Hummingbird acquires Key Automation Nederland, Dispro

Our Convergence Bureau
28 March 2003

Key Automation/Dispro are long-standing Hummingbird partners with over 10 years of experience in the deployment and integration of Hummingbird products. While their expertise spans virtually every industry, Key Automation/Dispro is recognised as the market-leader in the government sector for document, records and correspondence management solutions.

Consistently profitable, Key Automation/Dispro provide high-value product integration, deployment, implementation and educational services that deliver single-source point of support to manage the entire lifecycle associated with EIMS.

“The acquisition of Key Automation/Dispro is consistent with our strategy to build higher value solutions around our core Hummingbird Enterprise suite of products,“ says Hummingbird chairman and CEO Fred Sorkin. “New compliancy and disclosure requirements, e-government initiatives plus the increased interdependence between member states of the European Union create a strategically viable market need that Hummingbird and Key Automation/Dispro can uniquely address.“

Key Automation/Dispro are a strategic fit for Hummingbird and compliment every aspect of its business — from product knowledge and industry-specific expertise to brand recognition, a company press release said.

“We are very pleased with our association with Hummingbird,“ say Dispro general manager Gerard Brefeld and Key Automation general manager Guillaume. “Because of our extensive familiarity with Hummingbird products we are in a unique position to ramp up the delivery of document management solutions, thereby adding immediate value to the Hummingbird strategy of extending its market reach in the Benelux market.“

Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Hummingbird is global enterprise software company employing 1,300 people in nearly 40 offices around the world. Today, 5 million users rely on Hummingbird to connect, manage, access, publish and search their enterprise content.