(Location: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Ryusuke Kaneki; URL: https://upward.jp), whose mission is "Innovating the Last Mile in the Field," announces that on July 13, 2022, it has been selected by Microsoft Corporation (Location: Redmond, Wash. Redmond, CEO: Satya Nadella, URL: http://www.microsoft.com/ (hereinafter "Microsoft"), announces that it has been selected for the "Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub," a startup support program offered by Microsoft Corporation.
This adoption promotes the scalability and sophistication of UPWARD, a sales engagement service partially based on Azure. Furthermore, through enhanced integration with Microsoft products, UPWARD will improve the user experience (UX) for sales representatives and promote DX from a sales field perspective.
Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub is a startup support program that Microsoft will launch in North America and other regions in October 2021, and will begin rolling out in Asia in April 2022, The startups selected for the program will receive comprehensive support, including technical and business mentoring by specialists and co-promotion, as well as financial support for Azure and other Microsoft products.
For more information about the Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub, please click here.
UPWARD, a company that develops and provides services that are "really" used in the sales field, announced the adoption of Azure, a highly available and scalable platform, as part of its application development platform in January 2022. The data accumulated by UPWARD on sales activities such as phone calls, visits, and online meetings will be seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Dynamics365 and other Microsoft cloud services, enabling analysis based on customer contact data with Microsoft Power BI and hybrid work with Microsoft Teams. Teams for hybrid work. The "Digital Feedback Loop," a framework for DX promotion advocated by Microsoft, is realized from the sales field, powerfully promoting sales transformation.
To learn more about the new world of sales enabled by the seamless integration of business applications by UPWARD and Microsoft, please see this conversation.
https://www.upward.jp/weblog/microsoft-upward1
Speakers:
Mr. Chikara Tejima, Executive Vice President, General Manager of Industrial & Manufacturing Business Division, Microsoft Japan Co.
Mr. Ryusuke Kaneki, President & CEO, UPWARD K.K.
UPWARD IS A SALES ENGAGEMENT SERVICE THAT UTILIZES ADVANCED LOCATION-BASED TECHNOLOGY TO AUTOMATICALLY DETECT AND RECORD SALES ACTIVITY DATA IN CRM TO OPTIMIZE THE SALES ACTIVITIES OF SALES REPRESENTATIVES IN THE FIELD. BY AUTOMATICALLY OVERLAYING ACCUMULATED SALES ACTIVITY DATA AND CRM DATA ON A MAP AND AUTOMATICALLY NOTIFYING OPTIMAL APPROACH DESTINATIONS, UPWARD SUPPORTS THE FORMULATION OF STRATEGIC SALES PLANS UTILIZING CRM DATA.
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