Outline of Collaboration with Microsoft Japan

　WAP will further advance the value provided by HUE, an ERP for major enterprises, through advanced technologies and sales collaboration programs, including Azure OpenAI Service provided by Microsoft Japan. By encouraging a shift from data-driven to insight (AI)-driven management through the development of next-generation ERP, we will support our customers' rapid response to changes in their business environment and organizational transformation. Through this alliance, WAP aims to achieve additional sales of 10 billion yen over a three-year period.

　WAP plans to release a series of AI-implemented functions over the second half of 2023, and will release new versions of HUE in the future under Microsoft Japan's "Responsible AI" guidelines, including AI functions and innovative cloud platforms such as "Microsoft Azure" that support The new version of HUE will be provided as a mission-critical system that can use AI environment with peace of mind, utilizing innovative cloud platform technologies such as "Microsoft Azure" that support AI functions under Microsoft Japan's "responsible AI" guidelines.
In addition, the company will provide new value to customers using both products through external collaboration with "Microsoft 365" and other services.

　Prior to this, we will start a service to integrate HUE with "Microsoft Teams" and "Microsoft Dynamics 365" and release HUE on the "Microsoft Azure" platform today.

Comment from Osamu Hata, Chief Executive Officer and Representative Director of Works Applications

　WAP's HUE excels in real-time accumulation of huge volumes of high-quality, granular data through standardized business functions. HUE" provided by WAP excels at storing huge amounts of granular, high-quality data in real time through standardized business functions. In addition to privacy and security, "Azure OpenAI Service" with its enterprise-oriented functions has great potential as a platform for maximizing the use of generative AI, and will provide high value-added products that provide useful insights for management decision-making from the valuable data collected by HUE. We expect that high value-added Products / Services that provide useful insights for management decision-making will be realized from the valuable data collected by HUE.

Mr. Tadashi Kawasaki, Executive Vice President, General Manager of Cloud & Solution Business Division, Microsoft Japan Co.

　We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Works Applications for selecting our technology as the development platform for HUE. We have been providing an environment where our customers can use AI with total peace of mind, including infrastructure, data, and security, by integrating our AI technology into Azure services under our policy of "Responsible AI".
　Works Applications has been used as a core system by many of our Japanese clients, and we will provide the data integration to flow to the core system and the technology to utilize such data as a comprehensive AI platform.
　We will continue to collaborate with Works Applications to provide more value to customers who use our products.

About Works Applications

Works Applications was founded in 1996 as an ERP package vendor in Japan. With innovative solutions such as no-customization and free version upgrades, we have supported the growth of our customers, mainly major Japanese companies. Believing in the potential of each individual, we aim to be a "growth engine" that maximizes the value of companies and individuals, and we will continue our pursuit of turning "work" into "creation" and making "work" fun.

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