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Background Information



Our Company Mission

CrossWind Technologies, LLC designs and markets standards-based enterprise collaboration software for the cooperative workplace.

Our Company and Development History

CrossWind Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1989 to develop networked productivity applications. Our award winning 'Synchronize™ line of Group Calendaring and Scheduling products, which grossed over $10M, enjoyed many technology firsts, including being the first commercial Motif application to market; the first client-server groupware application on the market and providing the broadest platform support of ay product in it's class (Windows, Mac and over 20 Unix platforms).

In 1996, CyberScheduler for NT™ was introduced as the first web-enabled group calendar on the market. In 1997, Cross Wind introduced the first Linux groupware product on the market with CyberScheduler for Linux™. In 1998, CrossWind introduced CyberSync™ a PDA conduit developed in cooperation with envi.con GmbH. In 1999, CrossWind was acquired by Kronos, Inc. (NYSE: KRON) for their TimeCard Express™ technology, a Microsoft Outlook® based time and billing product for office workers. After technology integration with Kronos, Inc. was complete in 2001, CrossWind and the Synchronize product line were spun off, with the original founders, as an independent entity to become CrossWind Technologies, LLC.

Our Market

CrossWind offers productivity software to organizations within the commercial, educational, local and federal governmental markets both nationally and internationally (English, French and German) via direct sales, resellers and GSA. The scalability offered in our products provides a solution that can grow to meet the needs of expanding organizations. Our customer sites include installations with as few as ten users, to sites with thousands of users. Currently, the largest Synchronize site is the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) workgroup automation project, which relies on Synchronize as a key component in a geographic information system for 30,000 Forest Service employees in 795 locations.

Our Newest Product - Force Accounting™ Use of Force Tracking Software

The idea for the Force Accounting™ came about as a result of Use of Force lawsuit naming the Douglas County Sheriff's Office. The legal group representing the Sheriff's Office requested an accounting of all use of force incidents of a particular classification, specifically "pursuits." The good news was - they were able to produce the information since they had been documenting their Use of Force incidents for almost six years. The bad news was that all the information was handwritten and stored in hardcopy files. The Lieutenant heading up the professional standards unit (PSU), and his secretary had to read every single handwritten Use of Force form to see if it fit the need. Frustrated at the waste of their valuable time, the Lt. suggested a UOF computer tracking system. In market research that followed, we read the excellent research study by the IACP titled "Police Use of Force in America 2001," and realized what a wealth of training, safety, and risk management data could be captured from each UOF report. A Force Accounting™ prototype complete with an extensive report capability was developed and is in use at Douglas County Sheriff's Office today.