MONETT, Mo. - Symitar added a total of 49 new credit unions toits client roster in the fiscal year ending June 30, corporateowner Jack Henry & Associates says. Those included 34 newEpisys users and 15 new users of the Cruise platform for smallercredit unions. The company also says that 34 credit unions haveopted for outsourcing since Symitar began that offering last year."Since we entered the credit union industry in 2000 through theacquisition of Symitar, we have added 201 credit unions to ourclient roster and now serve more than 600 credit unions," saysKevin Williams, CFO of Jack Henry & Associates. Jack Prim, JackHenry & Associates' CEO, says in the past year Symitar systemswere selected to replace 15 different competitive systems by creditunions ranging from $4 million and 900 members in size to more than300,000 members and $1.7 billion in asserts. According to the 2005Credit Union Technology Survey from Callahan & Associates,Symitar has 13.2% of the data processing market share for creditunions over $25 million in assets, more than any single coreprocessing unit. Symitar's president, Bruce Cormode, is currentlyon extended leave due to health problems.