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Hi.

CEO Sakurai here, struggling laboriously to diet.

Despite neglecting blogging for so long, the moment I sit down to write, anything and everything I want to convey gushes up all at once (he says with a wry grin).

Why did you start this company?

As most of you don’t know me, let me tell you briefly about how this company came about.

It’s for my own benefit, too, as a way to put things into order.

The truth is, while I am CEO of Tokyo Glitter, I am also an employee of a certain real estate company.

I belong to the company’s information systems section and I am in a position where I also get to observe general affairs and human resources activities.

We were receiving a whole lot of inquiries and requests from both inside and outside the company relating, for example, to systems and websites and so I said, “Let’s form a company and take on the business.”

And so I did.

In other words, it is an in-house venture.

What services do you provide?

We are a so-called tech company.

Put simply, we create websites, configure corporate servers and—this is what I want to introduce—design and develop original in-house systems, among other things.

Our main activities right now entail shifting servers installed in-house onto external cloud servers and developing original administration systems for the company I work for.

What systems do real estate firms need?

This is what I want to explain over a number of installments.

That is…what kind of systems should real estate agencies have?

Today I will simply touch on the main points…

A lot of my own career has been to do with general affairs, human resources and in-house information systems, and I have done a bit of sales, too.

I have worked in the apparel and insurance industries, and my current job is my first in real estate.

Putting it bluntly, what has surprised me with these businesses resembling small- to medium-sized enterprises is that PCs are used, but the thinking is all analog.

One really good example is…

Management with Excel

Yes.

I hate to bring this up because I am bound to cop a lot of criticism.

I don’t know what the situation is like overseas, but in Japan, this appears to be a typical phenomenon of data management at small- to medium-sized companies.

I am going to identify a number of problematic tendencies that occur at small- to medium-sized enterprises, naturally from my own perspective as someone who knows in-house systems.

On top of that, our engineer will explain what systems were built to address the issues.

We will take turns writing, in relay format.

I know what you mean!

Yes, me too!

What did you do to fix it?  

If you are saying these things, hopefully we can present examples (with secrets from our engineer) for resolving issues that are familiar to you.

Stay with us!

(I can no longer see my screen… tomorrow, maybe… no, I won’t say any more)