Company News
uSonar Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; Chairman: Nami Fukutomi; President: Katsuhito Nagatake; hereinafter "the Company") is pleased to announce that "uSonar News," a free application for the Salesforce business app marketplace AppExchange, has surpassed 2,000 users. "uSonar News" is an application that allows users to comprehensively capture news, new services, business alliances, and personnel changes regarding client companies stored in Salesforce directly within the platform. It enables users to efficiently manage news about companies of interest and improve sales performance. Reaching 2,000 users in just two months since its launch is considered an exceptional growth rate for a B2B application, drawing significant attention from industry stakeholders.
"uSonar News" is a free application that runs on Salesforce. By installing this app, you can check headlines of corporate news that interest you while continuing to use your existing Salesforce account screens. Clicking on a headline will redirect you to the source website, where you can view detailed information.
We organize corporate news using our proprietary "LBC" code, which covers one of Japan's largest corporate databases of 8.2 million locations, ensuring you never miss events related to companies of interest. We hope you will experience the convenience of LBC codes through this and many other features.
*The expression for usage scale has been unified from "number of installations" to "number of users." The term "installation" has been removed from the headline and lead paragraph (March 13, 2024).
Key Features
● News Check Feature
View news and information regarding companies at a glance directly within your Salesforce environment.
1) For corporate entities already stored in Salesforce:
You can collect the latest relevant information in chronological order. Additionally, you can view a portion of the LBC corporate information (founding year, revenue, number of employees) maintained by uSonar.
2) For corporate entities not yet stored in Salesforce:
There is a button to register them as new account records in the Account object with a single click.
● Search Feature
1) News Search: Search by free keywords such as corporate names or by publication date.
2) Personnel Change Search: Search for executive and personnel changes by effective date or publication date.
3) Genre Search: We provide 18 pre-defined genres, such as business alliances and new products. Users can also register their own custom search genres.
Main Advantages
1) Collect business information indices based on various sources, including corporate websites and media outlets.
2) Configure custom genres for daily monitoring by registering preferred search keywords as presets.
3) Manage news information at the corporate level using unique codes from the LBC corporate database, ensuring accurate retrieval for each company.
4) Filter information by specific account owners.
5) News information is automatically updated every hour, ensuring data freshness.
Testimonials from Installed Users (Excerpt)
[Sales / Inside Sales Department]
・View news regarding assigned accounts directly within Salesforce, allowing you to engage at the perfect moment.
・Identify companies featured in specific news stories, regardless of whether they are already registered in your Salesforce, enabling timely outreach.
[Salesforce Administration Department]
・Encourage higher Salesforce adoption rates by providing sales representatives with daily news updates.
・Significantly reduce the operational burden of manual news gathering.
[Click Here to Install uSonar News] *Redirects to the AppExchange site
https://appexchangejp.salesforce.com/appxListingDetail?listingId=a0N3u00000QuDTtEAN
[Click Here for the uSonar News Product Page] *Redirects to our website
https://usonar.co.jp/content/usonarnews
What Is AppExchange?
AppExchange is one of the world's largest business application marketplaces, featuring cloud services built on the Salesforce platform and applications designed to extend Salesforce functionality. Over 300 applications that integrate with Salesforce are available on AppExchange.
Salesforce AppExchange Official Website: https://appexchangejp.salesforce.com/
About the AppExchange App: uSonar for Salesforce
Our paid application helps you maximize your Salesforce investment by consolidating, organizing, and cleansing account and lead data. It addresses common challenges such as duplicate records and incomplete data entry, contributing to a significant reduction in operational costs. This free version displays a small subset of the LBC corporate database. In January 2023, this app was ranked 2nd in the Enterprise category (1st among domestic Japanese vendors) in the Salesforce App Sales Ranking.
https://appexchangejp.salesforce.com/appxListingDetail?listingId=a0N3A00000Ecrd9UAB *All company names and product names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
