Launching two solutions, "Lazuli Inside" and "Lazuli Platform," as the core of our business strategy — supporting information sharing and data utilization in the retail and pharmaceutical industries with a dual approach of customized solutions for individual companies and general-purpose solutions.

Lazuli (Razzuri) Co., Ltd. (headquarters: Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Seigen Hagiwara, hereinafter Lazuli), which develops and provides the cloud product master "NINJA DB"* leveraging AI technology, will begin rolling out two solutions, "Lazuli Inside" and "Lazuli Platform," as the core of this fiscal year's business strategy.

"Lazuli Inside" is a core engine that facilitates information distribution within the supply chain connecting manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers. At present, wholesalers spend a great deal of effort collecting product information from manufacturers and creating product master data for retail sales. "Lazuli Inside" automates this series of tasks with AI technology, and via "NINJA DB," enables each company to improve the efficiency of product master maintenance and information linkage between companies. In addition, by attaching additional attribute information such as meta tags, it enables advanced product search in online retail and highly accurate recommendation functions.

In addition, "Lazuli Platform" uses AI to deduplicate product information across various industries, and assigns and associates meta tags based on the benefits and features of products. This product data is stored in "NINJA DB" and provided to each business as "Lazuli Platform." By centrally managing product information that had been scattered across multiple external databases, and organizing and expanding the data into a form that is easier to use, businesses can search for and retrieve the necessary information from the platform as needed, such as when they want to carry out more accurate marketing. It can be used to leverage product information data across a wide range of fields, including food, daily necessities, and pharmaceuticals, where many companies have a large number of products and feel that master data maintenance is a challenge.

Through the core engine "Lazuli Inside," which promotes information distribution, and the platform "Lazuli Platform," which integrates and centrally manages that information, Lazuli will develop an environment that makes data utilization easier and contribute to realizing DX in the retail and pharmaceutical industries.

• What is NINJA DB?

"NINJA DB," developed and provided by Lazuli, uses AI technology to collect, organize, and expand product information from around the world, and is a SaaS-based cloud product master that provides product information in a form that anyone can easily use. As of November 2020, it stores approximately 27 million products and 6.4 million products with JAN codes, making it one of the largest in Japan, and it plans to continue expanding the number of products stored.

<About Lazuli>

Lazuli is a startup founded in July 2020. By leveraging advanced AI technology and the cloud, it is developing and providing a SaaS product as an AI product master that enables anyone involved in business to use product information from around the world. As products are manufactured, distributed, and sold, product-related data is not smoothly synchronized between companies, or even within a company. We believe this is one of the major factors hindering DX. To solve this, Lazuli develops and provides NINJA DB, a SaaS-based cloud product master that allows people engaged in business to easily access product information.

* "Lazuli" and its logo, and the product and service names listed herein, are trademarks and registered trademarks of Lazuli. Unauthorized copying and reproduction are prohibited.