CollabNet Announces First Customer in Japan; Akashic Corporation Selects CollabNet SourceCast Environment For Collaboration Between Affiliate Companies.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BRISBANE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 2003 CollabNet, the leading provider of collaborative software This is a list of collaborative software (or list of groupware) applications. Wiki software is on a list of wiki software. Open source or free software The following are open source or free software applications. development solutions, today announced Akashic Corporation, a systems integrator and software development firm based in Tokyo, as its first customer in Japan. Akashic is a solutions provider for some of Japan's largest companies including: Asahi Chemical Information Systems Company, Canon Sales, Hitachi, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Bank of Japan, Nihon IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Nihon HP, and NTT-PC Communications. For its customers, Akashic provides a variety of software development capabilities, creating applications and solutions ranging from: system development to system operation and system maintenance. Recently, Akashic has worked on projects, including: updating a corporate legacy system, creating an e-Learning system, and developing a Web-portal for a district government. The CollabNet(R) SourceCast(TM) environment combines the necessary infrastructure for collaborative development, which include applications for: software development, technical communication, knowledge management, and project administration. Akashic is using the CollabNet SourceCast environment to manage multiple client projects; as well as to address the challenges of distributed software development across its affiliate companies, Bisonsoft Corporation and Cosmo Technology Corporation. CollabNet SourceCast provides the ideal development environment for Akashic developers and consultants to collaborate on multiple projects and track them accurately. "Our company focuses on software development. We strive to deliver satisfaction and value to our customers by establishing a large number of business partners, such as Akashic group companies. We have chosen the CollabNet SourceCast environment to effectively streamline all aspects of collaboration with these partners, including: communication among engineers, utilization of resources, software development, and project management. The CollabNet SourceCast environment enables our development teams to exchange information rapidly and to track all project information accurately. Because of these capabilities, we expect to reduce our decision-making time and improve quality, both of which will contribute to customer satisfaction," said Mr. N. Koyama, president, Akashic Corporation. Akashic's developers are frequently assigned to work on multiple projects concurrently and meet tight, demanding deadlines. Utilizing the CollabNet SourceCast environment as a central repository for both internal and external projects greatly increases visibility into all activity, communication, and history. In addition, the CollabNet SourceCast environment enables Akashic developers to create repeatable best practices and benefit from the reuse of common components. "Over the past three years, CollabNet has been providing the CollabNet SourceCast environment to meet the distributed development This article has multiple issues: * It does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by citing reliable sources. * Very few or no other articles link to this one. requirements of some of the world's leading corporations. As we continue to expand into Asia, we are excited to announce Akashic as our first Japanese customer," said Naomi Tomita, general manager Japan operations, CollabNet. "We believe that the benefits of collaborative software development will enable Akashic to streamline their enterprise software development process and result in better synergy and more efficient communication across its project teams." About CollabNet CollabNet provides companies with solutions for Collaborative Software Development (CSD CSD Commission on Sustainable Development CSD Serbian Dinar (ISO currency code) CSD Christopher Street Day CSD Circuit Switched Data (Sprint) CSD Computer Science Department CSD Community School District ) by combining a Web-based software application with a suite of consulting services. Using these solutions, customers can collaborate on development projects within an enterprise, with customers, business partners, or with third party developers. CollabNet enables corporations to reduce costs and increase revenues by bringing different project team members together, regardless of their location. CollabNet is currently working with several Fortune 500 and industry-leading enterprise companies, including: Barclays Global Investors Barclays Global Investors is a subsidiary of British-based Barclays Bank which is in the investment management industry. It is the largest corporate money manager in the world, with over £936 billion (US$1.77 trillion) under management as of March 2006[1]. (BGI BGI Barclays Global Investors BGI Bainbridge Graduate Institute BGI Bureau Gravimétrique International BGI Borland Graphic Interface (File Name Extension) BGI Bridgetown, Barbados - Grantley Adams International ), Dresdner Kleinwort Dresdner Kleinwort (DKIB) is the investment bank of Dresdner Bank AG, part of Allianz since July 2001. Headquartered in London and Frankfurt and with an international network including offices in the financial centres of New York and Tokyo, Dresdner Kleinwort provides a wide range Wasserstein (DrKW), HP, Motorola, SK Telecom, and Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. . Brian Behlendorf Brian Behlendorf (Born March 30, 1973) is a technologist, computer programmer, and an important figure in the open-source software movement. He was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the Internet, and a founding member of the , co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation (open source, body) Apache Software Foundation - (ASF) An umbrella consortium that manages the development of the Apache web server, dozens of XML- and Java-based projects (under the name Jakarta), the Ant build tool, the Geronimo J2EE server, the SpamAssassin anti-SPAM tool, and , established CollabNet in July 1999. For more information, see http://www.collab.net. Note to Editors: CollabNet and SourceCast are trademarks or registered trademarks of CollabNet, Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. 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