Soutron Global is majority owned by Bloom Equity Partners.

Breeding, Marshall. Soutron Global merges Businesses. February 2022. Library Technology Newsletter. Soutron Global, a company that specializes in technology products and services for corporate, law, and other special libraries, entered into a new business arrangement. This transaction combined two related companies, Soutron Limited, based in the United Kingdom and Soutron Global, based in the United States. Bloom Equity Partners gains majority ownership of the company through a new investment. Soutron Global founder Tony Saadat will hold a minority ownership stake in the combined company which he will lead as Chief Executive Officer.

Breeding, Marshall. Soutron Global: New Competition in Special Library Automation. April 2012. Smart Libraries Newsletter. Industry veteran Tony Saadat has launched a new company Soutron Global that will specialize in providing library automation solutions for special libraries in the United States and Canada. This new company was founded in partnership with Soutron Limited, a UK-based company that has been involved in various aspects of special library automation since 1985. The companies will evolve toward a unified organization with its global headquarters in Encinitas, California.

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April 16, 2026. Soutron Global exhibiting at the Maryland Library Association / Delaware Library Association (MLA/DLA) Joint Conference. Auto-Graphics, a Soutron Global Company, will be exhibiting at this year's Maryland Library Association / Delaware Library Association Joint Conference to be held from May 6-8, at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay in Cambridge, MA.

April 8, 2026. Soutron Global transforms manual cataloging with AI-driven metadata extraction for faster, smarter information management. Soutron Global, an internationally recognized SaaS provider of information management, resource sharing, and digital preservation solutions for archives, libraries, and museums, today announced a transformational enhancement to their flagship SaaS solutions: AI-Driven Metadata extraction and catalog record creation. This new functionality streamlines one of the most time consuming cataloging tasks, significantly reducing the need for manual and copy cataloging.

March 12, 2026. Soutron Global will be at the Texas Library Association Annual Conference, Booth #1526. Auto-Graphics, a Soutron Global Company, will be exhibiting at this year's Texas Library Association Conference to be held from March 29-31, at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, TX to support the Texas Armadillo Network interlibrary loan service, powered by SHAREit, the most popular ILL resources sharing service in North America.

February 24, 2026. Soutron Global at the Oklahoma Library Association Annual Conference this March. Auto Graphics, a Soutron Global Company, will be exhibiting at this year's Oklahoma Library Association Conference held from March 11-13, at the Hyatt Regency Tulsa Downtown, Tulsa, Oklahoma.Auto Graphics' public library solutions—SHAREit, VERSO, MARCit, and RESEARCHit—are now part of the Soutron Global family of modern SaaS solutions serving libraries, archives, museums, and knowledge centers around the world.

February 20, 2026. Rochester Electronics accelerates digital transformation of manufacturing archives with Soutron Corporate Archive SaaS. Soutron Global, an internationally recognized SaaS provider of information management, resource sharing, and digital preservation solutions for archives, libraries, and museums, today announced an archives success story in partnership with Rochester Electronics. The collaboration highlights a transformative enterprise-wide project that has successfully digitized decades of records, effectively eliminating archival debt while streamlining traceability documentation across Rochester's global manufacturing operations, improving the speed and accuracy of provenance verification across its manufacturing operations.

February 11, 2026. The London Archives Modernizes Collection Management with Soutron Global. The latest case study from Soutron titled: “Preserving London's Past, Protecting Its Future: The London Archives' Journey to Modern Cultural Asset Management and Digital Preservation“, highlights how The London Archives, one of the UK's most significant public archives has successfully scaled to manage over 6 million historical records using MINISIS Archives and the MINISIS Trusted Digital Repository, now part of the Soutron Global information management ecosystem. The article details TLA's transition to Soutron's next-generation Cultural Asset Management System, a unified platform for archival, library and museum collection management system.

February 4, 2026. Soutron Global celebrates outstanding 2025: strategic growth delivering targeted value across libraries, archives, and enterprises. Soutron Global, an internationally recognized SaaS provider of information management, resource sharing, and digital preservation solutions, announced the company's major accomplishments for 2025. The year marked a period of strategic expansion, product innovation, and focused investment—delivering clearly differentiated value to public libraries, archives and cultural heritage institutions, and corporate libraries and archives worldwide.

