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(headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Nobuaki Chiba, President & CEO; hereinafter "Sen"), which aims to create happiness for children by using ICT to reform the way childcare workers work and promote DX in the childcare industry, is pleased to announce that its online production tool for graduation albums, "Yes Cheese! Album", an online graduation album production tool for preschools and kindergartens, has now established a system and support structure for photo studios and other photography businesses, and will begin providing this service.
The "Yes Cheese! Album" utilizes Amazon Rekognition from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to automatically count the people in the photos placed in the album and tally the results for each page, thereby significantly reducing the time spent by photographers in selecting photos and contributing to greater operational efficiency. In addition, since many of the photographers involved in the production of graduation albums also take photos of preschool and school events, the "Yes Cheese! Photo Photo Studio Photography Plan" and "Yes Cheese! Album" system, which is used for photo management and Internet sales, to enable users to select and search for photos to be used in albums from within the photo system. This enables seamless handling of photos, even for photography businesses that handle large volumes of high-quality photos, and reduces and improves the efficiency of work hours that have been squeezed by album production.
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Growing need for operational efficiency in graduation album production in schools and photography businesses
In many cases, when a photography business is in charge of photographing preschool and school events, the business also produces graduation albums in cooperation with the teachers and parents who are in charge of album production (hereinafter referred to as "album staff"). This is because it is the photography business that owns the photographs of annual events. In many cases, the photographer is responsible for selecting and arranging the photos, which takes a lot of time in the album production process. However, there has long been a strong demand for equality in the photos used in album production, and this requires work such as selecting the desired photos, taking into account the requests of the album staff, and adjusting the balance of numbers on each page. The work involved includes selecting the desired photos and adjusting the balance of the number of people on each page. Since the photographers need to produce albums for the number of organizations they are contracted to photograph, they spend an enormous amount of time on the album production process, which is a heavy burden on them.
In some cases, the photos necessary for album production are handed over to the person in charge of the album to proceed with production, but there is the issue of the difficulty of handing over the photos. In addition, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's reform of work styles and the spread of the new coronavirus infection have prompted the public to go online, and there are cases where businesses that can improve work efficiency by adopting online album production tools are being selected. In this case, there is an actual demand for photography businesses to work on online album production and business efficiency.
For photography businesses, "Yes Cheese! What is an Album?
This service supports photography businesses in improving operational efficiency in the production of graduation/graduation albums through the use of online album production tools.
In general, graduation albums are produced by selecting and arranging photos according to a template specified by the album binding company, producing the data, and then sending it to the bookbinding company for production. There are three types of album production staff: photographers, teachers, and parents/guardians. In addition, even when teachers and parents are in charge of album production, the photographing business is contracted to handle questions related to album production, which requires many man-hours to respond to customer requests. In addition, photographers often work on album production for multiple groups at the same time, which increases the workload.
The "Yes Cheese. Album" for photography businesses solves these problems for photography businesses! Album" solves these issues for photography businesses with online album production tools and support from professional staff.
The "Yes, Cheese! Photo" data linkage significantly reduces upload time
When a photography business is responsible for event photography along with the production of graduation/graduation albums, the "Yes Cheese! Photo Photo Studio Plan" and "Yes Cheese! Album," which manages event photo shoots and sells photos over the Internet, can be used for album production, eliminating the need for time-consuming uploading of photos. Photo Plan" can be used to create photo albums by linking images that have already been uploaded during event photo shoots! Photo", the uploading time can be significantly reduced (*1) when using photos that are not in "Yes Cheese!
AWS-based face search function and person tally table to 1/3 the production time
In the process of producing a graduation album, it used to take a lot of time to select the best photos from among hundreds or thousands of photos, and to publish an equal number of photos for each student. The AWS-based face search function automatically counts the number of times a child appears on each page of the album and displays the number of times the child appears in the person list in the system. The "person count table," which allows the number of appearances to be checked on the person list in the system, eliminates the need to visually check the number of times a child has appeared. In the nursery schools and kindergartens that have provided "Yes Cheese! Album" has been used by nursery schools and kindergartens, which have achieved a significant reduction in production time by cutting production time from the usual 30 hours (*2) to 1/3 (*3), and further reductions in production time can be expected for photographers who are responsible for album production for multiple preschools and schools.
Facilitated communication and extensive support by professional staff
The "Yes, Cheese! Album" allows for online album production, facilitating communication between all parties involved in confirming and checking the photos to be used.
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*1: Uploading 1,000 photos takes as little as 20 minutes (processing time varies depending on network environment and data size).
*2: Offline production time calculated based on our client's actual results.
*3: Estimate based on production time data from test organizations.
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With the launch of "Yes Cheese! Album" for photography businesses, we are now able to address the issues of our main target audience, such as photography businesses and album managers, who are involved in the production of graduation and graduation albums. In the future, we intend to develop functions for administrators to facilitate the management of multiple album productions by photography businesses, as well as automatic photo placement, schedule management, and alert functions utilizing AI and AWS, in order to further improve operational efficiency and increase customer satisfaction among schools and parents.
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Cheese and cheese! (https://sencorp.co.jp/service/With the motto of "Peace for Children," "Peace for Children" is a comprehensive childcare tech service that aims to nurture the happiness of children together with daycare centers, kindergartens, and other facilities that take care of children and their parents.
Internet Photo Sales "Yes Cheese! Photo," Internet photo sales, childcare ICT "Yes Cheese! System," childcare ICT, school lunch and nutrition education service "Yes Cheese! ×Veggie Link", album production "Yes Cheese! Album", "Hai Cheese! Movie" and other childcare support services. Currently, it is one of the largest childcare services in Japan with data on more than 10,000 preschools, more than 2.7 million users, and more than 100 million images of children.
Company Profile
Thousand Corporation
President and Representative Director: Nobuaki Chiba
Head Office: Keidanren Kaikan 13F, 1-3-2 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Established: October 2004
TEL : 03-6266-6662
HP:https://sencorp.co.jp
Business : SaaS-type comprehensive childcare tech service "Yes Cheese! Business
Internet photo sales service "Hai Cheese & Cheese Photo" (Japanese only) Photo" (Internet photo sales service)https://info.8122.jp)
- Photographer Shooting Plan
- Teacher Photography Plan
- Photo Studio Shooting Plan
ICT service for childcare operations "Yes Cheese! System" (https://hoiku-ict.com)
Album production service "Yes Cheese! Album" (https://album.8122.jp)
Video service "Yes Cheese! Movie" (https://enchannel.jp)
- Video distribution platform
- Event Video Shooting
- PR video production and editing
Yes Cheese! is a registered trademark of Sen Corporation.
Sen Corporation has launched "Yes Cheese. Album," an online graduation album production tool for preschools and kindergartens! Album," an online production tool for graduation albums offered by Sen Corporation for preschools and kindergartens, has been launched with a system and support structure designed for photo studios and other photo service providers. Since photographers are involved in event photography on a daily basis, we expect that the service will be used more widely.
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