Carabiner SYSTEMS, Inc.

Carabiner SYSTEMS, Inc. (有限会社カラビナシステムズ) is a Japanese software company headquartered in Fuji, Shizuoka, with a Tokyo office in Nihonbashi-Tomizawacho, Chuo-ku. It was founded in June 2000 by Fumiaki Kanazashi, a Doctor of Engineering from Shizuoka University who was recognized by Japan's Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA) as a "genius programmer / super creator" in 2001. The company's stated mission is to realize high-quality systems delivered quickly and at low cost, using the characteristics of the Internet and the Java language, and it pursues industry-academia collaboration with universities including Shizuoka University and Miyagi University. The company's business lines cover research, development and sales of software products for information systems; contract development of software for control systems; and design and development of Internet-related information systems. Its main clients have included the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and the Sendai Foundation for Applied Information Sciences. Beyond contract work, Carabiner SYSTEMS develops and sells its own productivity applications. Inkpod is a diagramming tool for drawing simple diagrams on a large canvas using shapes and arrows, with support for JPEG, GIF, PNG and SVG images, extension via Java and JavaScript, collaborative editing through an OAR server, and web-style output that can be browsed like a map service. BEITEL is an outline document editor with rich-text editing, file attachments, Java/JavaScript extensibility, collaborative editing and PDF export. A third offering visualizes information from information systems and sensors as diagrams and graphics viewable in a web browser, targeting uses such as enterprise information aggregation and plant monitoring. The company also publishes small free tools such as the "Bunmei no Dot Grid" dot-grid sheet and the "Bunmei no Calendar" sheet as PDF files. The name "Carabiner" refers to the metal ring used in rock climbing to connect a piton to a rope, and the company says it chose the name to express the wish to create technology that connects people and to link diverse technologies to deliver high-quality systems. The company is a private yugen kaisha (limited liability company) with stated capital of 10 million yen, banking with Shizuoka Bank. Its website copyright notice runs from 2001 to 2012, indicating the era of its most active public self-description.

Carabiner SYSTEMS, Inc. was established on June 21, 2000, as a yugen kaisha (limited liability company) in Fuji, Shizuoka, Japan. Its founder, Fumiaki Kanazashi, holds a Doctor of Engineering from Shizuoka University, where his specialty was specification description methods for software systems; he founded the company while still enrolled in the doctoral program. The company's founding premise was to tackle what it describes as the greatest and most difficult concern in software development: achieving high-quality systems quickly and at low cost. To that end it adopted the Internet and the Java language as core technologies and committed to actively using the latest technical and research results. In 2001, Kanazashi was certified by the Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA), an independent administrative institution of the Japanese government, as a "genius programmer / super creator." This recognition reflects the company's research-oriented identity. Carabiner SYSTEMS has pursued industry-academia collaboration with universities including Shizuoka University and Miyagi University, aiming to combine university research results with new ideas to propose new solutions. The company's business scope, as described on its corporate profile, includes research, development and sales of software products for information systems; contract development of software for control systems; and design and development of Internet-related information systems. Its stated main clients have included the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and the Sendai Foundation for Applied Information Sciences. It banks with Shizuoka Bank and has stated capital of 10 million yen. In addition to its Fuji headquarters, it maintains a Tokyo office in Nihonbashi-Tomizawacho, Chuo-ku. Alongside contract development, Carabiner SYSTEMS built a portfolio of original software. Inkpod is a diagramming tool designed for drawing simple diagrams on a large canvas with shapes and arrows; it supports pasting JPEG, GIF, PNG and SVG images, extension and custom shapes via Java and JavaScript, collaborative editing using an OAR server, output in a web format that can be browsed like a map service, and export to PNG, EMF, SVG and other image formats. BEITEL is an outline document editor supporting outline document editing, rich-text editing, attachment of arbitrary files, Java/JavaScript extensibility, collaborative editing via an OAR server, web-format output and PDF export. A third product line visualizes information from information systems and sensors as diagrams and graphics that can be viewed easily from a web browser, with application examples including enterprise information aggregation and plant monitoring. The company also distributes small practical PDF tools such as the "Bunmei no Dot Grid" dot-grid sheet and the "Bunmei no Calendar" sheet. The company explains that "Carabiner" is the metal ring used in rock climbing to connect a piton (a stake driven into rock) with a rope, and is also used to connect various pieces of equipment. The name "Carabiner Systems" was chosen to express the wish to create technology that connects people (linking and joining them) and to connect diverse technologies in order to provide high-quality systems. The company's website carries a copyright notice covering 2001–2012, which marks the period of its most detailed public self-description; no later major corporate events are documented in the available evidence.

• 2001

  Founder Fumiaki Kanazashi certified as a "genius programmer / super creator" by Japan's Information-technology Promotion Agency (IPA).

• 2001

  Website copyright notice begins, marking the start of the documented public web presence.

• 2000

  Company founded on June 21 in Fuji, Shizuoka, Japan.

A small, research-oriented Japanese software house focused on high-quality, short-cycle, low-cost system development using Java and Internet technologies, combining contract development with original productivity software.

• Inkpod

  Diagramming tool for drawing simple diagrams on a large canvas using shapes and arrows; supports JPEG/GIF/PNG/SVG pasting, Java and JavaScript extension and custom shapes, collaborative editing via OAR server, map-like web output, and export to PNG, EMF, SVG and other formats.

• BEITEL

  Outline document editor supporting outline editing, rich-text editing, arbitrary file attachments, Java/JavaScript extensibility, collaborative editing via OAR server, web-format output and PDF export.

• Web information visualization system

  System that renders information from information systems and sensors as diagrams and graphics viewable easily from a web browser; application examples include enterprise information aggregation and plant monitoring.

• Bunmei no Dot Grid

  PDF dot-grid sheet that reveals 4x4 blocks of 16 squares and can be read in various formats.

• Bunmei no Calendar

  PDF calendar sheet convenient for managing small schedules.

1. 1有限会社カラビナシステムズ Carabiner Systems, Inc. (official homepage)carabiner.jp
2. 2会社概要 | 有限会社カラビナシステムズ Carabiner Systems, Inc.carabiner.jp
3. 3Carabiner SYSTEMS, Inc. (Japan) - Wikidatawikidata.org