Case Studies

Loblaws is seeking to become the de facto “one stop shop” for Canadians through extending the services that their customers can receive at the grocery store. They are on a constant mission to add new services and to improve the services already in place.  More info...

Integrus is seeking to become the leader in promotional product e-stores, where the company will provide a full merchandising plan for the customer, and then stock and maintain the products, providing next day delivery, anywhere in Canada, after a customer places an order online..  More info...

SOS had built their original system on top of a variety of third party software components. The solution did not allow for the flexibility, scalability or customer tracking capabilities that the company required to fuel their future growth. In addition, they had received several requests to sell or license their software solution in its entirety to customers who preferred to run the service themselves. The original system was not able to be packaged for sale in this manner. More info...

Currently all Canadian investment firms must file monthly and yearly financial statements with CIPF to prove their financial "health". The existing process involved a PC and Mac based application that each firm used to create an export file that is mailed to CIPF. CIPF then imports each file to create aggregate totals and then mails the aggregated data back to the users. With over 200 member firms the process was not sustainable due to the highly inefficient process.  More info...

NMR’s TAM system was a collection of applications written and enhanced over the past 20 years. The combination of customer demands, competitive pressures and a changing industry pushed NMR to address the underlying technology that supported the TAM system. The conclusion was to completely re-invent the manner in which the organization analyzed and communicated its results. A 10 month timeline was put in place to review the inner workings of the TAM system and to recreate them using the .Net 2.0 Framework and SQL Server 2005.

With over 13 million records in their database Cornerstone required a partner that could guarantee fast, accurate search results. The existing search engine lacked some of the more advanced searching functionality available that Cornerstone’s customers required such as geographic proximity matching and fuzzy name searches.

Moneris Solutions

As part of the implementation of a formalized Project Management Office, Moneris sought to improve how it profiles and chooses projects across its portfolios. As part of this maturation, Moneris looked for a project portfolio management tool, choosing to assess MS Office Project Portfolio Server 2006 and to work with Agora Consulting Partners to guide them through the requirements gathering, planning and assessment experience.

Sanofi Pasteur’s North American IT Department needed to upgrade their project management tools from MS Project Central to MS Project Sever 2003. This migration was driven by a need to improve data integrity and streamline status reporting and data analysis.