Lexues Inc.
The History of the Lexues Inc.
Lexues Inc. was founded in 1998, during the booming dot-com bubble days, when we developed and began offering free of charge Japan’s first full-fledged Web-based groupware, Team Gear. Even today, this service continues to be frequently covered by the mass media. Immediately after Team Gear came out, OEM arrangements were set up to provide the service for numerous portal sites and universities, and in subsequent years the groupware market has thrived. As is evident from all this, this service has become a symbol of our foresight and efficiency in creating communication services.
Later, when NTT DoCoMo, Inc. introduced its i-mode mobile Internet service, we responded by developing an i-mode-compatible version of Team Gear. We did the same thing following the introduction of the EZweb and J-Sky services. As a result of this evolution, Team Gear has become one of the first Internet services to embody the universal theme of “sharing information anytime and anywhere among the members of a group.”
Then, when the market for mobile Internet sites burgeoned, with Internet-enabled mobile phones rapidly becoming popular, a complex situation surfaced. Creating a mobile site viewable on all mobile phone platforms (i-mode, EZweb and J-Sky), involved producing separate sub-sites configured to suit the specifications of each of the terminal platforms. Lexues solved this situation by releasing Pure AXIS, a revolutionary website conversion application whereby, once an i-mode-compatible site is created, it can be converted to be accessible to all Internet-enabled mobile phones available in the marketplace.
This application was adopted first by a major TV station, followed by many other operators of large-scale sites. Furthermore, transforming this application into an ASP service has enabled us to provide a high-quality service offered a wider range of clients at reasonable prices. Pure Picture is another ASP service that we have launched that can deliver optimized images for viewing on each of the Internet-enabled mobile phone platforms.
Concurrently with the transformation of Pure AXIS into an ASP service, Lexues entered the data center business. In addition to the operation of servers assigned to run our proprietary products, including Team Gear, Pure AXIS and Pure Picture, we are responsible under a turnkey contract for operating and maintaining servers dedicated for CYBIRD Co., Ltd.
Furthermore, in addition to these established service offerings to business clients, since 2009 Lexues has introduced consumer-orientated services and products. These include the development and operation of carrier-authorized mobile sites that distribute downloadable ring tones (known as Chaku-Uta in Japan), and the development of BeatMaster Professional Edition, a unique music application for iPhone. While always keeping in tune with the latest trends in the marketplace, Lexues emphasizes the development of products and services of which we are proud, due to their originality and uniqueness.
The Services of the Lexues Inc.
Team Gear :
a collaboration service site
Team Gear enables teams to freely group together according to their operational purpose and allows them to select the functions they require. The service embodies true collaboration, free from existing organizations and surpassing any currently available groupware. Team Gear currently offers the following eleven functions:
- - Scheduling
- - Web-based email
- - To-do list organizer
- - Folders
- - Address books
- - Task tracking
- - Links
- - Memo pad
- - Announcements
- - Bulletin board service
- - Facility reservation system
Team Gear WORKS:
a collaboration service site (paid subscription required)
Team Gear WORKS provides the same services as Team Gear, but with added support and improved functions enabling full web-based communications for businesses and organizations at low cost.
Pure Axis:
a web site conversion program for cellular telephones
Pure Axis is a conversion solution program that automatically converts web pages for i-mode into formats compatible with other cellular services and distributes the converted data. Based on Lexues’ proven career in cellular data conversion, demonstrated by the number of companies that have adopted our technologies, we are able to support your business in quickly streamlining the development, setup, and operational stability of your cellular websites at some of the most competitive prices in the industry. We are ready to customize our ASP services and software licenses to fit any installation environment by flexibly supporting your cellular needs in line with the diversifying communications technology involved in operational systems, not only for consumer-oriented cellular content businesses, but also for individual consumers.
Pure Picture:
an automatic image conversion and distribution ASP service
Pure Picture is an ASP service that enables the distribution of automatically optimized images to any cellular phone on any network from a single original image. Pure Picture is utilized by a variety of cellular sites including mass information, electronic commerce and portal sites such as i-Yellow Pages, Sony Style, Japan Travel Inc, and Ask Mobile. Moreover, Pure Picture utilizes I-Broadcast’s image-conversion engine “Snaprec”, which is used extensively by popular Japanese cellular sites such as Yahoo Auction, Tsutaya Online, Guru Navi, goo Mobile, Lawson Ticket, Pia and Girls Walker.
Lexues iDC:
data center solution
Lexues iDC is a data-processing center located in the Ginoza IT Center, Japan’s first publicly owned full-scale data center built by Okinawa’s Ginoza Village in collaboration with its operator, NTT West-Okinawa. Our data center’s strengths lie in our expertise in server operations cultivated through the operational results of our numerous cellular-based Internet services, and the security, safety and serviceability of our state-of-the-art facilities. The data center offers extensive scope for data housing and management services and, as well as serving as an ideal data center for your business, also provides support in recovering data lost after natural disasters and data backup. With Lexues’ know-how, developed through our extensive experience in providing services to leading companies including major TV stations, security houses, major content providers and portal sites in Japan, our new data center can fully accommodate all of your business’s requirements.