| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Traded as | TYO: 6702 |
| Industry | Computer hardware Computer software IT services IT consulting |
| Founded | 1935 (Kawasaki, Kanagawa)[1] |
| Headquarters | Shiodome City Center, Minato, Tokyo, Japan |
| Key people | Michiyoshi Mazuka (Chairman) Masami Yamamoto (President)[2] |
| Products | See products listing |
| Revenue | US$54.559 billion (2010) |
| Operating income | $1.596 billion (2010)[3] |
| Net income | $663 million (2010) |
| Total assets | $36.434 billion (2010) |
| Employees | 172,438 (2010)[4] |
| Website | www.fujitsu.com |
Fujitsu Limited (富士通株式会社 Fujitsū Kabushiki-Kaisha) is a multinational information technology equipment and services company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.[5] It is the world's third-largest IT services provider measured by revenues (after IBM and Hewlett-Packard).[6]
Fujitsu's central focus is on providing IT-driven business solutions, but the company and its subsidiaries also offer a diversity of products and services in the areas of personal computing, telecommunications and advanced microelectronics. It has approximately 172,000 employees and its products and services are available in over 70 countries.[1]
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[7] The company was established on June 20, 1935, under the name Fuji Tsūshinki Seizō (富士通信機製造, Fuji Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturing), a spinoff of the Fuji Electric Company, this in turn being a joint venture between the Furukawa Electric Company and German conglomerate Siemens founded in 1923. Despite its connections to the Furukawa zaibatsu, Fujitsu escaped the Allied occupation of Japan mostly unscathed.
In 1954, Fujitsu manufactured Japan's first computer, the FACOM 100, and in 1961 the transistorized FACOM 222. In 1967, the company's name was officially changed to the contraction Fujitsū (富士通).
In 1955, Fujitsu founded Kawasaki Frontale (川崎フロンターレ, Kawasaki Furontāre) as a Fujitsu soccer club. Kawasaki Frontale has now been a J. League football club since 1999.
In 1971, Fujitsu signed an OEM agreement with the Canadian company, Consolidated Computers Ltd (later Consolidated Computer Inc.) to distribute CCL's world leading data entry product, Key-Edit. Fujitsu joined both ICL who earlier began marketing Key-Edit in the British Commonwealth of countries as well as in both western and eastern Europe; and CCL's direct marketing staff in Canada, USA, London (UK) and Frankfurt. Mers Kutt, inventor of Key-Edit and founder of CCL, was the common thread that led to Fujitsu’s later association with ICL and Gene Amdahl.
In 1990, Fujitsu acquired 80% of the UK-based computer company International Computers Limited (ICL) for $1.29 billion (ICL was renamed Fujitsu Services in 2002).[8][9] In September 1990, Fujitsu announced the launch of a new series of mainframe computers which were at that time the fastest in the world.[10][11] In July 1991, ICL (Fujitsu) acquired more than half of the Russian company KME-CS (Kazan Manufacturing Enterprise of Computer Systems, Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia). The agreement was signed between Peter Bonfield (President of ICL) and Mintimer Shaimiev (President of the Tatarstan Republic).
In 1992, Fujitsu introduced the world's first 21-inch full-color plasma display. It was a hybrid, based upon the plasma display created at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NHK STRL, achieving superior brightness.
In 1993, Fujitsu entered into a joint manufacturing venture with AMD to merge flash memory operations. The jointly-produced flash memory product was named Spansion. As part of the merger deal, AMD contributed its flash memory group, Fab 25 in Texas, its R&D facilities and assembly plants in Thailand, Malaysia and China; Fujitsu provided its Flash memory business division and the Malaysian Fujitsu Microelectronics final assembly and test operations.[12]
From February 1989 until mid-1997, Fujitsu built the FM Towns PC variant. It started as a proprietary PC variant intended for multimedia applications and computer games, but later became more compatible with regular PCs. In 1993, the FM Towns Marty was released, a gaming console compatible with the FM Towns games.
Fujitsu agreed to acquire the 58 percent of Amdahl Corporation (including the Canada-based DMR consulting group) that it did not already own for around $850 million in July 1997.[13]
In 1998, Fujitsu was headquartered in Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture and maintained an office in Chiyoda, Tokyo.[14]
In June 1999 Fujitsu's historical connection with Siemens was revived, when the two companies agreed to merge their European computer operations into a new 50:50 joint venture called Fujitsu Siemens Computers, which became the world's fifth-largest computer manufacturing company.[15]
On March 2, 2004, Fujitsu Computer Products of America lost a class action lawsuit over hard disk drives with defective chips and firmware. Fujitsu also signed a partner agreement with AlmanteQ Co, a distributor of Fujitsu products in Libya. In October 2004, Fujitsu's Australian subsidiary bought the Australian arm of Atos Origin, a systems implementation company specializing in SAP. On April 1, 2006, Fujitsu Software Corporation merged with Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation.
