Fujitsu Poised to (Inter)Stage Glovia's Comeback Part One: Event Summary
Glovia International whose capabilities seem to be far greater than its recognition in the global enterprise applications market (largely due to a number of ownership and name changes throughout its history) seems to have finally gotten its ducks in a row, and is now poised for a noticeable return, backed up by a resplendent and committed parent company.
In October 2003, a leading provider of extended ERP solutions for engineer-to-order (ETO) and high volume manufacturers, Glovia International, announced it formed a strategic alliance with Fujitsu Software Corporation to provide manufacturers, customers and suppliers with improved collaboration and integration capabilities. Glovia International is headquartered in El Segundo, California, (U.S.) and is a subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702), a Tokyo, Japan-based leading provider of international IT and communications solutions with consolidated revenues of $38 billion (USD) in fiscal 2003. The strategic alliance should allow Glovia to improve its customers' ability to collaborate with trading partners and reduce supply chain costs while enabling Fujitsu Software Corporation to further penetrate the manufacturing industry. Fujitsu Software Corporation, based in San Jose, California, is also a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu, and delivers one of the world's broadest lines of application infrastructure software products, including the Interstage Suite and NetCOBOL.
Fujitsu's Interstage Suite provides a collaborative business integration platform that enables companies to relatively easily share and exchange information across disparate systemswhether internal or external. Coupled with Glovia International's extended-ERP suite, glovia.com, the joint Fujitsu solution should enable manufacturers to improve supply chain visibility, increase responsiveness, and reduce costs. Fujitsu's Interstage Suite is one of the world's broadest families of application infrastructure software products for designing, developing, and managing scalable, customized mission-critical applications. The application suite is used by more than 8,000 companies in over 83,000 installations worldwide. As an example, Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe, a leading supplier of high performance telecommunications services and products, has successfully implemented the joint Fujitsu Software Corporation/Glovia International solution to streamline trading relationships with its suppliers and customers and to reduce costs.
Under the terms of the agreement, Glovia International will embed some of the following elements of Fujitsu's Interstage Suite into its extended-ERP solution, glovia.com, including:
* Interstage Integration Manager is the conductor for business-critical systems, controlling and consolidating business transactions and data both inside and outside the organizationvia its systems-centric integration capabilities. Providing a server, adapter kit, and a suite of more than 200 adapters, the product is based on eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and supports web services.
* Interstage Portal lets enterprises integrate a variety of disparate systems and services, thereby presenting users, employees, customers, and partners with one streamlined, consistent visual interface. It provides highly personalized, relevant and timely content, collaborative workspaces, and role-based tasks tied directly to business processes.
* Interstage Application Server is the foundation of supposedly secure, reliable and effective internet and intranet applications. It provides fully compliant Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application-hosting capabilities, as well as all the necessary low-level services, fail-over protection, clustering, and other J2EE features for building applications and packaged solutions.
In July, Glovia announced the establishment of the Glovia Innovation Center, which should enable Glovia to share its deep manufacturing expertise and astute extended-ERP solutions more effectively with customers, prospects, and partners. The primary mission of the center has been to educate customers and prospects about the latest advanced solution components of the company's suite--including supply chain management (SCM), collaboration and integration, and business intelligence (BI)--and demonstrate how to use them to increase return on investment (ROI) and deliver a competitive advantage. The Glovia Innovation Center should establish a central knowledge base within Glovia and work directly with the company's sales and professional services teams to disseminate this information.
By increasing the awareness of Glovia's technology and extended-ERP solution components, the center aims at enabling customers to leverage their existing investment in glovia.com more powerfully, and at enabling Glovia to show prospects the comprehensive capabilities of the company's extended ERP suite. To that end, the Glovia Innovation Center has already successfully helped several manufacturers to implement advanced solutions for web procurement and collaboration, including Fujitsu Shared Services Division and Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe.
In October 2003, a leading provider of extended ERP solutions for engineer-to-order (ETO) and high volume manufacturers, Glovia International, announced it formed a strategic alliance with Fujitsu Software Corporation to provide manufacturers, customers and suppliers with improved collaboration and integration capabilities. Glovia International is headquartered in El Segundo, California, (U.S.) and is a subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702), a Tokyo, Japan-based leading provider of international IT and communications solutions with consolidated revenues of $38 billion (USD) in fiscal 2003. The strategic alliance should allow Glovia to improve its customers' ability to collaborate with trading partners and reduce supply chain costs while enabling Fujitsu Software Corporation to further penetrate the manufacturing industry. Fujitsu Software Corporation, based in San Jose, California, is also a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu, and delivers one of the world's broadest lines of application infrastructure software products, including the Interstage Suite and NetCOBOL.
Fujitsu's Interstage Suite provides a collaborative business integration platform that enables companies to relatively easily share and exchange information across disparate systemswhether internal or external. Coupled with Glovia International's extended-ERP suite, glovia.com, the joint Fujitsu solution should enable manufacturers to improve supply chain visibility, increase responsiveness, and reduce costs. Fujitsu's Interstage Suite is one of the world's broadest families of application infrastructure software products for designing, developing, and managing scalable, customized mission-critical applications. The application suite is used by more than 8,000 companies in over 83,000 installations worldwide. As an example, Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe, a leading supplier of high performance telecommunications services and products, has successfully implemented the joint Fujitsu Software Corporation/Glovia International solution to streamline trading relationships with its suppliers and customers and to reduce costs.
Under the terms of the agreement, Glovia International will embed some of the following elements of Fujitsu's Interstage Suite into its extended-ERP solution, glovia.com, including:
* Interstage Integration Manager is the conductor for business-critical systems, controlling and consolidating business transactions and data both inside and outside the organizationvia its systems-centric integration capabilities. Providing a server, adapter kit, and a suite of more than 200 adapters, the product is based on eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and supports web services.
* Interstage Portal lets enterprises integrate a variety of disparate systems and services, thereby presenting users, employees, customers, and partners with one streamlined, consistent visual interface. It provides highly personalized, relevant and timely content, collaborative workspaces, and role-based tasks tied directly to business processes.
* Interstage Application Server is the foundation of supposedly secure, reliable and effective internet and intranet applications. It provides fully compliant Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application-hosting capabilities, as well as all the necessary low-level services, fail-over protection, clustering, and other J2EE features for building applications and packaged solutions.
In July, Glovia announced the establishment of the Glovia Innovation Center, which should enable Glovia to share its deep manufacturing expertise and astute extended-ERP solutions more effectively with customers, prospects, and partners. The primary mission of the center has been to educate customers and prospects about the latest advanced solution components of the company's suite--including supply chain management (SCM), collaboration and integration, and business intelligence (BI)--and demonstrate how to use them to increase return on investment (ROI) and deliver a competitive advantage. The Glovia Innovation Center should establish a central knowledge base within Glovia and work directly with the company's sales and professional services teams to disseminate this information.
By increasing the awareness of Glovia's technology and extended-ERP solution components, the center aims at enabling customers to leverage their existing investment in glovia.com more powerfully, and at enabling Glovia to show prospects the comprehensive capabilities of the company's extended ERP suite. To that end, the Glovia Innovation Center has already successfully helped several manufacturers to implement advanced solutions for web procurement and collaboration, including Fujitsu Shared Services Division and Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe.
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