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Sitecore “Most Valuable Professional” Award awarded to 5 people, the most in Japan!

Our track record of supporting the construction of CMS/web infrastructure using the cloud and accumulating know-how leads to recognition.


SoftBank Technology Corp.

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On February 21, 2017, SoftBank Technology Corp. (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, President and CEO: Shinichi Ata, hereinafter SBT) announced that five of its employees will be named Sitecore MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals). We are pleased to inform you that we have been awarded the Sitecore MVP award.

About the Sitecore MVP award - Most awarded among Japanese companies this year -

Sitecore MVP of Sitecore, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as Sitecore) is a group of Sitecore community members from around the world who actively utilize advanced technology and share knowledge about problem-solving methods and website construction. This award recognizes people who have made significant contributions to the community, and consists of four categories: "Technologist," "Digital Strategist," "Commerce," and "Cloud."
This year, 18 people in Japan received the award, of which 5 were SBT employees, the most awarded by any domestic company.

■ Award winners

Technologist (4 people) ●Tomoki Sugiura
(Senior Consultant, PM Partner Headquarters, Technology Management)
●Yasunari Toyori
(Expert Engineer, Technical Architect Group, Technical Solution Department, Cloud Solution Headquarters, Technology Headquarters)
●Yoshio Isoda
(Technology Supervisor, Professional Engineering Department, 2nd Group Manager)
●Taiki Yamashita
(Technology Supervisor Professional Engineering Department 2nd Group)
Cloud (1 person) ●Masahiro Nishimura
(Expert Engineer, Technical Architect Group, Technical Solution Department, Cloud Solution Headquarters, Technology Headquarters)

■ SBT 's comment

We are very honored that five people from our company have been selected. We would like to express our gratitude to everyone, including the customers who worked with us on the project, for their support in implementing the Sitecore solution. We would like to accumulate further technology and know-how and return it to our services so that we can contribute to the development of our customers' businesses through the introduction of Sitecore solutions.

Mitsuhiro Sato Director, Managing Executive Officer, Head of Technology SoftBank Technology Corp.

Regarding this Sitecore MVP award, we received a comment from Sitecore Representative Director Hideki Sakai.

“This year (2017), your company awarded five people, the most in Japan, as Sitecore MVPs. Congratulations. Now in its 11th year, Sitecore MVPs are recognized as Sitecore MVPs in countries all over the world. This award honors those who have made the greatest contribution to building the technology and disseminating it to our customers and partners.As the name suggests, the winners are extremely valuable to us.From this year, we will also ”, “Digital Strategist”, and “Commerce”, a new category “Cloud” has been added. We are also happy that your company's Mr. Nishimura was awarded MVP in the Cloud category, where there are still few award winners in the world. We are receiving more and more inquiries from our customers about the cloud, and having a Sitecore cloud solution expert in your company is a great asset. We will continue to work with MVPs to support our customers in realizing context marketing. ”

Sitecore Inc. Representative Director Hideki Sakai

Moving to a new stage of digital marketing by consolidating to the cloud

SBT has been a partner of Sitecore's Japan since its inception in 2010, and has a track record of implementing the system with a large number of certified engineers.
Since fiscal 2016, we have established two basic strategies, "consolidation in the cloud" and "IoT business development," and by integrating "data analytics" and "security" into the "cloud," we have been providing customers with the latest technology in a one-stop service and have accumulated a track record. As a result, we received four awards in the 2016 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Awards, which recognize Microsoft partners around the world, and three Microsoft Partner of the Year 2016 awards in Japan.
In addition, he has been involved in many advanced proposals and implementations that integrate data analytics and the cloud, and has accumulated technical capabilities and advanced knowledge for problem solving, which led to the Sitecore MVP award.

▼Click here for information on Sitecore services provided by SBT.
https://www.softbanktech.jp/service/list/sitecore/

▼Click here for examples of Sitecore solution implementation by SBT.
https://www.softbanktech.jp/case/name/data-analytics/sitecore/

SBT will continue to strengthen its collaboration with Sitecore and support customers' businesses through mutual collaboration between cloud, security, and data analytics.

Contact information for inquiries from media regarding this matter

○ SoftBank Technology Corp. Corporate Planning Department Corporate Communication Group
Email: sbt-pr@tech.softbank.co.jp