In August 2007, Fujitsu signed a £500 million, 10-year deal with Reuters Group under which Reuters outsourced the majority of its internal IT department to Fujitsu.[17][18] As part of the agreement around 300 Reuters staff and 200 contractors transferred to Fujitsu.[17][18] In October 2007, Fujitsu announced that it would be establishing an offshore development centre in Noida, India with a capacity to house 1,200 employees, in an investment of US$10 million.[19][20]
In October 2007, Fujitsu's Australia and New Zealand subsidiary acquired Infinity Solutions Ltd, a New Zealand-based IT hardware, services and consultancy company, for an undisclosed amount.[21][22]
In January 2009, Fujitsu reached an agreement to sell its HDD business to Toshiba.[23] Transfer of the business was completed on October 1. 2009.[24][25]
In March 2009, Fujitsu announced that it had decided to convert FDK Corporation, at that time an equity-method affiliate, to a consolidated subsidiary from May 1, 2009 (tentative schedule) by subscribing to a private placement to increase FDK's capital.FDK On April 1, 2009, Fujitsu agreed to acquire Siemens' stake in Fujitsu Siemens Computers for approximately EUR450m.[26] Fujitsu Siemens Computers was subsequently renamed Fujitsu Technology Solutions.[27]
Fujitsu Laboratories, Fujitsu's Research and Development division, has 1,300 employees and a capital of 5 Billion Yen. It is run by Tatsuo Tomita.[28]
The CEMEA&I region (Continental Europe, Middle East, Africa & India) plays an important role within the Fujitsu Group. Here, Fujitsu Technology Solutions – evolved from the former joint venture Fujitsu Siemens Computers – holds global responsibility for research, development and distribution of all x86 servers produced by Fujitsu. The company’s Dynamic Infrastructures strategy, was also born here. The term Dynamic Infrastructures stands for a comprehensive range of IT products, solutions, and services – from PCs and notebooks, to data center solutions, and Infrastructure as a Service and Managed Infrastructure services that dynamically adapt and adjust to the ever changing demands of today’s economy
Fujitsu Consulting is the consulting and services arm of the Fujitsu group, providing information technology consulting, implementation and management services.
Fujitsu Consulting was founded in 1973 in Montreal, Canada, under its original name "DMR" (an acronym of the three founder's names: Pierre Ducros, Serge Meilleur and Alain Roy[29] During the next decade, the company established a presence throughout Quebec and Canada, before extending its reach to international markets. For nearly thirty years, DMR Consulting grew to become an international consulting firm, changing its name to Fujitsu Consulting in 2002 after being acquired by Fujitsu Ltd.[30]
Fujitsu Ltd has a 46.05% shareholding in Fujitsu General, which manufactures and markets various air conditioning units and humidity control solutions.[31] A similar venture is sponsored by Fujitsu in India, called General Airconditioners.
Fujitsu markets personal computing, telecommunications and advanced microelectronics solutions that go beyond the off-the shelf products.
Product lines include:
PRIMERGY, Fujitsu's server family including Tower Servers, Rack Servers, and Blade Servers. In May 2011, Fujitsu decided to enter the mobile phone space again, Microsoft announcing plans that Fujitsu would release Windows Phone 7 devices.
ETERNUS, Fujitsu’s storage hardware and software infrastructure as part of the company’s Dynamic Infrastructures Portfolio. The word aeternus means "eternal" in Latin. Fujitsu adopted this name for the global storage brand to match the company’s concepts; of protecting customer assets forever and ensuring continuous business operation. The ETERNUS product lineup includes Disk Storage Systems, Tape Systems, Virtual Tape Appliances, SAN Switches, and Storage Management Software.
LIFEBOOK, AMILO Fujitsu's range of notebook computers and tablet PCs.
Fujitsu offers a highly reliable public cloud service delivered from data centers in Japan, Australia, Singapore, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany based on its Global Cloud Platform strategy announced in 2010.[32] The platform delivers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) – virtual information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, such as servers and storage functionality – from Fujitsu's data centers. In Japan, the service, which had been offered as the On-Demand Virtual System Service (OViSS), is now known as FGCP/S5. Globally, the service is delivered under the name Global Cloud Platform.
Fujitsu has also launched a Windows Azure powered Global Cloud Platform in a partnership with Microsoft.[33] This offering, delivering Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), is known as FGCP/A5 in Japan, and is operated from a Fujitsu data center in Japan. It offers a set of application development frameworks, such as Microsoft .NET, Java and PHP, and data storage capabilities consistent with the Windows Azure platform provided by Microsoft. The basic service consists of compute, storage, Microsoft SQL Azure, and Windows Azure AppFabric technologies such as Service Bus and Access Control Service, with options for interoperating services covering implementation and migration of applications, system building, systems operation, and support.
Fujitsu also offers local cloud platforms, such as in Australia,[34] that provide the ability to rely on its domestic data centers which keep sensitive financial data under local jurisdiction and compliance standards.
Fujitsu produce SPARC compatible CPU[35], the "Venus" 128 GFLOP SPARC64 VIIIfx model is included in the K computer, the world's fastest supercomputer in June 2011 with a rating of over 8 petaflops, and in November 2011, K became the first computer to top 10 petaflops in September 2011[36][37].
The old slogan "The possibilities are infinite" can be found below the company's logo on major advertisements and ties in with the small logo above the letters J and I of the word Fujitsu. This smaller logo represents the symbol for infinity. As of April 2010, Fujitsu is in the process of rolling out a new slogan focused on entering into partnerships with its customers and retiring the "possibilities are infinite" tagline. The new slogan is "shaping tomorrow with you".[38]
Fujitsu reports that all its notebook and tablet PCs released globally comply with the latest Energy Star standard.[39]
Greenpeace's Cool IT Leaderboard of December 2010 "evaluates global IT companies on their leadership in the fight to stop climate change" and ranks Fujitsu 3rd out of 17 leading manufacturers, on the strength of "well-developed case study data of its solutions with transparent methodology" and "[standing] out as one of the only companies to set a future [Carbon Dioxide] savings goal for its product solutions."[40]
In Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics of October 2010 the company ranks 13th out of 18 leading electronics manufacturers.[41] Greenpeace criticises Fujitsu for its slow progress in phasing out polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and brominated flame retardants (BFR).[42] Fujitsu is eliminating PVC from its products by the end of 2013 but has not committed to abolishing all BFRs.[43]
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