June 11, 2007

FEATURE 1   How to Extricate Yourself from a Network That Does Not Work   It has become possible to use WAN services that are high-speed and don’t require network design, and LAN switching speeds of 100MB per second to terminals have become the norm. So, the need to toil over how to make best use of a low-speed network should be gone, but system failures caused by networks are still with us.  Why is that the case? What can you do to get rid of them?   WAN Services - Visualization of access lines where multiple failures originate   In-Company Trouble - Deal with new issues using new technologies   Year 2007 troubles - Remedy infrastructure neglect and strengthen organizational response   The Ramifications of Leading Companies’ IT Strategy   Askul vs. Tanomail   Strategies for Increasing Sales Power by the Two Largest Office Product Mail Order Companies   Distributors versus direct sale — The two strongest mail order retailers have IT strategies that show graphic differences in business model. Askul provides the necessary system free of charge to distributors. Otsuka Corporation, which is chasing it with its “Tanomail” brand name, is polishing up the customer analysis system used by its direct sales unit.   SPECIAL REPORT   The Ideal and the Reality of Training High-Level IT Personnel   Cooperation between industry, government and academia in the areas of university reforms and the establishment of IT personnel units

 

REPORT

 

Hot News

 

Mitsubishi Corporation invests 24.8 billion yen on rebuilding its IT backbone

 

News & Trends

 

ANA, JR, NTT…a succession of large-scale troubles in social infrastructure

 

NTT Data moves to clinching the Postal Savings Bank system

 

TSE takes measures for communications procedures to prevent overload crashes

 

IBM announces use of Web 2.0 for SOA diffusion at IMPACT 2007

 

Google speeds up move to offline web access from desktop

 

Expanding acceptance of JustSystems “xfy” as BI infrastructure

 

Actual Practices of Internal Control

 

Arysta Life Science speeds up segregation of duties in its IT division

 

The Practical Side of Introducing a BCP

 

Bank of Japan urges a strengthening of BCP at financial organizations

 

News Flash by Industry

 

Finance:

Daito Bank freezes use of NEC’s open accounting system

 

Manufacturing:

Casio Computer renews its order reception system for the first time in 25 years

 

2 Weeks from ITpro

 

Fujitsu aggregates to Fsas all the way from hardware introduction to maintenance and operations

 

IMB announces next-generation POWER chips and servers with decimal floating point hardware processing

 

FEATURE 2

 

Walmart’s IC tags have started to create profits

 

Manufacturers that have introduced the tags are also moving towards harvesting their advantages

 

PEOPLE

 

Interviews

 

Masaki Ogata, executive director, general manager of IT business development, and deputy general manager of railway operations, East Japan Railway Company

The Suica Card is already a constant within social infrastructure

 

Real Feelings Expressed by Top Executives

 

Bank of Kyoto

Yuji Shimiya, Managing Director

 

Turning Points for Systems Division Heads

 

Nippon Milk Community

Eiichi Motohashi, executive director and general manager of the system planning division

 

CASE STUDIES

 

Projects: The Trajectory to Completion

 

Nippon Export and Investment Insurance

Large-scale restructuring involving 4 million lines of Java

Rough sailing due to insufficient grasp of on-site circumstances

 

A Computer That Does Not Work

 

Sky Perfect Communications

Heavy going for metadata program information service

 

MANAGEMENT/TECHNOLOGY

 

Commentary

 

Domestic IT investment in 2007 will grow 2.1%, to 12.2574 trillion yen

 

Basic Knowledge for the IT Manager - The Art of Communication from A to Z

 

Leadership - Pull the team into one by sharing clearly-set goals

 

Taizo’s “Phrase a Day” - Part 1 (New!)

 

Vagueness in requests makes system construction difficult

 

A Practical Course on the Latest in Network Security - Part 5

 

The complexity of threats that make ill use of email

 

Salient Points in IT Investments and Outsourcing – Part 20

 

Judge individual items on realistic sensation and constructiveness

 

CIO Initiatives - Part 5

 

Moving below the surface