LegendCorp Announces Acquisition of CANSYS Incorporated

LegendCorp is very pleased to announce that it has completed an agreement to acquire CANSYS Incorporated as of January 1, 2006.

LegendCorp, located in Toronto, Ontario, is a Microsoft Premier Gold Partner certified in five competencies including Security, Advanced Infrastructure, Networking Infrastructure, Information Worker and Business Intelligence Solutions.

CANSYS Incorporated, also in Toronto, is a leading provider of the Microsoft Dynamics SL Accounting solution in Canada.

The combined capabilities of the firms will allow LegendCorp to provide a full Microsoft service stack offering to its clients.

"For the past two years our firms have been working together on the creation of a Project Management Web Portal product called PSA One. During this time we have found that there are many synergies between our organizations and thus decided to formalize our relationship”, said Andy Papadopoulos, President of LegendCorp.

Biggest winner: the client

"CANSYS was acquired for their deep subject matter expertise in the professional services sector and the business consulting experience of their team. We now can take that expertise and apply it to the Integrated Innovation segment (IW, EPM, and BI) of our business.” commented Andy Papadopoulos.

"We believe this will be a very beneficial transition for our customers,” advised Kevin Oakes, former Director at CANSYS. “Our firm will now be able to provide a full range of IT services. Until now, CANSYS has provided direct implementation support for Microsoft Dynamics SL (Solomon,) and at times we would assist customers to find expert resources for other Microsoft products. They will now be able to access support through one common partner – LegendCorp. As well, with their established expertise in other Microsoft platform areas LegendCorp will be able to provide new insight for our customers in areas that CANSYS could not.”

Under the terms of the agreement, all current CANSYS employees and contracted consultants will be transitioned to become part of the LegendCorp Microsoft Dynamics Business Unit, managed by Oakes. This ensures a consistent interface for customers so that the transition is as smooth as possible.

As part of the transition, the existing CANSYS offices will be relocated to Mississauga in Q2 2006 and will serve as a new LegendCorp “west” location. At the same time a presence will also be established in Montreal.

“LegendCorp’s commitment to Microsoft and our client base is that we work across the Microsoft Stack to drive Integrated Innovation.”, adds Papadopoulos. “This great news continues that commitment.”