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D&B Software (Dun & Bradstreet Software Services) was formed by the merger of the Management Science America and McCormack & Dodge companies in June 1990, under the ownership of the
Dun & Bradstreet The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation is an American company that provides commercial data, analytics, and insights for businesses. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, the company offers a wide range of products and services for risk and financia ...
corporation. In 1982, ''McCormack & Dodge'' was described by ''The New York Times'' as "one of the nation's top three financial software concerns."


Overview

After the merger, the separate company headquarters, located in
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and
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, were retained with videoconferencing used for communication. Originally, the merged company was a supplier of financial packages that ran on
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s. In 1991, they released the client-server
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application suite named SmartStream that ran on
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. ''Smartstream'' 3.0 was introduced in early 1995.


Geac

In 1996, D&B Software was acquired by the Canadian client-server application firm Geac Computer Corporation for US$150 million, who immediately split the services into two divisions.


See also

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Informatics General Informatics General Corporation, earlier Informatics, Inc., was an American computer software company in existence from 1962 through 1985 and based in Los Angeles, California. It made a variety of software products, and was especially known for it ...


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