ExaWizards Forms Business Alliance with NS Solutions – Comprehensive Partnership to Promote Digital Transformation (DX) for Both Companies’ Clients and to Strengthen Sales and Delivery for upcoming exaBase Studio Launch –
ExaWizards Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director & President: Makoto Haruta; hereafter, “ExaWizards”) and NS Solutions Corporation (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director & President: Kazuhiko Tamaoki; hereafter, “NSSOL”) have today signed a basic agreement on business alliance. In the medium to long term, the two companies will strive to improve corporate value with further cooperation and collaboration in mind.
☑Background of the Business Alliance
On May 11, 2022, ExaWizards announced exaBase Studio, a development environment that enables customers to build and operate AI/digital transformation (DX) software internally. It is promoting a development environment for launch this year that supports the efficient design and development of AI software and that freely integrates with external models and internally developed models in addition to the company’s AI models managed on exaBase that store practical use cases and know-how for implementation in a wide range of industries.
Meanwhile, NSSOL has a vision of “First DX Partner,” and aims to build a deep relationship with customers, support customers’ IT systems, talk about the future vision of customer business, challenge and accompany them to realize it, and deeply contribute to the progress of customer DX.
Specifically, NSSOL has received the Top Reseller Partner Award WorldWide (April 2023) in recognition for being the No. 1 distributor globally from DataRobot (USA), a provider of a machine learning platform that can use AI for data analysis and numerical forecasting, as a partner that leads to success in the utilization, retention, and expansion of AI by many Japanese companies, and the Innovative Partner of the Year (APAC) 2022 (January 2023) as the company that contributed most to the growth of the partner ecosystem, from Talend (USA), a provider of a data analysis platform.
In the context of the above, the two companies discussed their future vision and efforts to improve their corporate value by expanding the service area for the sales and offering of exaBase Studio and customer DX promotion consulting, and strengthening the ability to execute, and reached an agreement on a business alliance.
☑Outline of Business Alliance
Through this business alliance, NSSOL and ExaWizards will make mutual use of each other’s customer base, sales strategy, domain knowledge related to customer operations, technical capabilities and business development capabilities in the digital and AI fields, and human resource development know-how, and will mainly undertake the following initiatives:
1. Complementing the services provided by both companies through sales collaboration centered on exaBase Studio
2. NSSOL acting as a dealer for sales of ExaWizards products (e.g., exaBase DX Assessment & Learning)
3. Providing business development services to NSSOL customers through ExaWizard’s AI platform business
The two companies will enter into a comprehensive partnership centered on exaBase Studio to promote DX and increase productivity for their customers, and will strive to improve corporate value in the medium to long term, with further cooperation and collaboration between the two companies in mind.
☑Messages from Both Companies
[Kazuhiko Tamaoki: Representative Director & President, NS Solutions Corporation]
I am very pleased to announce this business alliance with Japan’s leading AI startup ExaWizards. ExaWizards has consulting talent with extensive DX experience in the company and an excellent range of products to make DX efficient, including exaBase Studio. I am confident that this collaboration will complement each other’s strengths and contribute to the advancement of our customers’ DX.
Through this collaboration with ExaWizards, NS Solutions will continue to work hard based on technology and passion to promote DX for our customers.
[Makoto Haruta: Representative Director & President, ExaWizards Inc.]
I am very pleased to announce our business alliance with NS Solutions. Through collaboration with NS Solutions, which has built deep relationships with many of its customers as a first DX partner, we will work together to solve social issues by providing services and products to improve the productivity of all Japanese companies through the use of AI.
[Company Profile of NS Solutions Corporation]
Company Name: NS Solutions Corporation
Location: Toranomon Hills Business Tower, 1-17-1 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Establishment: October 1, 1980
Representative: Kazuhiko Tamaoki, Representative Director & President
Business : Consultation on management and systems; planning, design, development, construction, operation, maintenance, and management of information systems; information system related software and hardware development, manufacturing, sales, and leasing; outsourcing services using IT; and other services
URL: https://www.nssol.nipponsteel.com/en/
【Company profile of ExaWizards, Inc.】
Company name: ExaWizards Corporation
Location: 21F, Shiodome Sumitomo Building, 1-9-2 Higashi-Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Representative: Makoto Haruta, President and Representative Director
Business: Industrial innovation and resolution of social issues through the development of services utilizing AI
URL: https://exawizards.com/en/
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