June 2004 : PlexService 2.5.2 Release.
San Jose, Calif: June 9, 2004 : K-Plex today releases an upgrade version of its Web Services Middleware Software, PlexService 2.5.2.  This release enhances its Native DB access by up to 40%.  It also fixes bugs found in the previous verions.  It now fully supports Windows 2003 Server ( Web Edition, Standard Edition, and Enterprise Edition).  For existing customers, there is an upgrade program that upgrades a previous PlexService 2.x system to this release.

February 2004 : XSL Formatter Reseller Agreement.
Tokyo, Japan: February 10, 2004 : K-Plex finalized the XSL Formatter Reseller Agreement with Antenna House.  Right now, K-Plex can provide the solution to integrate Antenna House XSL Formatter with ChangeMagic product.

February 2004 : Jourei-kun 3.3 Released.
Tokyo, Japan: February 2, 2004 : K-Plex released Jourei-kun 3.3 to Crestec.  This release extends the history recording feature of the Word Klip.

January 2004 : Jourei-kun 3.2 Released.
Tokyo, Japan: January 8, 2004 : K-Plex enhanced Jourei-kun and released it as Jourei-kun 3.2 to Crestec.  This release runs on latest PlexWare 2.0 SP 4.  It improves the table displaying feature of the Word Klip.

December 2003 : Electronic Local Government Fair Kansai 2003.
Osaka, Japan: December 3-4, 2003 : Crestec will present its latest Jourei-kun 3.1 SP2 software at the Electronic Local Government Fair Kansai 2003 on December 3-4, 2003.   Please stop by and check out this latest software that powered by K-Plex's PlexWare and PlexService software.

October 2003 : DATABASE 2003 TOKYO.
Tokyo, Japan: October 29-31, 2003 : Crestec will presenting its latest Jourei-kun 3.1 software at the DATABASE 2003 TOKYO on October 29-31, 2003.  This latest version is now support Microsoft Windows 98SE, Me, 2000 and XP operating system.

September 29, 2003: Tokyo, Japan.
NEC NexSolutions today announced an XML document creating, editing, and publishing solution that transforms financial documents and manuals into XML electronic format.  This solution helps Japanese financial companies in their daily document/manual editing, tracking, and publishing tasks.   It also provides many useful features, such as generating comparative tables and describing the change between versions.  It uses K-Plex ChangeMagic technology and/or Tamino XML database provided by Beacon IT  Currently, the Japanese financial industry is in the process of restructuring.  Many financial companies are looking into the new solution to help them improve the manual creating process.   NEC NexSolutions believes that such companies will benefit from this solution.  It will help them reduce the cost of generating and updating financial manuals while improving the quality and the efficiency of producing the manual.  He believes that they will invest in this solution to help them with the restructuring process.  He estimated that they would purchase approximately 100 of these systems in the next 3 years at a minimum of 10M yen (~$90K US).  For more information regarding this announcement from NexSolutions click here or click here for Beacon IT news relating to this announcement

September 2003 : PlexService 2.5.1 Release.
San Jose, Calif: September 10, 2003 : K-Plex today released an upgrade version of its Web Services Middleware Platform Software, PlexService 2.5.1.  This release enhanced K-Plex's PlexService software to support Windows 2003 server Web Edition and Standard Edition.  It also provided the scripts to upgrade an existing PlexService installation.

July 1, 2003: Tokyo, Japan.
NEC NexSolutions and K-Plex today agreed to become a development partner in developing a solution that will transform financial documents and manuals into XML electronic format using K-Plex ChangeMagic technology.   The solution will help Japanese Financial companies improve their document and manual creating, editing, and publishing processes more effectively and effeciently.   It has the option of replacing the back-end relational database with Tamino XML database provided by Beacon IT.

June 2003: The 2nd Cooperation Promotion (for collaboration between Academy, Industry and government)
Kyoto, Japan: June 7-8, 2003: K-Plex joined The 2nd Cooperation Promotion (San-Gaku-Kan Renkei Suishin Kaigi - (http://www.congre.co.jp/sangakukan) meeting. Industry, academy, and government cooperate in the meeting to exchange new research and exhibition new technology. In the meeting, K-Plex presented its latest development (PlexWare and PlexService) in its exhibit. K-Plex demonstrated three applications developed on top of its core PlexWare and PlexService software.

