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Nikkei Computer

September 3, 2007

FEATURE 1

The 10 J-SOX Blind Spots

These are the things that tripped up corporations applying the US SOX Law

Despite indications in the audit guidelines of the Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants, there are still many corporations that to this day have no idea what their systems divisions should be doing to apply the Japanese version of the SOX Law. However, some useful examples have emerged. Japanese corporations that are listed on the stock exchanges in the United States had to apply the US version of the SOX law for the first time this year. How did the various companies surmount this? These experiences have shown up 10 blind spots.

The facts - No staff increases or new budget

Preparation - Delays due to oversight in the early stages

IT Control- 3 major topics that are a bigger deal than expected

Audit - There is no need to get 100 out of 100

Jargon you should know for J-SOX application

FEATURE 2

Extreme visualization as learned from rapidly growing corporations

There are small and medium enterprises that have boosted their performances to such an extent through thorough visualization of their business as to make one wonder at how far they go. They in fact build an approach through which anyone can assess their company’s challenges and understand how work should be done to make maximum use of their strengths. Extreme visualization itself becomes the corporation’s competitiveness. We thoroughly analyzed 10 rapidly growing corporations, looking for the magic “visualization” formula.

SPECIAL REPORT

The CSA (Chief Software Architect) to whom Gates has entrusted Microsoft’s future

A man named Ray Ozzie

REPORT

Hot News

Fujitsu to introduce 50 low-priced products by the end of the year

News & Trends

Major IT vendors request BCPs of their clients

Skype suffers major breakdown over a 2-day period

Fujitsu moves to develop SaaS into major business, aiming for 50 billion yen in 3 years

Oracle to provide featured 11g functions as options

NEC President Yano announces management shake-up, saying “we will push through our plan, no matter what”

Schedule for analysis of 50 million pensions clarified

METI to revise reliability guidelines by April 2008

Fujitsu declares that it won’t give up corporate acquisitions in France

The Leading Edge of RFID

Saitamaken Shinkin Bank improves internal mail distribution by using multi-layered tags

News Flash by Industry

Manufacturing:

Fujicco picks up “visualization” pace by renewing its production management system

Finance:

3 companies, including .Commodity to integrate their online operations by October

2 Weeks from ITpro

Citrix of the US moves to buy American virtualization software vendor XenSource

IBM and Sun strengthen cooperation, with Solaris being supplied with the Blade and x86 servers

People

Interview

Kunio Noji, President & CEO, Komatsu

“Strong convictions breathe life into systems”

Real Feelings Expressed by Top Executives

Motohiro Higashisono, President, Huis Ten Bosch

Turning Points for System Division Heads

Fumiaki Miyamoto, operating officer, manager of system planning division, Tokyo Electric Power

CASE STUDIES

Projects: The Trajectory to Completion

Toda Corporation

Renewing accounting system for the first time in 25 years

All the effort put into formulating requirements proves effective

Strategic Studies - Strengthening Networks

Tokyo Midtown Management

Installing optical fiber across entire facility, with management function installed on IP

A Computer That Does Not Work

Aplix deadlocked in development of software infrastructure for mobile phones

MANAGEMENT/TECHNOLOGY

Lecture - SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Final Part

Organization and structure for SOA

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

Rapport - Creating relationships in which real feelings can be exchanged by building up rapport

Taizo’s “Phrase a Day” - Part 7

Let's conduct process design under the guidance of a leader and define progress levels quantitatively

A Practical Course on the Latest in Network Security - Part 11

How to put together an organizational CSIRT (Computer Security Incident Response Team) as an organizational security measure (second half)

CIO Initiatives - Part 11

Joint company having trouble taking off