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NEC
Orchestrating a Brighter World.
Overview
HQ Location
Japan
Year Founded
1899
Company Type
Public
Revenue
> $10b
Employees
> 50,000
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Stock Ticker
TYO: 6701
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Company Description
NEC provides a broad range of IT products and services through software, hardware, integration, and consulting. It offers system integration, maintenance and support, outsourcing, cloud services, and equipment for government, healthcare, finance, and media markets. For telecom customers it provides network infrastructure, services, and management. NECs thick portfolio also includes system platforms with hardware, software, enterprise networks, and services. NEC does most of its business domestically.
Year Founded: 1899
Revenue: $26.1 billion (2013)
TYO: 6701
Year Founded: 1899
Revenue: $26.1 billion (2013)
TYO: 6701
IoT Solutions
NEC will capitalise on its extensive track record and its leading technologies in the areas of software-defined networking (SDN), big data, cloud and security in order to construct flexible and robust IoT systems.
It aims to make positive use of IoT in extensive areas including social infrastructures, such as water demand forecast and traffic monitoring, security management for communities and for key facilities and energy management, in addition to the corporate use of IoT by manufacturers, distributors, transport operators and others.
It aims to make positive use of IoT in extensive areas including social infrastructures, such as water demand forecast and traffic monitoring, security management for communities and for key facilities and energy management, in addition to the corporate use of IoT by manufacturers, distributors, transport operators and others.
Key Customers
Lockheed Martin, SMRT Corporation, Telefonica
IoT Snapshot
NEC is a provider of Industrial IoT cloud planning, design and implementation services, cybersecurity services, and system integration services, and also active in the aerospace, agriculture, cities and municipalities, retail, and transportation industries.
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Technology Stack
NEC’s Technology Stack maps NEC’s participation in the IoT Technology stack.
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Case Studies.
Case Study
Logistics Visibility Services
Fuji Xerox faced several challenges. Delivery inquiries from distributors had to be manually associated with order information and container B/L documents. Response to delivery inquiries was slow and delivery date estimates inaccurate because Fuji Xerox had to contact each transportation carrier for shipment status updates before warehousing dates could be estimated. Manual handling of an average of 1,800 inquiries a month created an excessive workload for staff. Distributors had begun securing extra stock in a system known as just-in-case inventory to prevent inventory shortages at hub warehouses in each region, leading to chronic over-inventory
Case Study
Obbligato for SaaS in Thailand
A large amount of engineering work involving frequent specification changes not only resulted in a nightmare for staff but also caused a considerable amount of material wastage due to miscommunication and last minute change notices. Need a system that is not too complicated to manage, and is easy to learn and use for typical employees because there a shortage of specialist IT staff and the company employs many short-term contract employees. Need an application that is not too expensive to implement, easy to use and powerful enough to handle a large volume of work.
Case Study
Hospital Management Solution
The Oncology Diagnosis and Treatment Center of Brasov wanted to give patients as much freedom to roam as possible, while at the same time ensuring optimal patient safety and security. The centre was in need of an adequate wireless voice communication and messaging solution that would give patients the confi dence that medical staff is always on call, and reduce stress levels of nurses and doctors when called in case of urgent need.
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