FINDEX Inc. signs a capital and business alliance contract with AOS Data
A combination of FINDEX integrated solutions with AOS data cloud to support
operations including regional collaboration, BCP and medical data backup services
FINDEX Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a capital and business alliance contract withAOS Data, Inc. (headquartered in Tokyo; Hiroshi Haruyama, Representative Director& President; hereinafter “AOS Data”) by agreeing to invest 200 million yen through athird party allotment in what will amount to a close business tie-up to conduct businessin the medical market.
Most medical care information has been managed by medical institutions in a closed
environment but the situation has drastically changed because data can now be safely
managed and shared due to progress in cloud and devices. In February 2010, theMinistry of Health, Labour and Welfare partially revised the "Storage Place for Medical
Records" or so-called Outside Storage Notice that allows storing medical information
outside of medical institutions. Since the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011,
the following year, much attention has been paid to business continuity planning (BCP)
including database building, safe storage of paper medical records, and use of the cloud
as a safe means to backup medical records at low cost has been examined.
To achieve regional cooperation, the close sharing of information between medical
institutions and nursing-care facilities is now essential under circumstances where there
are fewer hospitalization days, demand for integrated community-care system isincreasing, and attention is being focused on the cloud as a means to connect relatedparties in different IT environments. This shift is not limited to just medical institutions
with the government also becoming involved with the spread of the cloud as shown innational policies including the building up systems to accumulate medical data that willlead to medical cost reductions, new drug development and new medical technology.
The domestic cloud service market now amounts to 1.4 trillion yen and is estimated to
exceed 3.5 trillion yen by 2021. In particular, Amazon Web Service or AWS with an
overwhelming share of the public cloud that can be used at low cost now boasts millionsof users in more than 190 countries all over the world and more than one hundred
thousand corporate users in Japan, including financial institutions, governments andeducational institutions. Yet, AWS with its excellent flexibility, safety and scalability
operates on the cloud by way of AOS Data.

The AOSBOX, cloud backup service from AOS Data, won first place(*1) in the cloud
backup service for corporations section of the US Top Ten Reviews for five consecutive
years and now boasts more than 1,000 corporate users and 300,000 general users inJapan. Great security is ensured based on military-level cryptographic technology byusing an AWS domestic data center, and low cost achieved by storage that functions
according to the frequency of data usage. This system also supports AI-based datautilization.
From here onwards we will proactively develop medical and office business in a joint
alliance with AOS Data and achieve with excellent results both domestically andinternationally. Because demand for cloud is rapidly increasing especially in the medical
field, the Company will strive for a leading position in introducing the cloud on a fullscale to medical institutions and contribute to the amassing and analysis of medical datain line with the government's goal by an exclusive business tie-up with AOS Data andproviding both safe and high-level solutions through domestic AWS servers. Also, in theoffice business, we will further promote sales by providing highly safe cloud solutions atlow cost.
*1 AOSBOX is provided under the name of Zoolz in overseas countries.
AOS Data, Inc.
AOS Data is a 100% subsidiary of AOS Technologies, Inc., which is a long-establisheddata recovery company founded in 1995. It provides diverse services and products formaintenance of personal computers and smartphones in response to the product life cyclefrom purchase to disposal. It has attained top credibility and performance in the system
maintenance software section of BCN (sellout data as a result of aggregate calculationof POS data of major electronics retail stores) for nine consecutive years. AOS Data willfurther protect intellectual property and contribute to society by applying data
management technologies for data backup, data migration, data restoration, datadeletion and security products.