OREANDA-NEWS. April 26, 2012. Fujitsu today announced the release of Value Added Application Assets Management Service, an add-on service that dramatically enhances application maintenance efficiency. This is accomplished by entrusting existing business applications to Fujitsu when using the APM Modernization Services for Cloud, which facilitates the migration of customers' business systems to the cloud.

The new service offers operational processes and tools for the efficient maintenance of application assets. In addition, it also provides analyses of entrusted application assets and sends regular reports to customers. At the same time, it adds an application maintenance platform in order to ensure applications are maintained at their optimal conditions.

As a result of using the new service, customers will always be able to ascertain the status and value of their existing application assets. When used in combination with Fujitsu's already available streamlining service, it is also possible to make optimal use of business applications and respond to moment-to-moment changes in business conditions through measures such as organizing massive numbers of business applications and determining whether it is necessary to continue using or to rebuild applications.

Amid a rapidly changing business environment, customers are demanding the ability to properly take advantage of business applications that respond to these changes. In addition, due to a heightened awareness of the danger posed by natural disasters, there is a great need for implementing disaster prevention measures.

On the other hand, managing massive numbers of business applications can be challenging, and more customers than ever before have expressed needs such as the following:
The need for tools to help determine whether customers should continue to utilize or to rebuild bloated business application assets.
The need to improve the maintainability of application assets and prevent them from becoming too bloated and complex.
The need to perform management in a secure environment in which application maintenance processes are implemented.
The need for utilization when an environment for maintenance of application assets is desired; the need for easy deployment and arrangements.
The need to outsource the management of troublesome OSes and middleware; the need to cut down on the labor-intensive process of maintaining and managing environments with security patches, etc.
The need to backup application assets in a safe location.

To address these needs, Fujitsu is releasing Value Added Application Assets Management Service to enable customers to entrust Fujitsu with business application assets from their existing systems. The new service has been developed based on the know-how accumulated by Fujitsu through its experience in service delivery with APM Modernization Services for Cloud.