HENNGE, a Company Values the Power of Igniting Changes

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change."
Charles Darwin

Change is a crucial factor for a company to last longer

In order for a company to last long, being able to adapt to change is crucial. In fact, many companies failed because they couldn't adapt to changes. Recently, there are a number of new companies such as Uber, AirBnB and Netflix which challenge traditional companies in industries. We believe that change is really crucial for a company to survive. One of the reasons we strongly believe in change is because we constantly change ourselves to make our company last more than 20 years.

At the establishment, we were a company to provide computer tutoring service to the people who just started to use PCs. It was the time when Microsoft Windows 95 was released and we believed that there would be a world where every person uses PCs but people would have difficulty learning how to use PCs. Then, there was great expansion of open source software with the transition to server client systems from mainframes. This made us change our business to provide open source software(Linux) based servers so that many more companies could adopt email systems and web systems for their company. At that time, there were no data centers or application service providers so that companies needed to adopt servers by themselves in order to use email or websites. Soon after, since many big server vendors started to provide Linux servers, we decided to provide only GUI based server configuration software. Few years later, we started to provide email security software as the use of email expanded. After a while when the world started to shift to the cloud, we decided to provide our service on the cloud.

Everytime there are changes in the external environment, we struggle to find a way to survive. Fortunately, we could manage ourselves to develop new solutions to match those changes. After experiencing this kind of situation many times, we strongly believe that being able to change is a crucial factor to survive. This is one of the reasons we changed our company name to HENNGE. HENNGE is the combination of two words "Henka" and "Challenge". "Henka" means to change in Japanese.

"Liberation of Technology" to change

Since we understand that change is a crucial factor for a company to survive, we believe the world would be better if every company understands the importance of change. And, the world would be more exciting if every company challenges themselves to change constantly. In order to do so, we continuously would like to provide IT solutions to companies who value the importance of change. And, we are stating this as our mission "Liberation of Technology".

There are many technologies which would be useful for a company. However, if we combine multiple technologies to make it into a solution as a whole, in many cases, the company encounters the situation where there are missing pieces which makes it difficult to combine. For example, if we imagine the world where many companies use multiple SaaS services for their business, managing identity among those SaaS services would become an issue. By providing HENNGE One which is a secure single sign-on solution, managing identity among different SaaS services becomes easier. By providing HENNGE One, we can help deliver(liberate) many great SaaS technologies to many companies.

Igniting changes

In fact, it is not easy to discover missing pieces and also it is not easy to come up with a good solution to fill out missing pieces. Therefore, we constantly try new solutions to find out missing pieces and challenges to develop a solution to fill out those missing pieces. We call this activity "eating unripe fruits". Not only we try to change ourselves by challenging ourselves to many different things but also we will put all our learnings into a solution and deliver it to many other companies.

We value the power of igniting changes. And, we believe that companies constantly challenging themselves to change can provide better products and solutions. I think it would be really nice if every company tries hard to change, to make the world better. Furthermore, we wish HENNGE to be there to provide IT solutions to assist those companies trying hard to make changes.

Disclaimer:
There are some rooms to interpret our vision and mission in different ways. Therefore, some other HENNGE members may interpret our vision and mission differently from mine. However, as long as we are facing the same direction, we think it is acceptable to have freedom to interpret in our own way.