Corporate
Profile

[Company strength]
Welfare, healthcare, and medical businesses are highly specialized, and their business practices are also complicated. We have always worked with specialists in the field to customize software according to their needs. This is why the software we develop is received very favorably. Our products are particularly well-suited to actual procedures, and easy to use. Because we are a small-scale company, we can flexibly pay close attention to detail when supporting our customers. 

[Business description]
Our company is a software manufacturer that develops and sells welfare-related software for customers such as social welfare councils and municipalities. We have developed operation systems for managing adult guardianship, supporting independence in daily living, and so on, and introduced them to many social welfare councils operated by local municipalities. We are currently developing software for healthcare operations that are close to the welfare business. Other lines of business include introducing system devices to local municipalities and companies, and Web system development.

[Industry]
Telecommunications industry

[Strength of products/technologies]
We have developed software based on a solid understanding of the actual practice of social welfare councils. We specialize in niche fields that are conducted by social welfare councils, such as adult guardianship and support for independence in daily living. This allows us to accumulate know-how at a much higher level. 

[Representative's message]
Needs for welfare and healthcare businesses are on the rise in response to the rapidly aging society. I want our company to specialize in niche fields, such as customized systems for social welfare councils in the welfare field, and the system for calculating medical fees in the healthcare field. This will be done by putting most of our resources into development and sales for such fields. We are also considering embedding our systems into system products from other companies, and we are hoping to find suitable partners. 

[Company structure for market development/overseas expansion]
We conduct business from our head office in Kitakyushu City and our Fukuoka City branch office. We have operation departments for welfare and healthcare, Web-based development, and platform systems. Each department has a sales representative who acts on its behalf. Our customers could be anywhere in Japan, especially for our welfare and healthcare department. This is why we have a sales agency (Otsuka Corporation) in addition to our own sales offices.

[Market share/Ranking]
Our adult guardianship and human rights protection system is the most commonly adopted system among social welfare councils.

[Awards and media coverage]
[Awards]
5th Fukuoka Ruby Grand Prize, for a system for selecting and managing seated posture retention devices, which was jointly developed with Arizono Orthopedic Supplies. 

[Media]


[Joint research and development]
Kitakyushu Seinen Kouken Center: Joint development project. The Center provided guidance from a specialist perspective when we developed our Miruto adult guardianship software, which helps to create related documents and manage clerical procedures. Upgraded versions and derived editions of Miruto are now distributed throughout Japan. 

[Main Clients / Business History (domestic)]
Social welfare councils in Adachi Ward, Nerima Ward, and Kita Ward in Tokyo, as well as other local municipalities, such as Shizuoka City, Nagoya City, Fukuoka City, and Kitakyushu City (self-developed software packages); DOCOMO CS Kyushu (custom system development); Yasukawa Information Kyushu (custom system development).