About us
- Creating a society brimming with teamwork
- Our vision is to provide the tools needed to create a society which thrives through teamwork.
Group History
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- 1997
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Three Japanese engineers quit their jobs to build groupware.
Cybozu is born with the mission: to make Teamwork better.
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- 2000
- Cybozu becomes the fastest company in Japanese history to IPO – with tons of awards and dedicated fans
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- 2011
- Kintone launches as Cybozu’s first cloud-based business app platform.
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- 2016
- Kintone Australia is founded in Sydney as a joint venture
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- 2019
- Recognized by Forrester as a Strong Performer in the Low Code Application Platforms for Business Users report and Business Developers.
- Gartner recognizes Kintone for the fourth year in a row in the Application Platform as a Service (hpaPaaS) report.
- Kintone Australia became a 100%-owned subsidiary of Cybozu Inc in Japan.
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- 2020
- Cybozu Groupware products have had a top market share for 12 consecutive years with over 30% shares in Japanese market.
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Great Place to Work® has ranked Cybozu #8 on the 2020 Best Workplaces™ in Asia list, in the large company
category.
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- 2021
- Over 20,000 companies are using Kintone.(Accounted more than 10,000 companies within 3 years)
Company Culture
As technology continues to shape the way we work, there are more opportunities for small and large teams to make a significant impact in their organisations and communities. Not only does Cybozu sell Kintone, an app to accelerate innovation and problem-solving within businesses, we are also a company of trailblazers challenging the current place of corporations in society and what it takes to build great teamwork.
We are committed to serving our team, customers, and the
community by practicing these values:
- Provide a platform for enhancing teamwork
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We believe that “information gaps” create power differences, conflicts, organisational barriers, and economic disparities. Kintone aims to bring out the autonomy of each individual through a design that eliminates information gaps.
Kintone allows you to connect with team members all over the world as long as you have internet access. It can be easily Integrated with external services and turned into a central hub for connecting multiple services. Our goal is to expand the use of Kintone around the globe as a platform where strong teamwork can be demonstrated.
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Ensuring that everyone can work
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Our purpose is to create a world where everyone can work as a team, regardless of team size, industry, department, or skill set. From a team of 5 people to a team of 100,000 people. From start-up teams to large corporations, federal/state government agencies, local governments, NPOs, educational and medical teams, and even teams that were established over a century ago.
No special skills or experience are required. All you need is the desire to create a team brimming with teamwork. We will continue to provide support in order to make this wish come true.
- Promoting methods for strengthening teamwork
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We are engaged in a variety of activities, such as promoting work style reform, disseminating information through our own media, and connecting customers and companies.
We have taken on a number of challenges in order to become a company brimming with teamwork. By providing know-how accumulated through this process, we also hope to extend this philosophy to the rest of society, helping as many people as possible thrive through better teamwork.
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Expanding teamwork to people around
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We are striving to deliver top-level services, not only in Japan, but also to customers in every corner of the world.
We have had offices in Shanghai since 2007, Vietnam since 2009, and in the United States since 2014. The company began selling its products in Australia in 2016 and opened a Taiwanese office in 2017. As of 2021, we are developing and selling our products in seven locations. We will continue to expand Kintone globally.
Message from the Australian Team
We are a Sydney based B2B SaaS team, delivering high quality enterprise grade customised system solutions for SME in the Oceania region.
Through Kintone, we have experienced how work can become an exciting and magical experience every day just by eliminating information silos, increasing team transparency, allowing everyone to access the information they need, and by creating a better communication platform.
Share your company's vision with us and WE will work with you to make it a reality. Let’s get this done with Kintone!
Blog
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Blogs that challenge our outlook on the future of work,
company culture, and the current place of corporations in
society.
