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Redefining how knowledge is shared for over 30 years!

What We Do

Our products help clients redefine how knowledge is shared. We provide applications and business process expertise that empowers information intensive organizations to easily collect, organize, and leverage important knowledge assets. Our 6 Principles guide us in developing products that improve organization, accessibility, ease of use and delivery of information to the people who need this knowledge most – employees, customers, visitors, and researchers. Everything we offer our clients embodies one or more of the following: access; discovery; independence; integration; security, or partnership. Results for our clients include higher staff productivity, lower operational costs and increased customer and visitor satisfaction. Helping achieve those results through optimized knowledge sharing is what we do.

Why We Do What We Do

We know that knowledge workers thrive within their organizations and profession by adapting to challenges, acting based on best practices, and creating change. We also know that librarians and knowledge managers, along with collections curators and archivists, are continually asked to deliver more with less – smaller budgets, fewer staff, and possibly even less physical space in an increasingly virtual workplace. Founder and CEO Ron Aspe built Lucidea on the belief that information-intensive companies need flexible tools that fit unique requirements and deliver visible, tangible results. Librarians, curators, archivists, and knowledge managers can only do more with more: we get that.

We want to help people tasked with the challenge of managing collections, digital assets, and knowledge resources of all kinds to deliver more content, more services, and more value, while being innovative and increasingly relevant. That’s why we do what we do.


With Lucidea, we truly have a partner instead of just a third-party vendor.

Angela White
Digital Initiatives Librarian
Crawfordsville District Public Library


Our mission is to collect and preserve American Jewish History and to provide broad access to our collection …Lucidea has been by our side through the whole process.

Lisa Frankel
Director of Programs & Administration
Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA)


I couldn’t possibly have a vendor or product that I’m happier with… the information center isn’t a revenue generator… So, it’s really important to maximize [our] dollars…

Cindy Moon-Barna
Director, CASE Library
CASE. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education


[Lucidea products are attractive because of] their expertise and knowledge, the reputation of the company, breadth of their products, and ability to provide technical support.

Rhonda Bogard
Project Manager
Childrens Museum of Oak Ridge


I’m just super excited to get started. I’m so glad we found you!

Lara Bangerter
Director
Lehi Historical Society and Archives


This critical capability [allowable field length] demonstrated…[Lucidea’s] deep understanding of information-intensive organizations’ needs, and commitment to answering them.

Karen McQuillen
Director of Knowledge Services
Educational Testing Service (ETS)


Being a private organisation we rely on grant money therefore have a limited budget – Lucidea genuinely found ways of working within that.

Richard Sebo
Project Consultant
Friends of the Vern McCallum Photo Collection


[Lucidea distinguished itself from other vendors with] excellent communication from sales rep, lower cost up front, flexible model of database that feels “customizable”.

Wendy Nichols
Curator Of Collections
Museum of Vancouver


[Lucidea Sales staff] have been incredibly supportive, helpful, and knowledgeable in our search for a collections management system that we are really excited to implement.

Terri Harlow
Digital Platforms Manager
Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21


You guys are wonderful and I do not say that lightly.

Tracy Calogheros
CEO
The Exploration Place and Science Centre


With Lucidea, we truly have a partner instead of just a third-party vendor.

Angela White
Digital Initiatives Librarian
Crawfordsville District Public Library


Our mission is to collect and preserve American Jewish History and to provide broad access to our collection …Lucidea has been by our side through the whole process.

Lisa Frankel
Director of Programs & Administration
Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA)


I couldn’t possibly have a vendor or product that I’m happier with… the information center isn’t a revenue generator… So, it’s really important to maximize [our] dollars…

Cindy Moon-Barna
Director, CASE Library
CASE. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education


[Lucidea products are attractive because of] their expertise and knowledge, the reputation of the company, breadth of their products, and ability to provide technical support.

Rhonda Bogard
Project Manager
Childrens Museum of Oak Ridge


I’m just super excited to get started. I’m so glad we found you!

Lara Bangerter
Director
Lehi Historical Society and Archives


This critical capability [allowable field length] demonstrated…[Lucidea’s] deep understanding of information-intensive organizations’ needs, and commitment to answering them.

Karen McQuillen
Director of Knowledge Services
Educational Testing Service (ETS)


Being a private organisation we rely on grant money therefore have a limited budget – Lucidea genuinely found ways of working within that.

Richard Sebo
Project Consultant
Friends of the Vern McCallum Photo Collection


[Lucidea distinguished itself from other vendors with] excellent communication from sales rep, lower cost up front, flexible model of database that feels “customizable”.

Wendy Nichols
Curator Of Collections
Museum of Vancouver


[Lucidea Sales staff] have been incredibly supportive, helpful, and knowledgeable in our search for a collections management system that we are really excited to implement.

