GFAM

What GFAM does

GFAM Co., Ltd. (株式会社ジィファム, "Good Family") is a privately held Japanese IT services firm founded in January 2004 and headquartered in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, with a branch in Osaka. The company provides custom system development, IT infrastructure construction, project management, and consulting services, with a deliberate vertical focus on the Japanese financial sector — banks (city, trust, shinkin), securities companies, credit card issuers, and life insurers. Representative case studies include middle-office securities processing systems, 24/7 internet banking platforms, credit card core system migrations from mainframe to UNIX, and comprehensive insurance information systems. Service delivery is project-based and relationship-driven, sold directly to enterprise clients through the company's two physical offices covering the Kanto and Kansai regions.

The underlying technology stack is a traditional, Java-centric enterprise environment: Seasar2, S2DAO, MyBatis, Struts, Hibernate, and Spring Framework on the application side; Oracle, DB2, and Sybase on AIX, Linux, and Windows Server platforms; with legacy COBOL and mainframe modernization as a notable capability. Three integrated service lines — System Development (システム開発), System Infrastructure (システム基盤), and IT Management (ITマネジメント) — are supplemented by discrete Project Management and Consulting offerings. Revenue is generated through professional services engagements (design, development, maintenance, operations), with a worker dispatching license enabling supplementary engineer staffing. The company holds Privacy Mark certification (JIPDEC) and JIS Q 15001 compliance, and is led by Representative Director Noriaki Takizawa with 70 employees as of April 1, 2022 and registered capital of 10 million JPY.

Name

GFAM

Legal name

GFAM Co.,Ltd.

Website

https://gfam.co.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

GFAM Co., Ltd. is a Tokyo-based Japanese IT services firm providing custom system development, infrastructure, project management, and consulting primarily to banks, securities firms, credit card issuers, and insurers, with a traditional Java/enterprise technology stack and approximately 70 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Financial IT Systems Development Services

NAICS

Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computer Systems Design Services (541512), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415)

SIC

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

akta.pro primary industry

ITSM Platform Implementation & Administration (ServiceNow/JSM/BMC/etc.) (BPAEAJAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

ITIL/ITSM Process Consulting & Implementation (BPAEAJAB)

Keywords

• Financial systems development
• IT infrastructure services
• Banking software solutions
• Enterprise IT consulting
• Project management services

Headquarters

HQ city

Tokyo

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Systems Development Services: Custom software development and system integration services for financial institutions and enterprises. Revenue is generated through project-based professional services, including system design, development, maintenance, and operations support.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

GFAM provides custom IT systems development, IT infrastructure construction and operations, and IT project management services, with deep specialization in financial sector applications for banks, securities companies, credit card issuers, and lease companies. The company delivers end-to-end services spanning system consulting, design, application development, infrastructure setup, and ongoing maintenance for mission-critical financial workloads, alongside broader enterprise IT consulting and project promotion services.

Product overview

GFAM (株式会社ジィファム, meaning 'Good Family') is a Japanese IT services company providing three integrated service lines: システム開発 (System Development), システム基盤 (System Infrastructure), and ITマネジメント (IT Management). Their primary focus is on financial sector systems for banks, securities companies, and credit card companies. They offer end-to-end services from system design and development to infrastructure construction and project management, with a philosophy of 'human-friendly system development' that emphasizes long-term efficiency and reusability over short-term results.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Financial Systems Development (システム開発)
• System Infrastructure Services (システム基盤)
• IT Management and Project Promotion (ITマネジメント)
• IT Consulting Service (コンサルティングサービス)
• Internet Banking System Development and Operations

Named customers6 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• SCSK Corporation: SCSK is a mid-to-large Japanese SI offering financial system development, infrastructure services, and consulting - comparable breadth to GFAM's three-line service model with greater scale.
• Fujitsu (Japan): Fujitsu provides large-scale systems integration and core banking platforms in Japan; GFAM's mainframe-to-UNIX migration work for card and bank clients overlaps directly with Fujitsu's traditional stronghold.
• Hitachi Solutions: Hitachi Solutions delivers enterprise application development, financial systems, and IT consulting in Japan and globally; overlaps with GFAM's enterprise and consulting service lines with a much larger corporate umbrella.
• NTT Data: NTT Data is the dominant Japanese systems integrator with a large financial services practice across banking, securities, and insurance - overlapping with GFAM's customer base but operating at vastly greater scale and with broader portfolio offerings.

Emerging players

• Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ): IIJ provides IT infrastructure, cloud, and managed services - comparable to GFAM's IT Infrastructure segment and increasingly relevant as Japanese banks move workloads off mainframe.

Direct peers

• Nihon Unisys (now BIPROGY): Predecessor brand of BIPROGY; included here only if reflecting historical peer set otherwise merges with BIPROGY above.
• BIPROGY (formerly UNISYS Japan): BIPROGY is a long-standing IT services provider to Japanese banks, credit card companies, and securities firms with a similarly sized mid-market delivery model, making it a closely comparable peer for GFAM.
• Mitsubishi Research Institute (MRI): MRI combines IT consulting, system development, and research for Japanese financial institutions and government - closely analogous to GFAM's consulting-plus-development combination targeting banks.
• Nomura Research Institute (NRI): NRI is Japan's largest dedicated financial-sector IT services and consulting firm, serving banks, securities, and insurance companies with system development, consulting, and outsourcing - directly comparable to GFAM's banking/securities/card focus.
• TIS Inc. TIS provides mid-sized Japanese enterprise IT services including financial-sector system development, payment platforms, and IT infrastructure - directly parallel to GFAM in size, vertical mix, and service offering.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

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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