JBソフトウェア: Continued Initiatives in the Environmental and Healthcare Fields

「For our core software products, we are developing the ATTAZoo brand for customers of Cybozu's cloud-based business improvement platform, kintone, and advancing research and development of functions that enable customers' business digital transformation, external service integration functions and governance functions. We are also conducting technical verification for converting the next version of R-PiCS-NX to a SaaS model and adding AI functions.」

「The Group has also established the Advanced Technology Research Institute to develop expertise in new technologies and generate ideas for new products. In cutting-edge fields such as AI and IoT, where technological innovation is progressing rapidly, we aim to develop entirely new products and services based on ideas unavailable from other companies, and are actively conducting surveys and research into the latest technologies.」

「Our core cloud data integration platform, Qanat Universe, provides data integration functions to major domestic business-oriented SaaS products. We are expanding the number of connected SaaS products, with the stable delivery of high-quality services as our top priority.」

「Embedded delivery into SaaS solutions compliant with the invoice system, introduced in October 2023, and the Electronic Books Preservation Act, made mandatory in January 2024, proved effective. Cumulative sales reached 4,582, up 97.4% from the previous fiscal year.」

「Our core service, Qanat Universe, is primarily developed as a business providing data integration functions to major domestic business-oriented SaaS products. Contracts during the quarter totaled 510, up 0.2% year on year, bringing cumulative contracts to 4,072. We will continue strengthening collaboration with SaaS providers to expand orders.」

「Our core service, Qanat Universe, is primarily developed as a business providing data integration functions to major domestic business-oriented SaaS products. Embedded delivery into SaaS solutions compliant with the Electronic Books Preservation Act and the invoice system grew steadily ahead of the invoice system's implementation in October. Qanat Universe contracts during the quarter reached a record quarterly high of 720, up 166.7% year on year, bringing cumulative contracts to 3,562.」

「Embedded delivery of Qanat Universe into SaaS solutions compliant with the Electronic Books Preservation Act and the invoice system continued to grow steadily. The integration features with RAKUS's email marketing service Haipai Mail, announced in March 2023, and Cybozu's kintone also got off to a strong start. Qanat Universe contracts during the quarter totaled 521, up 71.9% year on year, bringing cumulative contracts to 2,842.」

「For Qanat Universe, our core cloud data integration platform, which is being adopted by various cloud service providers, we are conducting research and development on new services and new functions for existing services. Specifically, in response to customer needs, we are researching solutions suitable for the Electronic Books Preservation Act and working to deliver greater value to customers.」

「In software, we are shifting toward subscription-based services centered on HARMONIZE's cloud data integration platform, Qanat Universe, as a stable and recurring revenue base. In addition to conventional integration between SaaS products, demand increased for data integration with SaaS solutions compliant with the Electronic Books Preservation Act ahead of its mandatory implementation in 2024. Progress was also solid in developing an embedded business model in which Qanat Universe is provided as a standard feature bundled with SaaS solutions rather than as an additional option. The number of contracts during the third quarter of the fiscal year reached a record high, bringing cumulative contracts to 1,788, up 278.8% year on year.」

「We are shifting toward subscription-based services centered on Qanat Universe, the cloud integration platform for HARMONIZE, as a stable and recurring revenue base. In addition to data integration between existing SaaS products, integration projects with IoT devices, a newly targeted area, including electronic locks, grew steadily, bringing cumulative contracts to 1,279, up 411.6% year on year. R-PiCS, our proprietary production management system, is also driving order growth by meeting increasingly diverse customer needs through our broad technical capabilities spanning cloud services, business systems and hardware. This includes combined proposals pairing R-PiCS with kintone to address replacement demand for aging core systems.」

「In addition to strengthening sales of data integration between existing SaaS products, we are also proceeding with new integration solutions for various IoT devices and high-performance scanners. Cumulative contracts reached 1,127, up 431.6% year on year. R-PiCS, our production management package, also remained solid, supported by existing orders as well as new projects and version-upgrade business.」

