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Build Your AI Assistant In Kintone
Wouldn’t it be convenient to have an AI-powered chatbot that could answer questions about your app data in Kintone? For this use case, ChatGPT and other LLMs are promising, but not sufficient on their own. For consistently relevant results, retrieval of context is needed. This project explores Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), which fetches contextual data related to a user’s question. This allows for the chatbot to provide a much more relevant answer to the user’s inquiry, with sources referenced.
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Kintone Recognized for Seventh Consecutive Time in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for ...
We’re proud to announce that for the seventh consecutive year Kintone, the all-in-one, customizable workplace platform built for teams, has been recognized in the latest Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms* (LCAP). This marks the seventh consecutive time Gartner positioned Kintone within its LCAP vendor assessment report, and Kintone was one of only 17 vendors to be recognized this year.
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Need a status update from your team? Let your software ask for it.
If you’re a manager or project lead, following up can be your frog. “Frogs,” as coined by popular author Brian Tracy, are the most challenging tasks you face each day. But workplace frogs aren’t always the most technically difficult or creatively demanding tasks: sometimes they’re the most boring ones.
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7 Things You Can Do In Kintone’s Database Platform
The challenge with modern data management, according to business author and professor Prashanth Southekal, is that “companies have tons and tons of data, but [success] isn’t about data collection; it’s about data management and insight.” Much like water takes on the shape of its container, data can only reveal as much as the software that holds it allows.
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December 2024 Product Updates
December Kintone product updates will take effect on December 8, 2024.
Send Daily Emails to Closed Deals in Kintone via Zapier
Often, we want to perform a series of actions on a set of business records. Our CRM database contains emails and other data we might need to process regularly. Whatever these records are (Deals, Leads...
Build Your AI Assistant In Kintone
Wouldn’t it be convenient to have an AI-powered chatbot that could answer questions about your app data in Kintone? For this use case, ChatGPT and other LLMs are promising, but not sufficient on their...
Email Automation in Kintone using Zapier
Often, after an event in your CRM, it would be helpful to send an email automatically to a contact’s email address. This article will explain how to send an email to a customer’s Gmail or Outlook addr...
November 2024 Product Updates
November Kintone product updates will take effect on November 10, 2024.
October 2024 Product Updates
October Kintone product updates will take effect on October 14, 2024.
September 2024 Product Updates
September Kintone product updates will take effect on September 8, 2024.
August 2024 Product Updates
August Kintone product updates will take effect on August 12, 2024.
July 2024 Product Updates
July Kintone product updates will take effect on July 15, 2024.
June 2024 Product Updates
June Kintone product updates will take effect on June 9, 2024.
May 2024 Product Updates
April Kintone product updates will take effect on May 12, 2024.
April 2024 Product Updates
April Kintone product updates will take effect on April 14, 2024.
March 2024 Product Updates
March Kintone product updates will take effect on March 10, 2024.
Kintone Recognized for Seventh Consecutive Time in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms
We’re proud to announce that for the seventh consecutive year Kintone, the all-in-one, customizable workplace platform built for teams, has been recognized in the latest Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for E...
February 2024 Product Updates
February Kintone product updates will take effect on February 12, 2024.
January 2024 Product Updates
January Kintone product updates will take effect on January 14, 2024.
December 2023 Product Updates
December Kintone product updates will take effect on December 10, 2023.
November 2023 Product Updates
November Kintone product updates will take effect on November 12, 2023.
October 2023 Product Updates
October Kintone product updates will take effect on October 9, 2023.
September 2023 Product Updates
September Kintone product updates will take effect on September 10, 2023.
August 2023 Product Updates
August Kintone product updates will take effect on August 13, 2023.
July 2023 Product Updates
July Kintone product updates will take effect on July 9, 2023.
June 2023 Product Updates
June Kintone product updates will take effect on June 11, 2023.
May 2023 Product Updates
May Kintone product updates will take effect on May 14, 2023.
April 2023 Product Updates
April Kintone product updates will take effect on April 9, 2023.
How Church Brothers Farms gets hours back with Kintone’s product database
Bought groceries recently? Most people probably don’t realize it when buying their produce each week, but for every fruit or vegetable, there’s a significant number of details that go into getting tha...
March 2023 Product Updates
March Kintone product updates will take effect on March 12, 2023.
