- CEO
- Shinya Ishii
- Full Time Employees
- 124
- Sector
- Technology services
- Industry
- Packaged software
- Address
- Tornare Nihonbashi Hamacho Tokyo TY Japan 103-0007
- IPO Date
- Dec 11, 2013
- Business
- Encourage Technologies Co., Ltd. (3682.T) develops, maintains, and sells computer system software products focused on IT operations management, security, auditing, and monitoring primarily in Japan. The company offers the ESS SmartIT Operation suite, including ESS REC, a standard tool for real-time monitoring, auditing, and recording user system operations with desktop captures and face authentication features; Remote Access Auditor, which records remote user operations including video-like desktop captures to prevent errors and illegal activities; ESS AdminONE and ESS AdminGate for privileged access management, password management, log management, and file transfer controls; ESS AdminControl and ESS AdminControl for Client for managing privileged and local administrator IDs across operating systems, databases, and cloud services; ID Inspector for identifying users of shared IDs like root/administrator without system customization; ESS FileGate for secure file transfers with sanitization across various formats; ESS AutoAuditor for automated auditing by comparing operation plans to records; ESS AutoQuality for automated command execution via Active RunBooks with recording; and Encourage Super Station for consolidated monitoring of heterogeneous systems including servers, networks, and applications. It also provides business process outsourcing, consulting services for IT operations, system development, and solutions in IT control, privileged identification, robotic process automation, trail management, PCI DSS compliance, telework visualization, and business continuity. Founded in 2002 and headquartered at Tornare Nihonbashi Hamacho 7F, 3-3-2 Nihonbashi Hamacho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, the company operates through packaged software divisions such as license, maintenance support, cloud services, consulting, and resident services, alongside system development services including custom software design and engineer dispatch. Recent developments include the release of ESS REC 6 with advanced camera sensor technology for environmental monitoring and face verification, as well as cessation of new sales for ESS AdminGate effective September 30, 2021, alongside reporting of parent-only financial results for the six months ended September 2025.