Fujitsu Poised to (Inter)Stage Glovia's Comeback
Part Two: Fujitsu's Support of Glovia
P.J. Jakovljevic - January 21, 2004

Event Summary

In October 2003, a leading provider of extended ERP solutions for engineer-to-order (ETO) and high volume manufacturers, Glovia International, announced it formed a strategic alliance with Fujitsu Software Corporation to provide manufacturers, customers, and suppliers with improved collaboration and integration capabilities. Glovia International is headquartered in El Segundo, California (US), and is a subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702), a Tokyo, Japan-based leading provider of international IT and communications solutions with consolidated revenues of $38 billion (USD) in fiscal 2003. The strategic alliance should allow Glovia to improve its customers’ ability to collaborate with trading partners and reduce supply chain costs while enabling Fujitsu Software Corporation to further penetrate the manufacturing industry. Fujitsu Software Corporation, based in San Jose, California, is also a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu, and delivers one of the world’s broadest lines of application infrastructure software products, including the Interstage Suite and NetCOBOL...