OREANDA-NEWS. Fujitsu New Zealand Limited has announced it has had another extremely successful year as it cements itself as a key player in the NZ market, particularly in the area of Managed Services. The company announced greater than 30 per cent growth compared to the previous year, continuing a trend of year-on-year profit growth over the last five years.

The continued growth in profitability is attributed to the securing of significant new private and public sector customers during the past year, as well as an expanding footprint in existing customers. Importantly, these wins have been across Fujitsu New Zealand’s product and service offerings, such as managed services, project services, regional field services, procurement, application development and testing services.

The company has also experienced a 33 per cent increase in staff numbers since April 2012 as a result of new customer engagements, an increase in the export of services and new lines of business.

Fujitsu’s inclusion on the Government Syndicated Agreement for IT Managed Services in 2012 has made a significant contribution to the company’s performance. Highlights of this panel contract include two 4 plus 3 year contracts to deliver IT Managed Services to the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and Ministry of Justice. To date Fujitsu New Zealand believes it is the only vendor to have secured customers on this contract.

Export of services has continued to grow in the areas of Service Desk, Change, Release and Configuration Management to offshore customers. In the Service Desk space the company has continued to experience growth in the number of offshore customers supported, with these customers choosing New Zealand as their near shore provider. Continued growth is forecast for 2014, supporting the New Zealand Government’s focus on export services to underpin overall economic growth.

Demand for services has been strong, with the company seeing an increase in its testing services business over the last 12 months across commercial and public sector customers.

Another driver for services business growth is the demand for migration from XP to Windows 7, which is gaining momentum across New Zealand. Over the last 12 months the company has completed five major migrations and has another six major migrations in progress.