Asteria, business negotiation support app "Handbook X"-Explanation without switching apps
Asteria, business negotiation support app "Handbook X"-explanatory image without switching apps
On February 28, Asteria announced the business negotiation support application "Handbook X". Handbook X is an application that collectively manages materials to be presented to customers and can be quickly called up during business negotiations. From the same day, it will be available via each app store, and the Windows version is scheduled to be available in the first quarter of 2022. We have prepared a total of 7 plans, including a free version, with the goal of acquiring 10,000 users by the end of fiscal 2022. Yoichiro Hirano, the company's representative director, said, "From now on, it is important to 'connect' in an independent, decentralized, and cooperative manner. Handbook X can be used for all types of business types, but this time we will support small and medium-sized enterprises, side businesses, freelancers, and individual businesses. Therefore, we focused on business negotiations,” he explained the background to the offer. ``It is difficult to expand globally with the UI of the Handbook'' Online or offline, an application is required to present materials to customers during business negotiations. Although the online meeting tool supports general PDF and Microsoft PowerPoint presentation files, advance preparation such as downloading from cloud storage is required. Although it is currently difficult due to the corona crisis, it is necessary to copy the material data to a tablet etc. to be shown to the customer when going offline to visit the customer in person, and install a viewing viewer. It can be said that Handbook X has eliminated these complications. Handbook X can be used to complete everything from registering, viewing, and sharing sales promotion content necessary for business negotiations, making it easy to create your own customized proposal story. The advantage is that you can access external contents such as PDFs such as catalogs, photos of products, YouTube videos and websites from Handbook X in one stop without switching to a dedicated application. Handbook X creates folders called "books" on the device and stores content from various sections. "Photo section" for registering image files, "Movie section" for registering video files and YouTube videos, "Website section" for registering websites based on URLs, "PDF section" for registering PDF files, multiple files Prepare a "multiple file section" to register. It is also possible to "read section file" to work on separately created section data. Since the created books are also stored in cloud storage with different capacities depending on the content of the contract, there is some concern about the lack of capacity due to the bloated content. Video files registered locally are unavoidable, but YouTube videos store only URL information, so they do not consume cloud storage. In addition, the created book can be shared by email address, unique access code, or 2D code. It can also be shared within workgroups available in Bronze, Silver, and Gold, similar to the Handbook X workgroup. It is divided into personal, which is intended for individual use, and workgroup, which is intended for corporate use. The monthly usage fee excluding tax for each plan is 300 yen for the personal bronze version, 900 yen for the silver version, and 1,500 yen for the gold version. Workgroup's bronze version is 3,000 yen, silver version is 9,000 yen, and gold version is 15,800 yen. Asteria has been providing the mobile content management system "Handbook" for some time, but the concept of Handbook X was born around 2017. (Mr. Hirano) said that it would be difficult to expand globally with (user interface), so we started developing Handbook X.
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