SHIFT Inc.
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SHIFT Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社SHIFT, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha SHIFT) is a Japanese software testing company, headquartered in Tokyo, that provides software quality assurance and software testing solutions.
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Native name | 株式会社SHIFT |
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Romanized name | Kabushiki-gaisha SHIFT |
| Company type | Public (K.K.) |
| TYO: 3697 | |
| Industry | Software testing |
| Founded | September 7, 2005 in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan |
| Founder | Masaru Tange |
| Headquarters | Minato, Tokyo , Japan |
Number of locations | 5 offices Tokyo, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Nagoya, Osaka (2020) |
Key people | Masaru Tange (President and CEO) |
| Products | CAT (Test management system) |
| Revenue | ¥28,712,177 thousand (FY 2020) |
| ¥2,353,376 thousand (FY 2020) | |
| ¥1,892,893 thousand (FY 2020) | |
| Total assets | ¥19,821,109 thousand (FY 2020) |
| Total equity | ¥10,781,494 thousand (FY 2020) |
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Number of employees | 6,013 (August 2020) |
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Overview
SHIFT Inc. was founded in 2005 by Masaru Tange, who was a manufacturing process improvement consultant.[2] In the earliest years, it was a tiny consulting company specializing in manufacturing and business process improvements.[2] In 2007, it entered the software testing industry by undertaking consultancy work for the improvement of E-commerce testing.[3] In 2009, Tange changed the company's direction from the process improvement consultancy to the software testing business.[citation needed] The company then grew so rapidly to be listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers market in 2014.[4] In April 2020, it has the market capitalization of 143 billion yen ($1.3 billion), which is the largest of the listed Japanese companies specialized in software quality assurance and testing services.[a]
The company covers software testing outsourcing, project management office and test strategy planning supports, test execution, test design, automated testing, software inspection, and educational program services.[5][6][7]
