1. Copyright © 2011 NS Solutions Corporation, All rights reserved. Internship Program at Systems R&D Center in NS Solutions Internship Program at Systems R&D Center in NS Solutions

2. Copyright © 2011 NS Solutions Corporation, All rights reserved. 1. Who we are: History Electronics & Information Systems Division (1986) Developing businesses, including PC, Workstation & peripherals, Factory Automation, Semiconductor etc UNIX(NSSUN), EBS, SCM Knowledge of hardware, OS etc. Industry, Finance system solutionIndustry, Finance system solution Electronics & Information Systems Division (1986) Developing businesses, including PC, Workstation & peripherals, Factory Automation, Semiconductor etc UNIX(NSSUN), EBS, SCM Knowledge of hardware, OS etc. Industry, Finance system solutionIndustry, Finance system solution Nippon Steel Information & Communication Systems (1988) Spin-off of NSCs computer system division Mainframe-based application software development, maintenance and system operation for mainly NSC and other customers Knowledge of Oracle based systemKnowledge of Oracle based system development development Nippon Steel Information & Communication Systems (1988) Spin-off of NSCs computer system division Mainframe-based application software development, maintenance and system operation for mainly NSC and other customers Knowledge of Oracle based systemKnowledge of Oracle based system development development NS Solutions Corporation Established 2001 Listed on the Stock Exchange in 2002 NS Solutions Corporation Established 2001 Listed on the Stock Exchange in 2002 Information system section Information system section Electric control- related section Electric control- related section Nippon Steel Corporation One of the world's largest steelmakers Pioneer in using large-scale computer system in manufacturing 1 50-years-experience as a large-scale computer system user 25-year-expertise in information and computer system business

3. Copyright © 2011 NS Solutions Corporation, All rights reserved. 1. Who we are: Corporate Outline SalesSales EmployeeEmployee StockholderStockholder Consolidated \159.7 billion (Unconsolidated \142.2 billion) FY ended Mar.2011 Consolidated \159.7 billion (Unconsolidated \142.2 billion) FY ended Mar.2011 Nippon Steel 67.0 Nippon Steel 67.0 Kiakyushu Hikari Oita Osaka Sakai Nagoya Sendai Kamaishi Tokyo Sapporo Muroran Himeji Kimitsu Fukuoka Tokai Yokohama NS Solutions USA Corp. Shanghai NS Solutions Software (Shanghai) Co., Ltd Consolidated 4,917 (Unconsolidated 2,414) Mar.2011 Consolidated 4,917 (Unconsolidated 2,414) Mar.2011 2

4. Copyright © 2011 NS Solutions Corporation, All rights reserved. 2. What we do: Business Areas (FY ended Mar.2011) Business solution focused on specific fields Operation service excellent in reliability Business solution \88.4bn(55%) Business service \52.5bn(33%) IT infrastructure solutions \18.8bn(12%) Advanced IT infrastructure solutions for multi products accommodating large-scale and mission-critical requirements 3

5. Copyright © 2011 NS Solutions Corporation, All rights reserved. 19882011 2. What we do: Sales Breakdown (FY ended Mar.2011) Manufacturing 34% Distribution & services 21% Financial services 19% Government, public organizations 15% Telecom 7% Others 4% Customer except Nippon Steel 21%82% Customer except Nippon Steel 21%82% 4 Nippon Steel 79%18% Nippon Steel 79%18%

6. Copyright © 2011 NS Solutions Corporation, All rights reserved. 3. Our Strength: SLC System Life Cycle Total Solution Long-term P-D-C-A cycle to dynamically spiral-up customers business performance customers business performance Long-term P-D-C-A cycle to dynamically spiral-up customers business performance customers business performance Business Application Application Integration Infrastructure Infrastructure Integration Infrastructure Shared System Utility System Infrastructure Services IT Consultation Operation and Maintenance System Life Cycle Supported by NS Solutions Construction 5 Integrated Corporate System Architecture

7. Copyright © 2011 NS Solutions Corporation, All rights reserved. Complex Logistics Strict Control of Ingredient and Temperature Various Equipment Constraints Hot Direct Rolling Synchronize multiple processes Micron-order Gauge Control 24 7 Operation Just-In-Time Delivery 3. Our Strength: DNA of Steel-making 10 Data Centers nationwide 10 Data Centers nationwide 30 Main Frame machines 30 Main Frame machines Thousands of UNIX Servers Thousands of UNIX Servers Tens of thousands of PCs Tens of thousands of PCs 6 Blast furnace Iron ore Coal Rolling Steel products Scrap Continuous casting Shipment Pig iron Wire-rod mill Hot strip mill Pipe mill Wire -rod Plate Sheets Seamless pipe Basic oxygen furnace Billets Blooms Slabs Reheating furnace Heavy plate mill

