What JTNet does

JTNet Co., Ltd. (株式会社日本シンクネット / Japan Think Net Co., Ltd.) is a Tokyo-based IT services company founded in 1990 and operating with a small team of 11-50 employees. The company specializes in systems development and consulting across four primary verticals: financial services (banks, trust banks), telecommunications, distribution/logistics, and IT consulting. Its technology stack is anchored on enterprise platforms — AIX, WebSphere Application Server, DB2, Java, and C — with additional capabilities in Windows Server, SQL Server, CentOS, and the Miva e-commerce engine. JTNet also retains operational capability in legacy mainframe middleware (IMS, SAIL, TIMES), which underpins its managed services and ongoing support contracts.

The firm serves a roster of large Japanese enterprise clients, including a major regional bank, a trust bank, a major telecom carrier, a major logistics company, a major automotive manufacturer, a restaurant chain, and a job-change service company. Revenue generation is project-based, driven by systems development engagements, ongoing managed services, and IT consulting engagements delivered under a proprietary methodology called IBCP. The company has established an offshore delivery channel through a Shanghai-based affiliate (HFS), supporting distributed development for enterprise clients.

JTNet is privately held with JPY 10 million in registered capital and is headquartered in Tokyo's Taito-ku. The company maintains a traditional IT services positioning with no disclosed AI/ML capabilities, no cloud-native platform offering, and limited recent public information on growth or modernization. Strategic activity beyond 2012 is not visible in the input data, suggesting a stable, mature small-scale operator with deep legacy expertise but limited recent expansion signals.

Name

JTNet

Legal name

株式会社日本シンクネット (Japan Think Net Co., Ltd.)

Website

https://jt-net.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

JTNet is a Tokyo-based IT services firm (founded 1990, 11-50 employees) that builds and maintains enterprise systems for banks, trust banks, telecom carriers, logistics companies, and automotive manufacturers using AIX, WebSphere, DB2, and Java technology stacks.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

IT Consulting & System Development Services

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computer Systems Design Services (541512)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Network Architecture & Design Services (BPAEAEAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

IT Program/Project Management (PMO) & Delivery Assurance (BPAEAAAO), Managed Network Services (NOC, Monitoring, Optimization) (BPAEAEAC)

Keywords

• IT consulting services
• Financial systems development
• Telecommunications systems
• Logistics systems
• System integration

Headquarters

HQ city

Tokyo

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. System Development Services: Custom system development across financial, telecommunications, and logistics verticals, including upstream (requirements definition, design) and downstream (development, testing, migration) phases. Revenue generated through project-based engagements staffed by system engineers.
2. IT Consulting: Consulting engagements applying IBCP methodology to help clients visualize business processes and recommend strategic and business decision models. Includes IT strategy and advisory services.
3. Project Management Services: Project management services providing dedicated project managers to support enterprise clients across the full project lifecycle, with emphasis on team and stakeholder communication.
4. Solution Business: Delivering 'wisdom' to help organizations balance evolving IT demands against cost pressures, providing ongoing IT solutions as an operational retainer-type service.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

JTNet provides custom IT system development, consulting, and project management services for financial institutions, telecommunications carriers, and logistics companies in Japan. Their offerings span the full system lifecycle—from upstream consulting and requirements definition through design, development, testing, migration, and ongoing operations/maintenance—delivered by in-house IT consultants and system engineers.

