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Fujitsu has entered into a 12-year agreement, valued at 87.3 million Canadian dollars, with the B.C. Ministry of Education to
implement MyEducation BC, a new student information service for schools in British Columbia, Canada, based on an innovative
technology platform from the Follett Corporation. The agreement with the B.C. Ministry of Education includes Fujitsu setting up,
customizing and managing Follett’s Aspen Student Information Service software application and the delivery environment, includ-
ing hosting the common enterprise-level student information service across British Columbia. Furthermore, Fujitsu will train teams
at all participating school districts on how to implement and maintain the service.
The secure, Web-based service is accessible through all browsers including mobile devices, and offers parents and students the
ability to monitor progress, communicate with teachers and school staff and, if needed, submit assignments online. Teachers can
collaborate across and between school districts, share learning tools and materials, and communicate with parents and students
on an ongoing basis. The implementation of MyEducation BC began in the spring of 2014.
This new service “improves the ability of B.C. parents and teachers to
follow and support students’ educational progress – from kindergarten
through to graduation,” said the Minister of Education, Peter Fass-
bender. The service will be used by school districts, schools, teachers,
parents and students to manage course and teacher scheduling, create
report cards, support personalized learning while providing a single
student record that will follow the learner from kindergarten to
12th grade.
British Columbia Ministry of Education
British Columbia (B.C.) Ministry of Education’s New Student Information Service to Play a Pivotal Role
in the Transformation of Learning Empowered by Technology
CUSTOMER SOLUTION PROFILE
from companies such as SAP, Oracle, Salesforce.com, and Micro-
soft. At the same time, we will promote cost reductions through
greater standardization and efficiency via business integration
and process improvement in the US and Canada.
In the platform products business, we will take steps to
expand sales across the range of our products by assigning full-
time server and storage staff to bolster sales capacity, and by
continuing to utilize channel sales and promote cross-selling. In
retail and distribution solutions, in order to flexibly and quickly
meet customer demands, last year we developed an integrated
software manufacturing-sales structure for self check-out systems,
and released at the end of last year a software solution for point
of sales (POS) products. We are currently planning for the intro-
duction of next-generation POS, and strengthening our lineup.
In South America, Brazil has traditionally been the main
market for our product sales and support businesses. Going
forward, together with cultivating customers and expanding our
customer base through the penetration of Fujitsu products in
other mission critical fields, we will focus on growing our new
portfolio of offerings, led by cloud services. Furthermore, we intend
to open new branches in other countries in Central and South
America in a bid to expand our overall footprint in the region.
In North America’s optical transmission systems market, the
latest round of investment by communications carriers in the
US-wide rollout of LTE network services has ended, but active
investment is emerging in 100 Gbps optical transmission and
the integration of optical transmission and packet processing as
networks prepare for the shift to “All IP.” Here, we will grow busi-
ness by expanding sales of Fujitsu’s 100 Gbps packet-integrated
optical systems, made possible by our technological strengths in
advanced fields.
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