• PlexDocManager application transforms the government regulations into electronic medium. It provides the MSWord application front end and XML document underneath, User editing the XML document using the familiar word editor.
• PlexActiveDocument application brings the ease of select and drag to the process of cutting a web page and recreating it live in the MSWord document.
• PlexBridge application breaks the DB vendor barrier without the need of restructuring the existing legacy database. Oracle DB, SQL Server DB, and DB2 can be virtually viewed as a single database.

Exhibitors were very surprised in seeing how K-Plex took a research theme (IntelligentPad) from Hokkaido University Meme Media Laboratory and evolved it and developed the three applications for practical use on the core within 3 years time frame.

March 2003 : Software Development Conference & Expo.
San Jose, Calif: March 24, 2003 : The Software Development Conference and Expo will be held in Santa Clara Convention Center on March 24-29, 2003. Please mark your calendar and join us at booth #201 for our PlexWare 1.6 and PlexService 1.6 product demonstration and to receive free evalution software CD.

February 15, 2003: Fujisankei Communication Group Award Winner: Crestec
Make government law and regulations works easier!
Crestec, a document service company providing technical writing services and on-demand printing services all over the world, has developed "Jourei-kun," a document system for, editing and managing government law and regulations databases effectively. Previously, Government officers updated much of the paper-based volume of government law and regulations word by word as new laws and regulations were enacted. The system uses XML as the document format, which enables the documents to be imported to a web accessible database. By using an editing environment in the system, users can easily edit or update only the contents they want to change. Moreover, the system automatically generates amendments, which are the new documents describing contents before and after editing, or comparative table. If you wanted, these documents could automatically be converted to other formats for publishing, printing and CD-ROM books. Also, the system enables people to access the government websites as soon as the latest government information is available. In this way, the system will decrease much of the costs used to update the contents manually. "Jourei-kun" helps make an effective government and provides faster delivery of government information to people through the pioneering use of XML and web accessible data bases.

January 2003 : Local Government Fair 2003.
Tokyo, Japan : January 29, 2003: Crestec today displayed its latest Jourei-kun 2.2 software at the Local Government Fair 2003 in Tokyo, Japan. This Fair is bigger than the Local Government Fair 2002 in Nagoya, Japan. Many large local government offices are attending the fair and looking for new technical solutions to help the local Japanese government. Jourei-kun is powered by K-Plex software.

January 16, 2003: Tokyo, Japan.
The Japan Industrial Journal announced Jourei-kun. http://www.crestec.co.jp/news030116.html

December 2002 : PlexWare and PlexService 1.6 Release.
San Jose, Calif: December 31, 2002: K-Plex today released PlexWare 1.6 and PlexService 1.6 software. PlexWare and PlexService 1.6 version supports dynamic loading and simplifies the deployment process. Setup program for PlexWare application is no longer required. Developer can upload the Klips to PlexServer Resource database first and only need to send the XML application template to end-user. PlexWare and PlexServer will take care the rest.

December 2002 : Jourei-kun 3.0 Development.
Tokyo, Japan : December 20, 2002: Crestec today specified the enhancement to Jourei-kun 2.x software to K-Plex. The main enhancement in the Jourei-kun 3.0 is generating the contents of comparative table automatically.

November 20, 2002: Tokyo, Japan.
Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. announced Jourei-kun to the world. http://www.crestec.co.jp/news021120.html

October 2002 : Local Government Fair 2002.
Tokyo, Japan : October 3, 2002 Crestec today prevailed its Jourei-kun 2.0 software at the Local Government Fair 2002 (http://www.noma.or.jp/chubu/e-jititai-chubu.html)in Nagoya, Japan. This Fair is for local government offices to check out the latest technology developed to help the local Japanese government.

April 2002 : PlexService 1.5 Release.
San Jose, Calif: April 2, 2002 : K-Plex today released a new version of its Web Services Middleware Platform Software, PlexService 1.5. The new version has been designed to add the logging capability and the collaboration resource to PlexWare Repository. PlexWare is a I-Pad client platform software developed by K-Plex.

March 2002 : Jourei-kun 2.0 Development.
Tokyo, Japan : March 29, 2002: Crestec today decided to extend the development partnership with K-Plex after the completion of the Jourei-kun 1.0 software. The version 2.0 will enhanced the software with change tracking and document historically rebuild feature.

