Operated by Edamame Inc. · Tokyo · Manila · Kintone work since 2019
Journal

Written rarely,
from the field.

We don't do content marketing. We write when we've learned something worth sharing — Kintone operational findings, product roadmap milestones, industry shifts in auth and security.

Generate a quote in Kintone and send it from your own mailbox

Record to sent without Excel or a mail client — and why the sender address matters more than it looks.

Budget vs actual in Kintone, on an April fiscal year

A date field and a period dropdown do not line up. How to run budget-vs-actual without remodelling your apps.

Kintone mail and the SMTP basic auth deadline

Microsoft disables SMTP AUTH basic auth by default at the end of December 2026. What breaks in a Kintone environment, and the migration path.

Choosing a Kintone dashboard plugin

Pricing that varies with user count, where aggregation runs, fiscal-year handling — what to check before you commit.

How to aggregate data across multiple Kintone apps

Kintone graphs work inside one app. Four real options for cross-app aggregation, including where each breaks.

● Urgent Apr 15, 2026 9 min read

Microsoft 365 basic auth shutdown — Kintone mail after April 2026

On April 1, 2026, Microsoft 365 shuts down SMTP basic authentication, breaking most Kintone mail plugins. Symptoms, migration options, and OAuth 2.0 transition steps from a Kintone consultancy since 2019.

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Technical guide Apr 18, 2026 10 min read

Kintone plugin OAuth 2.0 migration — technical implementation guide

Step-by-step migration from SMTP basic auth to OAuth 2.0 for Kintone mail plugins. Authorization code flow, token storage, refresh, Send As delegation, error handling, subdomain scoping. Node.js + Kintone implementation examples.

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Market structure Apr 17, 2026 11 min read

Why most Kintone plugins live outside Kintone

Most of the Kintone plugin market is actually external SaaS that integrates with Kintone — not native plugins. The vendor-side business-model reasoning, the user-side costs, and what happens when a vendor deliberately chooses native architecture instead.

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Buyer guide Apr 18, 2026 11 min read

How to choose a Kintone plugin — 5 axes that matter

Kintone plugin selection is not about feature checklists. It is about architecture, vendor continuity, cost structure, security, and operational burden. This framework helps buyers avoid year-3 regret.

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Enterprise Apr 18, 2026 9 min read

Passing Japanese enterprise ringi approval for Kintone plugins

How to navigate the ringi approval process for Kintone plugins in Japanese enterprises. Five required document sets, vendor selection criteria that pass, timeline acceleration techniques — from real deployment experience.

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Technical Apr 18, 2026 8 min read

When Kintone lookup gets slow — scaling past 50,000 records

Past 10,000 records, Kintone lookup becomes noticeably slow. Causes: the records API 10,000-offset limit and UI rendering cost. Solutions covering pre-filters, progressive loading, cursor API, and purpose-built plugins — verified at 50,000-record scale.

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Fundamentals Apr 18, 2026 7 min read

cybozu.com vs kintone.com — understanding Kintone domain differences

Both cybozu.com and kintone.com are Cybozu's Kintone, but they differ in contract era, data residency, and plugin compatibility. Critical differences for plugin selection, SSO, IP-restricted environments, explained from production experience.

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