September 17, 2007

FEATURE 1   The Real Story behind Japan Post Privatization The 5 ordeals that the IT division overcame   The project for the privatization of Japan Post has become a “political issue,” with the schedule to be decided depending on whether the system development will be finished in time or not. There are only two weeks left until the October 1 date for privatization and the break-up of the company. We chase down the decisions made by the CIOs so as to meet the 63 conditions and the efforts of the IT division to implement these.   43,000 person months, battling against time Ordeal 1: Only one opportunity to switch over accounting Ordeal 2: Impossible to manage the 22,000 post office servers Ordeal 3: The human resources system is not finished Ordeal 4: Training for 240,000 employees will not be done in time Ordeal 5: Network renewal overlaps with interim response The 5 CIOs who will be in charge of post-privatization   Decisive Factors in Product Selection   Data Coordination Tools Selecting for data integration infrastructure by operation, expandability, and SOA   There are more and more cases where data coordination tools are used as an infrastructure for the installation of a data management environment. When making the selection, points to consider include operation functions such as automatic retries when a fault occurs, an operating environment that can meet the requirements for reliability and expandability, and the ability to handle the SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) of the future.   FEATURE 2   The Vendor Management that Is Revolutionizing the Procurement of SIs Leave conventional wisdom behind and go for maximum investment results

 

REPORT

 

Hot News

Kirin gets master data integration of the entire group under way

 

News & Trends

 

The repercussions of stopping Windows XP shipments in January of next year

 

The key element of the government’s 2008 IT budget is support for SMEs

 

IT vendors are having trouble with the “progress standards” in the new accounting rules

 

Oracle offers low-cost Linux support in Japan too

 

Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance strengthens non-payment countermeasures with 50 billion yen investment

 

Hitachi Software and Salesforce to provide SaaS to Japan Post

 

SBI to build first ever stock exchange type proprietary trading system (PTS) in Japan

 

Actual Practices of Internal Control

JCOM making great efforts to maintain its independence

 

The Leading Edge of RFID

Taisei Corporation manages its experiment instruments efficiently using the UHF band

 

The Practical Side of Introducing a BCP

Niigata city carries out a large-scale IT disaster prevention exercise

 

News Flash by Industry

 

Finance:

J.Front Retailing to integrate its systems in September 2008

 

Communications:

NTT East automatically assigns employee response at disaster times using computers

 

2 Weeks from ITpro

Another Fujitsu executive moves to another company as Kyung-soo Ahn goes to Sony

 

NIWS Co.’s entire board of directors resigns and new CEO is assigned from Nomura Research Institute

 

People

 

Interview

Tomohisa Mase, Director and Managing Executive Officer, Japan Post

The more you bully your vendors, the harder success will be to achieve

 

Real Feelings Expressed by Top Executives

Naoaki Kurumada, President, .Commodity

 

Turning Points for System Division Heads

Mikihiro Yasuda, Chief Operating Officer, Kakaku.com

 

CASE STUDIES

 

Projects: The Trajectory to Completion

Tokyu Department Store, Odakyu Department Store, Keio Department Store and Izutsuya

Industry joins forces in disseminating IC tags for women’s shoes, with joint system use reducing costs to one third

 

Strategic Studies - IT Business Innovation

Huis Ten Bosch

Rebuilding picks up speed with system renewal

Customer convenience is reconsidered

 

A Computer That Does Not Work

Atrris, S-Kobo, Chatan Town in Okinawa

Business affected by Skype’s 2-day stoppage

 

MANAGEMENT/TECHNOLOGY

 

Commentary - Information Technology Map 2007 Edition

SOA and thin clients come up as technologies on the move

 

Lecture - NGN (Next Generation Networks) Part 1

Their actual image and the background to their appearance

 

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

Stroke: Acknowledge the other person positively with a stroke and make them feel better

 

Taizo’s “Phrase a Day” - Part 8

Look for risk and ready yourself for risk. Use your five senses and look out for warning signs

 

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

Multi-level defenses for protecting your corporate systems

 

CIO Initiatives - Part 12

The option of “backsourcing”