New Pen pals.A new alliance with a Mississauga-based software developer could open up new doors to bigger markets for a small northeastern Ontario Northeastern Ontario is the region within the Canadian province of Ontario which lies north and east of Lakes Superior and Huron. Northeastern Ontario consists of Algoma District, Sudbury District, Cochrane District, Timiskaming District, Nipissing District, Manitoulin high-tech high-tech also hi-tech adj. Informal Of, relating to, or resembling high technology. high-tech Adjective same as hi-tech Adj. 1. firm. CSDC CSDC Circuit Switched Digital Capability CSDC Commonwealth Spatial Data Committee CSDC Code Segment Descriptor Cache CSDC Charter School Development Center CSDC Computer, Signal Data Converter CSDC Combat System Display Console CSDC Central Signal Data Converter Systems and Sudbury's Pen Systems announced a strategic partnership in February February: see month. to share their knowledge of municipal software technologies to pursue what they describe as 'mutually beneficial opportunities' in the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. wireless solutions market. The two companies hope to integrate CSDC Systems' AMANDA enterprise software with Pen Systems' wireless solutions to go after a bigger share of the municipal government market. "For us, that means cracking cracking - cracker a nut we normally couldn't crack for a long time," says Pen Systems president Nigel Leith. Since both companies specialize spe·cial·ize v. 1. To limit one's profession to a particular specialty or subject area for study, research, or treatment. 2. To adapt to a particular function or environment. in delivering e-Government software solutions, Leith says the two firms have been "bumping Bumping can refer to:
explore - examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes to gauge their competitor's level of interest in a collaboration Working together on a project. See collaborative software. effort. CSDC Systems is considered an industry leader in providing e-Government solutions and mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings applications for field staff. Their municipal and governmental clients include the City of Greater Toronto; St. Paul St. Paul as a missionary he fearlessly confronts the “perils of waters, of robbers, in the city, in the wilderness.” [N.T.: II Cor. 11:26] See : Bravery , Minn.; San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , CA; the Province of Nova Scotia Nova Scotia (nō`və skō`shə) [Lat.,=new Scotland], province (2001 pop. 908,007), 21,425 sq mi (55,491 sq km), E Canada. Geography and the State of Wisconsin Wisconsin, state, United States Wisconsin (wĭskŏn`sən, –sĭn), upper midwestern state of the United States. It is bounded by Lake Superior and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, from which it is divided by the Menominee . Leith says there are about a half-dozen major software packages on the market used by municipalities and CSDC's AMANDA product consistently occupies the top position in Canada. "Their client base is larger than ours," says business development manager John Jeza. "They go after larger municipalities we've always been looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a mechanism to crack. They also found out there was some market opportunities in smaller municipalities, which was our niche." Leith says CSDC accounts are considered the "crown jewels crown jewels Ornaments used at the coronation of a monarch and the formal ensigns of monarchy worn or carried on state occasions, as well as collections of personal jewelry consolidated by European sovereigns as valuable assets of their royal houses and the offices they " of all the large Ontario cities. Over the years, Pen Systems has diversified diversified (di·verˑ·s from the mining sector into local government and health care, with mobile, wireless applications for field personnel using handheld devices. Their products include Inspector +, their flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. used for mobile building and fire inspections, bylaw by·law n. 1. A law or rule governing the internal affairs of an organization. 2. A secondary law. [Middle English bilawe, body of local regulations; akin to Danish and code enforcement Code Enforcement is the act of enforcing a set of s, principles, or laws (especially written ones) and insuring observance of a system of norms or customs. An authority usually enforces a civil code, a set of rules, or a body of laws and compel those subject to their authority to , as well as health evaluations in many small and rural municipalities A rural municipality, often abbreviated RM, is a form of municipality in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, perhaps best comparable to counties or townships in the western United States. across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Leith says CSDC Systems delivers an interesting piece of technology best classified as a "meta-database," considered a very flexible leading-edge system which allows a city to make a new department on the fly or make new folders to find new data. "It's very sexy stuff." Pen Systems will bring to the table its own Admin middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a system, a data pump A circuit that transmits pulses in a digital device. It typically refers to the chipset in a modem that generates the bits based on the modem's modulation techniques. that delivers data from computers in the field to their corporate database. "It turns out these two systems are highly compatible," says Leith, "even though they were developed in completely different lines and backgrounds." Leith says the combined product offering they can deliver offers the best expertise in client server database facilities from CSDC and the "best of breed" in mobile wireless that Pen Systems with their knowledge base and various partnerships. "It comes down to the intellectual properties of both companies being on same wavelength." Leith says CSDC has a smaller version of AMANDA and were looking for the technical expertise to implement it and given that Pen Systems' database structure was so similar, rather than outsource this type of work, the Mississauga company saw Pen had the technical expertise in this area. The partnership with CSDC should deliver added financial clout with the Sudbury firm. Leith says much of Pen Systems sales comes through municipal RFP-tendering processes and the alliance should more than triple their access in pre-qualifying for many larger municipal accounts. "Just the mention of us being associated with CSDC will yield us a lot of credentials CREDENTIALS, international law. The instruments which authorize and establish a public minister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are addressed. If the state or prince receive the minister, he can be received only in the quality attributed to him in his credentials. ."