The complete guide to using Kintone's app templates
If you’ve dabbled in Kintone’s free trialor even looked around our website, you’ve probably heard about the app templates. Kintone app templatesare pre-built applications you can use to quickly get st...
February 2023 Product Updates
February Kintone product updates will take effect on February 12, 2023.
Hacking with Kintone: 2022 NASA International Space Apps Challenge
A few months ago, NASA held their International Space Apps Challenge, a global hackathon held across over 300 locations in 184+ countries aiming to create innovative solutions for challenges we face o...
How long does it really take to go live with Kintone?
Switching software isn’t always the easiest thing to do. There’s a lot to consider, from identifying what needs to change, saving copies of your data, and getting the team trained, and more.
January 2023 Product Updates
January Kintone product updates will take effect on January 9, 2023.
Need a status update from your team? Let your software ask for it.
If you’re a manager or project lead, following up can be your frog. “Frogs,” as coined by popular author Brian Tracy, are the most challenging tasks you face each day. But workplace frogs aren’t alway...
December 2022 Product Updates
December Kintone product updates will take effect on December 11, 2022.
How We Give Thanks in 2022: Karaoke, Tandoori Chicken, & More
If you’re a part of the Kintone team, there will come a time you’ll be invited to Kintone Karaoke. Kintone Karaoke is a time-honored tradition in our Japanese-based company that sees performances incl...
7 Things You Can Do In Kintone’s Database Platform
The challenge with modern data management, according to business author and professor Prashanth Southekal, is that “companies have tons and tons of data, but [success] isn’t about data collection; it’...
November 2022 Product Updates
November Kintone product updates will take effect on November 13, 2022.
Sales Manager Hacks: Kintone’s Sales VP Shares His Best Practices for Streamlining Sales Operations
Sales operations (also called sales ops) is widely accepted as imperative to an effective sales team. But depending on how it’s run, your sales operations can make or break your business. The goal for...
5 Kintone Features That Are Great for Project Management
A lot of days, project management can feel like this:
October 2022 Product Updates
October Kintone product updates will take effect on October 10th, 2022.
September 2022 Product Updates
New Features in DevelopmentNew Features in DevelopmentSeptember Kintone product updates will take effect on September 11, 2022.
Say Hello to Kintone’s New Brand Characters
If you’ve been a fan of Kintone for a while, you may have noticed some of the changes we’ve rolled out to our website this year. Most notably, our Kintone characters have gotten a makeover—from endear...
Zojirushi America Finds New Ways to Streamline Operations with Kintone
When a company has been around for over 100 years, it’s all too easy to get stuck with an old process or two. Zojirushi America, purveyor of high-end household and cooking appliances, was no exception...
August 2022 Product Updates
August Kintone product updates will take effect on August 15, 2022.
July 2022 Product Updates
July Kintone product updates will take effect on July 10, 2022.
Congo Brands Scales Their Business With Kintone
Congo Brands is a supplier and distributor of beverages and supplements, including Prime Hydration and Alani Energy, which you can find at nationwide retailers like Walmart and 7-Eleven.
June 2022 Product Updates
June Kintone product updates will take effect on June 12, 2022.
Kintone Wins TrustRadius 2022 Top Rated Awards!
We are glad to announce that Kintone has won TrustRadius’ 2022 Top Rated award in multiple categories.
May 2022 Product Updates
May Kintone product updates will take effect on May 8, 2022.
April 2022 Product Updates
April Kintone product updates will take effect on April 10, 2022.
How to Improve Your Collaboration with Kintone Spaces
The need for effective collaboration A study published by Harvard Business Review found that “the time spent by managers and employees in collaborative activities has ballooned by 50 percent or more” ...
Kintone: the Excel Alternative That'll Boost Your Team's Collaboration
Tired of Your Love-Hate Relationship With Excel? Excel can be a polarizing subject. Some people love using it to create spreadsheets because they make storing data simple. And, particularly with Googl...
March 2022 Product Updates
March Kintone product updates will take effect on March 13, 2022.
February 2022 Product Updates
February Kintone product updates will take effect on February 13, 2022.
How to Solve Your Spreadsheet Problems With Kintone
The problem(s) with spreadsheets The management of JP Morgan Chase would likely agree that spreadsheets aren’t always the most loved office tool based on what happened to their company in 2012 when a ...
