Sales and Profits
FY2024/9 Results (Consolidated)
The JBS Group has expanded its businesses by dealing directly with major enterprises, leveraging its strengths in the provision of a comprehensive range of solutions from designing value to construction and promoting utilization in the continually expanding public cloud market, particularly involving Microsoft products. Our customers have an increasing need to promote the use of cloud computing. In addition to actively recruiting personnel and shifting skills to enhance our support system, we have established a new integrated production and sales organization to serve our key customers, and have deepened our customer relationships.
In addition, our knowledge of and achievements with Microsoft Cloud have earned us awards for the 12th consecutive year at the 2024 Microsoft Partner of the Year awards hosted by Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd. and announced on July 31, 2024. This year we received awards in three categories. In particular, in the newly established “Copilot” category, the Company was highly evaluated for developing generative AI services ahead of other companies for supporting implementation and adoption. At the “Microsoft Top Partner Engineer Award” program hosted by Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd. that focuses on engineers working at partner companies, the JBS Group received awards in five different categories, and 18 individuals received awards, the most among all partners.
In order to expand our workforce in preparation for future growth, we have been steadily recruiting, and by emphasizing the strengths of our human capital management, we have been able to secure the planned number of employees.
As a result, business results for the consolidated fiscal year under review recorded net sales of 140,858 million yen, operating profit of 4,593 million yen.
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FY2025/9 Financial Forecasts (Consolidated)
Against the backdrop of the corporate DX shift, cloud demand is expected to expand in a wide range of areas, including infrastructure, app development, and ERP. In addition, as not only public cloud service providers but also all hardware and software manufacturers are accelerating the development of functions that incorporate the increasingly noticed generative AI, our Group will continue to provide proposals and services to maximize cloud benefits for our customers by combining the superior products of each company, with Microsoft Cloud at the core.
In FY2025/9, we plan to increase the scale of our overall business through the above measures, and by actively hiring and strengthening training of talent for further growth in the future. The Company forecasts an increase in both sales and profit, with net sales of 150,000 million yen (up 6.5% year-on-year), operating income of 5,700 million yen (up 24.1% year-on-year), ordinary income of 5,500
million yen (up 19.9% year-on-year), and net income of 3,700 million yen (up 144.2% year-on-year).
| FY2024/9 Results | FY2025/9 Forecasts | YoY | YoY % | |
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| Net Sales | 140.8 bil.yen | 150.0 bil.yen | 9.1 bil.yen | 6.5% |
| Operating Profit | 4.59 bil.yen | 5.70 bil.yen | 1.10 bil.yen | 24.1% |
| Operating Margin | 3.3% | 3.8% | 0.5% | |
| Profit attributable to owners of parent company | 1.5 bil.yen | 3.7 bil.yen | 2.1 bil.yen | 144.2% |
Shareholder Returns & Dividends
JBS positions that returning profits to our shareholders is one of our important business policies.
We aim to achieve stable dividend payments while considering various factors such as our financial condition, profit levels, and the need to strengthen internal reserves for the stability and further expansion of our business foundation.
- 1 The Company conducted a stock split at a ratio of 500 shares to 1 share of common stock on June 3, 2022 and a ratio of 2 shares to 1 share of common stock on April 1, 2023. The results before the splits are calculated based on the assumption that the said split was made.
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Our Feature
JBS has been dramatically improving its competitive power by focusing on fostering social capital, human capital, and intellectual capital, and continuously engaging in efforts such as system reform in order to generate new social value and corporate value and maximize the abilities of the organization and human resources.
Partnerships with the world’s leading tech companies
JBS possesses many partnership certifications in its relationships with cloud and cutting-edge technology companies that continue to provide excellent global services. We have also received numerous annual accolades given to excellent partners. In particular, we have won the Partner of the Year award for ten consecutive years from Microsoft, our biggest business partner. By quickly gathering the latest tech information from these companies and receiving support for advance verification, JBS has organized a system to deliver the latest outcomes to our customers.
Designing from upstream for social value and corporate value of technology utilization
JBS has formed a capital alliance with Mitsubishi Research Institute. Together, we combine the thinktank knowledge and the consulting expertise of Mitsubishi Research Institute with the technological knowledge of JBS, to design value creation for customers. Aiming to realize a resilient and sustainable society in the post-Covid era, we will contribute to establishing an internationally competitive society and economy by creating a DX business in various fields such as medicine, education, government, and the public sector.
Side-by-side support to create value in a wide variety of industries and business categories
With over 30 years of experience in IT support, JBS has formed partnerships with enterprises representing diverse industries and business categories. By harnessing these relationships, we provide support to co-create value of new technologies. Specifically, in the mass media industry, we have a capital alliance with NTV Wands Inc., the digital subsidiary of Nippon Television Holdings, Inc. We is promoting the use of digital technology in the industry through various initiatives.
Cloud-native professional group
At JBS, we have some of Japan’s top-class Microsoft Cloud-certified engineers. As of the end of September 2022, we have a total of 3,133 employees (gross headcount) with Microsoft certification. We also have three Microsoft MVP winners. In addition to Microsoft certifications, our employees possess various other certifications required for IT optimization.
- Microsoft Certified 3,133 (gross headcount) Microsoft MVP 3 people
- Cisco 108, VMware 93, AWS 86, HPI 53, Dell 38, SAP 20
Training programs co-created with partners
JBS has a certification acquisition support system based on a map of the IT Skill Standards (ITSS) career framework and certification exams and qualifications, as well as a dedicated training facility. We also offer joint training programs with major cloud service companies for our employees to keep their skills up to date to adapt to the latest technologies.
Diverse career paths according to each employee’s skills
At JBS, we constantly strive to better meet our customers’ expectation by improving the quality of our employees’ skills. For example, for the Microsoft Cloud, we encourage employees to not only obtain the most basic Fundamentals certification but also aim for Associate and Expert certifications, and we provide financial incentives for this. Additionally, we also facilitate rotations of human resources to other departments, and have an in-house job application system and overseas assignment system in place.
Showcasing our services by first implementing them at JBS
JBS leads the way in implementing technologies that are still unfamiliar in Japan or cloud services within our own environment to use them by ourselves. By accumulating know-how in implementation and operation through these activities, we make highly feasible proposals to our customers. One example is our adoption of a hybrid work environment, which has become a norm in the post-Covid era. We have already implemented such an environment in early 2020, offering it as a best practice to our customers.
Latest technologies x employee ideas as axes for business development
JBS has a dedicated team for the verification of new technology concepts provided by partner companies as well as a new business development program based on ideas from employees. Additionally, through cooperation with the Social System Design Center, we engage in business creation to solve social issues through collaborations of industry-academia-community innovators.
Turning services implemented at JBS into assets
JBS offers optimized cloud management and operational environments through consulting, building, and operational support services conforming to a world-standard cloud implementation framework and by providing cloud-managed services. Our JBS Cloud Suite equipped with solutions from our partner companies and our originally-developed services can provide our know-how to customers in a user-friendly and accessible way.
