Fujitsu in Leaders Quadrants of Application Infrastructure Software Research Reports

Sales for Fujitsu Interstage Suite in North America and Europe Grew by a Combined 92 Percent in FY 2007

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• Source: Fujitsu Computer Systems
• On 7:00 pm EST, Wednesday January 21, 2009

SUNNYVALE, CA--(MARKET WIRE)--Jan 21, 2009 -- Fujitsu was positioned in the leaders quadrant in two Gartner Magic Quadrant reports on Application Infrastructure Software for New Systematic SOA Application Projects and Back-End Application Integration Projects.

Additionally, Fujitsu reported that it continues to see increasing demand for its Interstage(R) Suite, one of the world's broadest lines of application infrastructure software products. In FY 2007, sales of the Fujitsu Interstage Suite grew by a combined 92 percent in the North American and European markets. Fujitsu attributes the growth to customers and partners selecting Interstage Suite products as the most suitable solutions for designing, deploying and managing their applications with a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach.

Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for New Systematic SOA Application Projects (1)
Gartner defines application infrastructure as "the technology that underlies and enables development, deployment and execution of business applications." According to this report, "New service-oriented business applications require a complex collection of capabilities in runtime-enabling technologies and development tools."

Leaders in this Magic Quadrant "combine insightful understanding of the realities of the market, a reliable record, the ability to influence the market's direction, the capability to attract and keep a following, and the capacity to lead. A leader has the proven ability to deliver on its vision and to support its customers through periods of stability, as well as periods of change. Leaders control most of the market's business activity and are the primary influencers of market evolution. However, a leader is not always the best choice for a particular user's project. A focused, smaller vendor can provide excellent support and commitment to individual mainstream customers, especially when geographic or vertical-industry specifics are of importance. With some notable exceptions, leaders are typically large vendors with long-term industry records. They represent safe choices, but they are not necessarily the state-of-the-art vendors, or the industry innovation leaders. Some are also known to be mostly focused on their larger customers, leaving the rest of the installed base with less-than-stellar support or pricing options. In this relatively conservative market, leadership is earned through a well-established record of execution and vision. It also requires the stability and reliability of a proven vendor -- such qualities include a long-term presence in the market and, as a result, leaders are typically the largest vendors in the market. However, longevity alone does not make a leader (as this quadrant clearly shows); leaders may not be first to adopt some breakthrough innovations, but they retain the agility to not fall behind the market in new directions. The market is mature and well-established, and entry of a new vendor into a leadership position is difficult."

Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects (2)
In this report, Gartner "emphasizes product capabilities most relevant to projects that have, as their primary objective, integration of the back-end data and business logic of applications. These projects deliver increased cohesion and unified access to resources of purchased packages; enterprise legacy products; and applications that are new and custom-designed from other relevant enterprises or that are provided by service providers."

Leaders in this Magic Quadrant have "a proven and comprehensive integrated product set, as well as a sizeable installed base of reasonably satisfied clients that extends internationally. They have an ample installed base of products to cross-sell their integration solutions to, and have demonstrated their ability to anticipate technology and market trends over the years by extending their offerings with composite, application-enabling technology." Furthermore, "leaders manifest their understanding of the problem space by providing innovative features, and by extending their integration technology to support initiatives, such as SOA and BPM."

"In my opinion, our position in these Magic Quadrant reports reflects our ongoing commitment to respond to the needs of our customers with a broad array of solutions that meet real-world needs," said Akira Yamanaka, corporate vice president and president of the Software Unit, Fujitsu Limited. "We continue to support our customers' business improvement initiatives by delivering technologies that aid the visualization and continuous optimization of processes in an SOA environment."

Fujitsu Interstage Suite is a broad family of modular, real-time application infrastructure software products that give companies the capability to build flexible and scalable business applications. More than 3,500 companies worldwide have successfully implemented SOA application projects with the Interstage Suite. The Fujitsu business process-driven approach to SOA fosters bringing business and IT professionals together to discover, define, refine, automate, analyze, optimize, and govern vital business processes while leveraging an enterprise's existing infrastructure. With Interstage, enterprises have all the ingredients they need to support business improvement initiatives using shared processes, resources, and information through a single interface. For more information, visit www.fujitsu.com/interstage.

About Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Fujitsu Computer Systems is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited (Tokyo:6702.T - News) committed to the design, development and delivery of advanced computer systems, application infrastructure software products, and managed services for the business enterprise. Through its TRIOLE(R) strategy, the company offers a complete line of scalable and reliable servers, storage and middleware solutions, high-performance mobile and client computers, as well as professional services. Fujitsu Computer Systems has established itself as a strategic solutions provider to the world's leading organizations by offering technology innovation, customer choice, exceptional product quality and reliability, as well as outstanding customer service. See http://us.fujitsu.com/computers for further information.

About Fujitsu
Fujitsu is a leading provider of IT-based business solutions for the global marketplace. With approximately 160,000 employees supporting customers in 70 countries, Fujitsu combines a worldwide corps of systems and services experts with highly reliable computing and communications products and advanced microelectronics to deliver added value to customers. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (Tokyo:6702.T - News) reported consolidated revenues of 5.3 trillion yen (US$53 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008. For more information, please see: www.fujitsu.com.

About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrants are copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and are reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

(1) Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for New Systematic SOA Application Projects, Gartner, Inc., December 19, 2008 by Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Jess Thompson, Kimihiko Iijima, and Daniel Sholler.
(2) Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects, Gartner, Inc., December 19, 2008, by Jess Thompson, Daniel Sholler, Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Kimihiko Iijima, Rafaella Favata, and Paolo Malinverno.

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