On the 6th, Ail Co., Ltd. (3854) announced its consolidated financial results for the first quarter of the fiscal year ending July 2025 (August-October 2024). Revenue increased by 6.2% year-on-year to 4.55 billion yen, operating profit decreased by 5.9% to 1.074 billion yen, ordinary profit decreased by 5.8% to 1.079 billion yen, and net income attributable to the parent company’s shareholders decreased by 0.1% to 0.745 billion yen.

It should be noted that the company considers the 1Q performance to be on track, and regarding the full-year consolidated financial estimates for the fiscal year ending July 2025, it has maintained its initial plan of revenue increasing by 9.4% to 19.15 billion yen, operating profit increasing by 12.6% to 4.8 billion yen, ordinary profit increasing by 12.6% to 4.826 billion yen, and net income attributable to the parent company’s shareholders increasing by 12.8% to 3.257 billion yen.

The company group has approached their 'CROSS-OVER Synergy' global strategy, which involves developing and proposing commodities to solve management issues faced by medium and small-sized enterprise customers through effective use of IT from both 'lear' and 'Web' perspectives, along with providing support to strengthen customer corporate capabilities. This strategy aims to enhance operational efficiency and sales strength for customers by offering a combination of products from both 'lear' and 'Web', thereby not only strengthening the competitiveness during negotiations for the company group but also improving customer satisfaction. In addition, to promote sustainable growth, a unified structure for sales and SE has been implemented to strengthen mutual collaboration. This has led to improved project precision by accurately identifying customer requirements during estimates, strengthening project management systems, and reducing the labor cost of after-sales support due to improved delivery quality, enhancing profit structure.

Regarding the situation of 'lear' and 'Web', on the 'lear' side, product strength of the flagship software 'Aladdin Office' is continuously being enhanced by sector. In sales, in addition to collaboration with partner companies, robust sales performance has been maintained through proposing optimal system utilization methods based on abundant case studies from various sectors. On the 'Web' side, development of new collaborations with online shops for the multi-shop unified management cloud play 'CROSS MALL' has continued in the first quarter. It is expected that the function enhancement for collaboration with multiple malls will continue, along with a shift towards medium and large markets, thereby aiming to increase sales performance in the medium to long term. The cloud play 'CROSS POINT', which integrates point and customer management for online shops and physical stores, has also shown stable sales performance. Additionally, considering the disposal of certain software related to cloud play development executed in the previous year, the company is shifting to a microservices architecture to agilely respond to changing user needs and evolving environments. By adopting a microservices architecture, it aims to ensure scalability through reduced development periods and proactive integration of other company technologies, aiming to establish a lean and muscle-like business structure.