A Step-by-Step Guide for New Kintone Administrators
Welcome to Kintone! Starting out as an administrator can seem like a daunting task. You may be asking, "Where do I even start?" We've made a step-by-step guide on what to set up first as a Kintone Adm...
Kintone 2021 Year In Review: New Hires, New Love & Good PR
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January 2022 Product Updates
January Kintone product updates will take effect on January 10, 2022.
Beginner's Guide to Building Workflows in Kintone
Whether you realize it or not, most of the work tasks you do every day are part of a flow or process. The trouble with tracking these workflows is that they’re often invisible and involve steps that r...
December 2021 Product Updates
December Kintone product updates will take effect on December 12, 2021.
In 2021, Kintonians All Agree On What to Be Grateful For
2021 was a unique year. We saw the light at the end of the tunnel with the distribution of the vaccines, and for the first time since before COVID, some of us were able to see and hug our family and f...
Celebrating 10 Years of Kintone
This month marks the 10th anniversary of Kintone as a product.
November 2021 Product Updates
November Kintone product updates will take effect on November 14, 2021.
How Long Does It Take To Build An App in Kintone?
One of the key benefits of using a no-code application builder like Kintone is that you can get your custom business applications up and running incredibly fast. According to software development firm...
Connecting Kids With IoT Through Kintone
Eriko Nishimoto is the founder of Binnovative, an NPO that empowers entrepreneurship in Japan and USA by providing collaborative experiences. Since the end of last year, Eriko and Binnovative members ...
October 2021 Product Updates
October Kintone product updates will take effect on October 10, 2021.
What Can You Build With Kintone?
At first glance, the thought of building a software application on your own might sound a little daunting. Thankfully, no-code application builders like Kintone handle all the back-end code for you so...
September 2021 Product Updates
September Kintone product updates will take effect on September 12, 2021.
100 People, 100 Workstyles: A Policy Built on Embracing Individuality
The phrase “work-life balance” gets thrown around pretty often—and for many, abrupt transitions to remote work and having to juggle ever-changing family responsibilities have complicated that fragile ...
August 2021 Product Updates
August Kintone product updates will take effect on August 9, 2021.
How to Calculate the Return on Investment of Kintone from Real Users
When purchasing a new piece of technology for your team or the whole organization, you need a strong business case proving the tool’s effectiveness. As attractive as new technology can be, it comes wi...
Archiving Nearly 100 Years of Dance History with Kintone
Northrop at the University of Minnesota has been hosting dance shows as far back as 1932, bringing top national dance talent to the stage for most of their history. In that time, they have had just ab...
A Comprehensive Guide to Kintone Resources
If you’ve bought IKEA furniture at any point in your life, you’ve probably faced this issue: the “instruction manual,” if you can even call it that, is a slip of paper with approximately three steps o...
July 2021 Product Updates
July Kintone product updates will take effect on July 11, 2021.
Getting Your Team On Board With Kintone: Part 2
Welcome to Kintone’s onboarding guide, part deux! In this piece, we’re going to get into the specifics of app planning and consideration, so if you haven’t already got everyone on board with the switc...
Getting Your Team On Board With Kintone: Part 1
Welcome to the first half of Kintone’s guide to onboarding! Switching software is a big step for any business, large or small. If you’re here, you probably already have a good idea about what you want...
June 2021 Product Updates
June Kintone product updates will take effect on June 13, 2021.
Changing the System Time Zone in Kintone
In Kintone's Localization settings, you can set the system time zone. The system will be set to Pacific Time by default, so we highly suggest updating this as soon as possible if you are in another re...
[Infographic] How One Business Owner Recreates Bestselling Software in Kintone
We rely on more and more software to get our work done—and many of those software tools are specialized or designed to handle one or a very few core purposes. But is stringing together a patchwork qui...
May 2021 Product Updates
May Kintone product updates will take effect on May 9, 2021.
[Video] An Overview of Kintone for Teams
Learn how Kintone can help you build apps for your team's workflows, no coding required. Manage your data, workflows, and team communication all in one place.
A letter from our CEO on increased hate crimes against the AAPI community
As a subsidiary of a Japan-based tech company located in San Francisco, and with over fifty percent of our team being of Asian descent, we understand the impact that the hate and violence toward the A...
April 2021 Product Updates
April Kintone product updates will take effect on April 11, 2021.
