Tokyo, — Fujitsu today announced the launch of Data Utilization Platform Services, which use cloud services as a platform leveraging big data(1).

This is a cloud service for gathering, compiling, and integrating massive quantities of sensing data; combining it with knowledge; processing it using realtime processing or batch processing; and using it for such purposes as making future projections. It covers four specific services offerings: Data Management & Integration Services, Communications Control Services, Data Collection and Detection Services, and Data Analysis Services.

Fujitsu is promoting Convergence Services that leverage big data to help resolve business and global issues, generate new sources of value, and bring about a more prosperous society. Data Utilization Platform Services will act as the core of these services.

To complement the new services, Fujitsu is also launching Data Curation Services to provide total support for these new ways of leveraging data, including customer data analysis and its application to business operations. Current customer-specific support menu options are to be standardized by April 2012 and gradually rolled out as services.
Background

Fujitsu’s Convergence Services are the key to bring about a “human centric intelligent society” in which ICT resources are used to create a society that is more secure and more prosperous for everyone. By collecting, storing, and analyzing massive amounts of data and integrating it with knowledge in a feedback loop to society, Fujitsu aims to generate new sources of value and contribute to resolving the increasingly complex issues facing society, such as lowering healthcare costs, using energy more efficiently, and reducing traffic congestion.

Data Utilization Platform Services being introduced today are a core part of these Convergence Services, and are designed to help companies seeking to leverage big data to get new business initiatives off the ground quickly and add value to products and services.

About the Data Utilization Platform Services

This is a cloud service for gathering, compiling, and integrating massive quantities of sensing data, processing it using realtime processing or batch processing, and using it for such purposes as making future projections. For companies that are considering the use of big data, or quantities of data that are expected to expand to become big data, to develop new products and services or to solve problems, Data Utilization Platform Services offer a way to quickly, safely, and inexpensively get a planned system or business off the ground.

Four specific services are being offered: Data Management & Integration Services, Communications Control Services, Data Collection and Detection Services, and Data Analysis Services.

Fujitsu plans to gradually expand its Convergence Services to provide customers with the best possible options to suit their accumulated data and business growth.
Service Features
1. Comprehensive service that integrates all required technologies

All the technologies required to leverage big data including compound event processing(2) and distributed parallel processing, are integrated into the cloud platform, which is provided as a service.
2. Different types of large data sets can be integrated

Data collected from different types of sensors, business-transaction logs, text data, binary streams(3), and other types of data can be integrated for a variety of purposes to extract new value from them.
3. Offered as a cloud service with a la carte options

Customers can start small with the service and expand as their business grows. Customers use and pay for only those resources they need, enabling them to optimize costs.