Aspose started trading in 2002. A decade later, the company has gone from a couple of people working on one product to teams across the globe developing and supporting over 20 products across five platforms. The software industry changes quickly, so what has Aspose done to adapt and grow in the last 10 years?
1. We listened to our customers It is great fun to come up with a new product or service but if you can’t sell it, you shouldn’t spend too much time developing it.
Announcing our December sweepstake winner
Sydney, Australia - 13 January, 2012 -** We’re delighted to announce the winner of the iPad 2 Facebook sweepstake that we announced in the December 2011 newsletter.
In December last year, Aspose ran a sweepstake that gave our Facebook followers a chance to win an iPad 2. All they had to do to enter was send us an email. Over the month, a healthy number of our fans entered the sweepstake and in early January we had a draw.
Aspose Wins Two Medals in the DevProConnections Community Choice Awards
Sydney, Australia - November 18, 2011 - Aspose.Network for .NET (now Aspose.Email for .NET) and Aspose.Total for SharePoint were voted among the best products in the DevProConnections Community Awards. The awards run every year. This is the first time that Aspose has taken part.
DevProConnections collects together independent information about how to build Microsoft applications to give Microsoft developer advise and insight. The network focuses on practical solutions based on real-life implementations.
Supporting the developer community: Desert Code Camp and WPC Milano
[![User group icon][1] Texas, USA - 4 November, 11, 2011 - Aspose supports a number of local user groups and events in the US and Europe. The software we design, and the way we work, promotes interaction and communication between teams and individuals. We believe that user groups and good team work helps individuals succeed. Each of us learn from others. Sharing ideas and learning new things keeps us interested and makes us better at what we do.
Announcing Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint: extending PDF conversion to all our platforms
Sydney, Australia - 17 October, 2011 - Aspose.Pdf is one of Aspose’s most popular products. The Aspose.Pdf product family already offers products for .NET, Java, SSRS and JasperReports. On all platforms, Aspose.Pdf helps developers convert files to PDF from within their applications, without having Adobe Acrobat installed.
Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint extends this functionality to yet another platform. Aspose.Pdf for SharePoint allows users to save lists, list items and Wiki pages in SharePoint to PDF files.
Announcing our 10,000th Customer
** Sydney, Australia – 1 October, 2011 –** Last year, Aspose’s file format community reached 100,000 members. This year, we celebrate our 10,000th customer. The company has been operating for nine years and has achieved a lot in that time: it has teams in several countries, has developed many new products, supports five different platforms and has introduced a number of new services. Reaching 10,000 customers is another important mile stone.
Disentangling email and network programming: introducing Aspose.Email
Sydney, Australia - 30 September, 2011 - Aspose.Network is changing in recognition of how our customers use it. The main change is in the name: our customers use Aspose.Network for email programming so we are changing the name to Aspose.Email.
Aspose.Network for Java will be renamed Aspose.Email for Java. Aspose.Network for SharePoint will be renamed Aspose.Email for SharePoint. Aspose.Network for .NET has been split into two products: Aspose.Email for .NET contains email programming features and Aspose.
Supporting user groups and events
[![User group icon][1]Texas, USA - 31 August, 2011 - Aspose supports a number of local user groups and events in the US. We are keen to support interaction and innovation and sponsoring user groups is one way in which we can do this. User groups are great for individuals as well as the industry: they get people together to learn, and to exchange and spark ideas. They are forums where people who share an interest get together, learn more about technologies and discuss technological issues.
Celebrating reaching 10,000 Customers
Sydney, Australia - August 15, 2011 - In 2010, Aspose proudly announced that their file format community had reached 100,000 registered users. This year, we are rapidly approaching 10,000 customers. That is a number worth celebrating! This is how we will mark the occasion:
Our 10,000th customer will get a free Developer Small Business license of Aspose.Total as well as a MacBook Air as a thank you for investing in us.
Vote in the DevProConnections Community Choice Awards
** Texas, USA - August 12, 2011 -** DevProConnections collects together independent information about how to build Microsoft applications to give Microsoft developer independent advise and insight. The network focuses on practical solutions based on real-life implementations. DevProConnections covers many aspects of Microsoft development: Visual Studio, .NET Framework, Azure, Windows, Windows Server, through Office, SharePoint, SQL Server, Mobile and more.
DevproConnections runs annual community choice awards in which users nominate and then vote on their favourite companies and products.