Using Kintone to Track COVID-19 and Keep Students Safe
The safe reopening of schools has been top of mind for many since the pandemic first hit the U.S. in the spring of 2020. For many of these schools, spreadsheets have become the bandaid solution to qui...
Why You’ll Want Kintone’s Integrated Chat Features For Your Business
Multi-tasking tools often get a bad rap. When something is touted to be a 2-in-1 product, it typically doesn’t do either function all that well.
How to Manage Kintone's Login Security Settings
In Kintone, you can setup login security settings depending on how secure you want your subdomain. This includes settings for Password Policies, Access Control by IP Address, and advanced login using ...
How To Customize Your Kintone Sub-Domain For A Personalized Look
Let's review how to update your logo, login page, and header color in Kintone. By incorporating your brand into the platform, you are helping create a personalized solution unique to your company.
365 Days Of Remote Work: A Lookback At What We’ve Learned
Do you remember your last day at the office before the quarantine kicked in and you went fully remote? I do. The last time I saw my marketing team we had a photoshoot for our mini giraffes that had ar...
Why You Need Departments & Groups in Kintone and How To Set Them Up
Setting up Departments and Groups (or Roles) is beneficial when setting up app permissions, process management, notifications, or mentioning groups of people in comments. Instead of including each ind...
How to Add a New User to Your Kintone Subdomain
Add your team members in Kintone to start using your newly created Apps and Spaces.
How to Add Users as Kintone Administrators
When setting up Kintone or expanding its use between departments, it can be good practice to establish more than one Kintone Admins or change your Admins altogether. Kintone Admins will have all the p...
March 2021 Product Updates
March Kintone product updates will take effect on March 14, 2021.![AB Emblem's Custom Manufacturing Process in 10 Kintone Apps [Infographic]](https://blog.kintone.com/hubfs/ab-emblem-photo.png)
[Infographic] One Complete Manufacturing Workflow in 10 Kintone Apps
Designing anything from scratch can feel daunting—just ask A-B Emblem, a custom emblem and patch manufacturer that's been around since 1892. Not only are they experts in building out custom designs, h...
Agree to Disagree: The Value of An Office Where Everyone Speaks Up
“Agree to disagree” is often used to end an argument when you can’t find any sort of compromise. For me, in the past it usually meant I would tolerate this person’s opinion, but would secretly judge t...
The Vaccine Management System Built on Kintone in an Hour
If you’re a regular reader of this Kintone blog, you may remember our first-ever “Drag-n-Drop-athon” Team Challenge at our Quarterly Impact Update (“QIU”) last year in September.
How Kintone Helps Our HR Team Get More Done
Human resources teams have a lot going on: managing payroll, handling employee concerns and complaints, recruiting and onboarding new employees are just a few of the complex demands expected of them. ...
How to Bulk Delete Records in an App
Bulk Deletion allows you to easily delete unwanted records without having to delete each record individually. Here's an overview of how do a Bulk Deletion.
February 2021 Product Updates
February Kintone product updates will take effect on February 14, 2021.
Back to the Basics with Kintone Keyboard Shortcuts For Quick Navigation
If you love efficiency like we do, you definitely love keyboard shortcuts. What many people don't know about Kintone is that there is a magical, dynamic, and powerful guide for Kintone's shortcuts wit...
UC Hastings Center for WorkLife Law Builds Accountability With Kintone
This article is a use case featuring one of Kintone’s customers, the Center for WorkLife Law, a small legal clinic that works out of University of California Hastings’ College of Law.
Kintone 2020 Year In Review: A Little Bit Of Love & A Whole Lotta Remote Work
2020 shook us up like a kid with a bottle of Coke and a packet of Mentos.
January 2021 Product Updates
January Kintone product updates will take effect on January 11, 2021.
Our Virtual White Elephant App That Saved The Day
Happy hours, company picnics, and team birthday cake celebrations. What do these activities all have in common? They are all in-person team activities that we weren't able to have this year due to the...
December 2020 Product Updates
December Kintone product updates will take effect on December 13, 2020.
November 2020 Product Updates
November Kintone product updates will take effect on November 8, 2020.
Kintone's Virtual Halloween Costume Contest
Halloween is almost here! What's not to love? Scary movie marathons, spooky decorations, candy galore, and of course: picking out your costume. Despite being fully remote this year, Kintonians continu...
