NTT DoCoMo and Sansan have launched the Sansan Smartphone Plan Storage Pack, an application service for easily digitizing and managing business cards, via Business Plus.
Business Plus offers cloud-based services mainly to enable small and mid-sized enterprises to deploy efficient, low-cost ICT business solutions.
Enterprises can use their DoCoMo mobile devices to easily deploy 45 types of solutions for task management, document editing, web conferencing and more.
Sansan claimed that its Smartphone Plan Storage Pack is the world's first cloud-based business card management service to enable enterprise users to easily manage their business card information online.
Users simply digitize their business cards using a scanner or a camera-embedded device and then send the information to Sansan's datacenter for processing and formatting.
It is available to enterprises subscribing to more than one DoCoMo Xi/FOMA mobile line under their enterprise name. The cost is 120,000 yen ($971) per year excluding tax to register up to 5,000 business cards for an unlimited number of users.
In addition, DoCoMo and Sansan are planning to combine Sansan Smartphone Plan Storage Pack with online phone directory service, that is already integrated with DoCoMo's Business Plus phone-extension solution. The launch is expected this fall.