OREANDA-NEWS. Fujitsu announced that it is expanding and enhancing its lineup of services for its FUJITSU Intelligent Society Solution Akisai Food and Agriculture Cloud, with sales of the new services to be rolled out from January 2014.

The following four types of services will be added:
1. A service that uses big data to optimize the cultivation schedules according to each type of product, region, and brand. This service will contribute to stable production volumes and higher product quality, a capability that would normally depend on the expert judgment of farmers.
2. Agriculture Production Management SaaS Light, an entry-level service for small-scale farms based on daily production records input into smartphones and analyzed to improve farm management.
3. Agricultural Production, Processing, and Sales SaaS, which manages everything from procurement and processing to sales.
4. Agriculture Accounting SaaS powered by GLOVIA smart Kirara. Based on Fujitsu's widely used accounting system, the service features account headings used in agriculture, and enables sophisticated business management.

In addition to further promoting, through the use of ICT, more efficient and stable agricultural production, these additions and enhancements enable the delivery of a full lineup of services to support everything from operational management, production and processing to sales. While listening to the front-line needs of agricultural producers, Fujitsu will continue to expand and enhance its services, thereby utilizing ICT to ensure plentiful food supplies in the future.

Since announcing its Akisai cloud in July 2012, Fujitsu has put together a collection of services for open-air farming, greenhouse cultivation, and animal husbandry, leveraging data to drive improvements in agricultural management. While expanding the scope of ICT usage to small-scale farms, the new additions and enhancements announced today aim to leverage data to optimize cultivation schedules according to each agricultural product, region, and brand for use by agricultural producers, local governments, distributors, processors, and wholesalers. By enhancing its lineup of Akisai cloud services and packaging them with services for accounting systems, Fujitsu will continue its contributions to raising profitability and efficiency of enterprise-style agricultural management.