Canon ITS launches collaborative solution with "EDI-Master Cloud" and Saison Technology's "HULFT Square"

Background and overview of the collaborative solution

In recent years, many Japanese companies have been promoting the migration of systems to the cloud as part of their digital transformation (DX) efforts, and the trend toward cloud-based EDI systems has also accelerated, driven by the renewal of mission-critical system, core system. However, migration to the cloud requires integration with various business systems, including on-premise systems, which poses challenges in terms of increased development time and costs.

The newly announced integration solution provides an application template ^*1 on HULFT Square free of charge, linking EDI-Master Cloud and HULFT Square. EDI-Master Cloud serves as the B2B interface for electronic data exchange in business-to-business transactions, while HULFT Square handles the integration of received EDI data with internal and external systems. This makes it easy to achieve seamless integration between EDI data and mission-critical system, core system.

Canon ITS has also signed a distributorship agreement with Saison Technology for HULFT Square, enabling Canon ITS to offer HULFT Square in combination with the EDI-Master Cloud service.

By combining Canon ITS's extensive track record and knowledge in EDI with Saison Technology's technology and experience in the data integration field, we will achieve seamless integration of EDI data with various systems inside and outside the company, as well as business automation.

• 1 "HULFT Square HULFT Square Square," which packages pre-created data integration scripts into templates for easy reuse. By utilizing application templates, you can easily and efficiently create SaaS connections and integration platforms.

What can be achieved by linking "EDI-Master Cloud" and "HULFT Square"?

The integrated solution using both products not only enables EDI operations (electronic data exchange between inside and outside the company) but also enables the use of "HULFT Square" to build an infrastructure for linking with existing systems within the customer's company and various SaaS services, thereby achieving seamless data integration between each business partner and mission-critical system, core system and optimizing business processes.

The expected usage scenario of this collaborative solution is as follows:

• EDI data received via "EDI-Master Cloud" is linked to mission-critical system, core system via "HULFT Square"
• Link EDI data from mission-critical system, core system with application templates and send EDI data to business partners
• mission-critical system, core system and "HULFT" are used for file transfer, and EDI data is sent and received using "EDI-Master Cloud".

Furthermore, HULFT Square can also be used to format, process, convert, and match (ETL: Extract Transform Load function) EDI data being sent and received. If necessary, data can also be stored and saved from HULFT Square to cloud storage, and data can also be backed up.

Future outlook

By further deepening their collaboration, Canon ITS and Saison Technology will accelerate the provision of a platform that creates new business value and actively support customers in promoting digital transformation.

Comments from both companies

Noboru Muramatsu, Managing Executive Officer, Digital Innovation Business Division, Canon IT Solutions Inc.

We are very pleased to be able to provide a solution that links with Saison Technology's data integration platform, "HULFT Square." We are confident that the integration of "EDI-Master Cloud" and "HULFT Square" will seamlessly connect inter-company transaction data with internal corporate systems, contributing to the realization of our customers' digital transformation.

Through its strong partnership with Saison Technology, Canon ITS will continue to support business transformation that leads to value creation for its customers by enhancing all data utilization environments, including EDI.

Seiji Ishida Director, Managing Executive Officer, Head of Sales Division Saison Technology Co., Ltd.

We are very pleased to announce the launch of our integrated solution with EDI-Master Cloud. We also welcome Canon ITS's launch of HULFT Square.

As our customers' system environments migrate to the cloud, we propose Canon ITS's "EDI-Master Cloud" and Saison Technology's "HULFT Square" to provide optimal solutions to our customers' DX (Digital Transformation) challenges. Saison Technology's file transfer middleware "HULFT" handles integration with existing on-premise systems, the cloud-based data integration platform "HULFT Square" handles integration with various SaaS applications, and "EDI-Master Cloud" is used for electronic data exchange with external parties, enabling seamless data integration. Saison Technology will continue to work with Canon ITS to strongly promote data integration and data utilization for our customers.

About EDI-Master Cloud

This cloud-native EDI service employs a microservices architecture and is highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable. It not only provides basic EDI functions such as communication, conversion, and operation on the cloud, but also offers OpenAPI (Web API) and EDI business operation services. It provides a one-stop solution, from infrastructure to applications and EDI business operations, and improves customer business efficiency by enabling data integration with various systems using OpenAPI.

• Product introduction page:
  https://www.canon-its.co.jp/products/edi_mastercloud/
• HULFT Square integration introduction page:
  https://www.canon-its.co.jp/products/edi_mastercloud/linkage/hsq/

About HULFT Square

"HULFT Square" is a Japanese iPaaS (cloud-based data integration platform) that supports the "data preparation for data utilization" and "data integration that connects business systems" necessary for achieving DX. It can link various data that is distributed and managed in on-premise, cloud, SaaS, and other environments across business systems, industries, countries, and regions.

• Product introduction page:
  https://www.saison-technology.com/service/product/lineup/hulft-square/
  
  

About Canon IT Solutions Inc.

Canon IT Solutions is a core company in the IT solutions business of the Canon Marketing Japan Group. Under its long-term vision of "Being a Co-Imagining, Co-Creating Company that Opens the Future with Advanced ICT and Energetic Employees," Canon IT Solutions is engaged in a wide range of businesses, including system integration, consulting, development and sales of various software, data center services, and network infrastructure construction, operation and maintenance.

• Canon IT Solutions Inc.:
  https://www.canon-its.co.jp/

About Saison Technology

With the mission of "Connect the world’s data and make it useful for everyone.," the company globally develops and operates data integration products and IT services that form the foundation for safety and security, as well as systems for a wide range of industries, including finance and distribution. Leveraging its strengths, which have enabled it to quickly adapt to changes in the environment over many years, the company is currently focusing on expanding cutting-edge businesses such as its cloud-based data integration platform (iPaaS) "HULFT Square," and strengthening its efforts to implement technologies that will pave the way for the future. The company changed its name from SAISON INFORMATION SYSTEMS CO., LTD. on April 1, 2024.

• Saison Technology:
  https://www.saison-technology.com/

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