Transition to a Mobile- and Cloud-Based Business Model

「そして、「かく」という人間の思考プロセスや身体の動的な変化をAIやデジタル技術へ接続し、新たな体験価値を創出することで、サービス体験の提供者としての事業成長を加速させてまいります。」

「Under the Wacom Group’s medium-term management plan, “Wacom Chapter ４,” the Company aims to build a new revenue model based on data and services in addition to hardware sales, moving beyond a business model centered on providing existing devices, and to deliver value through that model.」

「In December 2024, the Company began providing “Wacom Bridge,” a service designed to provide a drawing experience on professional tablets and displays in remote environments that is equivalent to that of a local environment, with support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) in addition to “Splashtop,” which was already supported.」

「To provide a drawing experience on professional tablets and displays in remote environments that is equivalent to that of a local environment, the Company began providing the “Wacom Bridge” service following joint development with Splashtop, Inc.」

「As part of its efforts to support creative workflows in remote environments, the Company worked with partner companies toward delivering a drawing experience on professional tablets and displays optimized for cloud and virtual desktop environments.」

「The Company is also promoting the adoption of “WILL™ (Wacom Ink Layer Language),” a digital ink technology that enables interoperability across operating systems, through the nonprofit Digital Stationery Consortium, Inc. (DSC), which was established to promote the adoption and development of digital stationery. With the potential to expand its business applications as big data at the core, the Company will accelerate the creation and adoption of new value.」

「To enable close two-way communication with individual customers, we introduced Wacom ID and provide detailed customer support. Together with the cloud service Inkspace and e-commerce service Marketplace offered by our Group, we propose workflows that strongly support customers’ creative activities.」

「In the consumer business, we worked to strengthen our high-end product lineup in the digital stationery market by launching stylus products optimized for Windows tablets and promoting sales of smart pad products.」

「We will expand our product lines from those traditionally focused on PCs into an ecosystem integrating mobile information devices with cloud-based applications and services.」

「While leaving unchanged its basic strategy of evolving the business model toward mobile and cloud, the company will continue to pursue business growth.」

「In the consumer business, digital stationery that converts ideas handwritten on paper into digital ink and allows them to be stored and edited using the cloud is opening up a new market.」

「While maintaining its basic strategy of evolving the business model toward mobile and cloud, the company is working to develop new global markets and further strengthen existing businesses under a new global business organization.」