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UPWARD PROVIDES TECHNOLOGY TO THE "FY2024 DATA UTILIZATION CASE CREATION PROJECT (DATA LINKAGE INFRASTRUCTURE UTILIZATION TYPE)" FOR THE PURPOSE OF SOLVING LOCAL ISSUES IN KUMAMOTO PREFECTURE.

(LOCATION: CHIYODA-KU, TOKYO; PRESIDENT & CEO: RYUSUKE KANEKI; HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS "UPWARD") ANNOUNCES THAT IT HAS PROVIDED TECHNOLOGY RELATED TO LOCATION INFORMATION, ETC. TO SYSTEM FOREST CO. (PRESIDENT: KOJI TOMIYAMA, HEADQUARTERS: MANIYOSHI-SHI, KUMAMOTO, HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS "SYSTEM FOREST"), WHICH WAS COMMISSIONED TO PROVIDE TECHNOLOGY RELATED TO LOCATION INFORMATION, ETC. FOR THE "FY2024 DATA UTILIZATION CASE CREATION PROJECT (DATA LINKAGE INFRASTRUCTURE UTILIZATION TYPE).

KUMAMOTO PREFECTURE FORMULATED THE "KUMAMOTO DX GRAND DESIGN" IN FEBRUARY 2022, AND HAS BEEN PROMOTING DX THROUGHOUT THE PREFECTURE IN ORDER TO SOLVE REGIONAL ISSUES SUCH AS POPULATION DECLINE AND IMPROVE REGIONAL VITALITY FOR THE FUTURE THROUGH THE USE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY. THE USE OF DIGITAL DATA IS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT, AND IT IS EXPECTED TO LEAD TO THE CREATION OF NEW BUSINESSES AND SERVICES BY WIDELY ACQUIRING AND LINKING DATA HELD BY THE GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE SECTORS. IN 2024, KUMAMOTO PREFECTURE BEGAN OPERATING THE KUMAMOTO DATA LINKAGE PLATFORM, AN AREA DATA LINKAGE PLATFORM (NON-PERSONAL) IN KUMAMOTO PREFECTURE IN COLLABORATION WITH MUNICIPALITIES. KUMAMOTO PREFECTURE COMMISSIONED THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A DATA UTILIZATION PROJECT BASED ON PROPOSALS FROM COMPANIES AND ORGANIZATIONS, WITH THE AIM OF CREATING EXAMPLES OF THE USE OF DIGITAL DATA AND THE KUMAMOTO DATA LINKAGE INFRASTRUCTURE.

UPWARD PROVIDES APPLICATIONS THAT COMBINE LOCATION INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, MAPS, AND CRM FOR THIS WORK, AND SUPPORTS EFFICIENT DISASTER RESPONSE THROUGH INFORMATION SHARING AND INTER-SYSTEM COLLABORATION USING A DATA COLLABORATION INFRASTRUCTURE.

Kumamoto Prefecture "FY2024 Data Application Case Creation Project Adoption Result": https://www.pref.kumamoto.jp/soshiki/26/208239.html
SYSTEM FOREST Official Website: https://www.systemforest.com/
UPWARD official website: https://corp.upward.jp/

ABOUT UPWARD

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.

About Us

name of company

UPWARD, Inc.

Location

26F Marunouchi Eiraku Building, 1-4-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

representative

RYUSUKE KANEKI, REPRESENTATIVE DIRECTOR AND CEO

Establishment

March 2002

capital stock

100 million yen

Business

DEVELOPMENT AND PROVISION OF UPWARD SALES ENGAGEMENT SERVICE

Press Contact

PR TEAM, CORPORATE GROUP HEADQUARTERS, UPWARD CO.

Tel.

03-6897-3683

Mail

pr@upward.jp

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