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PRIMEQUEST Case Studies

The case studies below show how other customers are making best use of PRIMEQUEST, and its open system innovations, to meet their long term business goals.

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Kyushu University

Kyushu University

Kyushu University
The Research Institute for Information Technology of Kyushu University, one of seven in Japan providing calculation resources and a range of supercomputer system support, has solved growing demands on supercomputing resources with PRIMEQUEST's high scalability and better cost performance.


Lotte World

Lotte World

Lotte World
Being the world's largest indoor theme park means more than rides. Lotte World resort includes a department store, hotel, shops, sport center and even a cultural museum. The database system to support this 24 hour operation had to be highly available, robust and flexible. A mission critical PRIMEQUEST Windows cluster was chosen to take on this challenge.


Toray Engineering

Toray Engineering

Toray Engineering
This case study analyses Toray Engineering's experience with Fujitsu. By introducing a PRIMEQUEST 520 and 580 server based system, Toray Engineering successfully halved their SAP processing times.



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  • Anthony Marano Company (USA)

    Produce distributor, Anthony Marano Company, improved availability from 95% to 99.999% ensuring the performance and reliability of its real-time inventory management, setting them on target for 20% year on year growth.

  • The Banshu Shinkin Bank (JAPAN)

    The Banshu Shinkin Bank, underpinning the drafting of its management strategies for competitive advantage, chose a Fujitsu mission critical PRIMEQUEST 540 server. The exceptional reliability and expansion capability ensured stability that guaranteed highest levels of customer service, processing power, and availability.

  • Circle K Sunkus (Retail: Server consolidation, Linux)

    Circle K Sunkus (Japan) started operation of their new information system with the introduction of PRIMEQUEST Linux servers in September, 2006. This was used to consolidate their database and datamarts (subsets of their data warehouse) which were formerly dispersed across individual organizations and operations.

  • DAIICHI SANKYO CO., LTD (JAPAN)

    To ensure timely analysis and planning, with their combined SAP BW data warehouse solution, DAIICHI SANKYO use a Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 580 mission critical IA server. Providing essential high speed data processing and reliability, it handles the major growth in data from their newly consolidated business.

  • Fujitsu (Japan)

    Fujitsu consolidated three different indirect materials purchasing systems onto PRIMEQUEST and commenced new operations in June, 2006. The resulting system manages the acquisition of office supplies, ICT equipment and facilities management.

  • KDN (Germany)

    With member IT providers committed to using best-in-class IT, KDN based their solution on innovative PRIMEQUEST system architecture and high-performance 64-bit Intel® Itanium® Processors. The advantage to KDN was they could make optimal use of their operational experience and expertise and offer customers exceptional cost-efficient operation by deploying LinuxR across their entire 3-tier SAP IT landscape.

  • Konica Minolta (Manufacturing: Server consolidation, SAP, Windows)

    Konica Minolta (Japan) was operating mission-critical systems for their logistics and data warehouse systems using SAP applications in a 32 bit Windows environment. They took the decision to introduce PRIMEQUEST on the termination of support for the previous software and peripheral items. The new system started operation in July, 2006 achieving 2-5 times better performance compared to the legacy system.

  • Nagoya University Hospital (Japan)

    Nagoya University Hospital, a core medical facility in central Japan, sought to improve the quality of their medical care. A mission critical open server, PRIMEQUEST 580, was chosen to consolidate their electronic records systems, previously operated on 8 separate industry standard servers.

  • NIKKEN GAKUIN/KENCHIKU SHIRYO KENKYUSHA CO., LTD (JAPAN)

    NIKKEN GAKUIN/KENCHIKU SHIRYO KENKYUSHA CO., LTD set about reforming their total system in May 2007. To centralize and consolidate the management of their country-wide student and sales information database, they chose an Intel® Itanium® Processor based Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 520, with its outstanding reliability characteristics, as their database server. Company-wide system operational stability was further enhanced by standardising on Fujitsu storage and management tools. The result is a solid management foundation.

  • Sejoong Namo Tour (KOREA)

    Seeing a gap in the Market, leveraging IT better that your competitors, and moving off legacy UNIX equipment onto Linux and Windows, is not a challenge undertaken lightly. But like the good tour operator they are Sejoong Namo Tour put the package together. A well managed, virtualized, consolidated and scalable PRIMEQUEST environment, which meet their needs and reduced their costs.

  • Seoul National University (KOREA)

    Seoul National University (hereinafter SNU) has been reconstructing its portal infrastructure. Scheduled to be completed by the end of August this year, the reconstruction project aims to improve user convenience by upgrading the old portal, as well as achieving a stable operation environment from dual operation servers.

  • Shibaura Institute of Technology (Education: Server consolidation, Windows)

    Shibaura Institute of Technology (Japan) planned its migration to an Intel® Itanium® server to coincide with relocation from its Shibaura campus to a new campus in Toyosu. An earlier migration, from mainframe to open system (Solaris/Windows) had already been completed, but further cost reductions were still being sought.

  • Shiga bank (Japan)

    Shiga bank is planning to replace their existing mission critical systems before Jan. 2008. Their Information system, which is one component of their entire system, is configured using a mainframe and UNIX server.

  • Sungae Hospital (Medical: Server consolidation, Windows)

    Sungae Hospital (Korea) is a mid-tier hospital with approximately 1,100 beds. They are actively investing in IT for their comprehensive medical information system (OCS) and medical graphics database (PACS).

  • TKC (Japan)

    TKC set out a plan to reconfigure their mission critical systems. Key points were the consolidation of application development, execution using Microsoft .NET Framework and enabling full 24hour/365day support of their customer's business.

  • Tsu Municipal Government (Japan)

    Tsu Municipal Government introduced a PRIMEQUEST mission critical open server to secure stability for their essential consolidated database. They also have plans to enhance and modernize their IT procurement and speed-up administrative services.

  • Vivo (Brazil)

    Having more than 80% of your customer base as prepaid mobile phone users makes downtime a very bad option. So when Vivo (Brazil) went looking for platforms for their Next Generation Intelligent Network they adopted a PRIMEQUEST server solution to best increase and ensure their service availability and flexibility.

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