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CORDA Technologies Signs Master Distributor Agreement to Serve Sub-Saharan Africa's Data Visualization Needs

Securing agreement with Harvey Jones Systems extends Corda's worldwide reach

Lindon, Utah-January 18, 2005-CORDA Technologies, the leading provider of innovative data presentation solutions, announced today it has signed a master distributor agreement with Harvey Jones Systems (HJS) of South Africa, a firm specializing in information delivery to companies focusing on financial, business intelligence and business performance management solutions.

"We are fortunate to have Harvey Jones Systems as our newly established reseller in the Sub-Saharan region of Africa," said Neal Williams, Chief Executive Officer of Corda Technologies. "This area offers unique business opportunities and we will rely on HJS regional expertise to sell Corda's products. They will also play a vital role in training additional resellers as well as their sales and implementation forces."

A current trend in the marketplace shows companies looking to implement intuitive, easy-to-use and cost-effective data presentation and visualization solutions. The demand for useful data is increasing exponentially; together, Corda and HJS have the ability to make this data available to the business community in a powerful, easily understood and visually appealing format.

"Corda's products are highly complementary to the HJS solution set," said Keith Jones, Managing Director of Harvey Jones Systems. "They extend our data visualization capabilities as well as increase the user community we can reach with data warehousing and business intelligence solutions. The additional functionality Corda offers will allow us to enhance existing solutions and provide our partners additional options to penetrate new markets and the server-based pricing of Corda's products ensures this can be done cost-effectively."

Jones continued, "We have seen a tremendous rise in the volume of data companies are dealing with and the traditional two-dimensional methods of browsing data is becoming inadequate. Corda is ideally positioned from both a technology and visualization perspective to address this demand. Our clients will benefit in a number of ways - OptiMap will provide mapping capabilities not available in the current solution set. Couple this with PopChart's charting and graphing, and we can offer dashboard tools allowing them to better leverage their existing solutions by making valuable data available to a larger user community in more effective ways."

About CORDA Technologies

Corda Technologies is the global leader in innovative data presentation solutions. Corda's family of tools and services are the leading choice for fast, flexible, and scalable interactive graphs and maps as well server-based HTML to PDF conversion solutions. It is the first and only company to provide solutions that automatically create accessible, Section 508 compliant charts, graphs, maps, and PDF documents with descriptive text for the visually impaired. Corda's solutions display data as images allowing customers to explore relationships, perform analysis, and more easily understand their data. For more information, please visit www.corda.com.

About Harvey Jones Systems

Harvey Jones Systems (HJS) was established in South Africa in 1997 as a specialist information delivery company focusing on financial, business intelligence and business performance management solutions on the Microsoft platform, using SQL 2000 Analysis Services as the deployment mechanism. HJS distributes a number of best-of-breed software packages, the flagship being ProClarity. Its solutions are all based exclusively on the Microsoft platform and it has become the dominant player in this sector in the region with over 100 customers, scaling from small to the largest deployments. HJS is an award-winning company, and its team has a solid understanding of the products it supports and the business issues faced by users deploying these types of solutions.

Company Contact:
CORDA Technologies
David Vandagriff
801 805-9415
801 805-9405 fax
dvan@corda.com

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