▲Meetin image
(Web Conferencing)

▲Online Seminar image

▲Sales & Support image


Sample images

▲Using Headset,Webcam & Note PC

▲In a conference room, Using microphone speaker,
Webcam, plasma display & PC


Additional Information
Excerpted from Frost & Sullivan award content

■Key Performance Drivers for V-cube
V-cube's product 'nice to meet you' achieved its success in market share growth among many other competitors. The success was attributed mainly to its advantage in product differentiation which enables users to access to their product easily via internet from anywhere in the world without installing special software, or from mobile appliances such as video phones and iPod. Other specialized applications such as video streaming, one to one sales & support as well as eco-meter (calculates amount of CO2 emission, travelling cost and time saved by using nice to meet you) also gave them a competitive edge to its product. Furthermore, the company's ability to customize their solutionsaccording to the customers' needs provide clients with more efficient and effective usage, smoother work coordination and security system that complies with the company's policy..


■Factor 1:  Focus on Accessibility
Since the launch of its Web base Conferencing system 'Nice to Meet You', V-cube has focused on the idea of 'whenever', 'wherever', 'whoever'. Nice to Meet You allows clients to access through internet from any location around the world without installing special software. In 2008, V-cube was the first to have made possible to access from mobile video phones in Japan, which created great flexibility for users to access to meeting virtually from anywhere at any time. Nice to meet you also allows access from iPod, PSP as well as H.323. This H.323 allows connection to most of video conferencing systems, which further expands the use and add values to web conferencing by enhancing coordination with other existing communication tools. Such expanded accessibility allows mobility to the clients in the fast paced business world today and receives broad support from clients.


■Factor 2:  Innovative Product lines and Application
V-cube has made sustained effort to expand its product lines to include more specialized applications to provide their clients wider choices to match their diversifying needs. Apart from its core application 'Meeting', it has enhanced its product line with other focus such as 'Seminar' which is a webinar application that allows up to 10,000 attendants at the same time and to be used for remote lecture, IR, employee training and so on, 'Sales& Support' which helps closer, one to one communication with smooth information sharing to increase sales or improve customer care, added with advertisement space on screen, 'Video' focuses on video uploading and streaming, and 'CMS (contents management system)' which is a specialized, contents management and e-learning service application.  Furthermore, V-cube offers application 'eco-meter' which visualize the total amount of CO2 emission, transport expense and time as well as the number of trees saved by using nice to meet you by month or year. Such applications focused on particular usage match the diversified use of web conferencing by customers and such advanced features had created competitive edge to the company in product differentiation.


■Factor 3:  Customizability
V-cube caters to the diversified customer needs by providing customization of its Software according to the needs. Many large corporations in Japan have their own security system and variety of usage of web conferencing depending on their business type. Therefore, V-cube provides its clients flexibility of customizing their software to match each business type or even corporate culture and is supported broadly by clients in Japan.


■Factor 4: Conclusion
The competition has continued to be intense in the Japanese web conferencing market with the entrance of new vendors and foreign vendors. V-cube, however, through its advanced technology, differentiated product lines, customizability and reseller network, was able to build a strong value proposition to its customers. Furthermore, V-cube has contributed strongly to educate the market regarding the benefit of web conferencing by actively participating at fairs and organizing seminars. Its wide re-seller network also contributed to the success. Based on such advanced accessibility and customizability as well as its marketing efforts, V-cube managed to grow its market share to be a leader in web conferencing, combined SaaS service and Software in 2008 despite the competitive situation in the market.


V-Cube Analyst Quote
"V-Cube's 'nice to meet you' web conferencing solution has a host of advanced features such as mobile phone connectivity, video streaming function and eco meter on top of quality desktop video support and clear VoIP audio, which makes it very compelling. In addition, its high customer acceptance is underscored by our research which shows V-Cube as the market leader in the combined on-premise and SaaS services web conferencing solutions in Japan."                                         
 Nozomi Kono (Ms.)／Research Analyst　Asia Pacific ICT Practice　Frost & Sullivan


■V-cube, Inc.
・Company name :  V-cube, Inc.
・Address :  8f Dai ichi Building, 2-9-1 Kami Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
・President CEO :  Naoaki Mashita
・Date of foundation :  October 1998
・Capital  :  404,560,000 JPY
・Description of business:  Development and sales of visual communication tools
・URL： http://www.vcube.co.jp/
・"nice to meet you" service & information website： http://www.nice2meet.us/


■Contact
V-cube, Inc.
TEL:03-5768-3307　FAX：03-5501-9676
・You can contact us through "nice to meet you" website:  http://www.nice2meet.us/

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V-cube, Inc. 
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