JISA AWARDS 2015 - WINNERS ANNOUNCED
JISA AWARDS is an incentive awards program honoring
creators of management systems as well as intellectual
property, technical know-how, etc. in all aspects of theproduct life cycle of information systems which have highcreativity and global competitiveness.

Established in2011, it has been presented by Japan Information
Technology Services Industry Association, generally
known as JISA — a representative body that includes 520
regular members comprised of leading system integrators,
computer system designers, software development andrelated service enterprises, data processing service
providers, systems operation and management service
vendors, 30 local representative IT associations, and 40
associate members.
Supporting the Japanese economy in boosting global competitiveness to realize
knowledge-based society, JISA aims at lifting up the position of Japan’s IT industry to establish
it as a brand. As part of making it come true, the association set up JISA AWARDS to let its
member companies compete in high creativity and global competitiveness. Recognized as JISA
AWARDS WINNER, your company and product could be set apart from your competition byshowing the industry innovation and leadership.
In April 2015, JISA AWARDS 2015 Screening Committee, chaired by Dr. Ken SAKAMURA,a professor at the University of Tokyo who’s well-known as the originator of the real-time
operating system architecture TRON, selected 2 of the most innovative creators out of 5 finalists
and 1 special award out of 18 total entrants as follows:[WINNERS]TOSHIBA SOLUTIONS CORPORATION to create “TrueLine®”
TrueLine® is a SaaS-based transit scheduling system. Creatively engineered to balance the art
and science of transit scheduling, no other software is designed to make your work as easy andefficient as TrueLine®. It's all on the cloud-making costs lighter, as well as your work load.
TrueLine® is definitely the only fixed-route scheduler that you will ever need.
NEC SOLUTIONS INNOVATORS, LTD. to create “FieldAnalyst”
FieldAnalyst is an auto gender and age estimation system that uses image recognition
technology. It detects a person and his or her face, and then to estimate his or her gender and age.

It can systematically do research and analysis which were manually conducted ever. In recentyears, FieldAnalyst has had new analysis functions, such as smile recognition and mask- or
sunglass-wearing face recognition.

[Special Award]
Work-style reform campaign of SCSK CORPORATION “SMART WORK CHALLENGE20”SCSK has promoted work-style reform campaign named SMART WORK CHALLENGE 20
since 2013. It aims at diminishing overtime work less than 20 hours/month as well as at getting
20 paid holidays/year by efficiently doing business. In the IT services industry where people
know its long working time, SCSK has pursued creating healthy work environment so far tokeep providing intellectual addedvalue to its customers. As a result, the company achieved
significant improvement in everyday working hours and the acquisition rates of annual paidholiday.

[Finalists]
SCSK CORPORATION to create “FastAPP”
FastAPP is programmingless ultra-high-speed development and execution platform of Web
application, combining reusable parts group. You may need to develop, operate and improvebusiness applications speedily and flexibly in order to respond to fast and ever-changing
business environment. FastAPP can have you make it.
QUALICA INC. to create “CareQube”
CareQube is a cloud-based service to perform preventive maintenance of machine or vehicle,
and to operate status monitoring via the Internet, making the most use of M2M and IoTtechnologies. As operational status and location information is stored regularly in the cloudenvironment by the probe terminal attached to the machine, you can analyze the information as
big data.
ITOCHU TECHNO-SOLUTIONS CORPORATION to create “Open Cloud Package”
Open Cloud Package is a reference architecture that adopts the hardware of the Open Compute
Project specification. This package enables fast and flexible deployment of resources, realizingunlimited scalability and cost reduction.

JISA AWARDS 2015 Screening Committee Members
Dr. Ken SAKAMURA, Professor in the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information

Studies at the University of Tokyo
Mr. Mikio AOYAMA, Professor in the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty ofInformation Sciences and Engineering at Nanzan University
Ms. Miwako DOI,

Auditor, National Institute of Information and Communications

Technology, JapanMr. Joji TATEISHI, Director, Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan

Mr.Takeshi NATSUNO, Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School of Media andGovernance at Keio University

For Inquiries about JISA AWARDS, please contact Public Relations & Services Dept., JapanInformation Technology Services Association (JISA) at press@jisa.or.jp.