Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (President: Makoto Takashima; below, "SMBC") and The Japan Research Institute, Limited (Representative Director, President, and CEO: Masahiro Fuchizaki; below, "JRI") will fully deploy, and commence use of in March 2019, Trifacta Wrangler Enterprise (below, "Trifacta;" see Note 1), software that greatly enhances the efficiency of data preparation. This move, which will be undertaken with assistance from NEC Corporation (Representative Director, President, and CEO: Takashi Niino; below "NEC"), is aimed at raising the speed and sophistication of data analysis by SMBC. The Trifacta software was developed by a startup based in San Francisco in the U.S., and this will be the first time that it has been deployed in Japan.