Insights

Many foreign suppliers from Avaya, Nortel, Cisco, Siemens, to Alcatel-Lucent and others have struggled with the Japanese market for telephone systems (PBX). It is much the same story for Korea, but of course the local players have varied. For Japan, Cisco has tried with little visible success to market it’s UC-500 product for small offices.

You are cordially invited to attend the upcoming event hosted by CPA Australia – Japan Charter.

The presentation will be led by Spencer Wolfe, Managing Director of AINEO Networks, and the topic “Cloud Computing and its application to Business”.

In June of 2008, AINEO led the way by being one of the first groupware service providers in Japan.

We saw the need for people to be able to share schedules (along with mail, tasks, and documents), deal with spam and other security threats, and reliability issues that most companies have with messaging and the web.

Web 2.0. Salesforce.com. Social networking. Guerilla marketing. Cloud computing. These are terms that are bandied about in businesses all over the globe. But what do they mean exactly? More specifically, how might they impact on operational and capital expenses? What are the benefits of such innovations and what are the risks to businesses?

Google is a phenomenal company. They have not only invented their own business model but that have become the leader in that field and held the majority of that web search market from their inception. They are well managed and a company to be admired by any serious businessperson.

The iPad finally hits Japan.

As we went to a lunch meeting in Ginza we saw three people lined up in front of the Ginza Apple store to start waiting for the opportunity to walk in and buy an iPad. There were three people there. All males, all young with probably too much time on their hands.