Fujitsu automates entire software development lifecycle with new AI-Driven Software Development ....
Fujitsu Limited announced the
development and launch of its AI-Driven Software Development Platform, a new
initiative to bring software development into the AI age and contribute to the
sustainable growth of its customers and society. This platform automates the
entire software development process, from requirements definition and design to
implementation and integration testing. By leveraging the Takane large language
model (LLM) and agentic AI technology for large-scale software development
developed by Fujitsu Research, the AI-Driven Software Development Platform
enables AI agents to understand complex, evolving large-scale systems owned by
enterprises and public organizations. The platform has multiple AI agents
collaboratively execute each stage of software development, achieving full
automation of the entire process without human intervention.
Fujitsu aims to use this AI-Driven Software Development Platform
to carry out revisions to all 67 types of medical and government business
software products provided by Fujitsu Japan Limited by the end of fiscal year
2026. The revisions are necessary due to legal and regulatory changes. From
January 2026, the platform has been used in Japan for software modifications
made necessary by the 2026 medical fee revisions. In a PoC that updated
software as per the 2024 medical fee revisions, the platform demonstrated a
significant reduction in development time for one of approximately 300 change
requests. Using conventional software development methods the modifications
would have taken three person-months. With this technology that was
dramatically shortened to four hours, achieving a 100-fold increase in
productivity.
By utilizing this AI-driven
development platform, Fujitsu will dramatically improve the speed of software
modifications necessitated by legal amendments and system changes. This will
significantly reduce the burden previously required for system verification
during modifications, thereby freeing up time for the planning and development
of measures and services that lead to improved patient, resident, and customer
services, as well as enabling customers and partners to continuously adapt to
ever-changing operations and societal needs. Furthermore, Fujitsu envisions
that this technology will also help customers and partners to respond to
expanding IT demand and alleviate the worsening shortage of IT professionals.
In AI-driven development, Fujitsu positions AI-Ready
Engineering—the process of preparing assets and knowledge to ensure AI
correctly understands existing systems and achieves highly reliable
automation—as crucial. With AI-Ready Engineering and the AI-Driven Software
Development Platform working in tandem, Fujitsu will accelerate AI-driven
software development. Fujitsu will promote a transformation in engineers' work
styles, strengthening its Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) complement, and
shifting the paradigm of software development from a conventional
person-month-based approach to a customer value-based approach.
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