Project Summaries

Updated Data Reporting Leads to Data Accuracy and Consistency

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A secondary school specializing in massage therapy contacted Imaginet because they wanted to make better use of an existing SharePoint site. All school files were either contained on a shared drive or personal drives, and the departments using SharePoint had been set up as communication sites as opposed to team sites. Distinguishing between and choosing a Communication Site or Team Site is important. To help decide which you should use, read our Communication vs. Team Site blog.   They required an updated data reporting solution that would better suit their needs. The solution needed to provide more efficient data access, while simultaneously utilizing the existing SharePoint site.   The Problem:  They had … Read more

Effective Data Reporting Leads to Data Accuracy and Consistency

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A well-known consumer packaged goods (CPG) company specializing in pet food asked Imaginet for a solution to provide more effective data reporting across all factories. They had been using PowerPoint slides to report key production metrics, which led to errors and inconsistencies. These inaccuracies were further compounded by failing to validate the data against the actual sources to address data quality issues.   The factories were also building reports independently, so they were inconsistent with one another, and some were reporting on projects outside their scope of responsibility. There were no established data reporting guidelines to adhere to, which led to arguments and confusion. When the PowerPoint reports were shown at … Read more

Updated Applications Optimize Video and Calendar Functions 

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A leading Canadian retail logistics provider contacted Imaginet for assistance with two of their existing applications – their calendars and video players. They wanted updated applications that could perform additional functions previously unavailable.   What We Did:  The Calendar:  The existing calendar was not optimized for mobile viewing. We created an application that provided them with an agenda view – similar to the agenda view in Microsoft Teams. The application also gives them the option to select multiple dates when they create new events. This option is unavailable in SharePoint, so we accomplished this by building a custom web part using SPFx React. We created an SPFx React Framework which generated … Read more

Power Apps and Power Automate Makes Accessing and Reporting Relevant Data Simpler

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A major global logistics organization reached out to Imaginet to centralize the information contained in their compliance database used to track employee infractions. While this is a global organization, we worked specifically with the Canadian division. Each office has its own set of data, and our client wanted to consolidate that data into one system, yet wanted to keep it logically separate so it did not display every employee’s information. We had worked with this client previously and built a system to track employee injuries. They wanted to replicate that system to track employee infractions. Our Business Productivity Team determined Power Apps and Power Automate would be best suited for what … Read more

Revised Application Improves Product Quality & Business Development  

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A well-known consumer packaged goods (CPG) company specializing in pet food that Imaginet does ongoing work for identified a legacy application they were looking to modernize. The old Java application was slow, with redundant data columns and information and a compressed view that made it difficult to view and analyze all the data. The client asked Imaginet to create a revised application to enhance data management, nominal feed, and user-level permissions.   The Imaginet Application Development team created a new application using .NET Core 6.0 on the back-end and Visual Studio 2022. We utilized Visual Studio Code to develop the front end with Angular 14. We implemented a REST API and, … Read more

Migrating to Azure Data Factory Leads to Improved Security and Improved ROI

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A major Canadian oil & gas company reached out to Imaginet to rewrite some of the old infrastructure they currently had in place and pursue an Azure Data Factory migration. Imaginet had built their data warehouse 10 years ago, but changes in technology prompted the client to make changes to their existing data loading processes. We had previously used SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) to build their data factory, however, migrating to Azure Data Factory had become the better option for their business needs, as they wanted to move from on-premises servers to cloud services in Microsoft Azure.  Our client had started to experience issues with their current on-premises SQL … Read more

Upgraded Development Stack Improves Data Governance & Quality

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A leading real estate and financial services asset management company needed assistance migrating their legacy on-premises data environment that had become difficult to manage. Some key parts of the legacy system relied on Microsoft Excel and a web application. Loading data was complex and manual, and a lack of data governance needed to be addressed. The client asked Imaginet to upgrade the application using a more modern development stack to clean up and standardize how data was loaded and processed.  Using Azure Data Factory as the primary method for data integration (ETL) processes, the Imaginet data engineering team moved the data environment into Microsoft Azure cloud services, with a data … Read more

Modernized Application Results in Increased Productivity and Better Control Over Technology 

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A provincial agricultural services corporation had been using IBM Domino Designer to complete their organization’s projects. Designer is an outdated tool making it difficult to find someone who can support the maintenance of it. Very few developers are familiar with Designer due to its decrease in popularity. They approached Imaginet for assistance in developing a more modern application. Outdated applications and technology result in a variety of challenges. Making changes or adding additional requirements becomes almost impossible because of the lack of knowledge of these tools. Therefore, our client was experiencing outdated processes resulting in inefficiencies and a harm to productivity. In addition, the client could not see the developer’s … Read more

Modernized API & User Interface Optimizes Application & Performance

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A leading asset manager with an emphasis on real estate and financial services had been using an older REACT application to view and track data about loans and transactions. The user interface could have been faster, and the database on the backend more convenient to use. The client engaged Imaginet to modernize their API and user interface to increase team productivity and ease of use.  The Imaginet Application Development Team rebuilt the API in .NET 6 and C#, using a modern controller-based approach with a mediator pattern setup between the controllers, servers, and database layer. The old application had many different pieces working together, and we focused on keeping the … Read more

Updated Parcel Tracking Portal Allows Customers to Access Most Recent Business Features

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A leading Canadian retail logistics provider had an existing parcel tracking portal based on a .NET 5 backend and a React frontend. However, these technologies had become outdated relative to their business processes due to a lack of resources to support them at the required pace. As a result, their customers had no access to the most recent business features. They contacted Imaginet to develop an updated portal for parcel tracking and to reduce the effort required for future support and development.  To fulfill the client’s requirements, Imaginet developed a new portal which included the following features:  With this project, we also introduced new Blazor technology and followed clean architecture … Read more