(Vancouver, Canada — June 4, 2008) SydneyPLUS International is pleased to announce that Cuadra Associates, Inc. has joined the SydneyPLUS group of companies. For more than 25 years, Cuadra has set the standard for powerful and versatile information management and retrieval software. Cuadra products continue to earn the highest ratings from their users and the company name has become synonymous with quality and integrity. The Cuadra management team, led by Dr. Carlos A. Cuadra and Ms. Judy Wanger, will remain with the company, as will Cuadra’s renowned technical support and development staff. 

The addition of Cuadra to the SydneyPLUS family will accelerate innovation by joining two companies with a shared vision for agile and adaptable KM solutions. SydneyPLUS is well known for helping Fortune 1000 companies, top law firms, and industry leaders to better collect, manage, and disseminate information with their Unicode-compliant MS-SQL and Oracle-based solutions. Cuadra has a solid reputation for delivering flexible world-class “corporate memory” systems to manage library, archive, museum, and media collections, as well as supporting competitive intelligence, publishing, and records management operations. 

Together, Cuadra and SydneyPLUS will provide a group of complementary products and services to help their customers meet their key business objectives—reduced costs, increased revenues, and improved productivity. Customers and business partners will benefit from both the combined solutions and the strength of a larger software vendor. The synergy created by the partnership will allow clients to deploy Web-based solutions for a broad range of information management needs more quickly and cost-effectively. 

Cuadra will continue to protect and reward its customers’ investment in STAR products by adding new features, capabilities, and applications. The company recently released STAR Knowledge Center for Libraries, a web-based library application, and will soon introduce web-based versions of their STAR/Media and STAR/Archives applications. SydneyPLUS and Cuadra remain dedicated to maintaining and improving upon the qualities their customers have come to expect – technical innovation, exceptional service, outstanding reliability, and a lifelong reputation for integrity. 

Kenyon Group, Inc. acted as advisor to SydneyPLUS and arranged this transaction.

For more information about STAR knowledge management solutions and Cuadra Associates, please visit www.cuadra.com. For more information about SydneyPLUS, please visit www.sydneyplus.com.