SB Technology wins Microsoft Japan Partner of the Year 2025 award for the 12th consecutive year in two categories: "Data Security and Compliance" and "Healthcare and Life Sciences"

SB Technology Corp. (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, President ＆ CEO: Shinichi Ata, hereinafter referred to as "SBT") announced by Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, hereinafter referred to as "Microsoft Japan") announced that it will provide "Data Security and Compliance" and "Healthcare" at the "Microsoft Japan Partner of the Year 2025" announced by (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo, hereinafter referred to as ""). and Life Sciences".
The Microsoft Japan Partner of the Year program is a program that meets once a year for Microsoft Japan to select companies with outstanding achievements in various fields. SBT won the award for the first time in 2012 and has won the award for 12 consecutive years since 2014.

The Data Security and Compliance award recognizes partners who have successfully delivered outstanding results using technologies from the Microsoft Purview product portfolio.
SBT supported data security and compliance operations centered around Microsoft Purview, achieving advanced data governance in a large organization. By optimizing the multiple functions of Microsoft Purview in stages and by department, and by designing it with an eye toward linking with other clouds and future use of AI, SBT was recognized for its contribution to achieving advanced information protection and an efficient audit system, as well as improving the operational quality of the entire organization.

Healthcare and Life Sciences" recognizes Microsoft partners who provide exceptional service and innovative solutions in the Health & Life Sciences (HLS) industry, leveraging technology to drive customer growth, connected experiences, and improved patient outcomes across providers, insurers, pharmaceutical companies, life sciences companies, and medical device companies. recognizes Microsoft partners who have driven customer growth, connected experiences, and improved patient outcomes across the entire device enterprise.
SBT has leveraged Azure OpenAI to develop a company-wide generative AI environment and implemented file-searchable RAGs with the Assistants API and Azure AI Search to achieve advanced information retrieval and operational efficiency. In addition, the company developed an automatic classification tool for departments and created a foundation for extending business automation and AI utilization, and was highly evaluated for its broad support for the practical use of generative AI.

■ Microsoft's external evaluation of SBT

SBT has been certified as a "Solution Partner" in the Solution Partner Certification Program established by Microsoft Japan 's cloud partner program, the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, as a partner that has demonstrated high technical capabilities and extensive achievements in all six solution fields. In addition, among Microsoft solution partners, we have obtained many of the higher certifications "Specialization", which is given to partners with high expertise.

As a result of obtaining these top certifications, contributing to projects involving Microsoft solutions, and promoting the solution both inside and outside the company, six SBT employees have been awarded the Microsoft Top Partner Engineer Award in the three areas of Azure Data & AI, Security, and Business Applications. This marks the third consecutive year that SBT has received this award, starting in 2023.

■Comment from Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd.

Congratulations to SB Technology Corp. on winning two categories: Data Security and Compliance, and Healthcare and Life Sciences.
As an engineer company with deep knowledge of a wide range of Microsoft products, SB Technology Corp. has demonstrated consistent implementation capabilities from foundation to application, and has built a solid track record over many years, especially in the security field. In addition, we will accelerate the use of generative AI, including Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search, and steadily achieve advanced knowledge access, enhanced compliance, and improved productivity in highly regulated industries such as healthcare and life sciences through the implementation of file search-based RAG and business automation. These efforts have resulted in awards in the HLS field and are driving cross-industry value creation.
Microsoft Japan will strongly support SB Technology Corp. to achieve further growth as a frontier company in the industry

Satoshi Asano, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Partner Business Division Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd.

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