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IBM Japan, Ltd., Oracle Corporation Japan, and TIS Inc. have unified the financial accounting systems for all JTB Group companies, including 54 companies in Japan and overseas, and have built a management foundation that enables integrated data management and analysis at a global level. In introducing the new financial accounting system, 95% of the standard functions of ” Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications ” were utilized as is, and the core parts of the accounting business processes, which were individually optimized for each location and company, were standardized. As a result, JTB will improve the timeliness, accuracy, and immediacy of financial accounting information and advance the sophistication of its management information.
Until now, the JTB Group’s financial accounting systems were fragmented (siloed) by domestic branch, corporate entity, and region, resulting in dispersed financial data. Consequently, collecting and analyzing vast amounts of information required manual processes, and data linkage with business systems was limited, making it difficult to respond quickly to changes in the business environment. This meant that the timeliness, immediacy, and accuracy of management information collection and analysis could not be ensured. Furthermore, the JTB Group considered the construction of a stable management and financial information infrastructure an urgent priority in order to support the business portfolio transformation (shifting business activities from primarily domestic to overseas) outlined in its long-term vision, “OPEN FRONTIER 2035.”
Therefore, IBM Japan, Oracle Japan, and TIS implemented “Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications” at JTB’s domestic headquarters and 23 domestic group companies in April 2025, and at 31 overseas subsidiaries in January 2026, migrating the financial accounting system to the cloud. They introduced ” Spendia ,” a cloud-based expense reimbursement system from TIS’s management service suite ” ACTIONARISE ,” which has high connectivity with the financial accounting of “Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications,” and an ” accounting processing engine ” that enables flexible data linkage between the new system and business systems , creating a system suite that can flexibly respond to business growth and diversification. For the implementation, they decided to “Fit to Standard” the business processes in each finance and accounting area to which the ERP package was applied, and with the dedicated cooperation of the finance and accounting departments, they were able to implement 95% of the standard functions of “Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications” without customization.
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This will enable the centralized storage and management of group financial and management accounting information both domestically and internationally, allowing for real-time tracking of performance and revenue analysis by business, organization, segment, and sub-segment, and enabling accurate and timely understanding of management figures. It is also expected to strengthen business portfolio management through multifaceted hierarchical analysis and enable faster decision-making. Furthermore, the Fit to Standard policy will promote business standardization and eliminate biases in knowledge that are dependent on individuals regarding the financial accounting system, leading to expectations of improved efficiency in building a globally unified operation and maintenance system and handling version upgrades in a unified manner.
In this project, IBM Japan oversaw the entire project based on its digital transformation partnership with JTB. They collaborated with Oracle Japan’s consulting services division to support the architecture design of the new system, which combined Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and its component Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) with TIS’s solutions, as well as the implementation of the data integration platform and standardization through Fit to Standard. They also jointly supported the implementation of TIS’s automated journal entry system, ” Accounting Processing Engine ,” and the cloud-based expense management system, ” Spendia .”
JTB, IBM Japan, Oracle Japan, and TIS have been working to establish and improve the new accounting processes, having first implemented the new system in Japan and completed monthly financial statements from April 2025 onwards, as well as interim financial statements at the end of September. Furthermore, they aim to complete the new financial accounting system for the JTB Group by establishing it in overseas group companies, which began operations in January 2026, and by integrating the accounting systems of branches in Japan, which is scheduled for May 2026.
Moving forward, JTB will not only focus on establishing and utilizing the new system, but will also promote the further development of its financial accounting operations by incorporating real-time data utilization and cutting-edge technologies such as AI, thereby advancing the realization of its “2035 Vision.”
SOURCE: PRTimes
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