Fujitsu Japan's Certificate Issuance System for Convenience Stores Couldn't Stand the Increase in Number of Transactions
After writing this article, I was able to read a related article on Nikkei Computer, so I would like to add it.
According to Fujitsu's website, the convenience store issuing system made by Fujitsu Japan (Fujitsu MICJET), which caused trouble, was originally a mechanism for printing certificates at convenience stores using the Basic Resident Register card. I think that the basic design of this system was inherited as it was even if it changed to My Number Card.
According to Wikipedia, as of March 31, 2014, a total of 8,335,115 Basic Resident Register cards have been issued. On the other hand, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, as of April 30, 87,865,814 My Number cards have been issued.
The number of My Number cards issued is about ten times the number of Basic Resident Register cards.
If the scale is so different, the system will also need to deal with it. In the case of Fujitsu Japan's issuance system for convenience stores, the number of cases processed was small when using Basic Resident Register cards, so there may not have been any trouble. However, a bug was discovered when the number of transactions increased with the introduction of My Number cards.
"Rather poor design" shouldn't have surprised him, and he probably thought it was quite clumsy.
According to this article, 123 local governments are using Fujitsu Japan's delivery system for convenience stores. What is the design of the systems used by other municipalities? I would like Nikkei BP reporters to cover other companies' systems as well.
By the way, the president of Fujitsu, the parent company, has apologized twice so far, probably because he thought that Fujitsu Japan's apology was not enough. Furthermore, at the end of June, this system caused trouble in Munakata City, but I wonder how Fujitsu will respond (I will write about this trouble again).