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offering targeted primarily at medium-sized enterprises;
@EcoVision, the industry's first comprehensive
environmental management solution; @Intercommunity-
Vision, a solution designed to help local governments
optimize their use of IT; and @PressVision, a solution for
the newspaper industry.
We have high expectations for growth and increased
profitability in the network
services area. In order to
help our customers
quickly develop new
business opportunities
while also letting them
focus on their core
businesses, as well as to respond to their needs to adapt
their systems to the Internet, we enhanced and have been
promoting our Tatebayashi and Akashi outsourcing
centers as Internet Data Centers (IDCs).
Another notable expansion of our network services
business was the creation in November 1999 of @nifty,
Japan's largest Internet service provider. @nifty, which
combined our former Nifty-Serve and InfoWeb services,
aims to be a cyber city of 10 million by 2003, and it
typifies our commitment to concentration of investment,
management efficiency and profit of scale. In the true
sense of a “community,”@nifty has enhanced the civic
functions it offers to individual users, for example, in
banking, shopping, local government and education.
And we are working closely with
various businesses and organiza-
tions to offer services that make
the lives of @nifty's “citizens”
more enjoyable and rewarding.
Moreover, we are developing
venues for the creation of new
business opportunities for our
corporate customers, including B
to C links bringing customer companies together with
@nifty subscribers, B to B links among companies, and
“in B” systems, which bring a department or unit of an
enterprise together with its employees as a whole.
䢇Growing our solutions and network services
businesses
In the services and software area, we have worked hard
to place ourselves in our customers' shoes and strengthen
Internet-based solutions that help solve their
management problems, and we have positioned this
business as a major source of growth and profit for the
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entire Fujitsu Group. Specifically, in July 1999 we
introduced our Internet
Business Solutions concept,
building upon our existing
@SolutionVision menu of
packaged solutions. These
original offerings were
improved by adding two new
areas of focus: developing
systems that enable customers
to leverage the Internet for improving their businesses and
helping them to create new Internet businesses.
We added or significantly enhanced a number of new
@SolutionVision products in fiscal 1999, including:
@SuccessVision, an application service provider (ASP)
procurement
trading
finance
health care
security
community
media
education
office services
entertainment
Internet