Date: 20/09/2010

Fujitsu and CA form strategic alliance

Fujitsu and CA has formed a strategic alliance that will enhance each company's service assurance product portfolio and cloud computing strategy.

The companies have signed and OEM agreement under which Fujitsu will sell CA Application Performance Management (CA APM). CA Technologies will offer Fujitsu's Interstage Business Process Manager Analytics product worldwide, as CA Business Process Performance Analytics (CA BPPA), as an add-on option to CA APM.

The release states that using the solutions from Fujitsu and CA Technologies, organizations can launch new cloud initiatives with confidence by gaining comprehensive transaction and business process performance visibility across the application infrastructure. This will help assure that service delivery is meeting end user expectations and business objectives.

"CA Technologies and Fujitsu have a long history of working together to drive new product and services business opportunities," said Chris Cook, general manager of CA Technologies Service Assurance business. "This partnership demonstrates the companies' ongoing commitment to deliver market-driven solutions that solve critical IT and business management challenges, including quality service delivery and end-user experience management."

"The combination of Fujitsu and CA Technologies products will make both companies' IT and business solution offerings more comprehensive and competitive," said Masato Nitta, president of Fujitsu's Middleware Business Unit. "CA APM proactively pinpoints and resolves performance problems with key IT services in real time to assure the consistently high service delivery levels customers demand. Fujitsu Interstage Business Process Manager Analytics complements CA APM by correlating and translating application performance problems into business and business process contexts."