Any firm or industry in the world today understands the need and importance of data, whether that involves trade secrets, personnel information, business information, or security specifics. Every business has to have its data adequately secured and protected. The cloudification procedure is significantly prominent in today’s world because it implements a safe method of accessing one’s information; it makes it simple and safe to permit only authorized users to have access to the information and applications of the business.

FSCreation Co. Ltd. is a cloud computing company that uses strategies from feasibility studies to assist other companies in securing their cloudification processes. The company has significantly grown and has had a positive impact over nearly a decade in the industry, incorporating continued operations that are essential to solving corporate problems.

FSCreation, as a company, offers guidance and research-based corporate management through development, maintenance, and management.

The inception of FSCreation and its substantial growth since 2014

FSCreation was created in 2014 by Shuji Toyota and Chieko Tsujimura, who worked together as colleagues in the consultation industry. They created the company to focus on cloud service implementation support. FSCreation started off as a small company, eventually growing to its current status with 14 employees while working for small to medium-sized clients mainly in the Tokai area.

The company’s inception came about when the founders noticed that the industry’s systems that should have developed and implemented solutions based on the client’s requirements were not met with the ideal standards, causing dissatisfaction with the available services. FSCreation was created in order to bridge the gap in the industry and help businesses benefit from utilizing the feasibility study techniques in areas like IT planning and securing cloud processes.

This process ultimately led to the conviction that the feasibility study method and its added advantage to the SI business would be able to build a better experience for not just the customers but also for the company itself.

The unique feature of FSCreation is that its services are not limited to a specific industry or market; they are widely spread across a range of markets that include manufacturing, education, mass media, and the public sector.

The feasibility study and what it entails

Chieko defines “feasibility study” as the implementation of advisability verification. This essentially means that the feasibility study is the process of examining the critical impact prior to the initial development stage, in order to have access to the best ideas for not just project usage, but also the production as a whole. It refers to identifying and scoping out potential issues that might be present in a project before the project even starts. This process makes things function much smoother, since solutions for potential problems are laid out on the table, much before the project takes the floor.

The concepts discovered during the feasibility study are both explicit and tacit. Only once the complete study has been conducted can these preliminary investigations be comprehended.

Since the arrival of the cloud era, it is advantageous to conduct a feasibility study before beginning any cloudification processes or IT planning. Both SI vendors and customers can identify potential problems with how the services they need will actually be installed without having to make a significant upfront investment in hardware, software, or networks, etc.

It is also necessary to incorporate a budget based on these solutions before a project begins and to incorporate methods to deal with issues at the definition stage.

One of the most distinctive services FSCreation provides is information system feasibility; this service is also known as pre-implementation consulting or PoC service. What makes this service one of the most distinctive is the way it prioritizes and centers around utilizing only the core functions during the implementation process on the cloud.

The experience with PoC service can only be explained by “seeing is believing”. The benefits of the service are only experienced through the actual operating process, just like the possibility of clarifying potential problems comes through real-life experience rather than just out of imagination.

The various services at FS Creation

FSCreation provides a range of services that support and benefit customers in numerous ways. The services at FSCreation have a characteristic that makes it possible for customers to switch support and choose self-system development and building that allows the customers to independently operate following the completion of the definition, design, development (construction), and post-installation support requirements.

• Some of the main services offered by FSCreation are the following:
• Pre-installation consultation (using a feasibility study)
• Overall system structure design (a wide range from the overall structure of the company’s system to the structure of a single unit)
• General requirements like, definition, design, development (construction), implementation, and post-implementation support

Japan has a strong on-going trend that is pushing towards a shift from outsourcing to in-house production. The country themselves are aware of the issues present with the system’s current operations, leading them to actually work on the design, development and construction, in order to maintain the system in itself.

