Platform technology VALUMO for dynamic collaboration

Due to the rapid development of IT (Information Technology) such as the Internet, information systems are now positioned as important social infrastructures. This means that information systems are required to meet two basic requirements for social infrastructures, "robustness" and "flexibility." "Robustness" is the ability to run business 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and "flexibility" is the ability to promptly respond to changes in market environments. In order to achieve such "robustness" and "flexibility," NEC has accumulated a large volume of experience in the construction of OMCS (Open Mission Critical Systems) while incorporating rich know-how obtained through experience with mainframes. Such experience-based know-how has been integrated into the platform technology for OMCS construction, "VALUMO." "VALUMO" stands for "Value More" indicating NEC's commitment to improving customers' corporate value. The corporate value discussed here has three aspects: "business continuity for non-stop business," "collaborative networking for business expansion," and "TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) reduction for lowering cost," and NEC will provide this value to customer companies through the use of our technology. VALUMO will contribute to the expansion of customers' businesses using systems ranging from super-large scale to middle/small scale, on platforms that support various industries and services, and systems that work with package software. This paper gives an overview of the VALUMO technology.