Product overview

JTNet (株式会社日本シンクネット / Japan Think Net Co., Ltd.) is an IT services company offering six core service lines: Financial System Development (金融系システム開発), Communication System Development (通信系システム開発), Distribution System Development (流通系システム開発), Solution Business (ソリューション事業), Project Management (プロジェクトマネジメント), and IT Consulting (ITコンサルティング). These services span from upstream consulting and requirements definition through system development, migration, and ongoing operations/maintenance, covering the full system lifecycle across financial, telecommunications, and distribution industries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Financial System Development (金融系システム開発) Custom system development for financial institutions, including core banking systems, accounting and information systems, CRM, spread banking, and large-scale migration projects covering 250+ peripheral subsystems. Targeted at regional banks, trust banks, and other financial institutions requiring compliance with banking regulations and infrastructure modernization.
• Communication System Development (通信系システム開発) Custom system development for telecommunications carriers, including payment processing systems handling credit card, convenience store, and prepaid card settlements, billing systems covering customer/order/billing management, and web-based applications built on AIX/WAS/DB2/Java or open-source frontends with Windows/SQL Server backends.
• Distribution System Development (流通系システム開発) Custom system development for logistics, distribution, and automotive enterprises, including package delivery tracking systems with portable POS devices, inquiry handling for failed deliveries, billing processing systems spanning ~300 domestic locations with real-time online transaction processing, freight cost estimation, invoice generation, and DB2 UDB environment management.
• Solution Business (ソリューション事業) Ongoing IT solutions providing 'wisdom' to help organizations balance evolving IT demands against cost pressures. Delivered as a retainer-style operational service providing continuous IT solutions to enterprise clients.
• Project Management (プロジェクトマネジメント) Project management services covering scope, cost, time, quality, risk, change, and communication management across the full project lifecycle from initiation to close. Provides dedicated project managers to enterprise clients with an emphasis on team and stakeholder communication.
• IT Consulting (ITコンサルティング) Hypothesis-driven IT consulting applying the IBCP (Issue Based Consulting Process) methodology to help enterprise clients visualize business processes and recommend strategic and operational decision models. Delivered by trained consultants to clients across financial, telecommunications, logistics, food service, and recruitment industries.

Quantifiable outcome

• Managed migration of 250+ peripheral subsystems for a regional bank consortium, successfully coordinating accounting and information system integration
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• 株式会社 シースリー (C3W)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as an affiliated company on JTNet's partner/affiliate page. Details of the partnership scope are not specified in available sources.
• 宏図信息技術（上海） (HFS)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerShanghai-based affiliated company listed on JTNet's partner page. The partnership likely supports offshore or distributed delivery capabilities for JTNet's system development services, enabling cross-border project execution.
• 株式会社 北海道総合技術研究所 (HIT-Giken)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as an affiliated company on JTNet's partner/affiliate page. Likely a regional technical partnership based in Hokkaido, Japan. Details of the partnership scope are not specified in available sources.
• 株式会社 未来ビジネス研究所minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerListed as an affiliated company on JTNet's partner/affiliate page. Details of the partnership scope are not specified in available sources.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves11 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Otsuka Corporation: Japanese IT services and solution provider serving enterprise clients across multiple verticals. Comparable in scale and customer-targeting approach to JTNet, with broad system integration and consulting capabilities.
• BIPROGY (formerly UNISYS Japan): Japanese systems integrator with deep mainframe and core banking system heritage (legacy UNISYS Japan). Directly comparable to JTNet's AIX/mainframe-era migration and integration work for banks and trust banks.
• SCSK Corporation: Mid-large Japanese IT services firm (Sumitomo Corporation group) with strong financial, telecom, and distribution system integration practices. Directly comparable to JTNet's cross-vertical systems integration business.
• Nomura Research Institute (NRI): Major Japanese IT services and consulting firm with one of the strongest financial-sector practices (securities, asset management, retail banking platforms). NRI is a direct peer in financial system integration and IT consulting, serving the same enterprise banking clients JTNet targets.
• DTS Corporation: Mid-sized Japanese IT services firm specializing in financial, distribution, and embedded systems. Closely comparable to JTNet in scale, vertical focus, and custom system integration / project management offerings.
• TIS Inc. Mid-to-large Japanese IT services firm with strong credit card, payment processing, and financial system integration business. TIS is a direct peer to JTNet's telecom billing/payment processing work and financial sector system development.

Broad incumbents

• NTT Data: Japan's largest IT services firm with deep financial-sector system integration practice (core banking, payment systems, shared bank platforms). NTT Data is a much larger broad incumbent operating in JTNet's exact niche (financial systems) but at vastly greater scale.
• NEC Corporation: Major Japanese IT and network equipment vendor with substantial financial and telecom systems integration business. Broad incumbent competing in the same enterprise IT services space as JTNet, particularly in banking core systems.
• IBM Japan: Japanese arm of IBM Global Services with deep mainframe (z/OS, IMS), banking, and large-scale enterprise migration expertise. Broad incumbent whose financial-sector consulting and AIX/DB2 practice overlaps directly with JTNet's niche.
• Fujitsu: One of Japan's largest IT conglomerates with extensive financial, telecom, and public-sector system integration practices. A broad incumbent operating across all three of JTNet's verticals but at mega-scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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