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We put mobile devices to work for you.
We can help you deploy smartphones and tablets in your workplace, support your remote workers, train your team, build custom apps, and market your products in the mobile space.
Our future is all about productivity, lower tech costs, better communication, and liberation from the office.
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Custom Mac, iPad & iPhone Solutions
Torusoft has the expertise, tools, techniques and best practices needed to put a custom IT solution to work for your business. Torusoft focuses exclusively on Macs, iPhones and iPads. We know from experience that Apple solutions increase productivity while lowering support and training costs. Now’s the time to make the switch.
Network
& Server
Using the latest virtualization technology, Torusoft builds Mac servers that can manage businesses both big and small. Our IT managers ensure you're always connected, always up to date and always secure. Contact us to see how a Mac servers and networks can have a dramatic impact on your business.
Storage, Hosting
& Collaboration
We've got the skill and experience to design, deploy and support storage and collaboration solutions for businesses of all sizes. With our server, networking, database and development capabilities combined, there's endless possibilities for improving your business' productivity and bottom line.
Your clients are using smartphones and tablets more than ever. That means that when they’re looking you up on the web, they have limited time, limited patience, and limited bandwidth.
We build web applications designed specifically for mobile devices. Our websites load once, and load quickly - and browsing from section to section is instantaneous.
What’s more, we build for smartphone and tablet screen sizes - which means no endless scrolling, pinching, zooming or squinting.
Most websites are designed for a desktop & mouse.
They have small links, drop-down menus that only appear when you roll over them, and usually way too much information displayed at once. They may even use Adobe Flash®, which only works on desktops and laptops.
Tablets have smaller screen sizes, and smartphones are smaller still. Your visitors need bigger buttons, better-planned layout, and re-imagined interfaces.
Is your website ready for touch?
Do you have an idea for an iPhone or iPad application?
Do you need to develop internal software that runs on iPhones & iPads?
Do you think your business could benefit from having an iOS app?
Writing training material is hard. Especially if you're not a subject matter expert on mobile devices. However, if you have the training staff, we can do the rest.
We can develop custom exercise sheets, slide presentations, documentation, lesson plans and outcomes, all with your corporate branding, all delivered by your own staff.
Professional development doesn't happen in a vacuum. People forget things, excitement wears off. Training needs to be an ongoing process. That's why every customer is given ongoing access to our wiki server.
Any time you or your staff needs a refresher, they can visit our training wiki and get the most up-to-date materials we have, on a variety of subjects. We keep this material current, so you don't have to.
Torusoft designs and delivers training for both end users and IT administrators at various skill levels.
As Mac and iOS specialists and as certified educators, we deliver invaluable training for your staff that directly affects your bottom line.
If your Mac, iPhone or iPad is giving you grief, Torusoft is here to help. In fact, we'll come to you and get you back up and running on your home turf.
Whether you're experiencing a hardware or software issue, we've got the expertise to diagnose and cure it quickly.
Not every problem requires on-site staff. Keep costs down and get your issues solved quickly with remote-desktop support for your organization.
Our technicians can securely access your desktop or laptop over the web. For many issues, this means near-instant resolution. Contact us to find out how we can help your business with remote support.
Our skill and expertise with networking goes back more than twenty years. There's hardly a network support issue we can't solve.
Businesses thrive on up-time. If you're having network trouble, or just looking to speed things up, let's talk.
We design and support backup systems. But sometimes, the only options is to try and recover mission-critical data from a failing drive.
If you find yourself in such a situation, we have 15 years of expertise recovering data with dedicated software and hardware.
We've been working with Apple servers for as long as Apple's made them. That's twenty years on the cutting edge of Apple's server hardware and software.
Mac servers are incredibly powerful and offer tremendous value to businesses of all sizes. You won't find a more experienced group of Mac server experts anywhere. Let Torusoft raise the bar with our dedicated staff of Mac server professionals.
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Since 2009, we've worked with a wide variety of clients who adopted iPhones and iPads for their organizations. Each of these clients sought ways to manage their iOS devices for security, mass-deployment, and over-the-air configuration. In our research and consultation, we noticed something: iOS device management solutions are expensive - too expensive for anyone but large organizations.
Small businesses want enterprise device management tools, but at price they can afford. To address this need, we launched Backstage, a low-cost, zero-licensing management tool for iOS devices. Backstage allows businesses to take control of their devices, make sure their data is safe, and ensure their employees' devices always work -- and all at a price small businesses can afford.
DORA presented a unique challenge for Torusoft. They saw the value in iPhones and iPads, especially for executives and managers in the field. But, as a Windows-based company, DORA needed help deploying Apple devices and infrastructure. We set up a Backstage server, and distributed over 50 iPhones and iPads throughout the company.
