September 21, 2007 (Tokyo, Japan)—Acrodea, Inc. (CEO and President: Junya Tsutsumi), headquartered in Meguro-ku, Tokyo, and Nickom, Ltd. (CEO and President: Hideto Kojima), headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo announced today an alliance in delivering solutions for integrated development environments and test environments for designing GUIs in embedded devices.
The combination of Acrodea's VIVID UI™ and GUI integration simulator Maestro™ that Nickom distributes in Japan can facilitate GUI design and operating menu development at hardware manufacturers, and contribute to a reduction in development cycles and development costs. The simulation function optimized according to each embedded device allows performance evaluation comparable to the actual hardware device.
Acrodea and Nickom look forward to leveraging the expertise and business networks associated with embedded devices held at both companies, marketing jointly GUI design support to hardware manufacturers and development support for versatile user interfaces, and cooperating in the development of optimum simulation environments for embedded devices.
The Acrodea booth at CEATEC 2007 to be held at Makuhari Messe starting Oct. 2 will host a demonstration of VIVID UI Workshop and Maestro.
VIVID UI is a user interface platform developed by Acrodea for mobile phones, and represents innovative middleware that can integrate various types of multimedia content, such as still pictures, 3D graphics, animation, and video. VIVID UI enables mobile phones that can be readily customized with graphically enhanced menus and standby screens.
The VIVID UI authoring tool incorporates features for creating menu transitions through a visual context, as well as for menu content emulation. By using this tool, handset manufacturers and content providers can easily create compatible content with a wealth of expression.
Jointly developed by industry and the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Maestro is an innovative solution that integrates a simulation, modeling, and development environment. By introducing a virtual product model, advanced simulation in lieu of the actual, physical product is possible across a wide scope of operations, from the design and conceptualizing phase, for specifications development, and through servicing after product release. Moreover, an open, extensible tool-chain architecture enables linkages to other tools and the generation of source code compatible with a variety of platforms. Product development employing Maestro raises expectations towards the following benefits: reduced development time through parallel tracking of development processes, cost reductions brought about from recycling of resources through modeling and componentization and from effective use of simulation, and improved product usability as a result of simulator engagement.
Acrodea, Inc., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a software technology R&D firm involved in middleware technology for mobile terminals. The company is particularly focused on interface technologies connecting between the user and terminal, and currently provides UI (user interface) technologies and email enhancement technologies to the market. We are also applying R&D energy towards the enhancement of graphics performance, which is indispensable in facilitating usage of mobile platform interfaces. Our stance and efforts are a continual commitment to superior products and improving technology, for which we have received recognition worldwide. In addition to Japan and Korea, Acrodea is engaged in business on the global market, including China, Europe, and North America. The company listed publicly on Mothers Exchange of TSE on Oct. 19, 2006, just two years and three months after establishment in July 2004. Acrodea is headquartered in Tokyo, and maintains an overseas presence in Seoul, Korea; and Espoo, Finland; and Newport Beach, California, U.S.A. For more information, please visit http://www.acrodea.co.jp.
Nickom, Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is engaged in technology consulting and R&D mainly for mobile telephones and embedded device fields. Established in July 2007, the company offers support for distribution of superior partner products and customization. For more information, please visit http://www.nickom.co.jp/.
Marketing Department at Acrodea, Inc.
TEL: +81 3-5768-8603
Nickom, Ltd.
TEL: +81 3-5733-0084
