CompanyHistory

Nov. 1995

AP Communications (Tsushin) Ltd. founded in Kita Ward

Oct. 1998

Name changed to AP Communications Co., Ltd.

Oct. 1998

Main office relocated to Kajicho, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo

Nov. 2004

Registered as General Type II Telecommunications Carrier with Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

Apr. 2005

Second establishment

Apr. 2005

Obtained ISO 9001 certification

Sept. 2005

Expanded primary contracting business

Apr. 2006

Obtained Privacy Mark certification

Dec. 2006

Increased capital to ¥75 million

Dec. 2007

Increased capital to ¥77.5 million

June 2009

Obtained ISO/IEC 27001 (ISMS) certification

Jan. 2011

Launched own services business

Jan. 2013

Established permanent office in Indonesia

July 2014

Consequent to our office expansion, established ECHO (Extraordinarily Creativity Happy Office) in Uchikanda, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo

May 2015

Began offering PALallax in OSS

May 2016

Launched sales of firewall policy testing automation appliance NEEDLEWORK

July 2016

Established the Japanese company Mirantis Japan Co., Ltd. as a joint venture with US-based Mirantis Inc.

Nov. 2016

Consequent to expansion of our business, merged main office and ECHO and established new office in Kajicho, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo

Dec. 2016

Increased capital to ¥92.5 million

Dec. 2016

Obtained CPSP status with Palo Alto Networks USA

June 2017

PALallax awarded special jury prize in the Management and Monitoring category of Interop Best of Show Award 2017

Dec. 2017

Awarded the KAIKA Prize at KAIKA Awards 2017

Feb. 2018

Entered agency agreement with Nippon Telematique Inc.

Mar. 2018

Obtained certification as a good employer by the Japan White Spread organization

Mar. 2018

Awarded in the category of Human Resource Cultivation in the 4th Good Employer Awards

June 2018

NEEDLEWORK nominated as a finalist in the Security category of Interop Best of Show Award 2018

Oct. 2018

Entered agency agreement with Link At Japan Co., Ltd.

Oct. 2018

Awarded Gan Ally-bu Gold Prize at the Gan Ally Declaration Awards

Dec. 2018

Obtained Silver Certification as a company with excellent health by the Tokyo Federation of Health Insurance Companies

Aug. 2019

Entered Ansible Acceleration Partner Program agreement with Red Hat, Inc.

Aug. 2019

Began offering autonomously supported network application automation services

Sept. 2019

Obtained certification as an authorized reseller for A10 Networks

Dec. 2019

Awarded New Type Award at Work Story Award 2019

Mar. 2020

Awarded in the category of Human Resource Cultivation in the 5th Good Employer Awards

Oct. 2020

Began offering PALallax in cloud

Feb. 2021

Began offering Cloud Native insourcing support service for Azure Kubernetes Service

Mar. 2021

Renewal of Certification as a good employer

Aug. 2021

Obtained "Gold DevOps Competency" in the application and infrastructure field of Microsoft Azure

Mar. 2022

Renewal of Certification as a good employer

Apr. 2022

Obtained "Gold Cloud Platform Competency" in the Cloud Platform field of Microsoft Azure

Jun. 2022

Started collaboration with NuWorks LLC.

Jun. 2022

"NEEDLEWORK" was selected as a finalist for Interop Tokyo 2022 Best of Show Award

Sep. 2022

Started collaboration with Databricks Inc.

Oct. 2022

Registered as an Indirect Certified Partner of HashiCorp, Inc.

Oct. 2022

Obtained "Digital & App Innovation (Azure) Solution Partner" and two other certifications in the Microsoft Partner Network

Oct. 2022

Became an organizer of MICUG, the Microsoft Cloud enterprise community

Nov. 2022

Recognized as a "Great Place to Work" by Great Place to WorkR Institute Japan

Jan. 2023

Signed a distribution partnership agreement with dbt Labs, Inc.

Feb. 2023

Signed a partnership agreement with Fivetran Inc.

Feb. 2023

Signed Japan's first reseller agreement with Catalogic Software, Inc.

Mar. 2023

Renewed White Company Certification

Apr. 2023

Signed a reseller agreement with Wallarm Inc.

Jun. 2023

Certified as AWS Select Tier Service Partner

Jun. 2023

Obtained "AWS 100 APN Certification Distinction" certification

Aug. 2023

Acquired Microsoft "Specialization (DevOps with GitHub on Microsoft Azure)" certification

Sep. 2023

Obtained "AWS 200 APN Certification Distinction" certification

Oct. 2023

Signed partnership agreement with Authify Inc.

Oct. 2023

Certified as Select Partner in the Cloud & Integrator category of the Fortinet Engage Partner Program

Nov. 2023

Certified as a "Great Place to Work" for the fiscal year 2023

Dec. 2023

Certified as an "Advance Company" at the D&I AWARD 2023

Jan. 2024

Promoted to AWS Advanced Tier Service Partner

Jan. 2024

Signed partnership agreement with KX

Feb. 2024

Obtained "AWS 300 APN Certification Distinction" certification