TOKYO -- SoftBank Group will offer a customer forecasting service for retailers costing as little as $40 a month, looking to make big data analysis more accessible to small Japanese businesses that have been unable to afford the technology.
The Japanese tech company will start marketing its "Sakimiru" service to a broader base of corporate clients, including small and midsize enterprises, as early as this fiscal year. The system, whose name means "see the future," was rolled out to a few larger companies in January.