8. Copyright © 2011 NS Solutions Corporation, All rights reserved. 3. Our Strength:technology –R&D Center 7 Systems Research and Development Center -Location : Yokohama (cf: HQ stands on Tokyo, 1h away from Yokohama) -Member : app. 200 members -Scale of R&D : app. 1% of net sales (160 billion yen) Systems Research and Development Center -Location : Yokohama (cf: HQ stands on Tokyo, 1h away from Yokohama) -Member : app. 200 members -Scale of R&D : app. 1% of net sales (160 billion yen) The possession of R&D center is rare among System Integrator companies. R&D center has started as a part of R&D department of Nippon Steel, in 25 years. (Ex. Artificial Intelligence, Parallel Processing, Image processing and Image Communication) This center has experimental facilities for various technologies such as cloud computing.

9. Copyright © 2011 NS Solutions Corporation, All rights reserved. R&D Center has target on technology for enterprise usage in 3 years, with 3 missions below: Research & Development Research, evaluate, verify and implement new products, IT services, processes, techniques, architectures and concepts Support for Business project Supply highly skilled IT professionals into business project for customers in needs Deploy the results of R&D and new technologies to business Education Produce professionals with high technology skills Give education for in-house and off-shore members to be readily work members 8 GOAL:Supply Leaders in IT Technology for the Whole Company R&D : Support Project = 50 : 50 4. R&D Center: Mission R&D Support Project Education Contribution to Business Training Tech Leaders

10. Copyright © 2011 NS Solutions Corporation, All rights reserved. 9 Collaborative Effect from experiences of R&D and projects Early Adaptation of R&D results and feed back for R&D activities Early notice on Object-Oriented, Java and web technologies Engagement from a dawning era, and Investment for enterprise use Expertise in Optimization problem Huge needs of optimiztion of overall production management in Nippon steal Encounter Network Society in Early Days Engagement R&D in pre-Internet era and Adaptation network system for huge steelworks Engagement Benchmark and Database Technologies Joint activities with Oracle Achievement of research for benchmark technology with parallel computing Engagement advanced technology Cloud Computing, Business Intelligence, Software factories(private PaaS) etc 4. R&D Center: Its advantages

11. Copyright © 2011 NS Solutions Corporation, All rights reserved. InfiniBand Network IP Network Hitachi SANRISE AMS500 NetApp Filer More than 200 Nodes/More than 800 CPU core FC Network DELLEqualLogic iSCSI HP EVA4000 PAR PAR 10 4. R&D Center:NS Cloud Competence Center

12. Copyright © 2011 NS Solutions Corporation, All rights reserved. 5. Internship:Outline 1 11 General Description: Researchers at System R&D center, in NSSOL, develop the next-generation IT technologies for enterprise usage. With this internship program, students can join the real project and work with researchers together. Those projects include various fields in software and hardware engineering. All interns receive ongoing mentorship and training throughout their program. Date: Jan 26 th, 2012 – Feb 24 th, 2012 Business Hours: 9:00 – 17:20 (12:00 – 12:50 is Lunch time) Monday – Friday Position: Full-time Location: Yokohama, Japan Relocation Assistance: We offer all interns - air tickets (Tokyo – Seoul in round) - hotels - allowance (\2,500- / work day) Required Language: Fluent in Japanese or English (For Internship only)

13. Copyright © 2011 NS Solutions Corporation, All rights reserved. 5. Internship: Detailed theme #1 12 Theme: Development of operation supporting system with AR head-mount display Description: In this project, we will develop an operation supporting system featured AR technology for enterprise usage. The coverage include constructing the architecture and implementing an application using an optical see-through HMD (head-mount display) and an AR frame-work, and designing and evaluating its user interface. Pre-requisite: -business level skill of communication in either Japanese or English -Excellent implementation skill in either C#, Java, or C++ (at least 1,000 lines). -Familiality of fundamental math to dealing with 3D CG (ex.Affine transformation)