Next, we launched DocuBin, a custom file sharing and collaboration system that allowed iPad users to securely access all of Dora's corporate files from anywhere. On top of that, we developed a custom project management solution. Once everything was in place, we followed up with training sessions on iOS basics, and developed courseware specifically for DORA's in-house trainers.
In a matter of months, Dora went from not owning a single Apple product to completely changing the way it does business, both inside and outside the office, with an end-to-end Apple solution.
Egg Films, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia are the leading film and tv content producers in Atlantic Canada. Torusoft’s relationship with egg is a rewarding one and from end to end. Over the past two years, Torusoft has developed a custom web application for casting and a mobile web app for accessing their massive media library.
Torusoft’s full range of IT consulting services have modernized Egg’s network, security, servers, storage, and workstations. Torusoft overhauled Egg’s network, deployed a managed network of Macs, centralized all file storage to a protected RAID array and developed an off-site backup plan in case of disaster. It’s fundamentally changed the way Egg’s employees work and collaborate both in and outside the office. Working with Torusoft has helped reduce IT costs while building a solid foundation for lots of growth.
St. Thomas University’s Education Department offers one of the most forward-thinking teacher’s programs in Atlantic Canada. With a heavy emphasis on practice over theory, they get their pre-service teachers doing as much hands-on work as possible. Content creation plays a big role. And what better tools for creating content than Apple products?
When the BEd program invested in a mobile laptop cart full of MacBooks, we set to work creating the ideal plug-and-play learning environment for their students.
BEd students benefited from seeing cutting-edge tools being deployed in a classroom setting, and learning how to use Mac software like iLife, iWork, SMART Notebook & Comic Life to engage their students better.
We benefited by helping one of the schools we admire most become that much more awesome.
When Egg Films transitioned from traditional film to digital storage, it started to amass huge quanties of video files. In early 2011, Egg had more data on hand than many companies 100 times its size. This presented a big problem.
How do you store this amount of data? How do you make it accessible to everyone who needs it? How do you go about searching through 50 TB of files? We developed a solution.
First, we designed and deployed a massive, networked RAID system, so editors on every floor could access nearly 50 TB of data at any time. Next, we developed a front-end web application for searching, browsing and checking out digital media. Then, along with Egg, we turned this system into a product called NEST, for organizations with similar needs.
Egg adapted not only adapt to a new medium, but stayed ahead of a curve that saw its digital storage needs explode.
Torusoft developed a custom FileMaker project management solution for Trada's growing team of consultants. As it grew, Trada's employees and managers needed a way to communicate and collaborate from multiple offices, or while on the road.
Using FileMaker, Torusoft developed a solution that included modules like expense tracking, estimates, contacts, timesheets. With this project management solution in place, Torusoft then integrated DocuBin, tightly marrying file sharing & management into each Trada project.
Now, Trada employees can keep their fingers on the pulse of every project, budget, task and event, while also having any project file at their fingertips from just about anywhere.
At the beginning of 2011, Torusoft was contracted by Bell Mobility to develop and deliver training to several of their customers on how to deploy iOS devices in large numbers.
We worked closely with Bell to determine what their customers needed in terms of knowledge and advice. From there, we built custom curriculum, courseware and outcomes. We based those outcomes on individual students’ technical expertise along with special considerations specific to their respective IT environments.
It’s been rewarding to help IT Managers become comfortable with managing and deploying iPhones and iPads. It's a big deal for large organizations to adopt new technology platforms and we’re thrilled to be able to help businesses leverage the power of iOS in the enterprise.
DocuBin is a file management and sharing solution built using FileMaker. It's an incredibly easy to use system that allows managers to configure user and group-based access to corporate files.
With DocuBin, you can check out files to prevent conflicts in a collaborative environment, and you can track versions as files are modified. Because it's built using FileMaker, DocuBin is super-fast, and has very powerful indexing and searching capabilities. Even better, it can be accessed from Macs, PCs, iPads, iPhones and any other mobile device via the web.
DocuBin can be customized to integrate into any business. For larger organizations, it's the key to unlocking the power of iPads and iPhone as productivity tools, and helps bridge the gap between desktop PCs and mobile devices.
Real estate is an extremely competitive industry.
We learned that while preparing to launch Modern Approach. Working with EXIT Realty Professionals, we developed a platform to promote properties and generate leads.
Modern Approach strives to be friendly, simple, straightforward and intuitive. Browsing properties is a joy. Requesting a market appraisal is a breeze. Clients have access to partners’ contact information all in one place. And they can access listings, send inquiries, or read industry news & editorial blog posts anywhere an iPad can go. More than a sales tool, Modern Approach provides the comfort and elegance that buyers and sellers have been missing in real estate.
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1668 Barrington St.
Suite 600 Halifax,
Nova Scotia B3J 2A2
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902.442.9330
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902.442.9331
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