Bplats
{{Short description|Japanese application service provider}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Bplats, Inc.
ビープラッツ株式会社
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| foundation = November 2006{{Cite web
|url= http://www.bplats.co.jp/lang/en/company/index.html
|title= About us
|publisher= Bplats, Inc.
|accessdate= 2011-03-05
|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110321004544/http://www.bplats.co.jp/lang/en/company/index.html
|archive-date= 2011-03-21
|url-status= dead
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| location = 4F COI Uchikanda Bldg., 3-2-8 Uchikanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
101-0047 Japan
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| area_served = Japan and China
| key_people = Kenji Fujita, President and CEO
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- Cloud computing
- Electronic commerce
- Business process outsourcing
- Business process management
- Music industry
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| homepage = {{Official website|http://www.bplats.co.jp/index.html}}
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Bplats, Inc. is an application service provider (ASP) based in Tokyo, Japan. The company offers software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) solutions. It runs web portals on ASP, SaaS and cloud computing and an online store to sell software and hardware, such as the VY Vocaloid series.
Services
The SaaS and PaaS services of the company include:{{cite web|url=http://www.bplats.co.jp/lang/en/solutions/index.html|title=Solutions|publisher=Bplats|accessdate=March 5, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110407151907/http://www.bplats.co.jp/lang/en/solutions/index.html|archive-date=April 7, 2011|url-status=dead}}
- SaaSplats: a SaaS consultancy and distribution network
- eCPlats: an electronic commerce platform
- RightsPlats: a business process outsourcing service to report music sales to JASRAC
- License-V: a business process management service to control licensing business
Products
Bplats sells the Vocaloid series VY planned and developed by Yamaha Corporation, along with related software and hardware. The VY series of Vocaloids are different from other Vocaloids as their considered as having no form of avatar and were designed to be a high quality professional voicebank as well as to act as the intended standard for the Vocaloids products themselves. Though each voicebank has a gender type voice (feminine, masculine) the Vocaloid series itself is void of such restrictions and are designed with the intention of allowing those using them to be able to manipulate the voice as they please. The avatarless look was intended to encourage creativity with the series. VY1, the first of the series, was released with a demo album containing songs by various producers from Nico Nico Douga and their interpretation of the Vocaloid along with the settings used for the song.[http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1008/13/news005.html link][http://vocaloidsp-cd.com/ link] Bplats focused on their high quality Vocaloids, even delaying VY2 for quality related issue; VY2 was created with the intention of being realistic and stable.{{cite web|url=http://blog.vocaloidstore.com/?p=645|title=VYシリーズ, お知らせ|trans-title=VY Series, News|publisher=Bplats|date=December 24, 2010|accessdate=April 11, 2011|language=Japanese|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110118225222/http://blog.vocaloidstore.com/?p=645|archivedate=January 18, 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.vocaloidism.com/2011/04/10/vy2-release-date/|title=VY2 Release date!|publisher=Vocaloidism|date=April 10, 2011|accessdate=April 11, 2011|language=Japanese|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522190712/http://www.vocaloidism.com/2011/04/10/vy2-release-date/|archivedate=May 22, 2011}} Bplats is looking to produce male and female English Vocaloid products, with improvements to the standard of English used by the software, another Vocaloid is already under production.{{cite web|first=Kōya|last=Matsuo|url=http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1104/15/news084.html|title=コードネームは「勇馬」 ヤマハ純正のイケメンボカロ「VY2」の話を聞いてきた|trans-title=Codename Is "Yūma". I Heard the Story of the Yamaha Pure Cool Vocalo "VY2"|publisher=IT Media|date=April 15, 2011|accessdate=April 28, 2011|language=Japanese}}
=Vocaloid 2 products=
==Released products==
=Vocaloid 3 products=
==Released products==
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! width="5%" |Product ! width="5%" |Language ! width="5%" |Sex ! width="5%" |Release date |
| VY1v3
| Japanese | Unisex ("feminine" sounding voice) | October 21, 2011 |
| VY2v3
| Japanese | Unisex ("masculine" sounding voice) | October 9, 2012 |
=Vocaloid 4 products=
==Released products==
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; width:100%"
! width="5%" |Product ! width="5%" |Language ! width="5%" |Sex ! width="5%" |Release date |
| VY1v4
| Japanese | Unisex ("feminine" sounding voice) | December 17, 2014 |
| CYBER DIVA
| English | Female | January 22, 2015 |
| CYBER SONGMAN
| English | Male | October 31, 2016 |
=Vocaloid 5 products=
==Released products==
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; width:100%"
! width="5%" |Product ! width="5%" |Language ! width="5%" |Sex ! width="5%" |Release date |
| VY1
| Japanese | Unisex ("feminine" sounding voice) | July 12, 2018 |
| VY2
| Japanese | Unisex ("masculine" sounding voice) | July 12, 2018 |
| CYBER DIVA II
| English | Female | July 12, 2018 |
| CYBER SONGMAN II
| English | Male | July 12, 2018 |
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.bplats.co.jp/}} {{in lang|ja|en}} {{in lang|zh-cn}}
- [http://shop.vocaloidstore.com/ Bplats Vocaloid Store] {{in lang|ja}}
- {{YouTube|user=vocaloidstore|Bplats Vocaloid Store}} {{in lang|ja}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110611213523/http://www.ugc-pub.com/ Vocaloid Music Publishing (rights management for creators)] {{in lang|ja}}
- [http://www.saasplats.com/service/ SaaSplats (SaaS distribution network)] {{in lang|ja}}
- [http://www.asp-navi.jp/ ASP-SaaS Navi (ASP and SaaS portal)] {{in lang|ja}}
- [http://cloudnews.jp/ Cloud News (cloud computing news portal)] {{in lang|ja}}
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Category:Software companies based in Tokyo