SydneyPLUS International

SydneyPLUS International is a Canadian company based in Richmond, British Columbia with offices in New York, United States, Nottingham, UK, and Los Angeles, USA. A private company, its staff is organized into research and development, client services, and sales and marketing. [Saffady, William. "International Library Systems." Library Technology Reports 33, no. 2 (March 1997): [1 of 6] .] The company offers products and services for library automation and knowledge management to special libraries, particularly law firms. [Barry, Jeff. "Delivering the Personalized Library." Library Journal 125, no. 6 (April 2000).] SydneyPLUS serves organizations and businesses in finance, government, legal services, life sciences, media, and resources. ["ILS ships Windows interface for client/server versions of SydneyPLUS." Information Today. 14, no. 4 (April 1997): 45]

History

The company known as SydneyPLUS International, founded in 1977, is the result of a merger of International Library Systems Corporation and Sydney Development in 1989. [Saffady, William. "International Library Systems." Library Technology Reports 33, no. 2 (March 1997): [1 of 6] .] A minicomputer version of SydneyPLUS operated in OpenVMS and Unix in the 1980s and 1993, respectively. [Cibbarelli, Pamela. "User ratings of DEC VAX IOLS software." Information Today (Jul/Aug 1995): 43.] In 1996, the company offered a client/server product for Windows NT or Unix servers. [Saffady, William. "International Library Systems." Library Technology Reports 33, no. 2 (March 1997): [1 of 6] .] The company now offers SQL and Oracle platforms for client/server installations and an ASP hosted solution. Recently, the company partnered with [http://www.cuadra.com// Cuadra Associates] . The system is a modular design that lets users add on the applications that they need for their operations. [Saffady, William. "International Library Systems." Library Technology Reports 33, no. 2 (March 1997): [5 of 6] .] The President of SydneyPLUS is Ron Aspe.

External links

* [http://www.sydneyplus.com// Corporate Home Page]

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