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...... Strategic Profile
CQUAY Technologies Corporation, a privately held Canadian company with offices in both Canada and the United States, was founded as a result of a joint operation to develop a technology platform to manage address and mapping information. CQUAYs predecessor company was the first company to demonstrate an online geo-coding and map portrayal service (Ivey Management Services, 2004). CQUAY emerged in 2002, offering commercial products and services in Canada and the United States and became a leading supplier of location technology and related services. CQUAYs product was a patented location intelligence engine called Common Ground, that enabled IT professionals and application vendors to easily and cost-effectively incorporate address validation, location based data integration and map visualization tools into enterprise applications, web solutions, corporate data warehouses or wireless applications. The Common Ground product was marketed to enterprise customers, software developers and systems integrators (Ivey Management Services, 2004). The Common Ground platform came bundled with high-quality map and address data for a customer specified geographic area of interest
The Common Ground system was loaded with Location Data for a customers geographic area of interest and installed within their IT infrastructure, serving as a platform supporting a rich suite of Common

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