RESEARCH SUMMARY -Latest Outcome of Our Research-
Study on Environment-Related IT Business in Japan
-~Shift from passive to strategic responses to cope with REACH and environmental management~-
Research Outline
Yano Research Institute has conducted a research on the environment-related IT market in Japan with following conditions.
1. Research period: May 2008 to August 2008
2. Research targets: Environment-related IT packaged system vendors, system solution vendors, etc. in Japan (14 firms)
3. Research methodologies:
Face-to-face interviews with relevant personnel were primarily employed, being supplemented by interviews via telephone and e-mail.
<What is Environment-Related Information Technology?>
The environment-related information technology is the systems or services used by corporations to collect and process information on environmental issues they are involved in by utilizing general-purpose packaged software and systems, etc.
Summary of Research Findings
¨ Environment-related IT is an indispensable tool for environmental management for the future
Scope of environmental management has been expanded and fields of management involved have also been diversified. The individuals in charge are now forced to collect and process the necessary information efficiently and timely to make good use of it for carrying out their strategies. In addition, the amount of information that the manufacturing sectors must have has been becoming huge due to such regulations as REACH. Therefore, the environment-related IT systems at this time are expected to meet these changing needs.
¨ The challenges are how to cope with the various needs, how respond quickly to environmental regulations, etc.
While the needs for environment-related IT is high, many users do not have appropriate systems at this moment. Some of the problems include lack of flexible responses to various needs of each corporate user and prompt response to the environmental regulations. Another problem is insufficient strategic proposals, which could directly lead to improvement that can be measured objectively in figures, and to improvement of management and that in production cost.
¨ Environment-related IT market in Japan is expected to grow to the scale of 73,850 million yen in 2010.
We estimated that the market size in 2007 was 51,100 million yen (107.2% year-on-year) and forecast that it grows to 73,850 million yen (112.6% year-on-year) in 2010. The percentage distribution by application in 2007 was: 38% for chemical substance, 25% for environmental management, 13% for waste material, 8% for ASP (Application Service Provider) and 16% for others.
