Collaboration Computing is a technology for linking and using pieces of information that are scattered among networks, including the Internet and intranets. It will allow us to support more complex operations. For example, a task that would require five years to complete when using only one PC, would take only one day if performed by 10,000 linked PCs with "cell computing." We anticipate applications to fields such as the biological sciences, physics, and finance.

Tangible Intelligence is technology that adapts data analysis technology and makes use of large amounts of accumulated information and knowledge of past and current conditions to predict and anticipate future events and trends. For example, we believe that this technology can make a major contribution to society by compiling information about made-to-order medical therapies that allow examinations and preventive measures appropriate for the patient's physical state.

As information technology continues to permeate society, there are increasing demands for software that is less costly, more reliable, more usable, more productive, and of higher quality. As part of the technology needed to meet such demands, NTT DATA is conducting research that aims to generate software from conceptual diagrams automatically, in order to produce highly reliable software rapidly and at low cost.

There have been increasing demands for computer system technology that can handle everything from small-scale to large-scale computing. For this reason, we are involved in research and development programs aimed at meeting these demands through the use of open source and commoditized hardware and software, autonomous computing, and decentralized computing. In addition, we have developed PostgrasForest^®, an enterprise database system which we offer as open-source software.

We are faced with demands for secure management of data and applications and reliable user and device authorization methods in order to maintain information technology as a safe infrastructure for the entire society, and so we are engaged in researching next-generation services. An example is the typical product integration functions installed in an RFID secure management platform. If you were to produce sauce from onions or carrots with RFIDs attached, reading in the information on the RFID in that sauce would inform us about how the ingredient was cultivated. We are constantly striving to create where both service providers and service users can feel at ease.

As we sketch out the shape that computing services will assume in the next generation, we need to elucidate social problems (non-technological problems) that may hinder the realization of these visions or may appear on the scene as new phenomena. Accordingly, NTT DATA is both considering possible solutions and offering suggestions based on its own point of view.