「The stock business of Qanat Universe grew 12.3% in sales year on year, supported by solid integration with the Bugyo Cloud series of OBIC BUSINESS CONSULTANTS CO.,LTD., a key integration partner, and the Rakuraku Seisan series of 株式会社ラクス.」

「The company is transitioning to monthly subscription services and a high-profit structure based on a stock business centered on the priority product Qanat Universe. As a cloud-integration platform enabling interoperability among SaaS products, Qanat Universe has strengthened collaboration with strategic partners and steadily increased the number of connected solutions and contracts. Most recently, the company began providing a customer-information data-integration service between kintone, a product of Cybozu,Inc., and Kaikura, the customer-engagement cloud product of 株式会社シンカ.」

「The company is transitioning its software business to monthly subscription services centered on the strategic Qanat Universe product and is focusing on transforming its business structure into a stock-based model.」

「The company is developing and enhancing products including Qanat Universe, a cloud-integration platform increasingly adopted by various cloud-service providers; ATTAZoo+, a subscription-based extension of Cybozu,Inc.'s cloud development platform kintone; and R-PiCS, a wholly domestically developed production-management system installed at more than 660 factories in Japan and overseas, thereby pursuing product development that will provide customers with greater satisfaction than ever.」

「JB Software is being transitioned to monthly subscription services, and sales and profit have temporarily declined during the transition. In addition to collaboration within the Group, the company is focusing on business collaborations with strategic partners. As groundwork for expanding the strategic Qanat Universe business, it began providing a service integrating data between the Bugyo Cloud product of OBIC BUSINESS CONSULTANTS CO.,LTD., the Rakuraku Seisan product of 株式会社ラクス, and other systems, as well as between the Kaikura customer-engagement cloud of 株式会社シンカ and other systems. The first offering integrates Kaikura with Salesforce.」

「JB Software is being transitioned to monthly subscription services. In addition to collaboration within the Group, the company is focusing on business collaborations with strategic partners. In its collaboration with OBIC BUSINESS CONSULTANTS CO.,LTD., it released the Bugyo Cloud Automatic Execution Agent, which can automatically integrate data between Bugyo Cloud and on-premises systems. Through its collaboration with 株式会社ラクス, it also released Rakuraku Connector, a new feature enabling easy integration between Rakuraku Seisan and internal systems and other cloud-based services, and is pursuing expansion of the strategic Qanat Universe business.」

「As part of its collaboration with OBIC BUSINESS CONSULTANTS CO.,LTD., the company released the Bugyo Cloud Automatic Execution Agent, which can automatically integrate data between the company's Bugyo Cloud and on-premises systems, laying the groundwork for future business expansion.」

「Looking ahead to more active data integration in cloud environments, the Group partnered with OBIC BUSINESS CONSULTANTS CO.,LTD. to use Qanat Universe, a cloud-based data-integration platform developed and operated by the Group's JB Advanced Technology Co., Ltd. (JBAT), and began providing Bugyo Cloud App Connect in October 2019. Leveraging the Group's technology, it will support integration with various cloud services and pursue business expansion.」

「Sales of the Group's proprietary JB Software increased, primarily through sales via partners. Going forward, the Group will expand the business by strengthening relationships with partners and steadily grow its software business through initiatives for cloud-based data integration centered on Qanat Universe.」

「JB Software grew mainly through the Qanat series, which improves connectivity between internal and external systems and enables the effective use of information; the WebReport series, which analyzes large volumes of internally accumulated data to support decision-making; and the PrintPro series of printing support solutions.」

「JB Software's business expanded through the Qanat 2.0 series, which improves connectivity between internal and external systems and enables the effective use of information, and WebReport 2.0 smart, which collects and analyzes large volumes of data accumulated internally to support decision-making.」

「Sales of JB Software, one of the seven growth fields in WILD7, increased, driven by information-integration support solutions that improve connectivity between internal and external systems and enable the effective use of information.」

「We will also continue advancing initiatives in JB Software, environmental services, healthcare, and other areas.」