Fujitsu, Microsoft Japan to promote global communications platform

Fujitsu Ltd and Microsoft Japan Co Ltd said they are strengthening their alliance to promote the implementation of a global communications platform that will transform customers' work styles.

In Japan, Fujitsu is the leading vendor of communication-systems solutions based on Microsoft products, and has implemented a private-cloud-based global communications platform centered on Microsoft products for its approximate 160,000 employees worldwide. Microsoft Japan provided technical assistance for Fujitsu's internal implementation of this platform.

Fujitsu, in collaboration with Microsoft Japan, said it is offering its global communication platform as a solution that helps customers transform their work styles, and is currently supporting 1.2 million people in Japan - more than any other vendor. In order to promote a further transformation in work styles, Fujitsu, with technical support from Microsoft Japan, is now working to migrate its global communications platform from a private cloud to a public cloud, and to make FUJITSU Digital Business Platform MetaArc, the core of Fujitsu's cloud platform, compatible with Microsoft's integrated collaboration cloud service, Office 365, and its cloud authentication platform, Azure Active Directory Premium (Azure ADP), creating a multi-cloud environment.

Fujitsu said it will begin operations for all of its approximate 160,000 employees around the world in March of 2017. By using Office 365 in this initiative, Fujitsu said it will be able to use the latest communication system services, providing a work style that improves business efficiency and the ability to respond to changes for each business unit. For example, by using the enterprise social networking service Yammer, this new system aims to strengthen ongoing co-creation capability through an improved ability to share knowledge and communicate between business units globally. By adopting Azure ADP, this system provides single sign-on and multifactor authentication in a multi-cloud environment, including compatibility with over 2,000 cloud services from other companies.

Moreover, by combining it with advanced cyber-attack detection functionality using machine learning, as well as Fujitsu's unique biometric authentication capabilities, such as palm vein authentication, this system provides even greater efficiency and even more robust security. Fujitsu and Microsoft Japan are strengthening their alliance to encourage customers to implement this multi-cloud global communications platform, through such means as joint workshops, using the internal implementation at Fujitsu as a reference.

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