Cuadra Announces New 'Budget-Friendly' Software for Museums and Archives.Business Editors LOS LOS Length of stay, see there ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2000 Cuadra Associates (CA), developer of the STAR (R) information management and retrieval software, has announced a new product designed to meet the needs and budgets of small and medium size museums, historical societies, and permanent archives. The product addresses their most important single technical requirement: collections management. Cuadra CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. (Collections Management System) is a version of the award-winning Cuadra STAR software that includes a full array of features and capabilities needed by most museums, historical societies and permanent archives but excludes STAR's graphical design tools for customizing the application. The product, scheduled for release in May, will be unveiled at the annual meeting of the American Association of Museums The American Association of Museums (AAM) is a non-profit association that has been bringing museums together since its founding in 1906, helping to develop standards and best practices, gathering and sharing knowledge, and providing advocacy on issues of concern to the , May 15-17, in Baltimore Baltimore, city (1990 pop. 736,014), N central Md., surrounded by but politically independent of Baltimore co., on the Patapsco River estuary, an arm of Chesapeake Bay; inc. 1745. . "Over the years, as we have added new capabilities to our collections management application, we have found that it meets more and more of the needs of museums and archives, right out of the box," said Dr. Carlos A. Cuadra, president of Cuadra Associates. "This either eliminates or sharply reduces the need for our customers to do any customization." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Cuadra, with the downsizing (1) Converting mainframe and mini-based systems to client/server LANs. (2) To reduce equipment and associated costs by switching to a less-expensive system. (jargon) downsizing that has been occurring in both corporate America and the non-profit sector The nonprofit sector, also called the third sector, civic sector or voluntary sector, is a third area of an economy, distinct from the public sector and the private sector. It is made up of all of the non-profit organizations in the economy. , the staff resources to do the kind of customizing that was popular in years past are no longer readily available. "That's what makes the new Cuadra CMS product an attractive option for small museums, historical societies, and permanent archives," said Cuadra. "First, no customizing needs to be done and, second, the price of the product starts at under $10,000. That price includes a three-user license, three full days of training, and a year of upgrades and customer support." Like the fully customizable version of STAR, Cuadra CMS runs on Windows/NT and Windows 2000 servers and on a number of UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms. Customers who later decide to customize the product to meet their unique requirements have the option of purchasing the STAR graphical design toolkit. Cuadra Associates' STAR software was designed specifically to provide fast access to descriptive information of all kinds. Thus, it can be used in a variety of information management applications, by libraries, corporate information and records centers, publishers, film and document archives, museums, and other organizations that need to manage objects, paper, and electronic files of all kinds. |
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