Construction of SaaS-Based e-Learning System in Japan

Fujitsu's "Internet Navigware" electronic learning (e-learning) application began to be offered in Japan in the alternative format of Software as a Service (SaaS) in July 2008 after ten years of life as a packaged product. In this paper, the author first outlines Fujitsu's objective in converting Internet Navigare to a SaaS application and then describes the functional requirements of SaaS applications for reducing operating costs such as a multi-tenant structure and how those requirements were satisfied in Internet Navigware.