Accusoft
Accusoft was founded in 1991 under the corporate name Pegasus Imaging, and headquartered in Tampa, Florida. Accusoft is now repositioned to be the largest single source provider of imaging software development kits (SDKs) and image viewers, as measured by estimated market share and product offerings. Owing to its wide suite of products, deep R&D and generous customer focus, Accusoft is a leader in the imaging SDK field. Imaging technology solutions include barcode, compression, DICOM, editing, forms processing, OCR, PDF, scanning, video, and viewing. Technology is delivered for Microsoft .NET, ActiveX, Silverlight, AJAX, ASP.NET, Windows Workflow, and Java environments. Multiple 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are supported, including Windows, Windows Mobile, Linux, Sun Solaris, Mac OSX, and IBM AIX.
Change Vision
Change Vision, Inc. is a software development company based in Tokyo, Japan, founded in 2006 by CEO Kenji Hiranabe, a leader in the Agile and XP movements in Japan, to provide solutions to make software development more fun, more creative and more collaborative through effective communication using visualization software. Modeling is one of the keys to quality and productivity in software development and Astah is a tool to visualize those models to help all involved in the project to be on the same page with the same understanding to drive the project to a successful conclusion with a clear visualization of models and effective communication.
Change Vision, Inc. also offers free add-on tools which work with Astah Professional such as Astah Community, a free light-weight UML modeling tool without advanced features. Astah UML Pad, for modeling UML diagrams on an iPad which can be imported to Astah Professional. Astah Share can be used to upload diagrams on the web for the communication and sharing. Change Vision's development team is located in Japan and Sales and Technical support teams are based in USA and Canada to serve all customers around the world with the spirit of Japanese hospitality.