For Immediate Release
Castek turns to Silicon Valley
North
Continued growth for Castek results in opening of Ottawa office
Toronto and Ottawa, ON, March 9, 2000 – Castek
Software Factory, one of the 50 Best Managed Private Companies
in Canada, today announced the opening of a new office in Ottawa.
"We are pleased to have an established presence in Ottawa, one
of the fastest growing high-tech areas in Canada." says Yung Wu,
President & CEO of Castek. "Our Ottawa office allows us to
better service our customers in the capital, such as the Bank
of Canada, and government agencies and companies in the financial
services sector."
The new Castek office is located at 360 Albert Street, Suite
1020 and can be reached by calling (613) 567-3929. The office
accommodates highly skilled information engineers and application
developers providing innovative and leading-edge solutions and
consulting services for electronic service delivery. Sales consultants
will still be housed at the Toronto Head Office.
Castek customers in the area include The Bank of Canada, where
Castek successfully partnered in the implementation of a component-based
Retail Debt Management System for the Canada Savings Bond Programme,
completing this project on-time and on-budget. "Working with Castek
was like a breath of fresh air compared to traditional development
approaches. We would not have been successful without them" commented
Dan MacDonald, Chief of Infrastructure Services, Bank of Canada.
Castek has a track record of successfully delivering business-critical
enterprise software solutions in the new economy. Castek solutions
are engineered for the internet era and electronic service delivery.
They are dynamic and flexible, ready-to-assemble component frameworks
which replace legacy business handling systems and form the foundation
of your e-world capabilities.
About Castek
Castek Software Factory Inc. is an innovative information technology
firm with offices in Toronto and Ottawa, Ontario; Cary, North
Carolina, and operations across North America. The company’s focus
is the delivery of strategic, component-based business software
solutions to the financial services sector.
Founded in 1990, Castek is recognized as the pioneer and leading
practitioner of component-based development and application assembly
from pre-built, reusable software components, delivering systems
that are substantially more flexible, maintainable, and configurable
than any other industry alternative. Castek was recently ranked
as #29 in the 100 Top Independent Software Companies in Canada.