| The following is a summary of our targeted areas categorized by industry and service segments. In each area, the main theme is how to best apply IT tool in each business and lifestyle setting. |
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Digital Data Communication / BPM |
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Health Care, including medical treatment |
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It is a next-generation support infrastructure, instruments and devices, and personnel development for hospitals, other medical facilities, and in-home care. For example, through the use of "tele-health home servers" placed in patient homes, the need for expensive direct home visits by clinical physicians (and the resulting travel time) can be reduced or eliminated. Further, because patients, by regularly communicating with the medical treatment staff, come to better understand their own physical condition, this contributes to maintaining and improving the effectiveness of patient treatment. Issues are: what about the required equipment? ...what about the local welfare system? ...what about training of care-provider personnel? |
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Electronic government |
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This is a public institutional edition of the E-business operations. In the United States, the current administration conducts various business in E (electronic) based formats. Also many local governments manage their operation with various practical tools. This does not mean a mere simplified automation, but it means to a total re-engineering of the overall business practice. SBF will propose such practical models. |
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Financial and Securities (Next-generation financial consulting solutions) |
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In the USA, a major consideration for financial and securities companies today is the fact that the Baby Boomers are aging more and more and becoming an affluent mass. As a result, when it comes to the exchange of financial management information, it is becoming more essential for financial sectors to have an infrastructure to support financial advisors. This is a special form of knowledge and data communication. |
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Utility infra, Plant management |
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Cyber-terror and cyber-crime are becoming increasingly more important items on the corporate and plant security check list. As companies expand their intra-networks to remote facilities, branches, warehouses, etc. so grows their vulnerability to cyber-intrusion. The growing popularity of wireless and mobile access to corporate IT resources including social utility infrastructure creates additional exposure. In the context of industrial automation and control proliferation of data networks to the factory floors and plants brings along security exposure that needs to be addressed adequately... We can provide support together with solution partners here. |
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R&D Process / SCM |
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Electronics (the Product Development Process, SCM, etc.) |
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A major area of focus in the broad field of "electronics" (both for business and consumer) is product development, especially identification of core technology and study of applications. In these stages we consider new device models, software, and support systems infrastructure to enable successful next-generation applications to be realized. We also analyze and make recommendations as to advanced supply chain infrastructure and the process of introducing new products into the market. |
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Pharmaceuticals, Chemical (R & D process, SCM, etc.) |
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For example, Across the whole process in pharmaceutical companies, from research on the creation of new drugs (including basic biotech issues), through clinical evaluation, and on to application for approval, we provide essential information on trends in new technologies and in the activities of the large American and European manufacturers, including the involvement of venture businesses. In particular, in the new drug development process, one phenomenon gaining attention today is the growing application of IT solutions to manage the process of gathering and handling clinical data from medical facilities and coordinating that with the whole R & D process. |
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Environment |
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Today there is much activity in the area of waste product recycling and conversion to renewable resources. For example, the application of tag sensor technology to environmental issues is gaining considerable attention and has reached the stage where specific implementation methods are being tested. Even in the US, by combining the advanced experience of waste collection businesses with new types of equipment for environmental protection, various business models and specific solutions have been presented. Here, in terms of both the required equipment and the provision of services, there will be opportunities for venture companies to enter this market in the US. |
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