From Our Recent History

04.10.05

Kanda to Build the NACLA Web Archive

The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) Report is the source on Latin America, the Caribbean and the U.S. role in the region. It is consulted regularly by area scholars, students, journalists, policy activists, trade unionists and human rights activists who are concerned with the well-being of our continent. First published in 1967, NACLA Report has been ahead of the curve on Latin American political events for close to 40 years. The NACLA Web Archive will contain 38 years of complete back iss...

03.31.05

Kanda wins MDR Reengineering Program

Market Data Retrieval (MDR), a unit of D&B, is a leading U.S. provider of marketing information and services for the education market. MDR's products and services are used to provide highly targeted mailing lists for direct mail marketing, telemarketing campaigns, market research, and product development reaching 5 million educator names at more than 260,000 institutions. Kanda Software recently won the MDR reengineering program to migrate MDR products from an AS400 to a Windows platform and to develop new...

03.17.05

Provisioning Party a Smashing Success

Over 85 software and eContent executives attended Kandas party to introduce its new facilities and management team. Companies like Houghton Mifflin, Parametric Technology, D&B, Bayer, CoreStreet, Fast, Ipswitch, Cognos, Merrill Corporation, The Nation Magazine, Channelwave and others were entertained by Christy Zarlengo and the Under the Wire Jazz band and spent the evening sampling French and Italian wines with the Kanda team. CEO Alex Karpovsky made the introductory remarks and kicked off a new season fo...

03.01.2005

Kanda Introduces Search Engine Super Marketing

Kanda Software has two new innovative software services Organic Exposure and Pay for Placement Automation designed to widen your footprint on the web and drive more qualified on-line traffic to your premium content offerings. These new software services are available now and are very inexpensive. (More)

01.24.2005

Kanda Highlighted in VAR Magazine

Alex Karpovsky, CEO of Kanda Software, a Concord, Mass.-based IT integrator, wasn't entirely satisfied with his business. Sure, he was running a $3-to-$5 million-a-year business providing information delivery to publishers, but as his company moved into ID management, he knew a bigger and better payday was waiting beyond his current business model. "We realized as we got into ID management, the enterprises themselves needed similar kinds of services in the provisioning of IT data to their customers," he ex...

09.01.2004

Vladimir Geisberg, Kandas New COO

Kanda Software is pleased to announce the appointment of Vladimir Geisberg as its new Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Geisberg specializes in guiding the growth of a technology business and helping it reach its full potential by optimizing operations and revenue generation. Mr. Geisberg brings to Kanda his outstanding business management and leadership experience. During his career, he has since 1991 founded and developed in a leading capacity a number of successful high-tech enterprises including Software Em...

05.10.2004

Kanda recreates litigation support for a major insurance company

Kanda has begun work on reengineering the litigation support application of American International Group (AIG), the worlds leading international insurance and financial services organization. The application is based on FASTs indexing and search. In accordance with AIGs compliance needs, Kandas job includes making the selection and production of discovery and other documents much faster and more efficient, while establishing a broader range of functionality and control and extending the use of the applicat...

03.30.2004

Kandas Presidents SOA views profiled in Transform Magazine

In his article on The Future of Content Delivery in Transform Magazines current issue, ePublishing and digital content expert Bill Trippe comments that Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are quickly becoming the dominant approach to enterprise software development and integration. Under this approach, software applications are integrated as services that generate and handle digital content via standardized XML-based mechanisms. To support his claim that SOAs are now becoming the prevalent integration st...

03.23.2004

Kanda creates Board of Advisors

In these hopeful times witnessing a resurgence in B2B and consumer revenue from digital content and continuing industry consolidation, Kanda Software proudly announces the Creation of its Advisory Board. Kandas defining asset is the breadth and length of its experience with different types of digital content - from periodicals to books, from radio shows to directories and databases. Our goal in building the Advisory Board was primarily to maintain both the industry focus and the diversity within, while enh...

03.10.2004

Kanda to upgrade Ford Motor Companys Litigation Support System

Based on Kandas vast experience with developing Litigation Support Systems (LSS), Ford Motor Company has selected Kanda to upgrade its own LSS, utilized by Fords Office of General Counsel (OGC). The system enables users to access databases of legal information and documents via an intranet and to perform sophisticated batch searches, redactions, and other discovery procedures. Developed in the 1990s, the LSS is an amalgam of BRS, Oracle, TotalRecall (a communications layer between BRS and Oracle), FileNet ...

01.27.2004

Kandas PRX Wins a MacArthur

Public Radio Exchange (PRX), the pioneering nonprofit online service implemented by Kanda in 2003 and dedicated to providing rapport and digital content traffic between producers and radio stations, has been honored the by John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation with a grant of $350,000. The PRX Web Portal (www.prx.org) is a one-of-a-kind environment for storing, finding, selling, buying and downloading audio content. "Public radio is an important and trusted source of information for a growing numbe...