Hacking With Kintone: NASA Space Apps Challenge Boston 2020
Kintone is a proud sponsor of NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge, the world’s largest global hackathon, which aims to create innovative solutions to challenges we face on earth and in space. Ea...
9 Ways to Automate the Tedious Stuff With Kintone
We all have aspects of our jobs that we don’t love. For me, it’s wasting time digging through my inbox for an old email or document. Email is the worst (and we’ve got the evidence right here). For you...
17 Quotes For Leaders Who Want to Improve Their Team’s Remote Work Experience
Is remote work just bringing a laptop home?
October 2020 Product Updates
October Kintone product updates will take effect on October 9, 2020.
How to Plan & Set Up Process Management in a Kintone App
Process Management allows users to take action on a specific workflow or process within an app. Common uses could be a document review cycle or an expense review and approval process.
Kintone’s Secret Weapon For An Engaged Remote Team
When companies went fully remote practically overnight, all social interactions went from in-person to behind a screen. If you’re a social butterfly, you probably felt the impact of a fully remote wor...
Building Out Lean, Mean Processes With Kintone
Benestar Brands (formerly Evans Food Group), headquartered in Chicago, is a manufacturer of branded and private-label pork rind snacks under its own national brand (Mac’s) and regional retail brands. ...
First Kintone Drag-n-Drop-athon Challenge Exceeds All Expectations
Recently, we held our first remote quarterly business review, called Quarterly Impact Update (“QIU”). While our QIU event is largely focused on internal reporting and team building, we had an unusual ...
How To Duplicate Filtered Views In Your Kintone App
A View refers to the display format of a list of records. It will display specific fields and filtered records depending on the needs of your team. Those with permission to manage an app can quickly d...
How To Change Your Kintone Subdomain URL Name
We get it, sometimes things change! That's why we've made it super easy to change your Kintone Subdomain URL. The first section of the Kintone URL (xxxx.kintone.com) can be changed at any time by an A...
September 2020 Product Updates
September Kintone product updates will take effect on September 11, 2020.
How to Create a Table on an App Form
In Kintone, you can organize data fields into a table. This allows you to view and reference multiple rows of data within a record with ease. This article covers how to create a table within in an app...
Forgot Your Kintone Password to Log In? Fear Not
It happens to the best of us! Here you'll find a quick run through of how an End User and a Kintone Administrator can reset their password.
August 2020 Product Updates
August Kintone product updates will take effect on August 7, 2020.
The IF Function: How Does It Work?
The IF function is a feature that allows users to implement conditional logic to their calculated fields and text fields with automatic calculations. When applied, target fields can be assigned to ret...
July 2020 Product Updates
July Kintone product updates will take effect on July 10, 2020.
5 Ways To Avoid Remote Work Burnout
Wake up. Walk three steps towards your desk, and voila—you’re at work! Easiest commute ever. This is the bittersweet reality for those who work remotely from home. On one hand it’s great that you don’...
Save Time with Auto-Populate and User Selection Default in Kintone
Work smarter with less clicks in the Kintone platform. When using the User Selection field on an app form, did you know you can set a user as a default option when a new record is created? You can sav...
A Letter from our CEO on Making Teamwork Better in Society
It is incumbent of all of us to say his name, George Floyd, and not be silent. This is especially true for those of us in positions of power and influence, including those at the head of companies and...
How to Import Data Sheets
If you have data that you’d like to import into an app, or if you have a field or fields you’d like to update all at once, you can use the Import from CSV/Excel feature to do so. Let’s take a look at ...
June 2020 Product Updates
June Kintone product updates will take effect on June 12, 2020.
How Hoshino Resorts Launched a New Payment Method in Just 3 Months
With over 100 years of history, Hoshino Resorts manages a variety of hotels, resorts, and travel destinations across Japan and Asia. The company opened its first ryokan, or Japanese inn, in Karuizawa,...
Cultural Transformation, Business Success & the Aspiration Engine™
Paul Sarvadi, CEO of the leading Professional Employer Organization (PEO) Insperity and author of the book, “Take Care of Your People,” said in a recent discussion I had with him, that “Designing comp...
Get Help with Kintone: Using Self-Guided Resources & Submitting Support Tickets
Kintone has several resources in place to help you create and streamline your apps with ease.
May 2020 Product Updates
May Kintone product updates will take effect on May 8, 2020.
