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Across Asia, many organizations operate across multiple countries, languages, currencies and regulatory environments. Managing financial operations across those markets often requires significant manual effort, especially when teams are working with different accounting standards, document formats and tax requirements.
As organizations explore how AI can improve business processes, finance teams have an opportunity to reduce repetitive work, improve accuracy and strengthen visibility across international operations.
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Spotlight #2: Business Engineering Corporation (B-EN-G)
Solution overview
Partner: Business Engineering Corporation (B-EN-G)
Solution: GLASIAOUS
Microsoft Marketplace link: Access here
Microsoft integration: Azure OpenAI service in Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Vision combined with B-EN-G's own machine-learning models, and related Microsoft cloud services.
Primary industries: Manufacturing, trading, professional services, accounting, and tax firms
GLASIAOUS is a cloud-based international accounting and enterprise resource planning (ERP) service. Together with its AI capabilities, GLASIAOUS OCR, GLASIAOUS Copilot and GLASIAOUS Analytics Copilot (currently in proof of concept), it supports multinational operations, particularly for organizations managing overseas subsidiaries across Asia. The solution helps customers standardize financial operations, improve governance, and gain greater visibility across entities operating in different countries.
Its AI capabilities extend these benefits further:
- GLASIAOUS OCR automatically processes invoices, purchase orders, receipts and expense records from images and PDFs, creating accounting transactions within the system.
- GLASIAOUS Copilot provides a conversational assistant that helps users navigate and operate the platform using natural language.
- GLASIAOUS Analytics Copilot, currently in development, is designed to interpret user requests, analyze transaction data, identify potential risks, and support the preparation of reporting and audit materials.
Customer challenge
For organizations operating internationally, finance teams often spend considerable time managing different accounting standards, currencies, languages, and local tax requirements.
Manual processing remains common, particularly when information arrives in multiple formats across markets. Staff turnover can further affect consistency and quality in financial data entry.
Many organizations also face challenges maintaining visibility and control across overseas subsidiaries. Headquarters teams need timely access to accurate financial information while ensuring supporting documentation and processes remain consistent across locations.
How B-EN-G helped
B-EN-G developed GLASIAOUS to connect operational and financial data across global business operations while accounting for the local requirements of individual markets.
A key differentiator is the AI-powered OCR capability, which has been designed around country-specific tax rules and commercial practices. Rather than simply extracting text from documents, the solution creates accounting entries using contextual understanding and historical transaction data.
This helps organizations improve consistency, reduce manual effort, and maintain stronger internal controls.
GLASIAOUS also links accounting entries directly to supporting evidence, improving traceability, and simplifying review processes. Through GLASIAOUS Copilot, users can access guidance through a conversational interface grounded in product documentation.
The forthcoming Analytics Copilot is intended to further support finance and audit teams by providing natural-language access to transaction information and helping identify potentially risky data that may require review.
Customer impact
One example comes from Hongo Tsuji Tax & Consulting, one of Japan’s largest tax accounting firms, which uses GLASIAOUS OCR in its Thailand operations.
Previously, Thai-language invoices required staff to manually summarize and translate information into English before recording journal entries. GLASIAOUS OCR now performs the summarization and translation process automatically, allowing employees to focus on validation and review.
According to the firm:
“Once we have the data from the client, the efficiency gain is tangible. What used to take two or three minutes of manual entry now takes under a minute. If everything goes well, bookkeeping work can be reduced to about a third.”
The benefits extend beyond operational efficiency. Clients can review accounting data and supporting evidence directly from headquarters in Japan using Japanese-language interfaces, improving visibility across international operations.
Additional customers have reported meaningful business outcomes:
- A major Japan-affiliated accounting firm in Thailand expects Batch OCR capabilities to reduce normal working time by approximately 50%.
- The Singapore entity of a major pharmaceutical company reported a 40% reduction in errors and two hours saved per month.
Business and technical outcomes
Organizations using GLASIAOUS have achieved measurable improvements in financial operations, including:
- Data-entry tasks reduced from two to three minutes to less than one minute per transaction
- Faster journal posting and monthly closing processes
- Reduced manual translation and document processing effort
- Improved visibility of accounting data and supporting evidence across countries
- Fewer errors and missed items during review and reconciliation activities
- Stronger governance through standardized processes and linked documentation
The solution has also demonstrated significant scale, with more than 1,900 companies across 38 countries and regions using GLASIAOUS to support multinational operations.
The next phase
B-EN-G continues to evolve GLASIAOUS with new AI capabilities focused on automation, insight and scalability, including:
- Enhanced OCR capabilities to support more complex accounting and tax scenarios, as well as additional operational documents
- Broader availability of GLASIAOUS Analytics Copilot, giving customers more flexible access to financial and operational insights through natural-language interactions.
- Analytics Copilot over MCP, enabling organizations to build AI-driven workflows on GLASIAOUS as a trusted system of record
- New AI-powered business scenarios, including settlement processes and customer communication workflows identified through collaboration with members of the GLASIAOUS consortium
Closing thoughts
B-EN-G demonstrates how AI and deep regional expertise can help organizations modernize financial operations, improve visibility and strengthen control across global businesses.
Through Microsoft Marketplace Momentum: Asia Insights, we will continue highlighting partners across Asia that are turning innovation into real business results.