January 29, 2026. Soutron Global powers the NHS Blood and Transplant Virtual Library for 5,000 healthcare Professionals. Soutron Global, an internationally recognized SaaS provider of information management and digital preservation solutions for archives, libraries, museums and knowledge hubs, is pleased to announce the availability of a new case study highlighting its successful collaboration with NHS Blood and Transplant. The case study, titled “Empowering Healthcare Professionals: NHSBT Doubles Library Engagement with Soutron,” showcases how Soutron's Library Management System has transformed knowledge access for a geographically dispersed healthcare workforce.

December 1, 2025. Soutron Global's client-centric approach increases cataloging efficiency by 400 percent at Ipas. Soutron Global, an internationally recognized SaaS provider of information management and digital preservation solutions for archives, libraries, museums and knowledge hubs, announced the availability of a new case study highlighting Ipas's success in streamlining their digital cataloging workflows with customized Soutron functionality. The case study, titled “Building a Resilient Knowledge Ecosystem: How Ipas Enhanced Research Access with Soutron,” demonstrates how collaboration between Ipas and Soutron Client Services transformed a manual, time-consuming process into an efficient, automated workflow, enabling faster cataloging, greater accessibility, and long-term preservation of critical reproductive health research and media mentions.

October 21, 2025. Soutron Global announces leadership transition and continued growth through investments in products and services. Soutron Global, an internationally recognized SaaS provider of information management and digital preservation solutions for archives, libraries, museums and knowledge hubs, has announced that Brad Frasher has been appointed Chief Executive Officer, effective October 6, 2025, succeeding Tony Saadat, who will be transitioning into an advisory role continuing to support the company and leadership team.

Jan 2012 Soutron Global founded by Tony Saadat
Tony Saadat, President and CEO of Soutron Global and Graham Beastall, Founder and Managing Director of Soutron Limited, had first worked together at Sydney Development Corporation in the mid-80s. Each has since become a high-profile, respected player in his own market: Tony in North America, and Graham in the United Kingdom and throughout Europe. Soutron Global will become the world headquarters for the partnership, which will deliver innovative Library and Knowledge Management solutions

Feb 1991 Soutron Limited enters into an agreement with Inmagic to sell and support its products in the United Kingdom

Mar 02, 1989 Soutron Limited licenses Sydney Library System from Sydney Development Corporation
Soutron acquires a licence to resell and develop the Sydney Library System within the United Kingdom. Any code developed would be passed back to Sydney Development Corporation.

Jan 1989 Soutron Limited established
Soutron Limited was officially formed in January 1989. Soutron commenced trading on 2nd March 1989

2024 Soutron Global Accomplishments Narrative

Soutron Global acquired MINISIS Inc., a leading global software company for integrated Archive, Museum and Library management systems along with its Trusted Digital Repository. The acquisition is a testimony to Soutron Global’s strong commitment to growth and the archive, museum, library, and digital preservation markets. Soutron Global welcomes MINISIS clients to the Soutron Global family!

2024 saw the latest release of the fully web-based MINISIS CAMS product, a cultural asset management system for libraries, archives and museums. CAMS is based on the MINISIS DBMS and strongly supports customized data capture. CAMS is designed to provide a roadmap for existing MINISIS Windows and web clients to take advantage of the latest technologies. The MINISIS DBMS continues to receive updates to support new features and access techniques.

The MINISIS Trusted Digital Repository (TDR), a digital preservation system, received multiple updates to support preservation of a greater variety of digital assets.

Soutron Global continues initiatives to enhance its products via the use of AI tools. The latest plans include document summarization, natural language search and other similar initiatives.

New Soutron developments for 2024 include user-defined copy level fields that can be configured per record type, inline copy editing and brand-new administrative pages to make configuration more intuitive. Support for displaying book covers was improved in several ways, including additional book cover sources, matching to multiple ISBN values, and other new options. MARC record imports were improved by allowing multiple MARC configurations to support sources with different import rules. The Soutron API was updated to provide additional functionality, and many improvements were made to support Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Finally, support was added for the latest .Net Core technology.

Soutron Global continued strong sales growth, remaining a top contender in the legal, governmental and other market segments for library, archive and museum systems. Soutron Global continues to focus on its client-driven approach via the Client Advisory Group (CAG) and other live webinars and user group meetings. The CAG program, designed to listen to clients’ needs, was further enhanced by the rollout of new features on the helpdesk portal, allowing clients to submit change requests and vote on the priority of roadmap features.

Soutron Global’s Reseller Partner program remains an important channel to introduce our products to new and expanding markets and this has been enhanced by those channels operated by the MINISIS team. Soutron Authorized Business Partners continue to provide Soutron Global solutions in Africa, the Middle East and beyond.