6 Essential Tips to Effectively Manage Your Remote Team
Working from home is the new norm for many companies right now, but the trend itself isn’t new—regular remote work has increased by 173% since 2005, and 43% of employees work remotely with some freque...
Technology & Culture: Why Your Tools Are More Important Than Ever
When working remotely, we feel the limitations of our tools a bit more intensely. We can’t fill in the gaps on a project via sidebar conversations over a coffee run or a serendipitous run-in in the ha...
How to Manage Subdomain Level Permissions in Kintone
Permission Management allows Administrators to give end users access to Kintone Administration, to manage App Group settings, create Apps, create Spaces, and create Guest Spaces. No matter the setting...
Starting a New Job From Quarantine? Our Newest Kintone Member Did It.
Younis Elhamalawy had just buckled his seat belt on the B-757 when his phone started ringing. It was Kintone’s HR Coordinator Vincent Dang, calling to let him know San Francisco had just announced a s...
7 Tips for Work-From-Home Parenting From a Busy CEO and His Team
WFH Parenting in the Era of COVID-19 In the face of accelerating COVID-19 cases in the US, California just announced all schools will now be closed at least until May 1st. I suspect we won’t be the on...
5 Remote Work Setup Hacks You Need In Your Life
Everyone remembers their first time working from home. It’s a monumental day in your career, when it sinks in that you can finish your workload from the comfort of your home. Maybe you played that Fif...
April 2020 Product Updates
April Kintone product updates will take effect on April 10, 2020.
Remote Work Best Practices: What We’ve Learned at Kintone
San Francisco is on lockdown. Okay, while it’s not a true lockdown where you need special permission to leave your house, the Bay Area’s “shelter in place” order, which went into effect earlier this w...
Hacking with Kintone: Q1 2020 Developer Event Recap
2020 started off with an event-packed month for our developer relations team. We hosted a total of three "Introduction to REST API" learning sessions—these hands-on sessions included a general introdu...
$7,000-A-Month Enterprise Software You Can Build in Kintone
If you've experienced Marie Kondo's "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" (either the book or spin-off Netflix series), chances are you were inspired to take a more minimalistic view of your belongi...
March 2020 Product Updates
March Kintone product updates will take effect on March 6, 2020.
How Musical Empowerment Stopped Playing Musical Chairs with Their Data
Musical Empowerment is a nonprofit organization based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina that provides free, one-on-one music lessons to children (K-12) in under-served communities. Founded in 2002 by Chr...
3 Business Apps To Tell Kintonians You Love & Appreciate Them
Love is in the air! With Valentine’s Day coming up, that four-letter-word is on the minds of many Kintonians. Many of us wonder—why do we wait until February 14th to share our appreciation of others? ...
February 2020 Product Updates
February Kintone product updates will take effect on February 7, 2020.
3 Business Applications to Keep Your Customers Happy
Steve Jobs did much more than leave us with iPhones, MacBooks, and iPads. He also left us with this great quote you might have come across as #mondaymotivation:
Advice From Software Engineers to First-Time Kintone App Builders
Let’s say I ask you to build me a business software application. Chances are, you’re going to give me a blank look. For most business people with no coding experience, software development is about as...
Behind the Scenes of Kintone Connect and the Social Impact Challenge
As we reminisce on all the great moments that 2019 brought us, Kintone Connect really stood out. In this blog, we’ll offer a look back of all that was Kintone Connect, from how it started, to our favo...
Year-In-Review: Celebrating 2019 and All It Brought to Us at Kintone
In December of 1832, British poet Alfred Lord Tennyson found himself in our current situation: facing the end of the year. While most of us have spent the last stretch of the year buying last minute g...
January 2020 Product Updates
January Kintone product updates will take effect on January 10, 2020.
How Kintone Helps One Company Keep Clients Happy—Without the Midnight Calls
This article is a use case featuring one of Kintone’s clients, a Regional Manager of the Japan office at a construction and real estate development company. At the request of our client, their name wi...
Kintone Makes Cargo Claims as Easy as Possible
This article is a use case featuring one of Kintone’s clients, an IT Consultant at ezCargoClaims with over 20 years of logistics and transportation experience. At the request of our client, their name...
December 2019 Product Updates
December Kintone product updates will take effect on December 6, 2019.
