Our ICT to support society's infrastructure

Our Basic Stance

Today, as ICT supports the social infrastructure on which business and daily living are based, Fujitsu has a social responsibility to ensure stable systems operation.

Also, in order to respond to the world’s growing needs for ICT in the areas of security and disaster prevention, Fujitsu is offering reliability and security.

Launch of Next-Generation "arrowhead" Securities Trading System

Advances in finance industry technology and expansion in online trading have led to a need for greater speed in order processing and the distribution of market information. The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) selected Fujitsu as a system partner and launched a next-generation trading system called "arrowhead."

"arrowhead" achieves world-level millisecond-level speeds in both order processing and market-information distribution and provides the high reliability needed by TSE. The new trading system not only offers greater convenience to a wide range of users but also enables new styles of trading and the creation of new business models that promise to add momentum to the Tokyo market.

World's Largest Class of Registry Information System Using Linux

Fujitsu has constructed a registry information system using Linux for Japan's Ministry of Justice. The system contains the nation's real estate, company and legal-entity registrations, comprising about 270 million real-estate registrations and about 3.5 million company and legal-entity registrations. The system supports the management of the above-mentioned information and daily data entry at about 450 registry offices. It is one of the world's largest Linux systems in the area of mission-critical tasks.

The registry information system is a gigantic, critically important part of Japan's electronic government system, of which the number of applications puts it on a par with the social security system. This project has concentrated some 50 facilities scattered throughout Japan into four locations in the effort to reduce costs and boost reliability. Fujitsu will continue to discharge its social responsibility by the construction and stable operation of government systems.

A New Biometric Security System for ATMs in Brazil

Bradesco S.A. is Latin America's largest private financial institution (with 3,628 branches and 32,015 ATMs). Fujitsu has now supplied it with a Palm Secure biometric palm-vein authentication security system for its ATMs.

Dishonest use of ATMs is a serious social problem in Brazil, and several biometric authentication systems were studied for adoption. The high evaluation of Palm Secure's outstanding authentication accuracy and the resistance of vein patterns to external tampering led to the adoption of Fujitsu's system. Palm Secure contributes to safety and security within Japan and around the world with a widening range of applications for buildings and room access, including PC login.

Contributing to the Return of the "Hayabusa" Asteroid Probe

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the "Hayabusa" asteroid probe in May 2003. Fujitsu helped to ensure the success of this mission by developing and operating a number of key systems, including the orbit determination system that determined its position and speed, and the real-time satellite status monitoring and fault diagnosis system that automatically detected equipment faults.

"Hayabusa" overcame a number of problems, secured the world's first asteroid samples—fine particles from the Itokawa asteroid—and returned to Earth in June 2010. Fujitsu continues to provide development and operational support for JAXA's ground systems and is committed to furthering the development of Japan's space technology.