OREANDA-NEWS. August 17, 2011. Fujitsu announced the launch of a service for streamlining customers' existing business systems for APM Modernization Services for the Cloud, reported the press-centre of Fujitsu.

APM Modernization Services for the Cloud, an array of services to help customers transition their business systems to the cloud, has been available since May 2010. The new offering, as part of this package, will be delivered as a service for streamlining customers' existing systems that leverages the know-how acquired by Fujitsu in the implementation of its own internal systems.

With the new streamlining service, Fujitsu will work with the customer's existing systems in order to eliminate and integrate the least-frequently used screens and forms, combine analogous databases, and integrate interfaces that connect different systems, among other tasks.

As a result, customers can optimize their existing systems by undertaking a review of their hardware and middleware, gradually employing the cloud, rebuilding their systems, and employing software packages.

Background
Customers with systems that feature an intricate entanglement of business processes often encounter the following kinds of challenges:

As multiple similar processes exist, maintenance requires significant effort.

Maintenance is challenging when there is a complex arrangement of interfaces connecting different business processes.

Customers want to migrate some of their systems to the cloud, but the migration cannot take place because the relationships between these systems and other systems are complicated.

As the interfaces with other systems are complex, the range of applicable software packages cannot be narrowed down.

Due to an overload of incidents, the priority of maintenance tasks cannot be determined.

To address these kinds of challenges, Fujitsu is delivering a new service for streamlining customers' existing systems that is based on the know-how acquired by Fujitsu in the implementation of its own internal systems as part of its APM Modernization Services for the Cloud.

During the company's internal implementation, Fujitsu was successfully able to reduce its number of applications by roughly 80% and its number of forms by roughly 60%.