TOBESOFT Determined to Become Global Top UI/UX Company at Its 15th Anniversary
TOBESOFT Determined to Become Global Top UI/UX Company at Its 15th Anniversary
-Will Take 20% of World’s UI/UX Market, with Diverse Offerings
-Will Keep Working Hard to Create Korea’s Software Industry Ecosystem
TOBESOFT Co. Ltd. (www.tobesoft.co.kr) said on July 1 that it celebrated the 15th anniversary of its founding at its Gangnam (Seoul) office. Korea’s recent outbreak of the Middle East respiratory syndrome caused the ceremony to be scaled back somewhat to accommodate fewer guests.
TOBESOFT has firmly established itself in the enterprise UI/UX market by steadily gaining market share for years. It leapfrogged into a publicly traded company in 2010 with the listing of its shares on the KOSDAQ market and became a global company by the acquisition of U.S. firm “Nexaweb” and its Japanese unit in December 2013.
Its globally integrated brand “nexacro platform”introduced in April 2014 is a one-source-multi-use UI development platform based on proprietary JavaScript framework (unified.js)[i] and supports the web standard HTML5. nexacro platform has been successfully employed in scores of sites including in government and public agencies, financial institutions, manufacturers, and service firms. Since its introduction, the number of domestic and international sites in which the platform has been installed has increased rapidly. TOBESOFT wants to take advantage of the momentum and gain a 20 percent share of the world’s UI/UX market share by 2020.
TOBESOFT President Kim Hyung-gon said in the anniversary event, “TOBESOFT has worked hard to strengthen strategic ties with partners in technology and business areas while holding a series of seminars and forums related to user interface.” He also promised, “We will keep striving to create a software industry ecosystem in which we grow together with other partners.” He continued, “By combining the capabilities of our partners with our 15 years of technical know-how and expertise, we will accelerate our effort to expand into new business areas.”
Since its founding on July 1, 2000, TOBESOFT has grown to become one of the world’s premier firms with core competencies in enterprise UI/UX. Beginning with only four founding members, the start-up has grown into a mid-sized firm with 300 employees and now is positioned to become a global company based on its U.S. and Japanese units.
[i]Unified.js: This is a brand name for the JavaScript framework developed by TOBESOFT. Across the world, the importance of JavaScript framework is rising every year and we can see that it is at the center of development efforts from the increased use of Google’s Angular.js and Ember.js. This is an irrevocable future technology trend in web application development.
If one develops applications with JavaScript framework, it is easier and faster to develop applications while at the same time making it easy to expand to HTML with one’s own tags and properties and to maintain applications in modules. In addition, it allows one to develop a highly aesthetic user interface, which is not easy to create with HTML5 only. The JavaScript framework addresses a number of problems such as eliminating the dependence on specific browsers, how to improve data processing performance, and strengthening user experience. The framework is now in use worldwide, with its adoption rapidly increasing. Clients can develop highly differentiated enterprise applications through Unified.js-based nexacro platform.