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Firm Number of employees 2004 revenue
Address Year established Services offered
City/postal code Number northern
offices
Phone/fax % of growth 2002-2005 Changes planned for
Web site # client accounts 2005
(Web design)
Lucidia Studios Ltd 16 $750,000-$999,999
123 March St. Suite 301 2001 Web design and
Sault Ste. Marie P6A 2Z5 2 hosting, e-
commerce, graphic
design, advertising
705-941-9828/941-9088 200+ n/a
www.lucidia.com 400%
LACmedia 6 $500,000-$749,000
355 Plouffe St. 1995 Web design,
North Bay P1B 4E9 1 hosting, training,
705-497-8991/497-0102 15% (revenue) 50% e-commerce,
(employees) multimedia (CD-ROM)
www.lacmedia.com 100+ Delivery of e-
learning Web
applications,
course delivery
Crocodile Press and 6 Less than $250,000
Multimedia
118 Regent St. 1977 Web design,
Sudbury P3C 4C2 1 training, e-
commerce,
705-671-1525/671-9455 n/p n/a
n/p n/a
Northshore Developments 6 n/p
183 Yellek Trail 1995 Web design,
North Bay P1B 8G5 1 hosting, e-
1-888-666-7338 100% commerce, online
www.webuildgreatwebsites.com 75 marketing &
photography
Office and
photography studio
expansion
Kap Data & Systems Ltd. 5 n/p
3 Byng Ave. 1983 Web design,
Kapuskasing 1 training, e-
705-335-5552/335-4581 200% commerce, database
www.kapdata.com 30 development,
management
More database
integration to Web
sites, dynamic
searches within
sites
Driving Force Internet Group 5 n/p
64B Algoma Ave. 1996 Web design, Web
Sault Ste. Marie P6B 2P7 1 hosting
705-942-9765/nfp n/p n/a
www.df-ig.com n/p
Feedstream Inc. 4 $500,000-$749,999
110 Durham St. 1999 Web design,
Sudbury P3E 3M7 1 hosting, training,
705-677-0143 100% intranets, XML, e-
www.feedstream.com 50% commerce,
enterprise content
mngmt, Enterprise
Intranet
development
Times Web Design 4 Less than $250,000
116 1st St. E 1999 Web design, Web
Fort Frances P9A 3M7 1 hosting, e-commerce
807-274-5373 90 solutions
www.timeswebdesign.com 175% Major site
redesigns
Pictographics Ltd. 3 n/p
421 Bay St. Suite 607 1994 Web design, Web
Sault Ste. Marie P6A 1X3 1 in Sault (1 in hosting, training,
Toronto) e-commerce
705-949-4871/256-5418 200+ solutions
www.pictographics.com 30% Undisclosed
MFG Web Design 3 Less than $250,000
437 Nixon Rd. 1997 Web design, Web
Sault Ste. Marie P6C 5R7 Associates in Thunder hosting, training,
Bay e-commerce
705-946-2929/254-1042 120-125 solutions
www.mpgwebdesign.com 30% Domain sales online
Ten Base Inc. 3 n/p
1190 Regina St. 2003 Web design, Web
North Bay P1B 2L2 1 hosting,
705-472-5625/472-9762 125 programming
www.tenbase.com 275% New development
tools and packages
CorMac Technologies 2 Less than $250,000
34 N. Cumberland St. 1987 Web design, Web
Thunder Bay P7A 4L3 1 hosting, custom
807-345-7114 5 programs
www.cormactech.com n/a Upgrades to BVS and
CQ Phone
Baytides Management Inc. 2 Less than $250,000
Box 5614 1998 Web design, Web
Huntsville P1H 2L5 1 hosting, e-
commerce, databases
705-787-1411/nfp 171 n/a
www.baytides.ca 10%
The Web Architect 2 Less than $250,000
61 Gloucester Crt. 2002 Web design, Web
Sudbury 1 hosting, portals,
705-675-3327 20+ content management,
www.thewebarchitect.net 400% e-commerce
New portal, CMS, e-
commerce product
releases
Nor link 1 Less than $250,000
1124 Waterford St. 2nd 1992 Web design, e-
floor, suite 3 commerce solutions,
Thunder Bay P7B 5R1 1 Web hosting
807-624-0800/622-4360 100+ n/a
www.norlink.ca n/a
Digital Image 1 Less than $250,000
Box 308 1998 Web design, e-
South Porcupine P0N 1H0 1 commerce solutions
705-235-2160/267-1995 n/p n/p
www.digitalimagenorth.com n/p
Zeuter Development Corp. n/p n/p
Box 225 1993 Web design and
Parry Sound n/p hosting, e-commerce
training, Internet
access, PC service
705-746-4625 n/p n/a
www.zeuter.com n/p
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