Fujitsu's Approach to SaaS in Japan-Fujitsu SaaS Platform

Software as a service (SaaS) and related services have appeared in recent years as an evolution of the application service provider scheme. SaaS enables corporate users to use services that are already being provided instead of constructing and owning business systems on their own. This has an immediate positive effect on business value such as reduced IT investment and new market development. The concept of Cloud computing, which makes use of new virtualization technologies, has also just emerged and an expansion toward Cloud services that encompass conventional data-center services and SaaS-related services is under way. This paper describes Fujitsu's approach to SaaS business in Japan as a first step toward global expansion, focusing on a SaaS platform that will provide core service functions to support this transition from existing SaaS to future Cloud services.