Winner of Microsoft Award “2019 Partner of the Year Awards”

SoftBank Technology Corp. (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, President ＆ CEO: Shinichi Ata, hereafter SBT) was named Internet of Things Partner of the Year at the 2019 Partner of the Year Awards held by Microsoft Corporation. We are pleased to inform you that we have been selected as a finalist.
The "Partner of the Year Awards" is an award given to partner companies around the world to recognize partners who have provided excellent solutions and services based on Microsoft products.This year, there were over 2,900 entries from around the world. In Japan, three companies including SBT were selected. This is the only domestic company in the IoT field.

■ SBT ’s efforts in the IoT field are highly praised

The "Internet of Things Partner of the Year" award, for which SBT was selected as a finalist, is awarded to a partner that has demonstrated an outstanding track record in providing customer solutions using Azure IoT.
In the second medium-term business plan that SBT has been promoting since 2016, we have focused on developing the IoT business. In 2018, based on the know-how cultivated through various PoCs (proof of proof experiments), we developed the platform service "IoT Core Connect" that connects the services necessary for IoT utilization, and provided services mainly to customers in the construction and manufacturing industries. We provide and make suggestions.
These efforts were highly evaluated and we were selected as a finalist.

We received comments from Minami Takahashi Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd. regarding the selection of finalists this time.

Microsoft Japan would like to congratulate SoftBank Technology Corp. on being a finalist in the 2019 Partner of the Year Award Internet of the Things Partner of the Year Award.
SoftBank Technology Corp. continues to realize digital transformation, which has always been a challenge in Japan's main industries, especially construction and manufacturing, by providing Microsoft Azure IoT with its high technical capabilities cultivated over many years of PoC. We are confident that in the future, we will propose and provide advanced technologies that utilize IoT, such as the wisdom and know-how of Japan companies, and strongly promote digital transformation.
Microsoft Japan will continue to work with SoftBank Technology Corp. to help customers drive their digital transformation through cloud and intelligent technologies.

Minami Takahashi, Executive Officer, Managing Director, Partner Business Headquarters Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd.

As a "cloud consulting and service company that enhances the competitiveness of Japanese companies," SBT will continue to utilize cutting-edge technologies such as Microsoft Azure's IoT and AI to help our client companies create new business.

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