Melbourne, AUSTRALIA, 8 July 2008 – CDC Software, Praxa's parent company and a wholly owned subsidiary of CDC Corporation, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Dynamic Business Consultants (DBC), a leading and award-winning software systems integrator based in Melbourne, Australia. 

The acquisition will expand the solutions and services offerings of CDC Software’s Praxa consulting division. In addition, DBC will market and sell CDC Software’s Process Manufacturing solutions that include CDC Factory and Ross Enterprise. 

Founded in 1994, DBC is a long-standing Microsoft partner in Australia with offices in Melbourne and Adelaide, and is a specialist in Enterprise Resource Systems, Service Management and Manufacturing Resource Planning.  DBC currently provides IT solutions and services to more than 90 clients in the financial services, distribution, manufacturing, non-profit, professional services and construction industries.

“We believe that Praxa is becoming a leading figure in the Microsoft Dynamics range of solutions in Australia, which is in line with our business objectives of increasing our technical capabilities and expertise,” said John Clough, chairman of Praxa.  “The acquisition of DBC allows our Praxa business to offer its customers an end-to-end solution.  DBC’s offerings complement CDC Software’s process manufacturing focus which would further broaden the company’s solution and services offerings in the region.”

“DBC strategically complements and enhances Praxa’s services business, further accelerating our growth in Australia,” said Frank Hung, managing director, CDC Software (Australia) and Praxa Limited.  “This acquisition should also benefit our current customer base by providing additional services and industry expertise. Praxa is a leader in Microsoft Dynamics CRM and DBC is one of Australia’s largest providers of Microsoft Dynamics GP.  As a result, we believe that our customers will have access to the highest levels of Microsoft technical proficiency, resources and knowledge.” 

“DBC is very excited to join the CDC Software family,” said Terry Bolden, managing director of DBC. “We believe this integration will give us an opportunity to service new customers with our in-depth and award-winning expertise in ERP for Praxa. It will also help enable us to expand our position by getting the most out of Praxa’s broad technical capabilities in servicing our existing customers by bringing in our complementary technologies including Business Intelligence, SharePoint and CRM together and can now offer our Australian customers a one stop shop with an end-to-end business solution. We are also looking forward to opening up new opportunities for the CDC Software’s Process Manufacturing solutions in Australia."

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