Through 2010, says a new Gartner report, more than 75% of mainstream enterprises will invest in integrated multipurpose technology platforms aiming to avoid the complexity of systems integration.
The report, Magic Quadrant Enterprise-Scope Application Platform Suites (E-APS) 3Q 05, rates suppliers in terms of their ability to execute and completeness of vision into Gartner`s four quadrants: challengers, niche players, visionaries and leaders.
The report says many software vendors with the ambition of software market leadership have recognised for some time that a modern business software platform cannot be a single stack of software dedicated to one pattern of service.
Neither an application server, nor an integration suite, a portal product, a development framework, a collaboration suite, business intelligence or any other focused platform can meet all of the requirements of modern software engineering alone, says the report.
Gartner has positioned Fujitsu, the world`s third largest IT company, in the leaders` quadrant of the Magic Quadrant in the survey.
According to Gartner, leaders are vendors that are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction, and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market.
"Many users value the advantages of one-stop product support, coordinated installation and versioning, and the integrated nature of development and management tools of an E-APS. At the same time, many users acquire the E-APS incrementally, as needed for the relevant products," says the report.
"Vendors must be able to appeal to both of these user buying patterns."
"Through the innovation of our service-oriented architecture and open, modular design of our Interstage Suite, we are providing our customers with uncompromising quality and the flexibility to address their future application demands," said Robert Sepanloo, senior vice-president of Interstage at Fujitsu Software Corporation.
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The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted July 2005 by Gartner, and is 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 of 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.
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Fujitsu Services is one of the leading IT services companies in Europe, Middle East and Africa. It has an annual turnover of lb1.99 billion (EUR2.86 billion), employs 15 200 people and operates in over 20 countries. It designs, builds and operates IT systems and services for customers in the financial services, telecom, retail, utilities and government markets.
Its core strength is the delivery of IT infrastructure management and outsourcing across desktop, networking and data centre environments, together with a full range of related services, from infrastructure consulting through integration and deployment.
Headquartered in London, Fujitsu Services is the European-centred IT services arm of the Fujitsu Group. The Fujitsu Group is a US$44.5 billion (EUR34 billion) leader in the provision of IT systems and services for the global marketplace.
Fujitsu has from the outset been fully supportive of South African government transformation agenda requirements for employment equity as well as having local BEE company Yard Capital as an active 30% shareholder of its South African operation.
Sha-Izwe
Sha-Izwe Communications (incorporating Charles Smith & Associates established in 1987) is a BEE company and part of the Constellation Group with operates in 25 countries. Sha-Izwe is the sole representative for The Constellation Group in SA.
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