1. Preventing lost opportunities by improving IT supply capacity and shortening development lead times.

We will shorten the development period, which previously took several months to over a year using conventional methods, to just a few weeks. We will build a system that can deliver high IT supply capabilities even with current resources, preventing business opportunities from being lost due to delays in system delivery.

2. From a defensive to an offensive IT department

By eliminating development bottlenecks, we can establish a system that can respond quickly to requests from business departments. The IT department, which previously dedicated most of its resources to daily system maintenance and management, will be transformed into a force that provides technical support for company-wide DX and powerfully drives business growth.

3. The "Secure Democratization" of AI in the Enterprise

We provide a proactive environment that allows business units to independently build applications incorporating the latest AI. At the same time, we prevent the emergence of shadow AI and ungovernanced, rogue applications, enabling safe and rapid AI utilization across the entire company under appropriate control by the IT department.

1. An "agile development platform" that enables seamless collaboration between business and IT.

​The UI and business logic of the screen are shared as a visual model. This enables "co-creation (BizDevOps)," where business and IT departments can look at the same screen and instantly turn ideas into systems.

We will build a development system that flexibly updates the system by immediately incorporating changes in the business environment and feedback from the field.

2. A "company-wide hub function" that integrates fragmented business processes.

It seamlessly integrates with Siemens products such as Teamcenter (OT domain) and core systems such as existing ERP (IT domain).

Beyond individual tools implemented in each department, it offers powerful scalability to integrate fragmented company-wide systems and data, building end-to-end business processes.

3. An integrated platform that simultaneously enables "AI-driven development support" and "AI-driven business processes."

The platform's integrated development support AI, "Maia," automates and streamlines development work by providing best practices, dramatically improving productivity.

Furthermore, by integrating with external AI platforms such as Altair, it becomes possible to directly incorporate machine learning-based predictive models and advanced AI applications into business processes, creating a complete system on a single platform that supports data-driven decision-making.

4. A secure infrastructure environment that meets the stringent standards of large corporations.

You can flexibly choose your deployment destination, from a fully managed environment using Mendix Cloud to your own AWS or Azure servers, and even on-premises environments requiring a high level of confidentiality.

It fully meets the stringent infrastructure requirements and high security standards essential for enterprise companies.

Implementation, planning, and development support

We provide end-to-end support for projects, from project planning to development, including identifying issues to eliminate waste in business operations and formulating a roadmap for utilizing Mendix.

System integration and other development support

We provide support for integrating business systems with Mendix, among other things.
We also support the establishment of systems capable of agile development and work alongside you to launch your proof-of-concept (PoC) early.

Human resource development and in-house production support

We provide training to cultivate personnel who can handle agile development and Mendix development. In addition to educational programs for beginners to advanced users, we support the retention of learned skills and their application in the workplace through on-the-job training (OJT) by active Macnica engineers.

Furthermore, by generously sharing our expertise, we will support our customers in achieving "in-house development (self-reliance)," enabling them to complete everything from development to operation themselves.

We offer unparalleled practical knowledge from heavy users and provide technical best practices.

Macnica is not just a sales agent; they are a heavy user who has thoroughly utilized Mendix as the foundation for their entire company.

​We will generously share our real-world know-how, including robust architecture design and performance optimization, which we have encountered and overcome during our own large-scale deployment phase, as "technical best practices."

This proactively eliminates all technical bottlenecks from development to operation phases, creating an environment where enterprise-quality systems can be built via the shortest route.

Deployment of "pre-built assets" to optimize resource allocation and standardize quality.

To allow your IT department to focus its valuable resources on your company's core areas, Macnica will provide components that it has developed and optimized in-house as "pre-built assets."

For example, it allows you to directly utilize essential features found in enterprise-grade applications, such as "approval workflows," significantly reducing the time spent on the most time-consuming and complex logic design and testing.

Furthermore, because these components have already passed rigorous inspections, even if the field departments prioritize speed in development, company-wide governance and security are naturally guaranteed.

"FDE-type" in-house production support: Working together hands-on to establish a consistent cycle.

Macnica 's collaborative support aims not at delivering a system, but at enabling customers to achieve "true in-house development" themselves.

To achieve this, we adopt an "FDE (Forward Deployed Engineer)" approach, where engineers are directly involved in the front lines of the project. By working together to solve problems, we directly transfer practical know-how for in-house development.

Through this agile co-creation and accumulation of know-how transfer, the ability to continuously manage the entire "cycle" from identifying business challenges to planning, developing, and maintaining systems becomes ingrained in our clients' organizations.

As a technology trading company whose mission is to help our customers utilize the latest emerging technologies as their own weapons, we transform new technologies into organizational strength and support the creation of systems that enable our customers to continuously adapt flexibly to changes in the business environment.

The reasons why Macnica is so committed to supporting in-house development are explained in the following article.

• (Related article) "The true nature of the support and mindset required to transplant the 'transformation' that only Macnica can deliver"

Macnica offers "Digital Execution Factory," a solution that integrates manufacturing DX into organizational culture. See below for details.

• "Digital Execution Factory" is a unique know-how that only Macnica can provide in Japan, which optimizes the practical knowledge established in Europe and the US, where DX is advanced, for the Japanese manufacturing industry.

Digitalization of business processes

Task

Analog progress management using Excel and email relays had become the norm, and we were spending an average of 15 hours a week on this task.

solution

We started the implementation with a small team of 10 people, enabling real-time information sharing.

results

We significantly reduced administrative time to 5 hours per week (a 66% reduction). Decision-making speed improved by 50%, and manual work was reduced by 60%.

Further details about this case can be found in the following article.

• (Related article) Improve operational efficiency with DX in manufacturing! Learn about the effects and key points of operation from success stories

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