Daiwa Steel Pipe Industry, a steel pipe manufacturer founded in 1932, has implemented the SaaS management application "zooba" to resolve the increasing complexity of tracking SaaS usage and managing costs.
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Daiwa Steel Pipe Industry Implements AI Agent "zooba" to Streamline SaaS Management and IT Operations
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At the company, challenges included the growing workload required to monitor yearly increases in SaaS license usage and the difficulty of grasping costs due to management being decentralized across various departments. The newly implemented "zooba" is an IT operations AI agent that supports SaaS and IT asset management, as well as responding to internal inquiries and executing various IT tasks.
The company cited rapid development speed and user-friendly support as the key deciding factors in choosing zooba.
By utilizing zooba, the company aims to centrally manage information regarding people, applications, and devices, facilitating license inventory audits, tracking accounts for departing employees, and optimizing costs. Furthermore, in addition to providing inquiry responses based on internal knowledge, zooba supports daily IT operations—such as granting Google Drive permissions and issuing or suspending accounts—aiming to reduce the workload for both employees and IT personnel.
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- 大和鋼管工業、SaaS増加で複雑化したライセンス管理を「情シスAI」でどう解決？ （ITmedia AI+、2026-09-21）