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Web apps, mobile apps, databases, content management systems, APIs...
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Bragging Rights

  • We developed a training plan for Bell Mobility to help their corporate clients manage iPhones and iPads in their organizations.
  • We facilitated over $1,000,000 in donations to Bridgeway Academy by overhauling their annual fundraising drive.
  • We manage a data centre that holds over 500TB of data for our clients. That's more than 1,000 times what Johnny Mnemonic could handle.
  • We helped Bell Aliant raise tens of thousands of dollars to buy back-to-school backpacks for kids who can't afford them. It won us an award.
  • Software we build lets dozen of remote field workers in the Maritimes log their time and expenses from their iPhones. We also manage their iPhones.
  • We built the most comprehensive database of local event listings in Nova Scotia. It powers the official tourism app, which we also built.
  • Our mobile device management solution secures hundreds of iPhones and iPads for Atlantic Canadian businesses.
  • This one time, we saved a client over $20,000 in annual licensing costs for Exchange.
  • Over 70 conference speakers used a platform we developed to share their vision for education in the Maritimes.
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Featured Clients

  • Canadian Council for Aviation and Aerospace

    Canadian Council for Aviation and Aerospace

    • Backstage
    • Consulting
    • Web Development
    • Software

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    Canadian Council for Aviation and Aerospace

    Canadian Council for Aviation and Aerospace

    • CCAA Accelerated Certification Web App

       We built a responsive, mobile web application that empowers foreign workers and underemployed Canadians through a self-assessment that maps skills, capabilities, and certifications as they relate to Canada’s aviation and aerospace industry. The web app helps accelerate certification for 17 different jobs in high demand by identifying individual skill gaps, certifications required, pathways for achieving them, and matching workers with individual employers in the industry.

    • Software Development

    • Consulting Customer

    • Backstage Customer

  • Centre for Ocean Ventures & Entrepreneurship

    Centre for Ocean Ventures & Entrepreneurship

    • Backstage
    • Consulting
    • Web Development
    • Software

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    Centre for Ocean Ventures & Entrepreneurship

    Centre for Ocean Ventures & Entrepreneurship

    • COVE Website

       Built a responsive, fast-loading, CMS-powered website showcasing COVE’s facilities, operations, tenants, industry news, events, and jobs in Nova Scotia’s ocean science and technology sectors

    • Software Development

    • Consulting Customer

    • Backstage Customer

  • The Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy

    The Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy

    • Backstage
    • Consulting
    • Web Development
    • Software

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    The Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy

    The Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy

    • FORCE Website

       We consulted with FORCE to design and build a CMS-powered, fast-loading website that showcases FORCE’s facilities and visitor centre, capabilities in ocean energy development, its key stakeholders and partners, industry news, events, and online learning portal. We also developed interactive visualizations for real-time data gathered from multiple ocean buoys and sensors

    • Software Development

    • Consulting Customer

    • Backstage Customer

  • Atlantic Canada Aerospace and Defence Association

    Atlantic Canada Aerospace and Defence Association

    • Backstage
    • Consulting
    • Web Development
    • Training
    • Software

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    Atlantic Canada Aerospace and Defence Association

    Atlantic Canada Aerospace and Defence Association

    • Career Pathways Mobile App

       The ACADA Career Pathways app is a tool for discovering career opportunities in Atlantic Canada’s aerospace and defence industries. This app integrates with ACADA’s website CMS, allowing content updates, notifications, job postings, and vital statistics to be instantly synced between the app and website.

    • ACADA Website

       Developed a new web platform to help ACADA promote and grow its membership, featuring member-editable profiles and a robust industry capabilities database. Built a content management system that syndicates member-provided content across multiple industry associations' web properties.

    • Training Customer

    • Consulting Customer

    • Backstage Customer

      Backstage provides ACADA with a robust collaboration service, plus a secure, offsite backup of their data.
  • Advanced Energy Management Ltd.

    Advanced Energy Management Ltd.

    • Backstage
    • Consulting
    • Web Development
    • Software

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    Advanced Energy Management Ltd.

    Advanced Energy Management Ltd.

    • Software Development

      Built a mobile web application to help remote workers log time & expenses. Also built a mobile web application to manage projects, communications, milestones, and change orders; integrated with time tracking web app.

    • Consulting Customer

      Overhauled server and network hardware on site, moved staff over to iPhones.

    • Backstage Customer

      Using Backstage, AEM's executive team keeps their files in sync so they can collaborate from anywhere. Backstage also hosts AEM's time tracking and project management web apps that we built.
  • Bell

    Bell

    • Backstage
    • Web Development
    • Training

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    Bell

    Bell

    • Bell Aliant Backpacks for Kids

       Raised enough money to donate over 10,000 back-to-school backpacks to needy families.

    • Training Customer

      Custom curriculum to help train help-desk technicians on iPad & iPhone management.

