Connecting the AI platform exaBase to the client’s environment on closed network:
ExaWizards Inc. set to work with NTT Communications to connect data seamlessly and provide AI services
Working to solve social problems through AI-enabled services, ExaWizards Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director & President: Ko Ishiyama; hereafter “ExaWizards”) starts working with NTT Communications Corporation (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Toru Maruoka; hereafter “NTT Com”) from February 9 onward to provide AI services that build on NTT Com’s next-generation interconnect service, Flexible InterConnect*1 (hereafter “FIC”).
☑︎ Background and Objective: Connecting ExaWizards’ AI platform, exaBase, to NTT Com’s closed network enables secure alignment with FIC
ExaWizards has provided its AI platform solution, exaBase, to over 500 companies, including more than half of Japan’s top 100 companies by market capitalization. When we provide exaBase-enabled AI services to our corporate client’s environment in Japan, we occasionally face challenges that partially prevent us from developing AI services speedily to respond to the on-premise environment.
For this reason, we will make full use of FIC provided by NTT Com to build our closed network between exaBase and the client’s environment. This will enable us to develop and provide secure and high-speed AI services that fully utilize client data. Notably, exaBase provides not just machine-learning algorithm but also additional MLOps and UI services. This collaboration will aid us in providing seamless data connectivity and AI services to our clients.
Sumitomo Life Insurance Company will be the first company to implement this service. We will propose solutions to each other’s clients in due course.
*1 Flexible InterConnect is NTT Com’s next-generation interconnect service. It is a SDPF platform service that accelerates DX realization by utilizing data. It can securely connect ICT services, including internal or external cloud services and data centers on a closed network. For more information, please visit the website
☑︎ Overview of the collaboration: All-in-one solutions ranging from network to AI services
ExaWizards’ AI platform, exaBase, provides not just ready-to-use AI applications such as SaaS, AI algorithm, API, and MLOps but also wide-ranging AI and DX solutions in combination according to needs, ranging from AI- and DX-based strategic consulting services through providing DX human resources and organizational development services to setting up joint ventures. We thus can create real impact in a number of projects.
This collaboration enables ExaWizards to provide a network based on FIC that realizes closed connection. We will work on the following three collaborative projects:
(1) Connect ExaWizards’ AI platform, exaBase to the client’s environment by utilizing a closed network
While making use of NTT Com’s FIC that can realize closed connection, ExaWizards connects its exaBase to the client’s environment directly, which enables it to develop and provide secure and highly efficient AI services independent of the client’s environment.
(2) Propose AI services that build on exaBase in NTT Com’s closed network
As AI plays an increasingly significant role in providing DX solutions, NTT Com can combine FIC and exaBase to provide both a network and proposals for AI services that can be used on the network.
(3) Jointly develop solutions that go beyond the functional enhancement of the two companies’ existing services
We will consider providing new AI and DX solutions that combine our know-how on ExaWizards’ AI platform, exaBase, and on NTT Com’s closed networks such as FIC.
Both ExaWizards and NTT Com will further accelerate the social implementation of AI and DX promotion to solve social problems through this project in which we strongly support solving corporate issues and maximizing client values.
☑︎ Endorsements
Shuichi Sasakura: Executive Vice President, NTT Communications Corporation
Head of Data Platform Services, Platform Service Division
I sincerely welcome ExaWizards Inc., which uses NTT Com’s Flexible InterConnect (FIC), to start providing exaBase through closed connection.While contributing to the realization of a happy society by using ExaWizards’ AI to solve social problems, we will promote our clients’ DX and contribute to the realization of Re-connect X® in the multi-cloud age by combining our FIC with ExaWizards Inc.’s strengths.
Ko Ishiyama: Representative Director & President, ExaWizards Inc.
Currently, Developer eXperience is considered significant as another DX to realize digital transformation. As the scope of AI use is expanding from the internet to the smokestack cyber-physical universe, the transformation of development in the on-premise or resident environment has become an issue. By connecting exaBase to NTT Communications Corporation’s closed network, we will maximize Developer eXperience and accelerate the AI-based solution of social problems.
[Corporate Profile of ExaWizards Inc.]
Corporate name: ExaWizards Inc.
Location: 21F, Shiodome Sumitomo Bldg., Higashi Shimbashi 1-9-2, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Founded: February 2016
Representative: Ko Ishiyama, Representative Director & President
Business: Development of AI-enabled services for industrial innovation and solutions to social problems
URL: https://exawizards.com/
[Corporate Profile of NTT Communications Corporation]
Corporate name: NTT Communications Corporation
Location: OTEMACHI PLACE WEST TOWER 2-3-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Established: July 1, 1999
Representative: Toru Maruyama, President & CEO
Business: Long-distance telecommunications operations in Japan, international telecommunications business, solutions business, and related business
URL: https://www.ntt.com/
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