生成AI市場は国内外ともに年率約50%で成長しており、2030年には国内で1.7兆円に達する見込みとなっている。生成AI導入で幅広い業種・職種で業務生産性の向上が期待されている中、直近では、西武ホールディングス＜9024＞傘下の西武鉄道、住友生命、関西電力＜9503＞などとの連携を開示しており、過去実績ではみずほ銀行や第一生命などとの取引実績も持つ。今後も、AIプロダクト事業・AIプラットフォーム事業ともに売上高・顧客数・ユーザー数の拡大など、各種指標の増加を重要視して、必要な領域への投資も実行して成長を図っていく。2024年3月末時点で国内外の機関投資家比率は合計19.4％と機関投資家からの期待値も高い同社の今後の成長に注目しておきたい。Exawisards <4259> is working on industrial innovation and solving social issues through service development utilizing AI (artificial intelligence).
Providing AI services combining proprietary AI algorithms and insights into various industries and businesses to customers and business partners. Specifically, (1) AI platform business targeting mainly large companies to promote their digitalization and AI, aiming for industrial and social innovation (accounting for 64% of revenue in the previous period), (2) AI product business offering AI software that can be easily introduced and utilized in a wide range of customers' business processes (20% of revenue), (3) Other service business, providing human resources support for sales challenges such as SaaS products and IT products, etc. (accounting for 16% of revenue) Deploying. Through almost all businesses, the company has achieved efficiency and high value-added services through accumulating proprietary AI algorithms, insights, and data on various industries and businesses in "exaBase". The number of trading partners in the AI platform business was 178 in the previous period. Revenue tends to be skewed towards the fourth quarter (January-March), especially in March. Revenue from long-term recurring customers accounted for about 70% of the previous period's results.
In the first quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2025, revenue increased by 62.0% year-over-year to 2110 million yen, while operating profit landed at a deficit of 289 million yen. In the AI product business, "exaBase DX Assessment & Learning" and "exaBase Generated AI" continue to drive growth, with first-quarter revenue significantly increasing to 520 million yen (2.8 times higher). Adoption is progressing in major companies and local governments, with "exaBase Generated AI" introduced to 561 companies (as of the end of July), ranking first in market share based on the amount (Deloitte Tohmatsu Micke Economic Research Institute's "Corporate Generated AI Adoption Solution Services Market Trends 2024 Edition"), and "exaBase DX Assessment & Learning" introduced to 1,590 companies. Additionally, in the AI platform business, the number of projects utilizing exaBase Studio has increased, and the improvement in sales productivity per person has been proceeding smoothly. The company landed in an operating loss due to upfront investments focusing on recruiting development and sales personnel. Full-year revenue is expected to increase by 20% to 10,060 million yen compared to the previous period, with an operating profit of 200 million yen anticipated.
The generated AI market is growing at an annual rate of approximately 50% both domestically and internationally, with expectations to reach 1.7 trillion yen in Japan by 2030. As the adoption of generated AI is expected to improve business productivity across a wide range of industries and occupations, recent collaborations have been disclosed with Seibu Holdings <9024> subsidiary Seibu Railway, Sumitomo Life, Kansai Electric Power <9503>, and previous records include transactions with Mizuho Bank, and Dai-ichi Life. Moving forward, both the AI product business and the AI platform business place importance on increasing revenue, customer numbers, and user numbers, and are executing necessary investments to achieve growth. As of the end of March 2024, the total ratio of domestic and foreign institutional investors was 19.4%, and it is important to keep an eye on the company's future growth given the high expectations from institutional investors.
