Hajime Hikita

Works Applications Co., Ltd.

Works Applications is established in Japan, producing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software for financials and supply chain management. The company has top market share in the Japanese ERP market for many years, where it competes effectively against foreign giant vendors. We believe the way of work should be more creative. We established development centers in Shanghai, Singapore, and India in only 3 years and spreading strategic to all around the world with the next-generation enterprise software solution called AI WORKS, which is designed to break away from the traditional ERP model. It dramatically improves operational efficiency and reduces manual input. This next-generation solution also provides high usability and high speed (100 ms) by using the newest technology such as Cassandra, Spark, Yarn, Kafka, Elasticsearch etc.