How Kintonians Say THANKS on Thanksgiving
Stretchy sweatpants? On. Turkey? In the oven. Grandma’s famous mashed potatoes? On the table. If this scene sounds familiar, then you are probably one of hundreds of thousands of families all over the...
From Clicking Buttons to Building Them: Meet Kelly, Kintone’s Sales Engineering Apprentice from Techtonica
It would be an understatement to say we love Kelly at Kintone. Kelly Sousa, a quick-witted New Yorker with a love for technical challenges, is our first apprentice from Techtonica, a Bay Area educatio...
3 Kintone Apps that Boost Interns' Productivity and Growth
Getting work done as an intern is hard for any job. As an intern, you have a vague idea of what is happening around you, and being productive can be a hard task. But what differentiates my internship ...
We Hire Working Moms. That's Why We Partnered with The Mom Project
A lot of moms want to return to work. But the challenges they face are daunting: hiring managers that view multi-year work gaps with suspicion, digital job application filters that discard any resumes...
5 Things You Missed At Kintone Connect Chicago
Kintone Connect Chicago was held on Wednesday, October 9th, at City Point Loft. Chicago is one of the four stops on the Kintone Connect traveling roadshow series along with Los Angeles, Boston, and Sa...
November 2019 Product Updates
November Kintone product updates will take effect on November 8, 2019.
Gettin' Comical: Bringing Comics to Kintone's Product
We are growing our team! Meet our new digital squad:
Introducing Kintone's CRM App Pack for Sales Teams
Empower your sales team to be visual app developers, and build a CRM they'll love to use!
October 2019 Product Updates
October Kintone product updates will take effect on October 11, 2019.
Support for Multiple Versions Microsoft Access is Ending. Don't Let Your Data Fall Victim To Their Demise.
It’s hard to stay competitive on outdated software.
Summer Intern at a San Francisco Tech Startup - What it’s like at Kintone?
Summer internship programs are great opportunities for students to get a glimpse of the corporate world and experience a role they’re curious about. We’ve seen past interns not just further develop th...
10 Quotes on Teamwork and Social Impact from Kintone Connect Boston
The second stop of Kintone Connect 2019 road series was in “Beantown” Boston. We took our mission of sharing teamwork, our vision of creating social impact, and our discussions on policies, culture an...
Kintone Connect Los Angeles: A Look Back By Kintone CEO Dave Landa
What a great day! I’d like to thank all those who helped make the first of our four Kintone Connect events a rousing success.
Why We’re Moving Kintone to Amazon Web Services and What It Means For You
As you’re reading this we’re moving Kintone over to our new preferred cloud platform: Amazon Web Services (AWS). This move will see all new free trial and Kintone account users automatically moved to ...
September 2019 Product Updates
September Kintone product updates will take effect on September 6, 2019. Infrastructure updates will take effect on September 8, 2019.
Event Management Hacks: 5 Steps to Make Event Planning Less Chaotic
Managing and planning events is an important aspect of corporate engagement that helps build relationships with customers, business partners, and your team. A corporate events team may spend weeks, mo...
August 2019 Product Updates
August product updates will take effect on August 9, 2019.
See What the Future of Work Will Look like at Kintopia
After many months of tinkering and tweaking, we are proud to announce that Kintopia, our new media website, is now online!
Kintone Connect Is Back with a Twist!
It’s summer, and with that comes Kintone Connect, our annual conference for businesses looking to make teamwork better.
How to Turn a Record Number into a Hyperlink using an App Code
An App Code refers to a code for identifying an app. When an app code is set, it transforms the Record Number into a hyperlink to the corresponding record when written into Kintone Apps or Spaces. Exa...
The Forrester Wave: Low-Code Platforms for Business Developers 2019
As the appetite for low-code platforms continues to grow, so does the number of platform providers. That is forcing even the most savvy of business users to scramble for a way to effectively different...
July 2019 Product Updates
July product updates will take effect on July 12, 2019.
3 Reasons to Download Kintone’s New Mobile App
The demand to swiftly access data and take action on the go has increased these past years. Total mobile data traffic is expected to be five times higher by 2024 from a report by Ericsson.
June 2019 Product Updates
June product updates will take effect on June 7, 2019.
What is Conditional Formatting: A Free Add-On for your Kintone Experience
What is Conditional Formatting: A Free Add-On for your Kintone Experience Add-ons are packaged customization modules that Kintone users can install to their subdomains at the push of a button. We have...
