Company Overview/Group Company
SHIFT Inc.
- Name
- SHIFT Inc.
- President and CEO
- Masaru Tange
- Established
- September 2005
- Businesses
- Software quality assurance and testing
- Patents acquired
- Patent No. 5787404(Japanese patent) For an apparatus and program to generate test specifications for computer programs and seven other patents (As of August 31st, 2021)
Locations
- Headquarters
- Masonic 39 MT Building, 2-4-5 Azabudai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0041, Japan
- Tokyo Office
- Masonic 39 MT Building, 2-4-5 Azabudai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0041, Japan
- Sapporo Office
- Shikishima Plaza Building, 3-3 Kita 1-Jo Nishi, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0001, Japan
- Sendai Office
- Lunaire Sendai, 2-15-1 Honcho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-0014, Japan
- Niigata Office
- Nippon Life Niigata Building, 2-4-10 Higashiodori, Niigata-shi, Niigata 950-0087, Japan
- Nagoya Office
- Nishiki Harmony Building, 1-8-18 Nishiki, Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 460-0003, Japan
- Osaka Office
- Nippon Life Umeda Building, 3-3 Doyama-cho, Kita-ku, Osaka, Osaka 530-0027, Japan
- Hiroshima Office
- Hiroshima Teppocho Building, 10-12 Teppocho, Hiroshima, Hiroshima, 730-0017, Japan
- Fukuoka Office
- Nishitetsu Gion Building, 1-1 Gokushomachi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka 812-0037, Japan
Group Company
Planning and production of websites
Saunashi Co., Ltd.

We are engaged in design and creative production mostly of websites, brand strategies planning, and consulting. Understanding marketing and clients’ businesses is our strength. We contribute to the quality of UI/UX in our customers’ last-one-mile by designing UI in the upstream process and offering one-stop solutions as a SHIFT group.
Planning and production of websites
Nadia Inc.

Nadia is a creative studio which covers every genre of contents. With our client-first policy, we are not only in the web-and application-related fields, but also encompass brand consulting, communications design, graphics, and VR/AR/AI. We provide comprehensive creative services that contribute to business.
Planning and production of websites
xbs Inc.

xbs is a tech-studio with broad experiences which are resilient to tech-trend and technical directors who have rich creative quality. We offer any types of technical service from websites development and implementation, UI/UX design, interactive contents production, server construction, and backends including CMS.
Marketing
CLUTCH Inc.

As an web advertising agency, CLUTCH offers one-stop service from ad transaction to creating web sites. Offering high-quality web marketing services by leveraging connections with major advertisers is one of CLUTCH’s strengths. As a SHIFT Group, CLUTCH provides high-quality and effective web marketing agency business.
Marketing
Analytics Japan Co., Ltd.

Based in Kanagawa, Analytics Japan has strength in data analysis and planning marketing strategies with utilizing IT technology. A number of talented engineers of data analysis are here, so that we match demands from various sectors, environment and requests. We support to plan marketing strategy in a more sophisticated level by conducting data analysis.
IT strategy formulation, system planning and design
MethodoLogic Inc.

An IT consulting group that supports digital transformation. We provide a variety of services that are linked with diverse support SHIFT provides, including IT strategy-making for industry-leaders, operational system planning, system architecture design and construction, and project management.
Software development
ALH Inc.

As a team of professional engineers with diverse skills, we provide one-stop solutions ranging from business-related IT solutions to web service development and infrastructure design and construction. We offer services with even higher levels of customer satisfaction by identifying newer needs and design development identified from SHIFT quality verification.
System development
SystemI co., ltd.

Based in Tokyo and Kanagawa, we provide software development and consulting services. We have extensive knowledge in developing server-side applications using Java, PHP, C language, and has participated in many large-scale financial projects. Leveraging know-how of SystemI and SHIFT, we deliver high-quality systems to our customers.
System development
HOPES Corporation

HOPES have strengths in consulting-based system development, from introduction to maintenance of major ERP systems, or optimization of investment plans. HOPES also have customers in a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, nursing care, and finance. Under our corporate philosophy, “Building a bridge between the central city and countryside of Japan,” “Creating a corporation that contributes to society through IE and SE,” and “Creating an organization that fulfills self-realization,” HOPES aim to achieve further growth as a company.
System development
DeMiA Inc.

DeMiA has yound but talented engineers including one who has won in Robocup Junior World champion and those who are almuni or students of Kyoto University. It not only develops web/ smartphone app but also provide its unique engineer training program. The program helps to create and train engineers who can immediately make significant contributions in software development projects and to structurally solves the shortage of engineers.
Software development
Careersystems Inc.

