Raksul aiming for 'Better Systems, Better World'! Yasukane Matsumoto, CEO

Raksul, headquarted in Tokyo, Japan, has the vision of 'Better Systems, Better World'. It believes that by merging the industries of the 20th century to the ones of the 21st century, we can significantly improve their productivity. The convenience provided by new services and innovation will strengthen the economy. Raksul wants to remain active in bringing a social change and contributing to the revolution of the legacy industries in Japan, and across the rest of the world.

Here, Yasukane Matsumoto, CEO, Founder, and Representative Director, Raksul, tells us more. Excerpts from an interview.

DQ: What was the objective of setting up Raksul? Explain your mission.

Yasukane Matsumoto: It was in early 2020 when I decided to tap into the rich IT talent and tech business ecosystem that India offers. I had been long associated with India personally and it seemed like a very natural thing to do given how it could enable Raksul to go global, both in terms of R&D expansion as well as building global products.

If there was one thing, we were certain about, it was our intent to expand into India; it was not for good old fashioned "outsourcing" but to acquire and build strong leadership in technology, product, and business development and to provide wholesome empowerment to the team that would build our future global products.

DQ: What is the role of Josys as a global SaaS product in automating analog work?

Yasukane Matsumoto: I saw a huge opportunity to streamline corporate IT operations with automation, simplification, and abstraction. A typical corporate employee uses a multitude of SaaS apps on their corporate IT devices which need to be facilitated and this poses a significant overhead in terms of management, monitoring and security.

Further, the dependency on manual operations in corporate IT adds to the challenge. Josys addresses these pain-points with an integrated cloud solution that offers a one-stop solution for businesses to achieve increased productivity, cost optimization and enhanced security.

DQ: What is the importance of R&D globalization – for bringing global talent and leadership across tech and management?

Yasukane Matsumoto: To us at Raksul, it is the only natural path to the future as a tech company in Japan wanting to create transformational products and services for the world. Our vision is BETTER SYSTEMS, BETTER WORLD. So far, we have been successful in realizing this vision for multiple, conventional industries in Japan.

The genesis of Josys is indeed as a global product at its core. It is imperative to acquire the diversity, expertise and mindset of global talent and leadership to be able to build successful global offerings. Hence, Raksul is in India - where else in the world would we find all this?

DQ: How can SaaS-based automation help scale businesses?

Yasukane Matsumoto: Ironically, with the advent of technology that is meant to make our lives easier, businesses face a lot of complexities in adopting and effectively managing such technology. For example, recent studies show that the average number of SaaS applications that the SMBs use has increased rapidly, and account for over 70% total software usage. Staying operationally efficient with all this increasing complexity is getting harder by the day for businesses.

Unless there is a solution at a level higher than the problem itself, it is impossible for businesses to keep up, let alone scale up. SaaS platforms such as Josys that render automation, abstraction and simplification enable businesses to:

(a) conquer such complexities,
(b) reduce dependencies on manual and error prone operations,
(c) gain a higher vantage point of its own business,
(d) derive insights, and
(e) correlate multiple facets of its own operations, which all would otherwise have not been possible.

DQ: What is the importance of cloud adoption to maintain business continuity?

Yasukane Matsumoto: Raksul is a true, born-in-the-cloud company, and all our businesses are built on the cloud! That said, the industries that we have targeted and transformed thus far were traditional in nature with very little infusion of modern digital technology or the Internet.

Enabling businesses in such industries to harness the power of the Internet, the cloud, and emerging technologies to in effect, reinvent themselves is the overarching mission of Raksul. Our cloud platforms and solutions not only enable business continuity but also operational efficiencies, business effectiveness and even adoption new business models.