, commonly known as JAL Infotec also in English, is a Japanese company headquartered in
Tokyo
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,
Japan, that offers
IT services
Information technology service management (ITSM) is the activities that are performed by an organization to design, build, deliver, operate and control information technology (IT) services offered to customers.
Differing from more technology-o ...
.
Overview
Originally, in 1978, JAL Information Technology Co., Ltd. (JAL Infotec) was established by
Japan Airlines Co., Ltd.
In 2001,
IBM Japan
IBM has had business internationally since before the company had a name. Early leaders of the companies that would eventually become IBM (Mr Hollerith, Mr Flint, and Mr Watson) all were involved in doing international business.
In those early day ...
started
outsourcing services regarding JAL Infotec, and then in 2002, IBM Japan got the majority (51%) of JAL Infotec from Japan Airlines.
In 2011, Japan Airlines bought back the majority of JAL Infotec from IBM Japan, for reducing the outsourcing costs, as one step of the restructuring of the
JAL
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Places
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group.
The company offers the services of
system integration
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,
cloud computing
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, and
information security
Information security, sometimes shortened to InfoSec, is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It is part of information risk management. It typically involves preventing or reducing the probability of unauthori ...
, and provides
computer software
Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work.
At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...
within the JAL group.
See also
*
List of companies of Japan
Location of Japan
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References
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External links
Official website
Cloud computing providers
Computer security companies
Information technology consulting firms of Japan
Japan Airlines
Service companies based in Tokyo
Software companies established in 1978
Japanese companies established in 1978