Corporate History Timeline
1998
| September | HIRANO Yoichiro (Pina) and KITAHARA Yoshiyuki establish Infoteria Corporation. |
1999
| January | Infoteria introduces the world’s first commercial XML engine iPEX. |
2001
| January | Infoteria Certified Education Center (ICEC) opens to train XML engineers. |
| October | A certification system for XML engineers, “XML Master” starts. |
2002
| June | Launch of ASTERIA R2, no-code development platform. |
2004
| January | Infoteria expands XML Master outside Japan. |
2006
| September | ASTERIA gains the largest share of the Japanese market. (*) * Comprehensive List of Software Marketing 2006 (Techno Systems Research) |
2007
| January | Launch of ASTERIA Warp. |
| June | Infoteria is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers. |
| December | Launch of ASTERIA DataCaster. |
2008
| January | Infoteria starts to offer ASTERIA On Demand. |
| March | Launch of ASTERIA MDM One. |
| April | Infoteria starts to offer lino, an online sticky note service. |
2009
| June | Infoteria starts to offer Handbook. |
| October | Launch of ASTERIA and a spreadsheet server Onsheet. |
| December | The number of ASTERIA Warp user companies exceeds 1,000. |
2010
| October | Infoteria starts to offer SnapCal, a cloud-connected personal calendar service. |
2012
| January | ASTERIA Warp EAI/ESB gains the largest share of the Japanese market for 6 consecutive years. (*) * Comprehensive List of Software Marketing 2010-2011 (Techno Systems Research) |
| March | The number of Handbook user organizations exceeds 350. Infoteria establishes a wholly-owned subsidiary, Infoteria (Hangzhou) Information Technology Co., Ltd. in Hangzhou, China. |
| April | The number of ASTERIA Warp user companies exceeds 3,000. |
| June | Infoteria acquires Extentech Inc., a USA based company (transition to Infoteria America) |
| November | Infoteria establishes a 100% owned subsidiary in Shanghai, China. |
2013
| September | ASTERIA Warp EAI/ESB gains the largest share of the Japanese market for 7 consecutive years. (*) * Comprehensive List of Software Marketing 2013 (Techno Systems Research) |
| October | The number of ASTERIA Warp user companies exceeds 4,000. |
| November | Handbook captures top share of the MCM product range for the domestic market for two years running (*) * ITR Market View Enterprise/Mobile Management/Smart App Development Market 2013. Infoteria establishes a 100% owned subsidiary in Hong Kong. |
| December | The number of Handbook user organizations exceeds 600. |
2014
| February | Infoteria America initiates sales of Handbook 4 in the United States. Infoteria invests in Sribu (Indonesia) – now an affiliate company via equity purchase. |
| July | Infoteria establishes a 100% owned subsidiary in Singapore. |
| August | ASTERIA Warp EAI/ESB gains the largest share of the Japanese market for 8 consecutive years. (*) * Comprehensive List of Software Marketing 2014 (Techno Systems Research) |
| October | Handbook captures top share of the MCM product range for the domestic market for three years running (*) ITR Market View Enterprise/Mobile Management/Smart App Development Market 2014. |
2015
| March | The number of Handbook user organizations exceeds 800. |
| May | The number of ASTERIA Warp user companies exceeds 5,000. |
| November | ASTERIA Warp EAI/ESB gains the largest share of the Japanese market for 9 consecutive years. (*) * Comprehensive List of Software Marketing 2015 (Techno Systems Research) |
2016
| January | Infoteria was awarded “Telework encouragement prize” by Japan Telework Association. |
| August | ASTERIA Warp EAI/ESB gains the largest share of the Japanese market for 10 consecutive years. (*) Comprehensive List of Software Marketing 2016 (Techno Systems Research) |
| October | Infoteria was awarded the silver prize for “PRIDE index”, a LGBT index by “work with Pride”. |
2017
| January | Infoteria starts “Pangea 2.0” program to support start-ups at IoT Future Lab. |
| February | Infoteria starts owned media “in.LIVE”. |
| March | The number of ASTERIA Warp user companies exceeds 6,000. |
| April | Infoteria acquires ‘This Place Limited’, a UK-based digital design and strategy consultancy. |
| June | Launch of Gravio, an edge computing platform. |
| August | ASTERIA Warp EAI/ESB gains the largest share of the Japanese market for 11 consecutive years. (*) Comprehensive List of Software Marketing 2017 (Techno Systems Research) Handbook captures top sales share of domestic SaaS mobile content management market. (*) ITR Market View Enterprise/Mobile Management Market 2017. |
| December | Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications selects Infoteria as one of “100 companies of telework pioneers” promoting the introduction and inflection of telework. |
2018
| March | Infoteria was awarded “the telework sector award of the 3rd White Company Award” by Japan White Spread. Infoteria changed stock market listing of our shares to the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. |
| August | ASTERIA Warp EAI/ESB gains the largest share of the Japanese market for 12 consecutive years. (*) Comprehensive List of Software Marketing 2018 (Techno Systems Research) |
| October | Infoteria Corp. changed the name to ASTERIA Corp. The number of ASTERIA Warp user companies exceeds 7,000. |
2019
| August | Launch of Gravio 3, AI-equipped IoT integrated edgeware. ASTERIA Warp EAI/ESB gains the largest share of the Japanese market for 13 consecutive years. (*) Comprehensive List of Software Marketing 2019 (Techno Systems Research) |
| September | The number of ASTERIA Warp user companies exceeds 8,000. The number of Handbook user organizations exceeds 1,500. |
2020
| August | ASTERIA Warp EAI/ESB gains the largest share of the Japanese market for 14 consecutive years. (*) Comprehensive List of Software Marketing 2020 (Techno Systems Research) |
| December | The number of ASTERIA Warp user companies exceeds 9,000. |
2021
| November | ASTERIA Warp EAI/ESB gains the largest share of the Japanese market for 15 consecutive years. (*) * Comprehensive List of Software Marketing 2021 (Techno Systems Research) |
2022
| February | Launch of Handbook X, a digital content platform that supports sales negotiations. |
| April | Following the market restructuring of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), Asteria moved to the TSE’s Prime Market. |
| November | ASTERIA Warp EAI/ESB gains the largest share of the Japanese market for 16 consecutive years. (*) * Comprehensive List of Software Marketing 2022 (Techno Systems Research) |
