CubeWerx Inc appoints GeoLeaders as its United States Distribution Partner

Gatineau, Québec, April 16, 2004 -- CubeWerx, a leading provider of spatial data warehousing and OGC compliant web services software products, today announced it is expanding its presence in the United States through a distribution partnership with GeoLeaders, LLC.

GeoLeaders will exclusively distribute the CubeWerx product line in the United States to third party service providers, resellers and enterprise customers"The addition of GeoLeaders as a new distribution partner greatly enhances our presence in the United States, which is an important and strategic market for CubeWerx products," said Edric Keighan, President & CEO of CubeWerx Inc. "CubeWerx already has several strategic customers in the United States and we are looking forward to expanding our market presence through GeoLeaders and its’ Partner Network.”

“In the rapidly growing market for geospatial systems, there is an increasing importance and customer demand for interoperability and multi-vendor support,” Keighan said. s a result, major commercial and public sector clients are particularly receptive to products like CubeWerx which are based on Open GIS Consortium (OGC) specifications and will help them effectively realize the benefits of interoperability"

“GeoLeaders is pleased to officially launch its Partner Network initiative with the announcement of our partnership with CubeWerx. Our goal is to eliminate barriers to the procurement and implementation of interoperable spatial enterprise solutions, and to ensure our customers get the full benefits of true multi-vendor systems based on Standards-based Commercial off-the-Shelf Software (SCOTS) like CubeWerx,” said Jeff Harrison, Executive Director for GeoLeaders. “Because of adherence to OGC standards, CubeWerx products can be implemented in conjunction with technology from other vendors in a best of breed approach. GeoLeaders intends to further the development of local, regional and national Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) based on open standards by offering additional geospatial software components and technology to support enterprise systems development.”  

ABOUT CUBEWERX INC.
Founded in 1996, CubeWerx has been developing standard-based off the shelf software products (SCOTS) in response to Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) requirements for interoperable information infrastructures. CubeWerx is an innovative software company whose expertise includes development, marketing and selling of Web Services and Spatial Warehousing software products. These products and other location-based software product components support the most demanding requirements for the integration, access, and management of very large volumes of Spatial Data over the web. CubeWerx products such as CubeXPLOR, CubeSERV and CubeSTOR were developed using open and interoperable specifications from the Open GIS Consortium. These products allow organizations responsible for Geospatial data to respond to their most demanding client requirements and offer them on-line Web services in a multi-vendor products environment. More information on CubeWerx is available on the Internet at www.cubewerx.com.

About GeoLeaders, LLC

GeoLeaders was founded on the principle that today geospatial solutions built on open standards are not only viable, but offer a better long-term return on investment and meet increasing requirements for interoperability more appropriately than proprietary, single vendor solutions. Through its global Partner Network, GeoLeaders is uniting providers of OGC compliant technology products, with professional services companies to more effectively deliver on customer requirements with standards based technology, and to reinforce the momentum built by the OGC and its members. In helping address the increasing need for interoperability and multi-vendor support, all software solutions distributed through GeoLeaders will meet guidelines established in the United States Federal Geographic Data Committee's (FGDC) geospatial interoperability reference model, the OGC, and other standards for interoperable geospatial systems. For more information on GeoLeaders or to join the GeoLeaders Partner Network please visit www.geoleaders.com.

For more information please contact:
Edric Keighan (CubeWerx)
Tel.: (819) 771-8303 x207
E-mail

Jeff Harrison (GeoLeaders)
Tel.: (703) 491-9543
E-mail

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