UPWARD, Inc. (Location: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Ryosuke Kaneki; URL: http://upward.jp), which develops the field sales support cloud service "UPWARD," is pleased to announce that Junichi Abe, former Development Manager of the major car navigation map service "MapFan," has been appointed as CTO (Chief Technical Officer) effective May 1st.
President and CEO Ryosuke Kaneki (left) and CTO Junichi Abe (right)
■ Background
"UPWARD" is a cloud service currently used by over 250 companies, primarily large enterprises. It is a cloud application service for field sales that seamlessly and automatically links customer relationship information with location information, supporting last-mile operations in the field, such as "visualization of customers and visit activities," "automatic creation of visit plans," and "easy input of visit records." With the appointment of the CTO, we will accelerate the provision of automation functions that make field sales smarter, such as "Field Sales Automation," which automates visit activity recording with check-in functions, and "Automatic Recommendations" for next actions using machine learning.
■ Junichi Abe Biography
For approximately 20 years, Mr. Abe has been responsible for the development of various location information services, including serving as the development manager for the major car navigation map service "MapFan." To date, he has launched numerous products and web services. He also has extensive experience in developing new businesses, including planning various services and formulating business strategies.
■ Junichi Abe's Comment
As business uncertainty increases and the challenges for field sales become more diverse, I strongly empathize with UPWARD's mission to make field sales smarter and provide customers with creative time. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to join UPWARD, and I am also deeply grateful for being entrusted with this important responsibility. To address customer challenges and realize UPWARD's mission, we will leverage our core technology and data-driven approach to promote automation so that customers can focus more on sales, and we want to challenge technological innovation through "Field Sales Automation." We will continue to create new value for our customers and business partners and improve our services to be "easy to use."
■ Comment from Ryosuke Kaneki, President and CEO
I am very pleased to welcome Junichi Abe as our new CTO. Appointing Mr. Abe as UPWARD's CTO is one of my commitments to all users. By maximizing his extensive engineering skills and team management experience to optimize organizational capabilities, I am confident that we can provide our customers with smarter ways of working in the field and reproducible sales activity experiences.
UPWARD CO., LTD. PROVIDES DX SERVICES SPECIALIZED IN SOLVING ISSUES OF FIELD WORKERS WHO VISIT THE FIELD AND CREATE VALUE THROUGH OFFLINE CONTACT WITH CUSTOMERS, BASED ON ITS PURVIEW OF "DRAWING OUT THE CREATIVITY OF FIELD WORKERS AND ACCELERATING THE GROWTH OF COMPANIES AND SOCIETY". BY LEVERAGING TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH WORKERS CAN PERFORM THEIR TASKS WITH A SINGLE MOBILE DEVICE, WE AIM TO CREATE A WORLD IN WHICH THEY CAN BE ACTIVE REGARDLESS OF WHERE AND HOW THEY WORK.
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