Workato Inc. Enters Product Partner Agreement with Cybozu, Inc., Workato Certified as kintone Integration Service
Workato Inc. has signed a product partner agreement with Cybozu, Inc., making Workato a certified integration service for kintone. This partnership will accelerate the digital transformation and automation of kintone users by enabling secure integration with various systems, including AI agents, through Workato's integration platform.
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Workato Inc. (Headquarters: Palo Alto, California, USA; hereinafter, Workato), a leading provider of agentic orchestration platforms, and its Japanese subsidiary, Workato K.K. (Location: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director & President: Allan Teng), announce that they have entered into a product partner agreement with Cybozu, Inc., and Workato has been certified as an integration service for kintone.
Workato's kintone connector is already utilized by over 100 domestic and international companies (as of April 2026), and this certification will further accelerate the provision of value to kintone users.
kintone, widely adopted in Japan, has powerfully driven the digitalization of business operations. However, the rapidly increasing need for seamless integration with ERP and core systems (including on-premise), external cloud services like Salesforce, ServiceNow, SAP, Workday, Slack, and Box, and even AI tools, has highlighted the challenge that individual point-to-point integrations can no longer cope with complex business workflows.
**Five Values Provided by Workato's kintone Connector:**
- **Cross-System Workflow Automation:** Build end-to-end business processes across kintone and other cloud/on-premise systems with no-code/low-code.
- **AI Agent Integration:** Achieve agentic workflows where AI agents can refer to, update, and delete kintone records by combining with Workato's AI Connector.
- **No-Code MCP Endpoint Creation:** Create and publish kintone-oriented MCP endpoints without coding. Safely utilize kintone data from generative AI assistants.
- **Enterprise-Grade Security & Governance:** Meet the security requirements of large enterprises with SOC2 Type II compliance, role-based access control, and detailed audit logs.
- **Over 1,200 Rich Connectors:** Immediately start integration with major applications such as Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Slack, Microsoft 365, and Google Workspace. Over 900,000 community recipes are also available.
**Towards a World Where Anyone Can Be an App Developer with kintone**
**Comment from Mr. Kazumi Tamada, Executive Officer and General Manager of Sales Division, Cybozu, Inc.:** "Cybozu, Inc. sincerely welcomes Workato K.K. commencing collaboration as a product partner of Cybozu. The 'Workato kintone connector' is not merely a data integration tool; it automates business operations across the entire enterprise with kintone at its core. We expect advanced features like AI agent integration and no-code MCP endpoint creation to further accelerate business improvement for kintone users. Both companies will deepen their cooperative relationship to provide valuable support to our customers."
**Comment from Mr. Hayato Sugimoto, Manager of DX Promotion Div., DX Promotion Office, Onward Holdings Co., Ltd.:** "By utilizing Workato's kintone connector, we significantly reduced manual tasks in factory master data management and order form creation processes, achieving up to a 40% reduction in man-hours. Since cross-system automation can be built with no-code, we are able to resolve business challenges with speed."
**Comment from Mr. Allan Teng, Representative Director & President, Workato K.K.:** "We are honored to be certified as a product partner of Cybozu, Inc. kintone is a powerful platform that has driven the digitalization of Japanese companies. By combining with Workato, we will realize intelligent business automation centered around kintone and contribute to strengthening the competitiveness of Japanese companies."
**Enterprise MCP — The Era of AI Agents Safely Operating kintone**
Workato announced Workato Enterprise MCP (Model Context Protocol), the industry's first, in October 2025. It functions as an "AI hub" that allows major AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Cline to access enterprise applications and data while maintaining security and governance, and to perform actual business tasks. Workato's kintone connector, through this Enterprise MCP, realizes "agentic workflows where AI agents can refer to, update, and delete kintone records while maintaining enterprise-grade security and governance."
Workato's kintone connector is already utilized by over 100 domestic and international companies (as of April 2026), and this certification will further accelerate the provision of value to kintone users.
kintone, widely adopted in Japan, has powerfully driven the digitalization of business operations. However, the rapidly increasing need for seamless integration with ERP and core systems (including on-premise), external cloud services like Salesforce, ServiceNow, SAP, Workday, Slack, and Box, and even AI tools, has highlighted the challenge that individual point-to-point integrations can no longer cope with complex business workflows.
**Five Values Provided by Workato's kintone Connector:**
- **Cross-System Workflow Automation:** Build end-to-end business processes across kintone and other cloud/on-premise systems with no-code/low-code.
- **AI Agent Integration:** Achieve agentic workflows where AI agents can refer to, update, and delete kintone records by combining with Workato's AI Connector.
- **No-Code MCP Endpoint Creation:** Create and publish kintone-oriented MCP endpoints without coding. Safely utilize kintone data from generative AI assistants.
- **Enterprise-Grade Security & Governance:** Meet the security requirements of large enterprises with SOC2 Type II compliance, role-based access control, and detailed audit logs.
- **Over 1,200 Rich Connectors:** Immediately start integration with major applications such as Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, Slack, Microsoft 365, and Google Workspace. Over 900,000 community recipes are also available.
**Towards a World Where Anyone Can Be an App Developer with kintone**
**Comment from Mr. Kazumi Tamada, Executive Officer and General Manager of Sales Division, Cybozu, Inc.:** "Cybozu, Inc. sincerely welcomes Workato K.K. commencing collaboration as a product partner of Cybozu. The 'Workato kintone connector' is not merely a data integration tool; it automates business operations across the entire enterprise with kintone at its core. We expect advanced features like AI agent integration and no-code MCP endpoint creation to further accelerate business improvement for kintone users. Both companies will deepen their cooperative relationship to provide valuable support to our customers."
**Comment from Mr. Hayato Sugimoto, Manager of DX Promotion Div., DX Promotion Office, Onward Holdings Co., Ltd.:** "By utilizing Workato's kintone connector, we significantly reduced manual tasks in factory master data management and order form creation processes, achieving up to a 40% reduction in man-hours. Since cross-system automation can be built with no-code, we are able to resolve business challenges with speed."
**Comment from Mr. Allan Teng, Representative Director & President, Workato K.K.:** "We are honored to be certified as a product partner of Cybozu, Inc. kintone is a powerful platform that has driven the digitalization of Japanese companies. By combining with Workato, we will realize intelligent business automation centered around kintone and contribute to strengthening the competitiveness of Japanese companies."
**Enterprise MCP — The Era of AI Agents Safely Operating kintone**
Workato announced Workato Enterprise MCP (Model Context Protocol), the industry's first, in October 2025. It functions as an "AI hub" that allows major AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Cline to access enterprise applications and data while maintaining security and governance, and to perform actual business tasks. Workato's kintone connector, through this Enterprise MCP, realizes "agentic workflows where AI agents can refer to, update, and delete kintone records while maintaining enterprise-grade security and governance."