fujitsu services in comment and analysis
Can the government offshore with confidence?
Comment For example, the Cabinet Office has prevented Fujitsu Services from using offshore resources without prior consent. The government can see the attractions of offshoring IT but has yet to decide whether to push these services for the public sector. [14 Feb 2008]
Q&A: Julian David: IBM's vice president public sector business
Comment It's a contract that was given about four years ago to Pricewaterhouse Coopers Consulting [now part of IBM] in a consortium with Fujitsu. We've just started taking over some of the services but the idea is essentially joining up what was two... [05 Dec 2007]
The McCue Interview: The AA IT director Trevor Didcock
Comment That strategy led to a £50m seven-year infrastructure deal with IBM, an application support contract with Fujitsu Services and a £10m networking contract with Cable & Wireless. As Saga already has a networking deal with C&W the likelihood is that... [21 Sep 2007]
Leader: No to any NHS IT whitewash
Leader Just this month we can see evidence of that in the £19m that some healthcare trusts in the south of England have had to pay to get out of a contract that could have seen them paying more than £50m per year in penalties to lead contractor Fujitsu... [27 Jun 2006]
Q&A: Sun CEO Scott McNealy
Comment We've got the APL [Advanced Product Line] Sparc mainframe chip jointly developed with Fujitsu coming out early next year. We're one of three processor architectures - Intel-AMD being one, Sun and Fujitsu's Sparc being another and Power being... [24 Jun 2005]
Leader: EDS back in spotlight with £4bn MoD deal
Leader In the end it was more likely EDS' experience in defence IT and its formidable alliance partners - Fujitsu Services, LogicaCMG, EADS, HP and IBM Global Services - proved the difference. EDS' victory in the bidding war for the Ministry of Defence's... [02 Mar 2005]
Leader: Dell wants blade runners
Leader Dell has entered the blade server market, where companies such as HP (the first to enter), IBM (the market leader now), Fujitsu-Siemens and Sun play. Since it set up seven years ago, it has settled on Dell hardware, including the latest blades, a... [16 Nov 2004]
Analysis: SMEs - an answer to public sector IT failings?
Comment At the NHS, IT supremo Richard Granger has been strict with would-be suppliers for a series of large contracts, while the IR famously did what many thought impossible, last year dropping EDS for its Aspire project and switching to Cap Gemini Ernst... [02 Mar 2004]
Leader: £3bn Revenue contract serves notice to IT suppliers
Leader The decision by the Inland Revenue to award its 10-year £3bn IT outsourcing contract to Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (CGEY) and Fujitsu Services today was not just any government contract announcement. Research out this week from services company... [11 Dec 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Taking risks
Comment Yet, because it is structured as a number of individual entities, it seems that Fujitsu Services was in danger of falling into the hands of the liquidators. On this particular project, though, Fujitsu Services (once known as ICL) was in danger of... [03 Mar 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Services carve up, Vodafone and SFR, ARM's lay-offs
Comment And already the pair work in tandem through a number of Fujitsu's operations. IDC rates Fujitsu at 14th in Europe and Sun at 27th. Better still a combined Sun/Fujitsu scenario would give them a 2 per cent share of the global software market, which... [21 Oct 2002]
Why the easy life's over for mobile
Comment Witness tie-ups between NEC and Siemens, Alcatel and Fujitsu or - most famously - Ericsson and Sony. Finding ways to squeeze more out of existing and valuable customers is what the business is all about, as we'll see increasingly with mobile data... [11 Mar 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: Touchy-feely PCs, HP and, like, storage man, and Citrix's big idea
Comment In addition there are a large number of other companies very active in the sector including Storage Networks, StorageTek and Fujitsu Softek to name but three and the list is almost endless. On top of these product announcements, HP is providing... [17 Sep 2001]
Dubya says everything's fine, except for Russia and China
Comment Parent company Fujitsu is to swallow whole what was once a jewel in the UK high-tech crown. At the time, Derek Hardman, director of corporate marketing for ICL, insisted we add this rebuttal to our original article: "If ICL was to be subsumed into... [29 Jun 2001]
Compaq: A brand new, age old story
Comment Fujitsu said as much this week as it consolidated its disparate services arms. But what of its attempt - over the next 180 days - to re-invent itself as a software and services giant? The model here is IBM, a company that has emerged in recent... [26 Jun 2001]
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