field sales representativesWork Log for app"UPWARD AGENT" in partnership with Salesforce "Work.com".

~ Ensure safe visits for employees and customers to resume visitation activities~.

(Location: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Ryusuke Kaneki; URL: https://upward.jp), whose mission is to "make mobile workers smarter," has linked its mobile CRM for smartphones app"UPWARD AGENT (Location: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Ryuji Kaneki; URL: ), a mobile CRM for smartphones , will be linked with "Work.com" provided by salesforce.com to enable safer visitation activities for employees and customers.

Since the global spread of COVID-19, with and after coronas, corporate sales organizations are once again being asked to manage safety when resuming sales activities that involve visits as a way of working with and after coronas. UPWARD AGENT for Work.com" is an app for those working in the sales field (salespeople) that seamlessly connects location information with Salesforce for visit planning and activity reporting in on-site sales activities, thereby enabling more secure and accurate activity history (work log "UPWARD AGENT" and "UPWARD AGENT" are the first two applications of the "UPWARD AGENT". The collaboration between "UPWARD AGENT" and "Work.com" will contribute to safer sales activities in the field by enabling employees in industries such as insurance, manufacturing, finance, real estate, and information and telecommunications to restart sales initiatives through safety visits (*Safety Visit*). (*) Safety Visit... The concept of business visits in with Corona, such as "avoiding areas where clusters of the new coronavirus have occurred," "keeping activity histories and visit log," and "only making visits that are necessary.

Background of UPWARD AGENT and Work.com collaboration

UPWARD AGENT for Work.com, which promotes office reopening and safe reopening as a "guidepost for reopening," is linked to Work.com, enabling the realization of safety management not only for internal information but also for employees working on the sales floor. As corporate sales activities are being restarted, while online business negotiations are advancing, there is a renewed focus on the importance of offline sales activities, which cannot be compensated for by digital communication alone. UPWARD Corporation, which has been providing mobile app for field sales, wants to provide a new, safer, and smarter form of visitation in the world of with Corona and after Corona. With this in mind, "UPWARD AGENT for Work.com" was born. UPWARD AGENT" press release (July 13, 2020):https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000006.000015260.html

Functions of "UPWARD AGENT for Work.com

Visualize the status of your employees' business activities on a map. Visualize where your employees are working and what they have done when they are out of the office. By managing employee activity histories, it is possible to appropriately conduct necessary visitation activities while protecting the safety and security of customers and employees.

[Automatic check-in during visits and contact management when out of the office The mobile app the field can acquire location information and almost automatically link it to the customer relationship information to register the history of visits to that customer. The information of the destination and the time spent at the destination are log conjunction with the location information, enabling contact management when out of the office.

Accurate visit log Accurate safety management of employees is possible through real-time log visits by each employee who performs work that involves going out of the office, using location information. In addition, the log activity history can be visualized on a dashboard to accumulate data assets that increase productivity and support business restarts.