Tips on Writing an App's Description
An app description is the upper section in an app’s record list view that is visible to all users who open the app. Though you can write anything here, we have a few tips you can follow to make it eas...
Connect your Line of Business Teams to your Industrial IoT Solutions
Kintone, Lanner and Wireless Glue are joining forces to help businesses unlock the potential of Industrial IoT solutions by bridging the gap between Industrial IoT solutions and Line of Business teams...
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's...SUPER MOM!
Deciding on a present to give your Mom for Mother’s Day becomes much more difficult once you’re old enough to realize that you can’t get away with giving her a macaroni necklace anymore. Whatever it w...
How to Set Up Reminder Notifications
Reminder notifications are notifications that will send alerts based on specific date and time conditions. You can have up to 10 reminder notifications set at one time.
4 Things to Know About Our "Going Paperless" Webinar Speaker Heather Johnson
Growing up, Heather Johnson spent countless hours making sure her eight brothers and sisters stayed out of trouble.
May 2019 Product Updates
May product updates will take effect on May 10th, 2019.
Game of Thrones: Kintonians Give Their Top 5 Wildest Ending Theories
Winter has arrived! On Game of Thrones, that is. If you’ve watched every grueling episode and are up-to-date with the last season, then hats off to you. This means you’ve made it through some of the a...
3 Ways to KonMari Your Operations and Spark Joy with Cleaner Workflows
If while organizing your closet, you’ve ever asked if that item of clothing (for example, that gnarly ripped tank top from college) sparks joy in your life, you’re not alone.
Healthy Living Comes to Colorado with LiveWell Colorado & Kintone
Claire Siemer knew things needed to change at LiveWell Colorado. The Evaluation & Learning Manager for LiveWell Colorado, a nonprofit organization committed to reducing obesity in The Centennial S...
April 2019 Product Updates
April product updates will take effect on April 12, 2019.
HR Hacks: Best Practices for Onboarding New Hires to Your Team
In today’s business world, Human Resource teams have a lot on their plate. Not only are they responsible for hiring new members, they’re also in charge of fostering a workforce that is motivated and d...
Do you have $10,000 in your file cabinet?
Greg Dalton did. The Director of Oregon-based nonprofit CASA Coos County discovered a grant application the nonprofit had applied for ten years earlier...and then forgot about. Turnover, leadership ch...
BTOES Nominates Two Kintone Customers for Outstanding Operational Excellence
It’s awards season and the corporate world is no exception. While businesses award shows might not feature an Oscar or Golden Globe, they do offer something more valuable: a close-up look at companies...
How to Set Up & Invite Users to Guest Spaces
Guest Spaces allow Kintone users to create a space where they can interact and collaborate with external users such as ad agencies, recruitment firms, or other vendors. Kintone users can invite indivi...
March 2019 Product Updates
March product updates will take effect on March 8, 2019.
How to Get Your Team Members on Board with Kintone
Picture this: you’ve just discovered how awesome Kintone is. You’re building apps left and right; increasing efficiency over here, streamlining a few processes over there. You’re almost positive that ...
Meet Calabash, the Kintone Partner with a Passion for Developing Employee-Focused Processes
Calabash is a consultancy firm that specializes in business process optimization solutions using low-code application platforms. Founded by operation management experts John Bratincevic and Matt Hubba...
Valentine's Day Survival Guide: Single As a Pringle or Dangerously in Love
It's almost Valentine’s Day! You’ve surely encountered stores full of teddy bears, chocolate boxes, and hearts galore everywhere you look. According to the National Retail Foundation, U.S. consumers a...
Agile Dating: How To Find Love Using Kintone
Juggling multiple dating apps. Awkward blind dates arranged by friends. Going to a party or club with the faint hope you’ll meet someone special. You’re smirking right now reading this because you ide...
Hacking with Kintone: Developer Camp 2019
On February 1st - 3rd, Developer Camp held it’s 12th annual 48-hour hackathon. This community event is held in cities all over the world for beginners and experienced coders. Emphasis on the word comm...
How to Activate Email Notifications, Spaces, and the People Feature in Kintone
The Feature Activation allows Administrators to enable and disable Email Notifications, Spaces, and the People feature. This article will cover how to manage all the items under the Feature Activation...
