Fujitsu expands retail offerings to provide end-to-end solutions

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Fujitsu has expanded its North American retail market portfolio to deliver end-to-end technology solutions, introducing new IT infrastructure services that join Fujitsu POS and store-management systems and custom business intelligence (BI), enterprise resource planning (ERP), software as a service (SaaS) and supply chain management (SCM) integration solutions.

Based on the popularity of Fujitsu retail solutions, the company has generated 15 per cent compound annual growth over the past three fiscal years. Gartner, Inc. has ranked Fujitsu the number four Services Player in the Retail Industry by Worldwide Revenue Size, 2008 (Source: Gartner, Competitive Landscape: IT Service Providers in Retail, Addressing the Chaos in 2009, published Dec. 2, 2009).

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New Fujitsu datacenter options for retailers range from cloud computing, managed data center services and hosted offshore solutions based on award-winning Fujitsu PRIMERGY(R) server, ETERNUS(R) storage and virtualisation systems.

See Fujitsu retail solutions in action at the NRF Convention and Expo in New York, 10-13 January at Jacob K. Javits Convention Centre in booth 411. Fujitsu and partners Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce and SAP will demonstrate how their offerings help retailers in North America reduce operating costs, apply technology and business intelligence tools to improve sales and employee performance, and streamline operations from supply chains to the point of sale.

Fujitsu currently serves 10 of the top 20 North American retailers. Gartner, Inc. ranked Fujitsu fourth by worldwide revenue size in 2008 for the retail industry in "Competitive Landscape: IT Service Providers in Retail," authored by Gartner, Inc. Research Vice President Jeff Roster, published 2 December, 2009.

Bruce Kopp, senior vice president of the retail business unit at Fujitsu America, now leads the retail solutions strategy, leveraging his 25 years of experience as senior vice president of sales and marketing at Fujitsu Transaction Systems prior to its consolidation into Fujitsu America on 1 April, 2009.
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Bruce Kopp, Senior Vice President of Retail Sales, Fujitsu America: "Since April 2009, Fujitsu America has made a substantial investment in the success of its retail business unit, as evidenced by a 15 percent compound annual growth rate over the past three fiscal years. I am pleased to take the lead as our retail solutions expand to a full spectrum of hardware, software and IT infrastructure and security services, as well as integration solutions with our alliance partners such as Microsoft, Oracle and SAP."