[1][2] In 1979, APASCO worked with the government agency, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), to create COLOURMAP, an interactive color mapping system.
[3][4] A few years later, APASCO would add site location and territory assignment capabilities for their product, APASCOMAP.
[5] In 1986, APASCO added operations in the US under the name TACTICS (an acronym for The Australian Customer Target Information Company).
That year, the Tactician software would go on to win the 1990 MacUser "Eddy" Editor's Choice Award for Best Executive Information System.
[17] In that same year, a partnership was created with the Japanese company, Giken Shoji International, to release the desktop software Tactician 3.1 in Japan.
[23] In 1996, Giken Shoji International released Tactician based 'Targeting Machine' a Trade Area Analysis GIS for Japan.
TacticianOne was released in 1998 as a newly redesigned and faster desktop software program that was created to update and replace the previous Tactician 5.
[27][28] Tactician established an agreement in 2002 with Pathfinder Solutions (Australia) to resell the TacticianOne desktop software.
[30] In 2004 Tactician Corporation and Giken Shoji International released their internet based geo-marketing solutions, resulting from the collaboration of the joint Sydney Development Center.
[33][34] In 2005, Longitudes Group started reselling Tactician products and services as a golf and outdoor sporting solution[buzzword][clarification needed] provider.
[36] Also in 2005, Tactician partnered with MapData Sciences (later renamed to MapData Services[37]) to create an Australia and a New Zealand online portal using the Tactician Online mapping interface for users and companies interested in the AU or NZ markets.