February 2002 : K-Plex Completes Second Round Financing
San Jose, Calif: February 1, 2002 : CEO Kaz Oikawa today announced K-Plex has second round funding led by Tsunami Network Partners that acquired about two-thirds of the Series B shares and JAFCO Venture taking the remaining third. According to Oikawa-san, "This funding allows us to add new capabilities that we discovered were important during early customer installations and to complete commercialization of K-Plex software. What's more, the availability of this financing confirms the promise of our WebTop collaboration and integration capabilities in a marketplace where collaborative selling and knowledge management are being pushed to the front of IT agendas." K-Plex provides platform products for building web-based applications that allow end user to tailor to meet their needs and those of their peers and customers.

December 2001 : PlexWare 1.5 Release.
San Jose, Calif: December 11, 2001 K-Plex today announced the release of PlexWare 1.5, a new version of its I-Pad Client Platform Software. The new version has been designed to introduce a new concept - WebTop, Windows Desktop on the Web. It has included many new klips in its basic klip library that by now has contained 50+ klips.

November 22, 2001: Tokyo, Japan.
Crestec today specified K-Plex as its development partner to develop the first Jourei-kun software, a Japanese XML Law document editing software using K-Plex technology. This software transforms the paper law document in to the XML document, and writer creates and maintains the XML law document using standard word processing software wrapped inside a Klip. It uses to the third partner document conversion software for output the law document on the web or in the printed form. For more information about Jourei-kun software, visit http://www.crestec.jp/joureikun/index.html web page.

October 2001 : PlexService 1.1 Release.
San Jose, Calif: October 21, 2001 : K-Plex today released PlexService 1.1 software, a patch for PlexService 1.0 version. The patch has been designed to fix the bugs found in the early release of PlexService 1.0.

July 2001 : PlexService 1.0 Release.
San Jose, Calif: July 19, 2001 : K-Plex today announced the release of its Web Services Middleware Software, PlexService 1.0. It is .Net Web Services that has data and application integration over the Internet. The product has been designed to provide real-time bi-directional data access to legacy databases of various RDBMSs, i.e., SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, and Sybase, through the Intranet/Extranet. Data transformation and unification from different data sources into xml can be retrieved and managed at the client application. XML and Soap consist of its front-end communication with client and OLEDB is used as its back-end connection to legacy databases. PlexService also hosts K-Plex PlexWare repository.

June 2000 : Investor Group Backs K-Plex Launch.
San Jose, Calif: June 1, 2000 : K-Plex, Inc., a newly founded software company headquartered in San Jose, today announced its plan to develop a platform suite for e-business services has won financial backing from a diverse group of investors including Hitachi Software Development Inc., the JAFCO Co. Ltd. venture fund, Inspire Corporation, Okamoto Associates and the San Francisco-based law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop. "This technology holds tremendous power to change the way work gets done." said Doug Foran, VP of Marketing for K-Plex. "In the financial-services world, for example, it brings a new level of personalization to Relationship Management applications. FSPs can deliver new offerings faster, give more control to the customer and let the sales team do higher value deals faster. Foran said the early-round financiers were attracted to K-Plex by the technology and by the management team's ability to bring groundbreaking new products to market. K-Plex President and CEO Kazushige Oikawa pioneered document management products at Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd. CFO Ken Jenkins managed start-up organizations inside Xerox Corp. and General Electric. The company's technology advisers include Makoto Naruke, former president of Microsoft KK, and Yuzuru Tanaka, a professor of electrical engineering who spearheaded research into synthetic media at Japan's Hokkaido University. K-Plex's visual programming approach to application development is based largely on Tanaka's research into visualized software components.

The K-Plex software platform includes:

• PlexWare: a graphically-oriented WebTop environment that supercharges the power of browser technology to get work done
• PlexService: a set of distributed XML-based services that provide a unified data interface for integrating, managing, sharing and deploying K-Plex applications and application components.
• SDK: software development tools and support services to help developers take full advantage of K-Plex technology.

K-Plex enhances the value of e-business solutions through:

• Advanced personalization using new visualization, integration and collaboration tools
• Rapid deployment of new functionality
• Faster integration of partner and affiliate offerings
• A Lower costs to develop and deploy new capability

K-Plex builds products with a clear line of sight to the future. Service-based component architecture underpins the product suite, which is native XML and conforms to .Net standards for interoperability.
K-Plex is focusing first on customers in the financial services industry. Target customers include corporate IT departments, packaged-product developers, information providers and professional-service companies building Relationship Management applications for sales, customer support, e-learning or marketing.
K-Plex released the first phase of its XML-based application infrastructure in the second quarter of 2001.