Small Japan also speeds up the layout of big data

In Japan, large data solutions and services are emerging markets, research shows that 2011 large data-related industries market size of 190 billion yen, 2012, about 200 billion yen, 2013, Japan's large data market size of 400 million U.S. dollars to 2015 will reach 420 billion yen, 2017 amounted to 630 billion yen, 2020 was about 1 trillion 50 billion yen.

The growth of the big data market mainly comes from the data transfer between vertical industry, the market potential is huge. If you can make full use of "big data" services that record huge data such as personal shopping data, 4 sectors such as retailing and manufacturing are expected to bring economic benefits of 7.77 trillion yen a year by boosting sales and cutting costs. With the improvement of the business expression of the large data, not only will it create many new business opportunities for the enterprise development, but also can improve the production and operation efficiency of the enterprise through the use of large data.

Government supports large data development and incorporates national development strategies

First, large data is integrated into national development strategies. Japan's development strategy includes ambitious building robust infrastructure and equipment planning, including large data market services and global IT leaders. To that end, Japan's development goal is to become the world's leading it countries, the government estimates will invest 132 yen for large data research and development, including the development of new 400Gbps, high-speed network infrastructure and test bed, efficient data center operation system, data analysis and application project, in order to increase Japan's industrial competitiveness, Develop new industries and achieve innovation.

Second, the government takes the lead in using big data. The Japanese Government recognizes that it is necessary to build an environment that promotes the use of large data, and therefore has introduced e-government and computerized government management. In addition, the Government has considered using anonymous technology to make two use of private sector data and to establish detailed data integration.

The Government of Japan has launched the data.go.jp website, a data classification website designed to provide data for use by different government departments and agencies, and to open data to data providers and data users. It encourages the use of open data, helps collect samples for data use, and builds and perfects data classification sites based on feedback. The data covers a variety of white papers, geo-spatial information, crowd movement information, budgeting, year-end financial and process data, etc. These are the data that need to be given priority in the electronic management of the Open Data Promotion road map.

Enterprises actively develop large data business

Japan's top ICT providers are also actively developing large data services, ranging from data storage and infrastructure processing to various data analysis applications. Many ICT service providers have also announced detailed big data plans. A survey by Gartner, Japan, shows that more than 60% of companies are currently actively considering using large data. At the same time, it is expected that by 2016, the number of large Japanese enterprises actively committed to large data projects will increase by one-fold, 70% of which will involve the business and business sectors outside the IT sector.

Fujitsu has established large data center to provide large data support to users. Currently, it is looking for partners in the field of large data-cutting technologies.

In 2013, Fujitsu launched a large data strategy to restructure its products and services to support users and social innovation with data use through advanced technology and integrated data analysis capabilities. In addition, the company has established a large data center (initiative Pew), which consists of 800 people, with a core user support staff of 30, for users, partners and new enterprises to provide one-stop service. Users can accept large data use consulting, participate in relevant seminars, use actual data for testing and analysis, and help users choose their own large data platform.

In 2013, Hitachi announced the establishment of the Hitachi Global Innovation Analysis Center (Hitachi World Pew for Innovative Analytics, Hgc-ia) to accelerate the expansion of large data global business. Application of end-to-end large data solutions to provide users with research, business consulting, information technology and services. Hgc-ia focuses on large data areas including: health care in the face of an ageing society, the development of new solutions and services to improve patient care, improve organizational efficiency and reduce costs; communications and media development-related solutions serve to help organizations more efficiently and cost-effectively store, manage, search, analyze, and use data, images and images; energy development solutions, improve the efficiency of energy transmission and distribution; The transportation establishes the corresponding solution, uses the large data, makes the operation more safe and reliable by providing the railway equipment with the active and efficient maintenance service; The mining industry improves end-to-end operations through data analysis of mining-using equipment. In addition, Hgc-ia uses large data for social innovation, including oil, gas and water. In the enterprise area, including logistics, manufacturing, business intelligence and so on. Japan hopes that large data-related revenues will reach 150 billion trillion yen by 2015.

2013, NTT data set up a special "large data Business Propulsion room", the company's internal large data business related departments to focus together. To provide users with one-stop service, including helping enterprises to tap business opportunities and provide appropriate services, the NTT data program 2015 years ago, the company's large revenue to increase the revenues to 20 billion yen.

In Japan, the era of using large data for data analysis has nearly ended. At present, the use of large data in the enterprise, more is used to strengthen existing services a recent survey shows that using large data is more about building business strategies and improving user services. It also promotes sales and development of new users, product development, strengthening financial audits, supporting decision-making, strengthening maintenance and support, conducting basic research, monitoring and development of enterprise performance, and strengthening internal controls. Therefore, there is a long way to go to develop the management strategy for enterprises. But the use of large data is a powerful tool for providing differentiated services, and for most Japanese companies, it helps to improve their competitiveness.

Big data development faces challenges

First, reform the existing personal information protection regulations. Traditional Japanese companies are often very cautious in using data collected, fearing that bad use of data results in damage to corporate credibility. Strict personal Information protection regulations, so that enterprises are very connected to the data not collected by themselves. The government is considering changes, and this status quo meti the Working Group has identified the need for personal data coding and has taken into account the individual consumer protection patterns in other countries.

Second, the introduction of new policies to encourage enterprise innovation. May 2014, the government issued a large data application of personal data use report, hope that the introduction of the report, help enterprises to use large data for innovation and development. In large data development, build trust between business and users, including user friendliness, use of commercially credible data and training business how to use personal information, users can choose what information can be disclosed.

Furthermore, pay attention to the training of relevant professional talents. In order to create greater value, the need to develop integrated it and management of human resources capabilities, so that these people have the ability to develop the business model with large data, but the shortage of professional skills talent is one of the challenges of large data development in Japan, in the future, the demand for talent is 250,000, At present, there are only about 1000 experts in this field.

In addition, for enterprises, IT departments need not only to build and maintain the talent of enterprise internal systems, but also to support strategic business planning and design enterprise-wide database infrastructure. Business sector, you need to increase understanding of and ability to develop a large data business model related to it knowledge. At present, ICT industry and institutions have developed a project aimed at developing data, business consulting skills and analytical specialists with ICT skills.