Fileforce Publishes H.S. Insurance Case Study, Achieving About 40% Total Cost Reduction and 80-90% Less Administrative Work

Fileforce Inc. announced that it has published a case study on the implementation of Fileforce by H.S. Insurance Co., Ltd. H.S. Insurance had been reviewing a renewal of its file infrastructure due to challenges such as the end of maintenance support for physical servers, disaster recovery work, disk expansion, insufficient backup capacity, and increasingly complex access permission management. By adopting Fileforce, the company reduced total costs by about 40% and administrative workload by 80-90%. The implementation also helped advance zero-trust security by removing the requirement to connect through the internal corporate network. Before the implementation, the company faced a heavy operational burden around hardware, including responding to the end of maintenance support for physical servers and operating systems, recovery work during failures, and disk expansion as data volumes grew. Backup management was also a serious issue: whenever backup destination capacity ran short, the company had to delete old data to secure space. In addition, inconsistent inheritance settings for access permissions led to frequent inquiries such as users being unable to access or view files, requiring significant resources for investigation. Reviewing permission settings for every personnel transfer or new hire had also become increasingly complicated. When comparing multiple services, the company prioritized ease of adoption without user training costs. Fileforce was highly rated because it offers an operation feel similar to Windows Explorer and can be used naturally from the first day of implementation. Amid frequent reports of ransomware damage, its robust security measures and recovery expertise also gave the company confidence that recovery would be possible even in the event of an incident. The implementation eliminated the need for physical server procurement, construction costs, and data center costs associated with remote backup, reducing total costs by about 40%. It also removed tasks such as backup failure response, capacity expansion, and hardware failure response at the root, reducing administrative workload by 80-90%. In addition, it removed the constraint that users had to connect to the internal corporate network, contributing to the promotion of a zero-trust security model. Fileforce said it will continue supporting H.S. Insurance and other Fileforce customers so they can use and manage files with greater confidence. Fileforce is a Japan-developed cloud file server used by more than 25,000 companies, including OEM services, regardless of industry or organization size. Under its mission of empowering all organizations through the evolution of work, Fileforce preserves the familiar Explorer-based operations long used with on-premises file servers, helping prevent user confusion and operational mistakes while significantly reducing the risk of information leaks. It also allows companies to maintain existing folder-level access permission settings and user permission designs, helping enforce the principle of least privilege and provide a high level of data security.