) is a state-of-the-art IT engagement lab designed to demonstrate real customer solutions running at scale, large scale, via the PRIMEQUEST Itanium Server line. The facilities and services are structured to engage the enterprise level customer through executive briefings, technology demonstrations, architectural design sessions, running proof-of-concept scenarios, and training. Fujitsu and Microsoft have built upon their longstanding alliance by bringing our collective technology and service expertise to a true solution level. With this investment customers gain unique exposure to Microsoft and Fujitsu solutions and support. At the core of this experience is the lab engagement, a one-to-one customer engagement that focuses on addressing specific problems or providing proof-of-concept for a Fujitsu Microsoft Server Solution. MPSC lab engagements can help you improve the implementation of your solution, get the most out of the technology, and save time and money in the process. Engagements can last from one week to several months, depending on the scope of work. Short-term proof-of-concept lab engagements can demonstrate exactly how Microsoft products and Fujitsu technologies can improve your business. Engagements can include migration services, scale testing, back-up and recovery testing, high availability service design/scaling, automated purposing frameworks, .NET development best practices, data center design, data center operational best practices, and more. MPSC staff members and your Fujitsu account team can help you estimate costs. To set up a lab engagement or find out more about MPSC offerings, contact your Fujitsu account manager or send e-mail to greuter@us.fujitsu.com

The award-winning CentraSite™ solution offers greater visibility across a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and provides improved analysis and control of SOA resources and activities. Fujitsu understands that generating a good return on investment in your Business Process Management (BPM) projects depends on utilizing a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for optimal management of your business process assets. That’s why Fujitsu has made a commitment to BPM-driven SOA and delivers the CentraSite SOA management and governance solution for free. 

The CentraSite Community Edition offers a UDDI v3.0 search using predefined metadata models and predefined reporting modules, and both an AJAX-based interface and the Eclipse Registry Browser and is available free of charge. 

CentraSite offers maximum management and governance of an organization’s SOA by providing a central repository of SOA metadata, along with analysis of this data and the ability to incorporate centralized policies. This level of visibility and analysis enables organizations to minimize the risk of business disruption associated with transitioning their infrastructures to an SOA. It creates an environment for improved governance by enabling organizations to store, track, and analyze processes and their underlying services, including interdependencies, resulting in greater business agility and cost effectiveness. CentraSite has been openly designed for complete loosely coupled integration with Fujitsu Interstage Suite, Software AG’s crossvision SOA suite, and solutions from other top-tier SOA solution providers. 

To download the free CentraSite Community Edition, follow this link. You’ll be glad you did. 

Fujitsu is a leader in providing cost-effective, service-enhancing mobile solutions for hospitals, clinics and visiting nurse associations. Using our innovative solutions, healthcare practitioners can decrease operational costs and paperwork while improving the quality of patient care. Fujitsu has the widest selection of Tablet PC products in the market. Our tablet experience is based on more than 15-years of tablet product design, engineering, and manufacturing. 

And if you need customized solutions and special applications, Fujitsu works with a wide network of integrators and application partners that can provide you with expert advice and guidance to build solutions for your healthcare organization. Our wide network of resellers also provides local service and support to keep your applications running smoothly at all times. 

Along with our mobile computer and software solutions, Fujitsu also offers a wide variety of related hardware such as high-reliability servers and storage that meet the mission-critical requirements of today’s business environments. 

The Fujitsu website has a detailed section that is dedicated to the healthcare industry. On the site, you’ll find a variety of case studies, products, events, and more – all geared towards providing solutions for the healthcare professional. The Fujitsu Healthcare page can be found here. 

HealthCare remains a paper-intensive and minimally automated and digitized industry. CBS Market watch reported that an estimated 90% of all patient information remains on paper. Widespread efforts are currently in process to scan paper records into electronic format.

Inherent problems associated with paper-based patient records include:

• A sizeable amount of money associated with healthcare is spent for administrative costs. The New England Journal of Medicine estimates that 31 cents of every healthcare dollar is spent on administrative costs.
• Paper-based files are often lost or misfiled. As a result, physicians see patients an estimated 40% of the time without a completed chart.
• Physicians and staff spend a tremendous amount of time maintaining paper-based patient records.
• To remain competitive, HealthCare providers are looking for technology that can help them to improve overall healthcare, improve the accuracy of diagnosis, and expedite transaction processing.
• If the Health Care Quality Modernization, Cost Reduction and Quality Improvement Act is approved, it will mandate that all U.S. patient records be in an electronic format by 2011.
• Worldwide the healthcare industry is looking for technology that can establish on-line clinical repositories to enable rapid access to shared information that can help find cures for prevalent medical conditions.

To read the entire whitepaper about how these issues are being addressed by scanning, go to the HealthCare Document Imaging Trend Report.

The Microsoft® Systems Architecture Enterprise Data Center (MSA EDC) is designed to help you reduce deployment costs by employing best practices. The flexible modular concept of MSA enables the deployment of IT infrastructures that satisfy all scalability, Availability, and security requirements. This includes standardized documentation covering every step of a project, including the operational concept. 

For MSA certification the complete PRIMERGY industry-standard server hardware is tested by Fujitsu and certified by Microsoft. A complete network test is performed, in which the entire data center is qualified. Since server systems are in the course of time withdrawn and replaced by new models, such a certification measure would quickly become outdated. By defining “server classes”, Microsoft has developed a method that renders it unnecessary for a complete recertification to be performed when a product model is changed. 

For an abundance of information about PRIMERGY servers and their role in MSA, go to this link. 

Fujitsu Limited recently announced that it has won an order from the Kamioka Observatory of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) at the University of Tokyo to supply a new data analysis system that analyzes the structure of outer space by utilizing a cosmic-particle observation detector known as Super-Kamiokande. 

The new system will accumulate and analyze data regarding neutrinos, based on neutrino observation data from Super-Kamiokande. The IT infrastructure consists mainly of the following: a performance computing cluster consisting of 270x PRIMERGY® BX620 S3 blade servers (540 processors, 1080 cores), three PRIMEQUEST™ 520 mission-critical IA servers, an ETERNUS™ storage system, and Parallelnavi SRFS for Linux version 1.0. To read the entire press release, go here. 

With FlexFrame™ for mySAP™ Business Suite, Fujitsu introduced an IT infrastructure solution that makes significant TCO savings possible while operating mySAP environments. The FlexFrame Solution is based on a clear division of the IT infrastructure for mySAP solutions comprised of well-defined building blocks: computing, control, network, and storage. 

Your SAP^® system environment is complex and changing almost daily due to the rapidly growing demands of your business. Your business also demands 24×7 availability. What’s needed is an IT infrastructure that adapts to your unique requirements, securing your investments into the future. 

Utilizing four well-defined building blocks, the essential characteristics of FlexFrame are: 

• A central operating system for all SAP servers (single OS image) 

• Virtual SAP services (Database, Central Instance, etc.), allowing them to be switched back and forth dynamically between servers 

• Shared Network Attached Storage 

• Integrated high availability and management functions 

To learn how FlexFrame for mySAP can help you reduce your TCO, go to the FlexFrame link.