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NTT Data Business Brains Unveils Slopebase

On October 7, 2025, NTT Data Business Brains, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, officially launched its innovative cloud service, Slopebase, aimed at enhancing business efficiency by integrating internal operational data. This pioneering service transcends traditional expense management practices by enabling real-time collaboration and decision-making across various departments, locations, and time zones.

What is the Expense Management Cloud?

Expense management is fundamentally about companies grasping and controlling their daily expenses and payments, effectively working to minimize unnecessary costs. However, Slopebase goes beyond mere cost management. It integrates and visualizes disparate business data and workflows into a single cloud database, focusing on the principle of understanding "who is using company money, where, and why." This approach optimizes related business processes and fosters flexible, sustainable operational reforms.

Key Features of Slopebase

Slopebase integrates internal business data into a web database, significantly maximizing operational efficiency. Proper management of business data can yield various benefits such as cost reduction, compliance maintenance, and risk management. Notably, it boasts low cost, high flexibility, and the capability to integrate with other systems, thus showcasing excellent scalability.

Additionally, the system is designed with a no-code approach, allowing teams to build their own applications without the need for complex development, enabling smooth scalability from small teams to full company usage.

Business Data Managed by Slopebase

• - Budget, asset, and lease management
• - Debt, sales, purchasing, and contract management
• - Expense reimbursement management
• - Sales and client management
• - Inventory management
• - Production management

Development Background

Recent years have seen a surge in digitalization among companies, often resulting in a fragmented landscape of package software, custom-developed systems, and cloud services. This fragmentation leads to several challenges: obscured situational awareness, cumbersome manual data aggregation, and ultimately delayed management decisions. A survey conducted by NTT Data Business Brains revealed that the most common inefficiency in operations was identified as "duplicate data entry across multiple systems."

In this context, Slopebase was developed as an accessible service that allows both small and large enterprises to implement a cohesive solution without having to overhaul existing systems, offering flexibility even after deployment.

Advantages of Slopebase

Traditional ERP systems are often burdened with several drawbacks: lengthy system modification processes, a narrow scope of applicable operations, the necessity for auxiliary products for external integration, and high licensing and implementation costs. Slopebase addresses these issues, significantly lowering the hurdles for integrating operational data management.

No-Code Assembly

The no-code feature allows anyone within an organization to operate the system effortlessly.

Comprehensive Standard Features

Slopebase comes packed with essential functionalities required for data integration, including database management, workflow handling, and knowledge management capabilities.

Simple External System Integration

Leverage Web APIs to seamlessly integrate with other services/systems without the need to replace existing systems.

Affordable, Usage-Based Pricing

Starting from just ¥30,000 per month (excluding tax), Slopebase offers a tiered pricing structure based on the business volume, enabling a small-scale start for teams.

Five Key Functionalities of Slopebase

1. No-Code Assembly: Allows small-scale initiation and adaptability to various business needs with tailored data items.
2. Approval Workflow: Streamlines team-based payment requests and billing approvals, facilitating clear tracking of all approvals.
3. Visualization: Insights derived from registered data can be displayed graphically, facilitating budget vs. actual management and aiding managerial decisions.
4. Automation: Automates repetitive tasks, significantly reducing manual labor and errors.
5. Optimization: Empowers knowledge sharing and reporting through a user-friendly platform that organizes and stores valuable insights.

Functional List of Slopebase

Slopebase features include but are not limited to data table functions, view functions, approval flow management, and dashboard capabilities suitable for various operational contexts:

• - Customer management
• - Purchasing and sales management
• - Debt management
• - Asset and lease management
• - Expense reimbursement management

This powerful cloud service positions Slopebase as a versatile tool for large corporations with multiple subsidiaries, SMEs, startups, venture companies, or any organization considering digital transformation efforts.

About NTT Data Business Brains

Founded in September 2003, NTT Data Business Brains specializes in information systems planning, development, and consulting. With a sizable shareholding from NTT Data and a commitment to service excellence, the company continuously innovates in the tech landscape.

For more details on Slopebase, you can visit the following website: Slopebase Service Site. For inquiries, please reach out to Yamamoto from the Solution Group of the Business Solutions Division at NTT Data Business Brains or follow up using the contact link on the Slopebase site.