Agreement for the Joint Provision of Fully-Managed Service for Windows

We hereby announce that Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance Company Limited (Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Takahiro Yanai; hereinafter “MUL”), Japan Business Systems, Inc. (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative: Yukihiro Makita, President; hereinafter “JBS”), and wholly-owned MUL subsidiary DRS Company Limited (Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Haruhiko Matsuda; hereinafter “DRS”) have agreed to the joint provision of Fully-Managed Service for Windows to handle the overall operation and management of PCs including regular OS updating (Semi-Annual Channel, hereinafter “SAC”) which occurs with the implementation of PCs equipped with Windows 10.

MUL will integrate the functions provided by the PC rental services of DRS and the system integration functions of JBS’s Microsoft platform into one service and further include a Windows 10 SAC follow-up service to provide unprecedented new value.

Going forward, MUL, JBS, and DS will conduct joint marketing for companies which have more than 10,000 PCs under management and operation, based on the concept of providing this service to assist companies’ IT departments to advance their operational structure reforms to transform into IT departments that contribute even more than before to their company’s business with limited human resources. The aim is to support the operation of 150,000 PCs in the next three years.

*Windows and Microsoft are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

With the end of extended support for Microsoft Windows 7 coming up in January 2020, companies are beginning to consider the implementation of Windows 10 in earnest. In addition to the traditional monthly quality update programs, for Windows 10 it is necessary to check if the function update programs provided twice yearly cause any problems to the operation of business applications and apply them. In particular, it is necessary to continue to ensure that the security level remains constantly updated. There is concern that such work will generate a major operational burden on the IT departments of companies that have implemented Windows 10. It is projected that there will be many challenges, such as the need to develop IT infrastructure to support operations and the necessity for securing human resources.

On the other hand, the role of IT departments is changing from the development and maintenance of system infrastructures to the active proposal and advancement of plans towards realizing operational reforms, and digital strategies, etc. In line with this trend, in order to not inhibit the advancement of operational structure reforms to shift IT department personnel to more core operations, a new service to safely outsource all non-core operations such as PC expansion and operation management is called for.

• Including all service menus such as PC terminal, management system, SAC response, application distribution, and help desk, JBS provides the service for a monthly fee per each PC terminal used.
• This service can also be used for PC terminals that have already been installed.
• When increasing the number of PC terminals in the future, JBS will increase the service fee from the relevant month for each PC terminal.