Solving 'Business Trips Without Results' — TransferData and datais Build a Data Foundation to Support the Next Move in Sales

TransferData Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Yusuke Murata; hereinafter "TransferData"), which operates business travel management systems and promotes AI and DX initiatives for enterprises, has welcomed datais Inc. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Yukihiro Mitsunobu; hereinafter "datais"), a professional group specializing in corporate data, into its group. By combining the companies’ respective business travel behavior data and enterprise data, they aim to realize new data utilization that supports sales activities and corporate decision-making.

Background

Japan’s corporate business travel market currently amounts to approximately 11 trillion yen annually. However, travel arrangements and expense settlements are still handled in analog and fragmented ways across many companies. TransferData has addressed these challenges through its "AI Travel" platform, supporting operational efficiency improvements for over 220,000 individuals annually.

Meanwhile, as demand grows for using AI to improve operational efficiency and increase sales, many companies face a common obstacle: fragmented internal data that prevents AI from functioning effectively. No matter how advanced an AI system is, it cannot perform well without clean, structured data.

In sales activities, although records of business trips and visits are accumulated, this information is not fully utilized for sales strategy or customer acquisition. For example, cross-referencing nearby promising prospects or historical sales data around a visit location could significantly increase sales opportunities and maximize outcomes.

To address these challenges, TransferData has brought datais—possessing a nationwide database of approximately 5.4 million companies and proprietary data matching technology—into its group. By integrating both companies’ data, they aim to evolve business travel and sales activities from a defensive role (operational efficiency) to an offensive one (strategic decision-making and revenue maximization).

Value Created Through This Partnership

① Transforming business trips from "cost" to "sales weapon"

"Since you’re visiting Company A next week, why not stop by promising prospect Company B nearby?" This kind of AI-driven suggestion, previously impossible, becomes feasible through data integration. By using data to determine who, why, when, and where to meet, the value generated from a single business trip can be maximized.

② Making the "impact" of business trips visible

Historically, business trips have only been tracked as a cost. With integrated data, the causal chain—"that trip led to this sales opportunity"—can now be visualized. This allows companies to reframe trips as investments rather than expenses, enabling better-informed future sales decisions.

③ Solving the "fragmented internal data prevents AI use" problem

Many companies attempting to advance DX and AI initiatives face internal data duplication and inconsistent formatting. By integrating datais’s data matching and cleansing technology into TransferData’s AI Data Hub, the companies can offer end-to-end support from data preparation to utilization. What previously took months to clean and organize can now be drastically shortened, enabling rapid deployment of AI-ready data infrastructure.

The foundation for delivering these values lies in the integration of data from both companies. By combining TransferData’s accumulated behavioral data—"who traveled where and when"—from AI Travel with datais’s nationwide database of approximately 5.4 million companies and their attributes, sales activities and corporate decision-making can be supported at a higher level.

Moreover, datais’s strength lies not just in providing company lists, but in analyzing and utilizing enterprise-specific business and behavioral characteristics that are difficult to capture with standard data. By integrating both companies’ data and technologies, business travel and sales activities will evolve from mere tools for procedural efficiency into a data foundation that supports strategic sales decisions.

▼ Do any of these sound familiar?

You want to advance DX and AI, but internal data is too fragmented to make progress

You spend significant cost and time on business trips, but the results are hard to measure

You made a trip, but missed nearby high-potential prospects

TransferData and datais provide comprehensive support—from building data utilization infrastructure to enhancing sales operations.

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Executive Comments

Yusuke Murata, CEO, TransferData Inc.

"I am truly delighted to welcome the datais team as our new partners. Through repeated discussions, I was deeply impressed by their relentless dedication to making data truly usable and their genuine commitment to optimizing society through data. Business travel is an act of expanding a company’s world through human connections. Yet, its value has never been properly recorded or utilized as data. With datais’s technology and passion, we can now build a system where every encounter and decision made during a trip accumulates as collective sales intelligence for the entire company. This is not superficial DX—it’s about transforming how data is used. We will pursue this challenge together with our new partners."

Yuji Ikeda, Director, datais Inc.

"For the past few years, we have focused not just on data utilization, but on making data easy to use through meticulous structuring. Thanks to this, we’ve served over 100 companies. However, accelerating development speed to meet diverse needs and building a more unique data infrastructure became our next challenges.

We found TransferData as the ideal partner to overcome these challenges. By combining their annual travel behavior data from over 220,000 individuals with our technology, we are confident we can elevate data utilization to the next stage.

In an era where AI is being implemented in society, we will drive societal optimization through data utilization."

【Company Overview】

TransferData Inc.

Representative: CEO Yusuke Murata (Murata Yusuke)

Headquarters: 8F, Shibawakamatsu Building, 4-7-8 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Founded: February 2014

Capital: ¥546,353,051 (including reserves)

Main Business: Development and operation of business travel management cloud "AI Travel," expense settlement "AI Expense," business-focused scheduling tool "AI Calendar," data integration platform "AI Data Hub," and IT consulting

URL: https://transferdata.co.jp/

datais Inc.

Representative: CEO Yukihiro Mitsunobu (Mitsunobu Yukihiro)

Headquarters: 3F, Otemachi Financial City Grand Cube, 1-9-2 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

Founded: April 2020

Main Business: Construction of high-precision corporate databases, development of automated preprocessing, data matching, and cleansing systems

URL: https://datais.co.jp/

【Inquiries】

TransferData Inc.

Email: press@aitrave