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Oracle and Fujitsu have announced a new strategic alliance to deliver enterprise-grade cloud services to customers in Japan and their subsidiaries.

The partnership aims to bring Oracle’s cloud application and platform services to Fujitsu’s cloud service, K5; installing Oracle’s cloud services into its data centres in Japan and connecting them to K5.

The first Oracle cloud app being offered to Fujitsu customers as part of the new deal is Oracle HCM Cloud, regarding, as the name suggests, HR and human capital management. Fujitsu for its part will implement Oracle HCM Cloud to gain ‘unprecedented insight’ into the company’s global workforce.

“We at Fujitsu support the digital transformation of our customers, and aim to contribute to optimised customer systems and business growth with the rollout of our Digital Business Platform MetaArc,” said head of digital services business and CTO Shingo Kagawa. “Oracle is a leader in Japan’s database market segment and possesses strong capabilities in the [systems of record] domain. Now, as we look to strengthen MetaArc and K5, taking part in this strategic alliance with Oracle will work to meet the cloud needs of our customers.”

Fujitsu’s infrastructure offering in EMEA was recently tracked by analyst house IDC, alongside nine other vendors, finding that EMEA cloud IT infrastructure revenue had grown by 17% to £1.3 billion (£1bn) in the first quarter of this year. In September last year, the Japanese giant announced Fujitsu Cloud Services Management, a service which enables unified management of cloud environments across different departments within an organisation.

“We strongly believe this cloud alliance will support Japanese companies to drive digital transformation,” said Hiroshige Sugihara, president and CEO of Oracle’s Japanese arm. “This will be a gateway for customers to achieve standardisation, modernisation, and globalisation.”