Terri Harlow
Digital Platforms Manager
Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21


You guys are wonderful and I do not say that lightly.

Tracy Calogheros
CEO
The Exploration Place and Science Centre

A Remarkable Past and a Stellar Future

Our History

For over 30 years, Ron Aspe has followed his vision and strategy of giving information intensive organizations a full service partner that meets their special and unique needs in the knowledge management, collections management, and library automation sectors. This strategy has included expanding both organically and via acquisitions, and has enabled Lucidea to achieve double-digit growth and build a global customer base serving more than 3,000 clients in more than 50 countries. Ron has successfully led ten acquisitions in the ILS, CMS, and KM space, making Lucidea’s products the most comprehensive suite of solutions available, whatever the organization’s size, geography, or stage of growth.

Our Future

We are driven to develop tools and partnerships that enable professionals in libraries, information centers, museums and archives to adapt, act and thrive. Lucidea will continue its focus on delivering a fully integrated suite of purpose-built products that make collections and other knowledge resources and information assets more accessible yet easier to manage. With strong client partnerships and our dedication to innovation, our future looks bright.

Growth and Acquisitions

SydneyPLUS is founded
Incite Software Solutions (ISS) acquisition
LawPort acquisition
CuadraSTAR acquisition
Questor (Argus) acquisition
Lookup Precision acquisition
Inmagic DB/Text Works acquisition
Inmagic Presto acquisition
SydneyPlus becomes Lucidea
Eloquent Systems acquisition
Maxus acquisition
2021 year marker
Bailey Solutions acquisition

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Our Leadership

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Ron Aspe

Founder and CEO

Ron Aspe is the founder and CEO of Lucidea, and along with a dedicated and innovative team has built a company that actualizes his vision of offering the best and most comprehensive library automation, collections management, and knowledge management software to clients worldwide. Ron is passionate about creating ground breaking solutions for knowledge and information management professionals, as well as for archivists, librarians, and curators. As a child, he had almost finished reading the entire World Book Encyclopedia when he became distracted by Van Nostrand’s Scientific Encyclopedia. An unabashed content guzzler, Ron believes there is no such thing as too much information. It just needs to be relevant, organized, timeless, and accessible.
The foundation for the Lucidea portfolio of KM and information management companies and products was established when Ron acquired the library automation division of Sydney Development Corporation in 1989. In pursuit of his vision, Ron has successfully led ten subsequent acquisitions. His strategy of both organic expansion and targeted acquisitions has enabled the company to achieve double digit growth, and to build a global customer base serving over 3,000 clients in more than 50 countries. Leading law firms, F1000 companies, government agencies, heritage institutions, trade associations, healthcare providers, and non-profit organizations around the world depend on Lucidea to make their information assets accessible, affordable – and most importantly, relevant.

Connect with Neil

Neil Corris

Chief Technical Officer

Neil Corris, Chief Technology Officer – Neil joined SydneyPLUS in August of 1995 as a software engineer. Within a year his strong organizational skills were recognized and he was promoted to a project management position. The following year, as a result of his success, he became co-manager of the R&D division.

In 2006, with SydneyPLUS for SQL and Oracle becoming well established in the market, Neil was assigned management of the sales team as part of the company’s key employee development program. Neil’s success at building this area of the business resulted in his also taking responsibility for the client services division.

In 2008 Neil was promoted to the role of Director of Operations, continuing to oversee R&D, and over the next few years was crucial in guiding the development of the company’s new knowledge management platform—LucideaCore. In 2013 following the acquisition of Inmagic, Neil took on the Chief Technology Officer role, managing the combined Lucidea R&D and Client Services divisions.

Connect with David

David Golan

Chief Sales Officer

Leveraging more than two decades of Executive Sales and Marketing management experience, David is responsible for Lucidea’s global sales operations. Previous roles with public and venture-backed private software companies include Sr. Vice President of North American Field Operations for Applix, Inc. (acquired by IBM), VP of Sales & Marketing for iET Solutions (acquired by Unicom Global) and most recently Sr. Vice President of Sales for Inmagic Inc. Through innovative sales strategies and a focus on sales execution excellence, David and his team of sales people and global partners ensure continued achievement of Lucidea’s revenue and customer satisfaction goals.

Connect with Calvin

Calvin Mah

Chief Financial Officer

Calvin has over two decades of executive level finance management experience in the high technology and software industry, having served as Chief Financial Officer for several companies in the sector prior to Lucidea. He attained a degree in Commerce, Accounting and Management Information Services from the University of British Columbia and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Calvin’s role is to optimize the financial and administrative capabilities of the Finance team, and to ensure that Lucidea’s management team members have the best tools to understand, monitor and enhance the operations and performance of the company.

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