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I am starting a new project and have to come up with a name for it so that
everybody knows what we are talking about.

The project is the renewal of an IT application that I will call エックスワイゼッド.
Improving the existing software and adding a few features.

Can I call it エックスワイゼット更新プロジェクト ?

Is there a better word/expression?

_I looked up on ALC and others but could not find. Your methodology for
translating this kind of term would also interest me :-)_
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word-choice translation business-japanese
IT system renewal: Can I say 更新 for "renewal"?
May be

> エックスワイゼッド **改善** プロジェクト

Since **改善** (かいぜん) has direct meaning of "improving the existing and adding
new features"
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I notice many bloggers use 更新 to refer to a blog update. In a project of
larger scale and work of renewal it may seem inappropriate. So it might depend
heavily on the degree of change and renewal you want to imply by the name.
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Yes, renewal (of a computer system/hardware/software) can be 更新. For example,
the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) renewed their system in Jan. 2010, and the
heading on the website of the news agency [Kyodo
News](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyodo_News) was:

> [東証、４日に新システム稼働
> １０年ぶり更新](http://www.47news.jp/CN/201001/CN2010010201000305.html)
> (とうしょう、よっかにしんシステムかどう じゅうねんぶりこうしん) TSE to start a new system on (Jan.) 4th;
> the first renewal in ten years

Another candidate for the project name might be エックスワイゼッド新バージョン開発プロジェクト (the
project for developing a new version of XYZ). Compared to エックスワイゼッド更新プロジェクト,
this focuses on the development of the application program.

(By the way, this has nothing to do with the question itself, but the letter Z
in the English alphabet is usually read as ゼット rather than ゼッド in Japanese.)
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When we are talking about _Improving the existing software and adding a few
features_ we usually use the term 再構築 _saikouchiku_ , translated with Alc it
becomes 'restructuring' but I'm guessing that is the meaning you are looking
for.
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I am a software engineer.

If we will add a few new features or fix bugs, we use

> エックスワイゼッド改修プロジェクト
>
> エックスワイゼッドプロジェクト第２フェーズ
>
> など

If we will only update data, we use

> エックスワイゼッド更新プロジェクト
>
> エックスワイゼッドデータ更新プロジェクト
>
> など

「システム更新/システムを更新する」has a nuance replacing the whole system.

Personally, I think「改善プロジェクト」is used for some projects other than system
development. 体質改善プロジェクト,食事改善プロジェクト,業務改善プロジェクト,etc.
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更新: Update

改修: replace certain parts (broken, old, or not working efficiently, etc) so
that it works again or works better.

改新: Total replacement with new. I rarely see this word used by I think it fits
the occasion (project renewal).

改革: reform. fix bad design, concept, idea, or way of doing things.
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The word that we tend to use at your company is 更改{こうかい} which also translates
to renewal.
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