IAP Company Limited and PortWise to Forge Partnership
22 August 2005
Partnership to Empower Corporate Enterprise Customers with End-To-End Secure Application Access.

IAP Company Limited, a premier Indo-Japanese software development and services company based in India and Japan, today announced that it has entered into a channel partnership with PortWise, the secure application access specialist.

News Coverage - Nikkei Sangyo Newspaper
28 January 2005
Two fold programs at Japan and India
Strengthening the manpower to 750 - For the Home-appliances and mobile industry.

I.A.P. Company Ltd., Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, a software development company, will increase their manpower by two fold from the current number of 125 to 250 within a year. At the same time, India based programmers will be increased to 500 from the present 250. By doing so, I.A.P. will accelerate their efforts to fulfill the vacuum in the field of embedded system for home-appliance and mobile industries.

I.A.P is planning to increase the human resources at New Delhi development center and the development centers in Tokyo and Kobe to approximately 500 and 250 respectively. At each center, graduates from the Indian Engineering Colleges (IIT) and other highly educated graduates will be placed as backbones. At New Delhi research center, technical personnel will be trained for 2 –3 months about the techniques and business customs required here in Japan.

I.A.P. intends to divide the development works in Japan and in India by designing the embedded software for home-appliances etc. in Japan and doing the development work in India. In order to grasp and digest the clients requirement fully, for every ten engineers, one English speaking Japanese programmer is recruited. If clients prefer the entire development in Japan, I.A.P is ready to summon its programmers to Japan.

I.A.P. has an IT research center at New Delhi, where around 30 researchers are conducting research on the techniques like Linux, T-Kernel, embedded software development etc.

I.A.P. was founded in 1996 by Mr. Upadhyay, who had been a student of Dr. Ken Sakamura, professor of Tokyo University and started the full-scale operations in 2000. Unlike other software development companies based in India, I.A.P. is exclusively serving Japanese companies.

SIP User Agent on T-Engine
Today T-Engine is a buzzword for the Ubiquitous Community. Global acceptance of T-Engine Standard has shifted the focus from centralized to distributed environment computing. With the promotion of "On demand distributed computing" by T-Engine Community and also SIP support for ubiquity, the need of wide deployment of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) will increase. IAP_SIP framework over T-engine consists of various components including GUI application, SIP User Agent, SDP, RTP and Audio codecs.

Internet On Handheld Devices
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A Bow to the Rising Sun
Cracking the Japanese market is key to India's software fortunes. That means the arduous task of mastering Japanese, the body language - and yes, eating sushi. Here's how one Indian company learned its lessons and reaped the benefits.

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iMode Type Technology for India
CHALLENGING the monopoly of Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) in mobile Internet technology in India, Access Company of Japan has decided to bring its own technology similar to iMode to NTT DoCoMo, into India.

Access, which has provided the mobile Internet technology to NTT DoCoMo for iMode, also plans to (Click here to see complete details) use India as a base to develop a complete end-to-end mobile Internet technology framework and solution. It plans to market the same in other countries as well.

The company has forged a strategic alliance with a Delhi-based software firm IAP Company Ltd. for preliminary business activities and plans to convert the relationship into a joint venture in the future, to roll out full fledged development and implementation operations.

In an exclusive interview with the Financial Express, Access co-founder and chief executive office Toru Arakawa said. "We have partnered with NTT DoCoMo in developing iMode and have the capability to offer solutions for access devices, mobile operators and content providers to enable mobile Internet."

"India offers an appropriate destination for us to develop a complete solution because of its software skills, process capabilities and spread of mobile telephony." Said Mr. Arakawa adding that he would like to develop a technology framework in India similar to iMode to Japan, with the help of Indian mobile operators and the government.

Mr. Arakawa, who is currently in Delhi, claimed that he had met all major mobile operators in India including Tata, Reliance, BPL and Bharti. "We have got a very positive response from these operators. There were a few misconceptions in their minds about Mode and Access' technologies and their compatibility, which have been cleared," he said claiming that the Access technology and products were compatible with both GSM and CDMA systems.

"Access has tied up with IAP as we do not understand Indian markets, culture and business that much and need a local partner to be successful in the market. Moreover, IAP understands Japanese business culture very well as it is operating in Japan also." he said.

Access is a $100-million software company based in Tokyo, Japan and employs a workforce of around 500 people. The company has developed Internet browsers for mobile devices, televisions and fixed telephones and sells them under the brand name, NETFront. The company is also engaged in implementation of iMode technology solutions in countries of Europe, America and Asia.

According to Mr. Arakwa, the company is currently implementing mobile Internet technology solutions is countries like Germany, Holland, Spain, Hong Kong and developing markets in France, Italy and England.

IAP is a closely-held software company engaged in developing software and providing skill support to Japanese companies and projects. The company also has an office in Tokyo and employs around 150 people. "We specialize and operate only in Japan. IAP provides software development services to Japanese companies. We have also formed a consortium of 30 Indian software companies to offer services and solutions to Japan." Said IAP managing director and chief executive, Vipul Upadhyaya.

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