JBS Started Provision of the SaaS Application “Sukeraku for Microsoft 365”
for Easy Scheduling Inside and Outside the Company

Japan Business Systems, Inc. (Headquarters: Minato Ward, Tokyo; President: Yukihiro Makita; hereinafter, “JBS”) has started provision of the SaaS application “Sukeraku for Microsoft 365.” This application enables smooth scheduling (adjustment of meeting dates) within the service for inside and outside the company.

Sukeraku for Microsoft 365 is a SaaS application that works with Exchange Online in Microsoft 365 to complete the following scheduling steps within the service.

• Securing tentative plans from scheduling for in-house participants
• Scheduling for participants from outside the company
• Confirming schedules, contacting participants, and cancelling tentative plans

A difficult aspect of daily scheduling is finding free time for busy participants. Scheduling is especially difficult when including people from outside the company. Even when internal scheduling has finally been completed, it becomes necessary to repeatedly exchange emails with participants from outside the company, and there are many cases in which it is ultimately necessary to revise the tentative schedule. JBS developed Sukeraku for Microsoft 365 from the desire to reduce the time and effort required for scheduling as much as possible, and to make scheduling easier for everyone.

This service that can be used for both internal scheduling and scheduling with people from outside the company, thereby reducing the time wasted daily in scheduling.

• JBS’s unique Free Time Recommendation Function(※) makes it easy to find candidate dates and times for meetings.
• You can search for time zones that are actually free but cannot be determined mechanically, and then plan your schedule.
• When you register the email address of a participant from outside your company, the service will automatically send the participant a schedule confirmation email.
• Responses from participants are automatically reflected in the service, so the meeting date and time can be decided smoothly.

• Recommendation Function : Capable of unique determination of candidate dates by analyzing the schedule status and subject (keyword setting is required on the administrator side)

Monthly Fees : Basic fee (49,800 yen) + (Number of users × Monthly rate per user) 100 yen per user (500 to 2,400 users)
90 yen per user (2,401 to 6,000 users)
75 yen per user (6,001 to 15,000 users)
50 yen per user (more than 15,001 users)

• If the contract is for less than 500 users, the contract will be at the price for 500 users.

JBS aims to obtain 30 contracts for this service in the first year.

Sukeraku for Microsoft 365｜Japan Business Systems, Inc

Microsoft Japan sincerely welcomes JBS’s release of “Sukeraku for Microsoft 365.” With the rapid spread of remote work and the increase in opportunities for casual online meetings, it is becoming increasingly necessary to schedule meetings. The necessity of scheduling meetings is a daily occurrence that can apply to anyone. The key to scheduling is efficiency and speed. On the other hand, every person plans differently. It is a troublesome and time-consuming process to confirm candidate meeting times with each individual.
JBS’s “Sukeraku for Microsoft 365” is an application that allows you to efficiently schedule meetings through features such as clearly showing free time. Anyone can smoothly plan their schedules, thereby reducing wasted time and increasing work productivity. By engaging in robust cooperation with JBS, Microsoft Japan will continue to contribute to the promotion of digital transformation for companies.

Yoshio Kondo
Senior Director
General Manager, Service Partner Business Management
Assistant General Manager, Partner Business Headquarters
Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd.