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Sen Corporation (Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, President: Nobuaki Chiba, hereinafter referred to as "Sen"), which aims to create happiness for children by reforming the way childcare workers work and promoting DX in the childcare industry through ICT, is pleased to announce that its online graduation album production tool "Yes Cheese! Album", which is an online production tool for graduation albums for nursery schools and kindergartens, has now established a system and support system for photo studios and other photography businesses, and will start providing the service.
"Yes Cheese! Album" utilizes Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Amazon Rekognition to automatically count the number of people in the photos placed in the album and tally the results for each page, thereby significantly reducing the amount of time spent by photo studios selecting photos and contributing to greater operational efficiency. In addition, since many of the photographic businesses involved in the production of graduation albums are also involved in photographing preschool and school events, the "Yes Cheese! Photo Photo Studio Shooting Plan" and "Yes Cheese! Album" system, which is used for photo management and online sales. Album" system. This enables seamless handling of photos even for photography businesses that handle a large volume of high quality photos, and makes it possible to shorten and improve the efficiency of work hours that have been compressed by album production.
Background to "Yes Cheese! Album" for photography businesses
Increasing need for schools and photography businesses to improve the efficiency of their graduation album production
In many cases, when a photography agency is responsible for photographing preschool and school events, the agency will also produce the graduation albums in collaboration with the teachers and parents who are in charge of producing the albums. This is because it is the photographer who holds the photographs of the year's events. In many cases, the photographer is responsible for the selection and arrangement of the photos, which is a time-consuming part of the album production process, but there has always been a strong demand for equality in the photos to be included in the album, and there is work to be done in selecting the desired photos and balancing the number of people on each page, taking into account the requests of the album manager. There is a lot of work involved. As the number of albums needed to be produced for the number of organisations undertaking photography services, the work involved in producing albums was becoming a huge time commitment.
In some cases, the photos needed to produce an album are handed over to the person in charge of the album, but there is the problem that it is difficult to hand over the photos. In addition, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's reform of the way people work and the spread of the new coronavirus infection have led to a social trend towards online production. There is a real need for photographic businesses to work towards online album production and operational efficiency.
For photography businesses "Yes Cheese! What is an "Album
This service is designed to help photography businesses improve the efficiency of their graduation album production by using online album production tools.
Normally, the production of graduation albums involves selecting and arranging photos according to a template specified by the album binding company, producing the data, and requesting the binding company to produce the album. There are three types of person in charge of selecting and arranging the photos and producing the data for the album: the photographer, the teacher and the parents. Even in cases where teachers and parents are in charge of the production of the album, the photography business takes on the responsibility of answering questions about the production of the album, and this has led to the problem that it takes time to respond to customers. In addition, photography companies often produce albums for several groups at the same time, which increases the workload.
"Yes Cheese! Album" for photography businesses solves these problems with online album production tools and the support of professional staff.
The "Yes Cheese! Photo" to reduce upload time significantly.
When a photography business takes on the responsibility of photographing events as well as producing graduation albums, the "Yes Cheese! Photo Photo Studio Plan" and "Yes Cheese! Photo Photo Studio Plan" and "Yes Cheese! You can also use your own photos that are not in 'Yes Cheese! Photo", the upload time can be significantly reduced (*1).
AWS-POWERED FACE FINDER AND PEOPLE CHART CUT PRODUCTION TIME BY A THIRD
IN THE PROCESS OF PRODUCING A GRADUATION ALBUM, IT USED TO TAKE A LOT OF TIME TO SELECT GOOD-LOOKING PHOTOS FROM HUNDREDS OR THOUSANDS OF PHOTOS, AND THEN TO PUBLISH AN EQUAL NUMBER OF PHOTOS OF EACH CHILD AND STUDENT. THE AWS-BASED FACE SEARCH FUNCTION AUTOMATICALLY COUNTS THE NUMBER OF TIMES A CHILD APPEARS ON EACH PAGE AND DISPLAYS THE RESULTS IN A TABLE OF PEOPLE. THE AWS FACE SEARCH FUNCTION AUTOMATICALLY COUNTS THE NUMBER OF TIMES A CHILD HAS APPEARED ON EACH PAGE, AND THE PERSON TABLE ALLOWS THE USER TO CHECK THE NUMBER OF APPEARANCES IN THE SYSTEM, ELIMINATING THE NEED FOR VISUAL CHECKS. IN THE PAST, THE "YES CHEESE! ALBUM", NURSERY SCHOOLS AND KINDERGARTENS THAT HAVE PROVIDED THE SERVICE HAVE ACHIEVED A SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION IN PRODUCTION TIME, REDUCING PRODUCTION TIME FROM A TOTAL OF 30 HOURS (*2) TO 1/3 (*3).
Facilitated communication and extensive support by professional staff
The "Yes Cheese! Album" can be used to create albums online, which facilitates communication between the parties involved in checking and confirming the photos to be used.
for photography businesses. Album" is supported by staff specialising in the production of albums, so that any questions can be resolved immediately and businesses producing albums for multiple groups can do so with peace of mind.
1: Uploading 1,000 photos can be completed in as little as 20 minutes (processing time varies depending on network environment and data size).
*2: Offline production time calculated based on our clients' results.
*3: Estimate based on production time data from a test group.
Yes Cheese! Album" in the future
ALBUM" FOR PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESSES. ALBUM" FOR PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESSES, WE ARE NOW ABLE TO ADDRESS THE ISSUES FACED BY THE MAIN TARGETS INVOLVED IN THE PRODUCTION OF GRADUATION ALBUMS, SUCH AS PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESSES AND ALBUM MANAGERS. IN THE FUTURE, THE COMPANY AIMS TO FURTHER IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY AND INCREASE CUSTOMER SATISFACTION AMONG SCHOOLS AND PARENTS BY DEVELOPING ADMINISTRATOR-SIDE FUNCTIONS THAT MAKE IT EASIER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESSES TO MANAGE THE PRODUCTION OF MULTIPLE ALBUMS, AS WELL AS AUTOMATIC PHOTO PLACEMENT, SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT, AND ALERT FUNCTIONS THAT UTILIZE AI AND AWS.
What is "Yes Cheese! (
) is a comprehensive childcare tech service that aims to foster happiness in children by working with parents and childcare facilities such as nurseries and kindergartens. ( https://sencorp.co.jp/service/ ) is a comprehensive childcare tech service with the motto "Peace for Children", aiming to nurture children's happiness together with nursery schools, kindergartens and other childcare facilities as well as their parents.
is a comprehensive childcare tech service that aims to nurture the happiness of children together with nursery schools, kindergartens and other childcare facilities and their parents. Photo", childcare ICT "Yes Cheese! System", school lunch and nutrition education service "Yes Cheese! ×Veggie Link", album production "Yes Cheese! Album", and video distribution "Yes Cheese! Album" and "Yes Cheese! At present, we have data from over 10,000 preschools, 2.7 million users, and over 100 million images of children, making us one of the largest childcare services in Japan.
[Company profile]
Sen Corporation
President: Nobuaki Chiba
Head office: 1-3-2 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Keidanren Kaikan 13F
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 "Yes Cheese! Photo" (https://info.8122.jp )
- Photographing plan by photographer
- Photographing plan by teacher
- Photo studio photography plan
- Childcare ICT service "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 Co.
Album", which is an online production tool for graduation albums provided by Sen Corporation for preschools and kindergartens. Album", which is an online production tool for graduation albums provided by Sen Co. Album", a system and support system for photo studios and other photo studios.
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