An interview with Prof. Tomoko Kawakami of Waseda Business School on the current state of marketing in Japan. It’s with great pleasure that I introduce Prof. Tomoko Kawakami of the…

Nice write-up in the Nikkei (Japan’s WSJ) on Coupa’s participation in Japan’s E-Invoice Promotion Association, a business council committed to the standardization and dissemination of e-invoicing based on JP Peppol,…

Yasutaka Fukuda, Partner and CEO, Japan Cloud Consulting Customer success has been around in Japan since the arrival of Salesforce in 2000, but only a handful of companies get it…

A heartfelt congrats to the Daikin and New Relic Japan teams for a truly innovative implementation of the New Relic One observability platform. Daikin Industries, a leading, global manufacturer of air…

Japan Cloud Influencer Interviews This is the first in an infinite number of interviews we plan to do with opinion leaders in Japan’s IT and business circles. Our hope is…

Aruna Basnayake, CEO and Partner, Japan Cloud The second of three posts on Japan market entry. If anything keeps enterprise cloud CEOs up at night in Japan, it’s not a…

Aruna Basnayake, CEO and Partner, Japan Cloud BlackLine Japan customer Saison Information Systems is the IT subsidiary of Credit Saison, issuer of the third most popular credit card in Japan…

Aruna Basnayake, CEO and Partner, Japan Cloud This is the first in a series of three posts on Japan market entry. There’s an upside to COVID in Japan: the pandemic…