Lendac Data System’s and Dialog Corporation Enter Partnership.

Dublin – Lendac Data Systems has announced a new partnership with the Dialog Corporation. Effective immediately Lendac will now provide access to the Dialog, Datastar and Profound Information products on an all island basis.

The Dialog service provides information on over 20 key industries, including aerospace, law business intelligence etc. Dialog is particularly strong in intellectual property, science and technology and business news. DataStar provides a special focus on pharmaceutical, biomedical, chemical and healthcare related industries, with a broad coverage of business and financial news. The Profound service includes market research reports, newspapers and magazines, authoritative Financial and economic analysis plus financial reports on public and private companies.

“This alliance offers a significant enhancement to the product range that we can now offer our expanding range of clients,” said Don Lehane Managing Director of Lendac Data Systems. “With its innovative range of products and pricing structures, the Dialog information services expands on our commitment to provide access to the right information at the right price.” he added.

“ Commenting on the agreement Wendy Sheville of Dialog said “Lendac Data Systems is a company with long experience in information products and technologies, and we are excited that these products, used throughout the world by information professionals and business staff, will now be supported by the experience and technical know-how of Lendac”

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About the Dialog Corporation

Dialog is the worldwide leader in providing online-based information services to organizations seeking competitive advantages in such fields as business, science, engineering, finance, and law. Its products and services, such as Dialog®, Profound®, and DataStar™, offer organizations the ability to precisely retrieve data from more than six billion pages of key information, accessible via the Internet or through delivery to enterprise Intranets. For almost three decades, Dialog's brands have been known for their breadth and depth of content, precision searching, and speed. The Winter Corporation recently recognized Dialog for its breadth and depth of content, when they named the company the Grand Prize-winner in the Database Scalability Program 2000.

About Lendac Data Systems

Lendac is a private company established in Dublin in 1979. Lendac distributes over 1000 professional reference titles on behalf of 30 of the world’s leading electronic information publishers. With thousands of active Irish subscriptions, lendac delivers deliver information products via Internet, Intranet, and CD-ROM media to all sectors of the Irish economy. Lendac's publishing and development technologies are state of the art. We have considerable national and international experience on both SGML and XML projects. Lendac is one of the early adopters of XML as a publishing mechanism. We continue to develop secure and profitable publishing applications that offer clients value for money, and offer users a rich and powerful experience. Lendac also provide an expertise in multimedia content development. Lendac DVS (Digital Virtual Studio) is implemented and used in studio situations every day. DVS also provides scalable, web streaming and broadcast capabilities across networks and the Internet.