    • Backstage Customer

      Secure iOS device management for sales agents across Atlantic Canada using Backstage.
  • Convoy Cup Foundation

    Convoy Cup Foundation

    • Backstage
    • Consulting
    • Web Development
    • Software
    • Sponsorship
    • IT Support

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    Convoy Cup Foundation

    Convoy Cup Foundation

    • Convoy Cup Foundation

       Built a responsive website, new branding and a online fundraising campaign to help the Foundation achieve its mandate.

    • Press releases

    • Software Development

      Built a custom CMS application that powers the Convoy Cup website by managing sail-past ship captain profiles, event ticket sales, Convoy Cup and Bamse Cup race-day events, race results, trophy case, and sponsor recognition.

    • Consulting Customer

    • Backstage Customer

      The Convoy Cup uses Backstage to securely host a database and custom CMS application that power the Convoy Cup fundraising website.
  • Defence Research and Development Canada

    Defence Research and Development Canada

    • Backstage
    • Consulting
    • Web Development
    • Training
    • Software

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    Defence Research and Development Canada

    Defence Research and Development Canada

    • Road to Mental Readiness Mobile App

       The R2MR app provides the tools and resources required to manage and support Canadian Armed Forces members, families, and the general public to improve short-term performance and long-term mental health outcomes

    • Blog posts

    • Software Development

      Built a mobile app to help Canadian Armed Forces members develop habits around mental resiliency as part of the Road to Mental Readiness curriculum. Also built a mobile app containing a suite of tools to help civilians and Canadian military personnel work together more effectively on operations.

    • Consulting Customer

    • Backstage Customer

  • The Maritimes Energy Association

    The Maritimes Energy Association

    • Backstage
    • Consulting
    • Web Development
    • Software

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    The Maritimes Energy Association

    The Maritimes Energy Association

    • MEA Website

       We built a responsive, fast-loading, CMS-powered website that showcases MEA’s operations, board, its member companies’ capabilities, the Maritimes’ energy supply chain, industry news, events, and industry procurement RFI and RFP news, along with a daily email digest bulletin with custom management tools integrated into the website’s CMS

    • Software Development

      Developed a new website with interactive supply chain database, member profiles, industry news, events, Energy Bulletin mailing list, and CRM integration

    • Consulting Customer

    • Backstage Customer

  • Marine Renewables Canada

    Marine Renewables Canada

    • Backstage
    • Web Development

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    Marine Renewables Canada

    Marine Renewables Canada

    • MRC Supply Chain

       We built the MRC supply chain web app and database for browsing, searching and exporting data across an industry supply chain

    • Backstage Customer

      MRC uses Backstage to securely host their supply chain web application and database
  • Ocean Technology Council of Nova Scotia

    Ocean Technology Council of Nova Scotia

    • Backstage
    • Consulting
    • Web Development
    • Software

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    Ocean Technology Council of Nova Scotia

    Ocean Technology Council of Nova Scotia

    • Nova Scotia Ocean Career Pathways

       We built a mobile + web app that showcases pathways to careers in Nova Scotia’s ocean technology sector. This app allows users to perform self-assessments that matches them with specific careers outlining exactly what requirements and education one needs, where to find it, how much it costs, and what job opportunities are available in those fields.

    • OTCNS Website

       Built a CMS powered website for industry news, events, jobs, member capabilities and profiles, and career pathway profiles in Nova Scotia’s ocean technology sectors

    • Press releases

    • Software Development

      Designed a mobile application to help high school, college and university students discover careers in ocean technology.

    • Consulting Customer

    • Backstage Customer

      Backstage provides OTCNS with hosted email calendars, contacts, collaboration, and databases powering their website and mobile career pathways app.
  • Proposify

    Proposify

    • Consulting
    • Web Development
    • Software

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    Proposify

    Proposify

    • Press releases

    • Software Development

      Worked as a contractor to implement two new features in the Proposify web application, via Javascript.

    • Consulting Customer

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Seeking Backstage Resellers

November 13, 2017 • Chris Marriott

Successful IT consultants tend to recommend products and services that protect their bottom line. This isn’t easy. For years, the margins on hardware and software have shrunk from triple, to double, to low single digits -- to the point that they’re too slim for most consultants to survive on. Many folks in our industry saw the move to cloud computing and SaaS as a return to dependable recurring revenue and healthy margins. Unfortunately, it hasn’t worked out that way.

Google and Microsoft’s SaaS offerings are good examples of this trend. Both companies are huge players in cloud services. Both operated very aggressive reseller programs that boasted fat margins and big bonuses for resellers. Over time, as they gained more and more customers, both began to sideline their reseller partners.

Resellers have no place in Google and Microsoft’s long term strategy for cloud services. From the beginning, their goal was to use reseller partner...
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