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Transform Your Data: Fuel Innovation & Growth

Transform Your Data: Fuel Innovation & Growth

Fujitsu / January 10, 2025

Digital Shifts Data and Security AI Data Driven Digital Transformation

Is your current data infrastructure holding your business back from achieving its full potential? In today's fast-paced business environment, effective data leverage isn't a luxury—it's essential for driving growth and innovation. A robust, secure, and scalable data intelligence platform is paramount for achieving meaningful and sustainable business outcomes through data-driven decision-making.

Unlock Your Data's Potential: The Power of Scalable and Secure Data Intelligence

Data intelligence is about unlocking incredible opportunities. Imagine businesses confidently navigating complexities, proactively identifying new revenue streams, and optimizing operations for peak performance. Data-driven insights improve forecasting accuracy, resource allocation, and process efficiency, meaning a deeper understanding of customers and business processes, leading to increased satisfaction and loyalty. Investing in data intelligence is a must to keep pace; it's about building a future where growth and success are driven by informed decisions to improve operations and optimization to forge your organization ahead.

A great example of this is WineWorks, a major wine bottling company in New Zealand. WineWorks had a seven-year smart factory plan for the automation of their bottling facilities. With the help of Fujitsu Oceania’s Data & AI unit, WineWorks managed to accelerate the setup of the required data ingestion and analytics elements in their plan. This brought their factory automation goal back from seven years to just a couple of months.

A data intelligence platform's success hinges on its ability to adapt to the ever-changing landscape of data. Fluctuating data volumes, new sources, and evolving analytical needs require proactive oversight to prevent performance issues like slow query times and inaccurate insights. A strong system provides real-time visibility, allowing for prompt adjustments and optimization, ensuring efficient, responsive performance and high-quality results.

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Scalability ensures adaptability to evolving needs, accommodating growth without disruptive system overhauls. This flexibility allows businesses to remain agile, responding effectively to changing market demands and maximizing return on investment. Beyond robustness a secure platform is paramount, protecting sensitive data from unauthorized access, breaches, and cyber threats, safeguarding valuable intellectual property and maintaining customer trust.

Toll Group were facing some of these challenges after years of growing organically and as a result operating on a number of separate systems. The inconsistency and challenges in the reporting lead to Toll Group turning to Fujitsu to build a reliable modern data platform, located securely in the Microsoft Cloud, that would consolidate data and provide trusted reporting solutions for the business.

Data Intelligence: Maximize Value & Minimize Risk with the Right Partner

Choosing a trusted partner to unlock data intelligence capabilities offers significant advantages. Partnering with an experienced provider like Fujitsu offers access to specialized expertise and experience, best-in-breed data technologies, such as Microsoft’s leading modern data platform on Microsoft Azure, and proven methodologies. This allows businesses to focus on core competencies while leveraging the partner’s deep understanding of data analytics to extract maximum value from their data.

As an example, Fujitsu has worked as a trusted strategic partner for a global mining giant to drive their data led digital transformation. In this capacity Fujitsu has helped implement a range of data solutions across the business focusing on the customers key focus pillars. The solutions range from a Sustainability Data Centre (SDC), that facilitates the timely collection, review, analysis, and reporting of sustainability data to safety improving solutions that monitor driver fatigue or provide key safety data KPI for self-service reporting.

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As you can see from the previous example, data is the most valuable assets within a business. Microsoft recognize Fujitsu as a Microsoft Solution Partner for Data & AI specializing in Analytics on Microsoft Azure due to numerous successful data analytics outcomes we’ve delivered to customers over the years.

Through our Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization, we've proven our proficiency in key areas like data warehousing, big data analytics, real-time analytics, and even AI and machine learning with Microsoft Azure. Leveraging powerful Azure services like Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse Analytics, Fabric, Azure Data Lake, and Azure Data Factory, our dedicated analytics teams can deliver data analytics projects across the world to build truly impactful solutions for our customers, providing consistent expertise and support worldwide.

Talking of impactful solutions, Meridian Energy, a wind and hydroelectric power focused energy provider, worked with Fujitsu to implement advanced data analytics. With the help of the analytics solution, Meridian was able to take a big step from reactive to predictive maintenance, drastically reducing maintenance costs and the risk of outages.

Data-Driven Transformation: End-to-End Journey with Fujitsu

If you are looking for something more ready-made, with a plethora of AI applications that have proven to solve business and society challenges then perhaps the Uvance Data Intelligence Basic PaaS solution is for you. It has multiple pre-built industry specific SaaS analytics solutions that can just be hooked up to your data, enabling faster business decision making from reporting on important KPI metrics like ESG. Our Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering has enhanced scalability, rock solid reliability, and top-notch security for sensitive data. It streamlines the often-complex processes of data cleansing, transformation, and integration, ensuring data is optimized for AI-driven insights. Thanks to Azure’s infrastructure, it provides data ingestion and analytics which empowers businesses globally to unlock the true potential of their data. Plus, customers benefit from Azure's cost-effective pay-as-you-go model, and the seamless integration with other Azure services, that opens a world of analytical possibilities. Our commitment to data governance, ensures effective data management for improved compliance and business success.

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Kozuchi: Powering AI Initiatives with Optimized Data

Fujitsu Kozuchi is a set of secure, reliable, cloud-based AI services that enhance the productivity and creativity of your business operations. Built on the Microsoft Azure platform, Kozuchi is a powerful suite of Artificial Intelligence solutions. This robust data preparation, facilitated by Data Intelligence PaaS, lays the foundation for successful AI implementation, and unlocks the full potential of data assets, positioning AI as a trusted assistant to enhance productivity and creativity across various business operations. Kozuchi uses Large Language Models and the OpenAI technology on Microsoft Azure for generative AI tasks, combining them with Vision, Speech and Motion Recognition technology.

Conclusion: Ultimately, a robust data intelligence platform empowers your business to make faster, more informed decisions, optimize resource allocation, and drive significant growth, along with gaining the agility to adapt to changing business needs and market demands. By embracing data-driven strategies, you can navigate complexity with confidence, unlock new revenue streams, and build a future where success is fueled by insightful analysis and proactive adaptation. Don't let your data remain untapped – unlock its potential today.

To find out more and start the journey towards Scalable and Secure Data Intelligence visit https://www.fujitsu.com/global/themes/data-driven/data-intelligence-paas/

Yves de Beauregard

Yves de Beauregard is leading the Digital Shift KFA, in which all Data&AI solutions of Fujitsu are designed, developped, and delivered. This KFA supports Fujitsu and its customers in embracing the value generated by AI, supporting therefore their transformation journey to a more sustainable, highly efficent data-driven future.