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Introduction to Fujitsu's Road to 3x and Modernization Journey
About Fujitsu
- Fujitsu was founded in 1935, initially focused on recovering public infrastructure and telecommunications after a major earthquake.
- In the 1950s, Fujitsu started developing computer systems and mainframes, some of which are still in use today.
- Over the years, Fujitsu expanded its portfolio to include services and products across cloud, workspace, data, security, consulting, and application management.
- Fujitsu is a global company with over 124,000 employees in more than 180 countries.
The Road to 3x
- Fujitsu's "3x" strategy focuses on digital transformation, sustainability, and social responsibility.
- Creating value is a collaborative effort involving customers, employees, partners, and other stakeholders, with AI playing a key role.
- Value is created by addressing customer needs and driving transformation and innovation.
- Customers are at different stages of their digital transformation journey, with varying technology focus, time horizons, and investment budgets.
- Customers also have different needs in terms of growing their capabilities, ranging from overcoming legacy system challenges to enabling new business models.
Fujitsu's Modernization Services
- Fujitsu has established a global modernization knowledge center to help customers on their digital transformation and modernization journey.
- Fujitsu's modernization services include assessment, transformation strategy, and ongoing management and optimization.
- The modernization assessment involves understanding the current environment, identifying options for retiring, retaining, rewriting, rehosting, or rebuilding applications, and optimizing the modernized environment.
- Fujitsu's modernization approach follows a four-step process: initiation and planning, vision and strategy, discovery and verification, and assessment and transformation strategy.
Collaboration with AWS
- Fujitsu has been working with AWS for over a decade, initially on network services and later expanding to cloud management, transformation, and solutions.
- In 2022, Fujitsu established a global modernization knowledge center and further strengthened its partnership with AWS, focusing on the modernization of customers' environments using AWS services and tools, such as AWS Blue.
AWS Blue and Fujitsu's Modernization Services
- AWS Blue is a tool that supports the end-to-end modernization process, including assessment, migration, modernization, transformation, and ongoing development and enhancement.
- Fujitsu's portfolio of cloud transformation services complements the AWS Blue toolset, providing additional services like assessment, well-architected reviews, containerization, and ongoing application management and evolution.
Customer Case Studies
- Fujitsu has applied its modernization methodology and the AWS Blue tool in both internal and customer engagements, such as:
- Modernizing over 4,000 Fujitsu business systems
- Helping a financial institution with a data and business intelligence solution
- Assisting a manufacturing customer with a legacy mainframe environment and an AI-powered supply and demand planning solution
- Implementing an SAP S/4HANA solution for another manufacturing customer
Generative AI in Modernization
- Fujitsu has leveraged generative AI capabilities within the AWS Blue tool to address challenges in the modernization process, such as:
- Improving the quality and readability of design documentation
- Enhancing code maintainability by enforcing coding standards and generating documentation
- Accelerating the modernization process by automating tasks like test case generation
Future Plans for AI in Modernization
- Fujitsu plans to further integrate AI into its modernization services, including:
- Using AI for system analysis, prioritization, cost and ROI estimation, and business process mapping during the assessment phase
- Leveraging AI for requirements gathering, business workflow analysis, and documentation generation in the modernization phase
- Exploring the use of AI-driven, data-driven recommendations for ongoing management and optimization of the modernized environment