Nomura Research Institute Ltd. engages in the provision of research, business consulting, and systems services. The company is headquartered in Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo-To and currently employs 16,679 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2001-12-17. The firm operates four business segments. The Consulting segment provides policy recommendations, strategic consulting, operational consulting, and systems consulting. The Financial IT Solutions segment provides system consulting, system development and operation services, IT solutions such as joint-use systems, and business process outsourcing (BPO) services, mainly for financial industry clients. The Industrial IT Solutions segment provides IT solutions such as system consulting, system development and operation services to the distribution, manufacturing, service, and public sectors. The IT Platform Services segment provides data center operations and management, IT infrastructure and network construction, and other services.