09.10.2003

The Public Radio Exchange goes live

Developed by Kanda, the Public Radio Exchange (PRX) is a brand-new nonprofit service for distribution, peer review, and licensing of radio content via the Internet. Supported by a consortium of Public Radio Stations and National Public Radio, PRX is designed to enable a more efficient rapport between producers and radio stations than that hitherto supported by any other channels. This functionally rich Web portal offers a convenient environment for storing and downloading, selling and buying audio content ...

08.28.2003

Kandas President to Present at MITs Sloan Software Symposium

Kandas President and CEO Alex Karpovsky has been invited to participate in MITs fourth Sloan Software Symposium. Scheduled to be held on October 4 of this year at the MIT Sloan School of Management, the symposium will address changing trends in the software sector of the technology market, current and future directions of capital markets, softwares impact on business strategy, and related issues.

08.25.2003

FAST selects Kanda for a development project in the Enterprise Application Integration arena

Consistent with its business focus on premium information providers, Kanda has been engaged by Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), a world leader in real-time search and filter technology solutions, to develop the Fast Connector component for FASTs search offerings. FASTs search technology is currently deployed by an exceptionally wide range of global customers and partners including AT&T, CareerBuilder, Dell, Freeserve, IBM, Elsevier (Scirus.com), Reuters, and most recently LexisNexis.

08.11.2003

Toucan Publishing entrusts Kanda with developing and managing the electronic version of its paper offering

Toucan Publishing, a dynamic California-based educational publisher, has detected an inviting opportunity for offering electronic versions of its reference materials to libraries and schools across the nation. The new offerings will provide readers with equally engaging but more up-to-date versions of Toucan's publications. Toucan has selected Kanda's Subscription Management and Access Control packages and Kandas development, integration, and hosting services as the best combination of functionality, perfo...

07.24.2003

Direct Revenue finds a reliable development partner in Kanda

Direct Revenue, a leader in providing direct marketing software and services, has chosen Kanda to assist it with development of the next generation of its top-of-the-market products.

6.28.2003

Executive Breakfast Briefing by Inxight and Kanda

Inxight Software, Inc., and Kanda invited a select group of business executives to their free breakfast briefing on June 24. Held at The New York Knowledge Sharing Center in New York City, the event addressed utilizing corporate information assets to improve productivity, streamline research and development processes, maximize revenues, and cut costs. Kandas President and CEO Alex Karpovsky discussed how to obtain greater ROI by improving content management processes and building flexibility, quality manag...

6.15.2003

A premiere monthly journal of opinion has entrusted Kanda with reengineering all aspects of its online presence

Based on Kanda's experience with The Nation and other leading journals of mass circulation, a national monthly thought leader, which prefers at this time to remain unnamed, has selected Kanda to reinvigorate all of its online offerings, including thorough website redesign, development of subscription management for the magazines electronic version, building a complete electronic archive of over half a centurys worth of issues, and eCommerce.

05.24.2003

Kanda promotes Barclay Rockwood to Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Kanda is pleased to announce the promotion of Barclay Rockwood to the position of Vice President, Sales and Marketing. Mr. Rockwood brings with him two decades of sales, marketing and management experience in technology companies. Before joining Kanda in 2000 he was VP of Sales at Practicity, Inc. - a software developer of collaboration and KM solutions. Prior to that, Mr. Rockwood was Director of the Corporate Information Access Group of Dataware Technologies, Inc., and was responsible for the introductio...

04.15.2003

Houghton Mifflin to offer Math K-6 textbooks electronically

Houghton Mifflin, a leading national textbook and educational publisher, has launched a series of pupil edition eMathBooks - e-versions of the original print counterparts totaling approximately 5,000 printed pages. Developed by Kanda and intended for grades K-6, the eMathBooks represent Houghton Mifflins Math curricula for schools and can be used on a variety of Windows and Mac computer platforms. Each eMathBook CD supports not only the standard version of the corresponding school text, used in most states...

03.25.2003

Kanda Teams with FAST

Kanda has partnered with Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), an industry leader in real-time search and filter technology solutions, to develop FAST Data Search - a real-time search and information retrieval system designed to bridge the gap between information and action. FAST Data Search is a comprehensive combination of powerful search technology, business search management tools, and information analysis that enables customers, employees, and partners to instantly access and act upon enterprise- and Interne...

01.24.2003

The Public Radio Exchange Web Portal will link buyers, sellers, listeners

Kanda has started creating the Public Radio Exchange Web Portal - an online service for peer-review, acquisition, and distribution of public radio content. This initiative is a collaboration between the Station Resource Group, a membership organization for leading public radio broadcasters, and Atlantic Public Media, a founding group for public radio stations, and has received support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ford Foundation. Radio Exchange ...

01.02.2003

Kandas resident poet and editor recognized by Public Radio

The NPR member program "The Poet and the Poem," based at the Library of Congress, has honored Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics with its Award for Excellence in Print 2003 as an outstanding contributor to American Letters. Fulcrum is founded and edited by poet Philip Nikolayev, Kandas own business writer and software engineer. Nikolayev is the author of several collections of poetry, the latest of which was the winner of the international 2001 Verse Prize.