SAISON INFORMATION SYSTEMS : HULFT Holds the Second Largest Worldwide Sales Share According to Gartner's MFT Market Research
May 24 2017 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
SAISON INFORMATION SYSTEMS CO., LTD. (Headquarters: Toshima-ku,
Tokyo; President: Kazuhiro Uchida; hereafter “SAISON INFORMATION
SYSTEMS”) has today announced that HULFT now holds the
second-largest worldwide sales share (*1) according to All
Enterprise Software Market Share (Managed File Transfer Suites
Segment), Worldwide, 2016, a report of the survey on the managed
file transfer (MFT) (*2) market published by Gartner Inc. Sold and
supplied by SAISON INFORMATION SYSTEMS, HULFT already holds the
largest market share in the domestic market (*3) and in the Asian
market (*4).
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SAISON INFORMATION SYSTEMS will continue
to ensure the safety and reliability of data that flow through the
global IT infrastructure and will provide safety and security for
the evolving network society in line with the ever-growing MFT
market. (Graphic: Business Wire)
Aspiring to consistently provide domestic and overseas customers
with attractive products and services under the HULFT brand, SAISON
INFORMATION SYSTEMS has since its launch in 1993 been working to
provide the software with multilingual support, to offer 24/7/365
customer support in English, Chinese and Japanese, to cultivate
sales channels in the worldwide market, to establish a partner
program and to enhance the product lineup and functions and
cultivate markets.
In addition, SAISON INFORMATION SYSTEMS has set up HULFT
business bases in Shanghai in 2011, Beijing in 2015, Singapore in
2015 to cover the ASEAN region, and California in 2016 to expand
the HULFT business globally. Today, a total of 189,600 copies are
used by 8,700 corporate customers in 43 countries around the world.
(*5)
SAISON INFORMATION SYSTEMS believes that the recent survey
results reflect its efforts to improve its products to better
address its international customers’ problems and be easier to
use.
Gartner Inc. reports in this research that the worldwide MFT
market grew at an annual rate of 7.4% in 2016, with sales, or
market size, of nearly 873 million dollars, or 94 billion yen.
SAISON INFORMATION SYSTEMS will continue to ensure the safety and
reliability of data that flow through the global IT infrastructure
and will provide safety and security for the evolving network
infrastructure in line with the ever-growing MFT market.
HULFT
(Product details: https://www.hulft.com/en/hulft-mft)Compatible
with an ever-growing range of platforms since its launch in 1993,
HULFT is file transfer middleware equipped with all the functions
customers need to share files between business systems. There are
currently 189,600 (*5) HULFT licenses in use by 8,700 companies in
43 countries worldwide, spanning a wide range of industries. In
addition to sending, receiving and managing file transfer jobs,
HULFT also include peripheral functions essential to transferring
files, including security and data integration before and after
transfer.
References and Remarks
*1 Source: Gartner Inc.: Market Share: All Software Markets,
Worldwide, 2016 *2 MFT: file transfer software with a focus on
reliability and security with functions suited to file transfer
between intra-business and inter-business systems, such as a
prohibition on the transfer of any but designated files and
recovery in the event of failure in transfer *3 Source: Fuji
Chimera Research Institute, Inc.: New Market of Software Business
(2015 Edition) (package and value basis) *4 Source: IDC, Nov 2015,
“Worldwide Managed File Transfer Software Market Shares, 2014: Year
of Steady Growth” (#259975) *5 As of the end of March 2017
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SAISON INFORMATION SYSTEMS CO.,
LTD.
Headquarters: Sunshine 60 (21F), 3-1-1 Higashi-Ikebukuro,
Toshima-ku, Tokyo 170-6021, JapanEstablished: September 1,
1970President: Kazuhiro Uchida (President and CEO)Capital: ¥1,367
millionBusiness activities: Financial systems, Retail service
systems and IT solutions, HULFTSecurities code: 9640 (Tokyo Stock
Exchange, JASDAQ Standard Market)Website:
http://home.saison.co.jp/english/
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HULFT Pte.Ltd.Yasuko Sakurai / Takayuki Gunji,
+65-6248-4625hulft@saison.co.jporSAISON INFORMATION SYSTEMS CO.,
LTD.Masaaki Takayama, +81-3-3988-5301info@hulft.com