Business Concept
Amid the drastic changes under way in today's business environment, strategic implementation of IT is essential to corporate management. At Mizuho Information & Research Institute, we provide high-quality total solutions including consulting, systems integration and outsourcing, three services that make us a true and trusted IT partner able to help our customers transform their vision into reality.
Consulting
Foreseeing changes in the business environment, we open up new business possibilities for customers
The business environment in which we find ourselves is changing by the minute, with developments including the explosive evolution of IT, the arrival of a networked society, systemic reforms, increased regulation and the globalization of competition.
The consulting services of Mizuho Information & Research Institute provide our customers with optimum solutions based on a grasp of coming changes in the business environment that can only come from a constant focus on being one step ahead of the times. IT strategies intimately bound with operational strategies that emerge from solid management strategy-- this is how we help our customers with total optimization resulting from the organic linking of business processes with IT services.
Our management strategy consulting services include recommendations for operational strategies, creation of action plans, and implementation support.
IT strategy consulting includes conceptual planning for mid-term computerization of operations, well-planned, efficient utilization of IT, as well as the realization of IT use linked with operational strategy.
In areas such as formulation of outsourcing strategies and evaluation of investment in computerization, we conduct a thorough analysis of the issues facing the customer through advanced, multifaceted viewpoints and tools.
In the area of information security, we have always been on the leading edge of progress, having established, for instance, the IT Security Evaluation and Verification System, Japan's first private-sector evaluation/verification body of its kind. By taking advantage of this record of performance, we are able to provide powerful support with security strategy recommendations and implementation, as well as risk management.
In providing leading-edge consulting services, Mizuho Information & Research Institute not only solves the problems currently confronting our customers. We also provide solutions that help open up new business possibilities for our customers.
System Integration
Creating systems for total optimization-- professionals well versed in IT and business operations provide powerful support for the customer's business
Amid the rapid changes taking place in today's business environment, information systems mean more to companies than simply tools for more efficient operations. They must be aggressively put to work as powerful tools that can bring about exponential growth in business. And as investment in IT expands, improving its cost effectiveness becomes an ever more crucial management issue.
In working to resolve such issues, there is only so much that can be done by individually addressing each of the various systems improvement requirements that emerge. What is required is systems design based on the kind of total optimization that results from an ability to perform comprehensive surveys of overall information systems, and thereby anticipate future changes in the business environment.
At Mizuho Information & Research Institute, our expert consultants and project managers are backed by the accumulated know-how in major systems construction of Mizuho Group. We are able to marshal the skills of 4,000 nationally qualified information processing experts and 800 engineers with vendor accreditation as we attack the issues confronting our customers.
As an organization of professionals, Mizuho Information & Research Institute is thus able to provide solid technological support to customers based on the combination of our advanced technologies, operational know-how and project management strengths.
Outsourcing
Security and reliability-- meeting customers' needs with high-level security and abundant know-how
In order to keep information systems in constant operation, with no downtime 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it is necessary to have an operational setup that can guarantee a high level of reliability, as well as specialists with abundant know-how. One of the strengths of Mizuho Information & Research Institute is the reliability and plentiful know-how of available to a member of a comprehensive financial group. We are able to provide a wide range of support for payment systems, from operation of the infrastructure needed for diverse payment methods to streamlining of billing and collection processes. In addition, we also benefit from many years' experience with a wide range of systems outsourcing from payroll accounting operations to pension and insurance-related operations and other services for more than 1,000 companies.
And as networks expand, the areas in which information systems are used also expand rapidly, heightening security threats. Thoroughgoing security measures therefore represent a pressing issue for any corporation. And yet, no company can bear endless cost burdens in handling these increased threats.
As a gathering of IT professionals, Mizuho Information & Research Institute is able to provide outsourcing services for thoroughgoing security based on state-of-the-art security technologies at appropriate costs. We provide our customers with safe, efficient operation of the systems with which our customers entrust us, as well as recommendations for improvements that make it possible to anticipate upcoming changes in the business/security environment. Mizuho Information & Research Institute thus supports customers in creating an environment that makes it possible to concentrate precious management resources in the key fields that represent their core competence.
