WiseVine Wins Joint Procurement Contract for Budget Formulation and Management System from Nagano Prefecture, Niigata Prefecture, and Saku City

WiseVine Co., Ltd. (Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture; Representative Director and President: Shoi Yoshimoto; hereinafter "the Company") has been awarded the "Nagano Prefecture, Niigata Prefecture, and Saku City Comprehensive Budget Management System Construction Project" (hereinafter "this Project"). This Project will be implemented through joint procurement by multiple local governments, and a portion of the implementation costs is planned to be covered by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications' Digital Transformation Promotion Bonds.

The start of full operation is scheduled for October 1, 2027.

Background and Purpose of this Project

Nagano Prefecture, Niigata Prefecture, and Saku City (hereinafter "the two prefectures and one city") aim to address issues such as the aging of existing systems, concerns about the future viability of programming languages, and increasing maintenance costs. By adopting joint procurement, they seek to reduce financial burdens and maintain stable future operations. Concurrently, amidst initiatives for internal DX promotion and paperless operations, the project aims to streamline budget formulation tasks and related operations (such as comprehensive plan management, execution management, and project evaluation) and reduce the burden on staff.

Our Role

The Company will provide the budget formulation and management system "WiseVine Build & Scrap," which will centralize data across the entire organization, thereby streamlining budget formulation tasks and related operations (such as comprehensive plan management, execution management, and project evaluation) and reducing the burden on staff.

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1. Achieve year-on-year comparison through ID management, improving assessment capabilities

・ Insufficient ID management of project cost data made it difficult to grasp the year-on-year trends of each project, hindering budget assessment.

・ Thoroughly implement ID management for project data within the system to centrally visualize project transitions over the years.

・ Enable assessments based on year-on-year comparisons, aiming to improve the accuracy of budget assessments.

2. Review dual Excel management, reducing errors

・ The persistence of manual tasks led to duplicate information management, making it difficult to allocate sufficient time to core tasks.

・ Thoroughly centralize data management and gradually transition away from paper and Excel-centric operations.

・ Reduce manual transcription and verification tasks, aiming for operational efficiency and error reduction.

3. Seamlessly connect budget to evaluation

・ The current operational structure makes it difficult to fully utilize the results of administrative evaluations for the next year's budget formulation, hindering the policy PDCA cycle.

・ Integrate budget formulation and policy project evaluation "solely within the Build & Scrap system" to link business processes.

・ Contribute to strengthening the administrative management PDCA cycle through data-driven policy planning and evaluation.

In addition to providing the value described in points 1-3 above, by utilizing structured data, we will also connect to new value creation in the future, such as advanced AI-driven analysis and insights.

Furthermore, the policy system tree function will visualize the relationship between KGI (Key Goal Indicators) for policies/measures and KPI (Key Performance Indicators) for projects in a tree structure, supporting the consideration and discussion of priority projects within local governments.

Comments from Local Government Officials

Mr. Koki Tsukamoto, Director of Finance Division, General Affairs Department, Nagano Prefecture

In Nagano Prefecture, our long-used existing system was due for renewal, and we faced challenges in streamlining budget-related operations. Therefore, we decided to construct a next-generation system through joint procurement by two prefectures and one city, aiming to fundamentally resolve these issues while curbing financial burdens. We expect that the introduction of WiseVine's system will not only streamline budget formulation but also promote integrated management of budget-related operations such as comprehensive plan management, execution management, and project evaluation, leading to reduced workload for staff and improved quality of policies and projects.

Mr. Shinpei Taniguchi, Director of Finance Division, General Affairs Department, Niigata Prefecture

We recognize that WiseVine, with former finance division staff involved in system development, provided an extremely practical and appealing proposal. We hope that once this system is successfully implemented and operated, WiseVine will leverage its expertise to introduce systems in other local governments and, in turn, feedback the knowledge gained from those initiatives into our system operations. Through such efforts, I personally have high expectations that budget formulation operations in Niigata Prefecture and local governments nationwide will evolve and advance to the next step.

Mr. Norihito Iwashita, Director of Finance Division, General Affairs Department, Saku City

In Saku City, in addition to addressing the aging of our long-used existing system, BPR (Business Process Re-engineering) within the Finance Division was an urgent task. This joint procurement by two prefectures and one city is, we believe, the best choice for constructing a next-generation system that will operate stably in the long term while curbing financial burdens. We are confident that the introduction of WiseVine's system will seamlessly connect a series of tasks from budget requests to assessment, and further to policy planning and administrative evaluation, creating an environment where staff can focus on more sophisticated policy planning and reducing their workload.

Our Vision

We sincerely appreciate the advanced joint procurement by the three entities—Nagano Prefecture, Niigata Prefecture, and Saku City—for this adoption. Furthermore, Saku City's adoption marks our system's first implementation in a "city," and we believe it will contribute to the efficiency and sophistication of budget-related operations in local governments of all sizes, not just at the prefectural level, but also including cities, towns, and villages. We are grateful to all local governments that have supported us thus far, and we will continue to contribute to sustainable administrative management and budget formulation reform across Japan.

About WiseVine Co., Ltd.

Corporate Name: WiseVine Co., Ltd.

Head Office: A-ONE Building 3F, 4-11-4 Minato-machi, Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture

Representative Director and President: Shoi Yoshimoto

Established: March 1, 2018

Business Activities: Development and provision of "WiseVine Build & Scrap," a budget formulation and management system for local governments, etc.

HP: https://corp.wise-vine.com/

Contact for this matter

WiseVine Co., Ltd. (Sales Department)

TEL: 050-1741-1150

Inquiry Form: https://corp.wise-vine.com/contact