Careersystems covers a wide range of business domains with advanced technological capabilities, including software development, infrastructure design and construction, embedded development, and maintenance and operation. Centered on Tokyo, it has sites throughout Japan, such as Osaka, Fukuoka, Nagoya, and Okinawa. Careersystems aims to develop as many engineers as possible who can play an active role in IT field and make social contributions and social transformation through these engineers.
Cloud Services
VISH Inc.

Based in Nagoya, VISH develops a cloud service business and system development and technical support business. The “Bus-catching” service that combines bus location information and facility operation support system is one of our core services. VISH provides wide range of support as a strong partner of our customers, that have been actively promotes optimization through IT, mainly in industries such as kindergartens, nursery schools, swimming schools and driving schools
Network
Survage System Inc.

As a professional in the network integration field, Survage develops a wide range of businesses, such as design, construction, operation, and maintenance in the network field. Survage is also characterized by its diverse customer base, ranging from the government-affiliated agencies to mobile devices, including large vessels, and small and medium-sized companies. Survage provides the best network environment while thinking together with our customers about daily changing new issues.
Localization
DICO Co., Ltd

In collaborating with more than 200 native speakers in various languages, DICO not only develops a localization business that provides high language quality reflecting the “current” cultural context in each country and region, but also does a game development business that adequately implements them into the games by efficiently managing original and translated texts in the development process. As the company name “DICO” is after “Developers for International Communication,” DICO’s goal is to continue providing world-class entertainment from Japan.
Security and vulnerability
SHIFT SECURITY, Inc.

We are the first in the world to adopt a “standardization” approach to create vulnerability diagnosis and testing services. As a result, we have been able to stabilize the quality of our services at a high level while producing many skilled engineers who would be industry leaders. It is SHIFT SECURITY to solve the shortage of human resource that Japanese companies currently face, and to provide safety and security to the Internet-linked world.
Security and vulnerability
KRAF, inc.

Based in Miyazaki, as a SHIFT SECURITY group company, KRAF developes a vulnerability diagnosis business under a circumstance where we see increasing demand for cyber security. Along with our corporate philosophy “To provide ‘safety’ to customers and employees,” we contribute to further strengthening the security-related fields of SHIFT Group.
Penetration testing
MAS Lab inc.

MAS Lab provides penetration testing business that is said to be one of the most difficult areas to standardize. As a group company of SHIFT SECURITY, MAS Lab works on contributing to acquiring new technologies in security fields. MAS Lab comes from the word “Make a Smile Laboratory.” As the company name indicates, MAS Lab values bringing smiles both to customers and engineers and contributing to maintaining and improving the safety of IT security in Japan.
System performance improvement
Airitech Inc.

We are an engineer group with a commitment and confidence to technology, who provide services such as verification and improvement of system performance, utilization of big data and AI, development of web apps, and constructing infrastructure of large-scaled distributed systems. Our mission as a member of SHIFT Group is to provide technical solutions to customers with particularly difficult technical issues.
Customer support
SHIFT PLUS, Inc.

Based in Kochi, we provide one-stop customer support and quality assurance services and AI chatbot services, nationwide. Recruitment consulting services and recruitment media operation is also included in our services, as part of the regional revitalization project, in close contact with our local, Kochi Prefecture. We develop a wide range of businesses.
Kitting
SNC Co., Ltd.

Based in Osaka, Tokyo, Nagoya, Saitama, we offer various services such as purchasing and sales service for used PCs, kitting services and helpdesk services. With software testing business in SHIFT Group, we provide seamless support service focusing on pre-release process of software products.
Offshore software testing
SHIFT ASIA CO., LTD./ Socialist Republic of Vietnam

This is the global strategic base of the SHIFT Group. It is located in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, and is made up of excellent engineers from Asia. We provide a wide variety of quality assurance services in Japan and the English-speaking world, including manual testing, automation testing, security testing, and offshore development quality assurance consulting.
Matching platform
A-STAR Co., Ltd.

A-STAR develops matching business for free-lance engineers and projects that seek engineers. Besides matching business, A-STAR have its owned media which features various types of growing companies. Those two different business creates synergies with each other so that A-STAR is able to achieve growth at an accelerated pace. “Be a company that is always with IT human resources, the one that contributes to the work style reform of IT human resources the most, and the one that grows with IT human resources.” Aiming at being such a company, A-STAR thrives to be the company that contributes to “IT free-lance reform” the most.
M&A/PMI
SHIFT Growth Capital Inc.

Conducting M&A and business management of group companies. SHIFT Growth Capital combines the know-how of M&A / PMI that SHIFT has cultivated, implements M&A targeting various companies and supports the growth of group companies in each stage. Through its business, SHIFT Growth Capital will contribute to the transformation of the multi-subcontracting structure in the Japanese IT industry, the creation and development of IT human resources, and the rationalization of the unit price for engineers and etc. thereby contributing to the realization of the “company that provides solutions to social issues” that SHIFT Group is aiming for.