Cloudification in different industries

Cloudification is a significantly newer process that industries are slowly but surely shifting towards. The process of cloudification is simply the conversion of different types of applications, data storage, or other traditional data that would earlier be installed on local computers to now web-based equivalents, which are otherwise known as cloud.

At FSCreation, they provide services to markets that are often very different from each other and therefore require different operational methods. In their experience, the machinery manufacturing industry is quickly shifting from the business and corporate systems to the cloud, making the cloud services in the machinery sector vastly popular in today’s time, subsequently spreading the use of cloud services throughout the industry. On the other hand, industries like the pharmaceutical ones tend to focus on shifting their core systems that are centered on SAP to the cloud instead of spreading in the business sector.

If the manufacturing industry is bottom-up, the pharmaceutical industry can be seen as top-down. This is likely due to the fact that the pharmaceutical industry has more restrictions due to regulations and laws than the manufacturing industry, and has a work culture and process that makes it difficult to shift to the cloud. The pharmaceutical industry gives an impression that represents more of a rapid “cloud shift” along with “system globalization”.

FSCreation believes that it is important to provide services to different industries based on the different standards and requirements they might have. Due to the necessary changes and adjustments each industry requires, SI services become an integral part of the cloud. SI services are significantly important in a company like FSCreation because of their principle priority of achieving success in the right way, providing companies with better services than any other.

From the end user’s point of view, anticipating or requiring services that are guaranteed to be secure, convenient, and smooth functioning, allowing them to use the cloud or other services, when and how they like, is the ultimate dream. However, not all cloud services live up to those expectations. Due to this reason, FSCreation has made it a point to incorporate SI services that are predominantly indispensible, in order to provide customers with configurations and structures that are not only correct, but also highly effective and efficient, fulfilling the end user’s desires.

Standing the test of time, FSCreation’s longevity and future

FSCreation has nearly a decade under its belt. Since its foundation in 2014, the company has continued to grow and expand and has no plans of slowing down. The significant impact they have had on a number of companies in various industries has only strengthened their drive to achieve more and have continued success in their field.

The IT planning and secure cloud processing industry is an increasingly growing industry in both popularity and necessity, creating a variety of companies offering the same services. Because of the increasing popularity, most companies focus on profit and margins to carry them through. However, FSCreation contributes its success and longevity to the mere fact of focusing and centering their services on their customers; they believe in keeping their customers’ needs in mind and offering services tailored to them. Putting their principles and values of loyalty and service into practice, with a continual effort into logistics and application, is what has led FSCreation to thrive thus far.

FSCreation continues to aim towards being a company that can truly serve as an advisor to other companies across the board, in the rapidly changing world of IT, it is important to remember “IT is a tool that allows companies to continue to grow”, in order for companies and industries to evolve with the times.

As a team, FSCreation also intends to become a company that can propose and implement ways to solve real corporate problems with IT, such as “not giving in to the harmful effects of silos within companies.”

FSCreation plans to become a company that can propose safe and “correct” utilization methods that include both ethical correctness as well as correctness in operations and functions in the business industry against the democratization of IT, which is progressing significantly.

A brief biography of the Representative Director

Chieko Tsujimura is the Representative Director of FSCreation; she was born in Aichi, Japan.

She began working at a travel agency after earning her degree from an institution for women in Aichi Prefecture. After becoming involved in system installation work at a travel agency, she began working in the IT sector.

She was employed as a SE at her new position and moved to the sales division within three months. While she was a sales representative for a SI vendor in Aichi Prefecture, her career in the cloud era began. She launched FS Creation with her current CTO, Toyota, who was employed by the same business at the time, with the goal of becoming a SI in the cloud industry.

“Our mission is to ensure that the results of the system implementation that we support, will lead to the creation of a brighter future for our customers” “Our mission is to ensure that the results of the system implementation that we support, will lead to the creation of a brighter future for our customers.”

 “Our services provide a bird’s-eye view of the usage perspective of on-site users, and visualize the feasibility of the results through actual experience.”