Fujitsu looks to blast cloud silos with RunMyProcess buy
April 8, 2013
Grazed from The Register. Author: Phil Muncaster.
Japanese ICT giant Fujitsu has announced plans to build out its cloud business with the acquisition of little-known French PaaS vendor RunMyProcess (RMP) and the development of a new Global Software Center in Silicon Valley. RunMyProcess, a member of the Cloud Alliance for Google Apps, essentially allows customers to build and deploy workflow apps in the cloud using simple drag and drop functionality.
A major selling point of the firm, which Fujitsu describes as providing “integration Platform as a Service” (iPaaS), is in allowing customers to integrate their processes with a range of both SaaS and on-premise apps, thanks to over 1,000 so-called “connectors”…
Although little over five years old, RunMyProcess boasts over 300 active projects in 45 countries as well as partnerships with 53 “cloud integrators”, according to Fujitsu. The acquisition is part of the Japanese tech giant’s plans to build out its cloud services business on a global scale, with the yet-to-be established Global Software Center in Silicon Valley at its heart…
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