Management Message

The Internet is one of those technological innovations that occur maybe once in a century, and it continues to affect people’s lives and to change every system and mechanism in society, spanning government, industry, and business. Even today it is still difficult to fully grasp all its massive potential, and technological advances that go beyond our expectations open up new possibilities of the Internet.

Ever since its establishment in 1992 as the first Japanese Internet Service Provider, IIJ has been taken initiatives in the field of Internet technology. By leveraging the technological expertise gained through its Internet connectivity services, the company has expanded its business portfolio as a total solutions provider offering from highly reliable network services, various value-added outsourcing services, including cloud computing, WAN services to systems integration services. In this way, we have grown as a corporate group that responds to customers’ requests for every type of network application with one-stop services.

By combining information technology infrastructure and telecommunications technology infrastructure, the Internet has brought about a technology revolution that has transformed all of the world’s systems and frameworks. Putting all information online has resulted in an almost unlimited expansion of the potential for utilizing information. As network transmission speeds have grown faster and the functionality of data processing has improved, it has become possible to develop new technologies such as cloud computing, IoT, and AI. Those technologies have already been put to practical use in business fields, which will change the global systems and structures.

At the forefront of this major trend, the IIJ Group is developing its businesses with the strong belief that continuous innovation can lead to the creation of all-new industries. Based on our corporate philosophy of ensuring high quality and reliability, which we have pursued since the Company’s establishment, we will also continue to provide innovative services that bring new value to our customers along with further contributing to a network society development and creating new value through data utilization.