14. Copyright © 2011 NS Solutions Corporation, All rights reserved. 5. Internship: Detailed theme #2 13 Theme: Construction of prototype system of problem-solving application applied combinatorial optimization Description: You will develop an application program to solve combinatorial optimization problems, with OR-tools and Python. At the same time, You will evaluate new open source OR-tools with some benchmarks. You can learn the fundamental skills to apply combinatorial optimization technologies and the difficulty of applying those skills into real world problems. Pre-requisite: -Implementation skill and experience especially in C++ and Python -Interest and knowledge for mathematical games and puzzles -Majoring or specializing in combinatorial optimization and OR(operation research)

15. Copyright © 2011 NS Solutions Corporation, All rights reserved. 4. Internship: Detailed theme #3 14 Theme: Constructing prototype of BI (Business Intelligence) system which is integrated with multiple products. Description: You will construct prototype of BI system by using latest Microsoft Technologies such as Self-Service BI, Master Data Management, Data Quality, ETL Tools, etc. You will have an experience with a process to integrate multiple products into one solution through this internship. You can learn our methodologies for validating and evaluating products. Pre-requisite: -Development experience of a system using Relational Database -Familiarity with windows environment

16. Copyright © 2011 NS Solutions Corporation, All rights reserved. 4. Internship: Detailed theme 15 Theme: Constructing prototype of BI (Business Intelligence) system Description: You will construct prototype of Enterprise BI system with latest Microsoft Technologies such as SQL Server 2012 Power View and SharePoint. You will also develop demo using the prototype. You will have an experience with a process to integrate multiple products into one solution through this internship. You can learn our methodologies for validating and evaluating products. Pre-requisite: -Development experience of a system using Relational Database (SQL Literacy) -Familiar with windows environment -*Knowledge of OLAP Analysis (Drill-down, Slicing, and Dicing, etc) *We can provide learning material to beginners for self-learning

17. Copyright © 2011 NS Solutions Corporation, All rights reserved. 5. Internship: Application Process 16 1.Attend to the on-campus seminar 2. Submit the application sheet Application sheets are provided and submitted as an attachment of e-mail to recruit@ns-sol.co.jp. 3. Take a web-based test (invitation only) After we checked the application sheet, some applicants will get an e-mail for a web-based test. 4. Take an interview via TV conference system (invitation only) Our members of R&D center and HR department will show on this interview.

18. Copyright © 2011 NS Solutions Corporation, All rights reserved. 6. Application guide for full time employees 17 Before joining NSSOL, applicants will need fluent language skill in Japanese (Ex. JLPT 1 class, OPI test 3+). They will get assistances to study Japanese before joining us. Further questions will be answered during interviews for an internship or an internship itself. The participants of this internship program can get opportunities to apply a job from 2013/2014.

19. Copyright © 2011 NS Solutions Corporation, All rights reserved. 6. Application guide for full time employees 18 > System Engineers(SE) Increase the productivity of clients by managing and implementing IT systems enhancements R&D assistants Research, evaluate, verify and implement new products, IT services, processes, techniques, architectures and concepts. Also, they are responsible for supporting the business projects. > We will accept applicants who: 1.Will get Bachelor or Master degree. 2.Have interests in enterprise system use as well as knowledge, skills, and interests in IT technologies 3.Have sophisticated logical thinking and challenging mind to difficult issues 4.Plan to work in Japan at least five years 5.Have or will acquire business level skill of communication in Japanese

20. Copyright © 2011 NS Solutions Corporation, All rights reserved. 6. Application guide for full time employees 19 > 1.Highly competitive salaries Annual model salary (for master degree takers/ bachelor degree takers) - the 1 st year : \3.6 M / \ 3.1 M - the 2 nd year: \4.1 M / \ 3.5 M *the average annual salary for whole employees : app. \ 8.0 M 2. Transportation fare 3. A housing allowance or dormitories 4.Social insurances - employees pension, health insurance, and employment insurance

21. Copyright © 2011 NS Solutions Corporation, All rights reserved. 6. Application guide for full time employees 20 > 1.Before joining NSSOL - Support to study Japanese before perspective employees come to Japan - Intensive program to study Japanese language and culture, especially needed to work in Japanese companies 2.First year in NSSOL - Off-JT training program during April to July - new hires in some department must take other programs after the Off-JT program above 3. Others - NSSOL offer various opportunities, related to technology, business skills, and language skills - also offer sponsorship to study abroad

22. Copyright © 2011 NS Solutions Corporation, All rights reserved. 7. Any questions? 21 Ask today ! Or Contact to: NS Solutions Corporation Human Resource Department, Recruiting Group Ms. Kanako Tone TEL: +81-3-5117-5060 (Japanese only) E-MAIL: recruit@ns-sol.co.jp (Japanese or English)recruit@ns-sol.co.jp