News
Issue #2002 - 20 (May 2002)
(Updated May 29, 2002)

APPLICATIONS & DEVELOPMENT

Fuji Electric Selects Aligo as Mobile Middleware Standard For B2B, B2E Clients in Japan

Aligo's M-1 Server Will Mobilize Fuji Employees, Corporate Customers 

May 2002 -- Fuji Electric Co. Ltd. and Aligo Inc., the leading provider of Java(TM)-based mobile application server software, today announced that Fuji Electric has selected Aligo M-1 Mobile Application Server as its corporate-wide standard for mobile applications. 

Fuji Electric will use M-1 Mobile Applications Server as its development and deployment platform to mobile-enable its current business-to-business and business-to-employee software applications such as its enterprise workflow product ExchangeUSE. By integrating M-1 Server into its suite of business solutions, Fuji will enable both its employees and its corporate customers to access data and applications -- including e-mail, time and attendance, document sharing, and calendaring -- from any mobile device.

As a distributor of Aligo M-1 Mobile Application Server, and through its group companies such as Fuji Denki Sousetsu and Fuji Denki Systems, Fuji will offer a range of consumer and corporate customers ways to mobilize data and applications.

"It is clear that the mobile communications market in Japan is rapidly moving into the business-to-business space as well as maintaining a strong business-to-consumer market," said Sawa. "As an innovator in Japan, Fuji Electric intends to be a leader in both areas. We selected Aligo's software because it provides a highly scalable and reliable solution that will allow us to provide our customers with advanced mobile technology very quickly."

Aligo M-1 Mobile Application Server provides a platform that combines mobile application development and deployment in a write once, deploy anywhere package. The software makes it possible for Japanese developers to design and deploy wireless enterprise applications in a few weeks. The M-1 Server runs on any J2EE-compatible software platform, such as BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, or Sun ONE servers.

For more information: http://www.fujielectric.co.jp/ www.aligo.com

Source: PRNewswire

MobileInfo.com’s Comments & Advisory:  Fuji's decision to select Aligo's M-1 application server will help Aligo in branding its application server as an enhancement to core application server functionality of IBM's WebSphere, BEA's WebLogic and Sun One. This is a good product design strategy because large enterprises are standardizing on mainstream application servers that do not necessarily provide generic mobile functionality. Since you need to develop mobile applications on top of these application servers, it is perfectly good strategy to pick a product that does this in less effort and takes the pain away of understanding all the intricacies of mobile application development. 

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