CompanyHistory

AP Communications (Tsushin) Ltd. founded in Kita Ward

Name changed to AP Communications Co., Ltd.

Main office relocated to Kajicho, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo

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

Second establishment

Obtained ISO 9001 certification

Expanded primary contracting business

Obtained Privacy Mark certification

Increased capital to ¥75 million

Increased capital to ¥77.5 million

Obtained ISO/IEC 27001 (ISMS) certification

Launched own services business

Established permanent office in Indonesia

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

Began offering PALallax in OSS

Launched sales of firewall policy testing automation appliance NEEDLEWORK

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

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

Increased capital to ¥92.5 million

Obtained CPSP status with Palo Alto Networks USA

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

Awarded the KAIKA Prize at KAIKA Awards 2017

Entered agency agreement with Nippon Telematique Inc.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Began offering autonomously supported network application automation services

Obtained certification as an authorized reseller for A10 Networks

Awarded New Type Award at Work Story Award 2019

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

Began offering PALallax in cloud

Began offering Cloud Native insourcing support service for Azure Kubernetes Service

Renewal of Certification as a good employer

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

Renewal of Certification as a good employer

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

Started collaboration with NuWorks LLC.

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

Started collaboration with Databricks Inc.

Registered as an Indirect Certified Partner of HashiCorp, Inc.

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

Became an organizer of MICUG, the Microsoft Cloud enterprise community

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

Signed a distribution partnership agreement with dbt Labs, Inc.

Signed a partnership agreement with Fivetran Inc.

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

Renewed White Company Certification

Signed a reseller agreement with Wallarm Inc.

Certified as AWS Select Tier Service Partner

Obtained "AWS 100 APN Certification Distinction" certification

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

Obtained "AWS 200 APN Certification Distinction" certification

Signed partnership agreement with Authify Inc.

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

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

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

Promoted to AWS Advanced Tier Service Partner

Signed partnership agreement with KX

Obtained "AWS 300 APN Certification Distinction" certification