Azure

New Application Development Projects Enhance Resource Management 

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A telecommunications organization contacted Imaginet for assistance on 2 new application development projects. The first was a portfolio tracker, and the second was an office furniture ordering application.    Portfolio Tracker    The portfolio tracker we built for our client tracks and manages the various budgets they have across different departments. Our client has several districts and district managers, and they needed a way to track budgets across these districts and departments. Another aspect of the portfolio tracker is managing tech deployments within the organization. For example, if a boardroom needs a new projector (or other tech) they’ll go through a process to request the needed technology. Our tool allows for the … Read more

Data Collection Upgrade Reduces Technical Debt & Modernizes Data Reports

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A well-known consumer packaged goods (CPG) company specializing in pet food asked Imaginet to perform maintenance on their existing data collection processes. We work in a staff augmentation role for this client and do ongoing work for them. Their data departments are divided into different business areas (we will refer to them as teams). On this project, we were working with two of their teams. Both teams required general maintenance and updates to their data collection tools – essentially a data collection upgrade. Team 1: Their primary focus is collecting and processing data about pet foods and products (nutritional claims they make, calories, ingredients, product history, etc.). This process to … Read more

Power BI Data Model Builds Better and More Accurate Reports

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A major Canadian University had contacted Imaginet because they needed reports built on top of an existing data warehouse. This is a long-term client of Imaginet’s, and we had previously built a data warehouse for another department within the organization. Much of the work for this project was about defining the semantic data model on top of the data warehouse and then building the reports on it.   Before they had a data warehouse, they had multiple applications that were reporting data separately. Since the implementation of the data warehouse, the client wanted to use Power BI as a standard enterprise reporting portal.   Our Solution  We started with creating views in … Read more

Microsoft Power Automate Workflows Increase Efficiency for User Creation, Onboarding, and Approvals

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An innovative biopharmaceutical organization that Imaginet had previously helped with a SharePoint Online build wanted to automate workflows that were causing a lot of back-and-forth communication and delays in their approval process. Without the necessary knowledge or time to complete the build, the client contacted Imaginet to support the project.   Using Microsoft Power Apps and Power Automate, we created a workflow to assist with onboarding new hires and adding external user accounts to their Azure Active Directory environment. Microsoft PowerShell synchronizes the data between the SharePoint Online site and their local Azure Active Directory instance to allow communication between the different systems.  Once a record is created in SharePoint, either … Read more

Why Organizations Are Embracing the CLOUD: Benefits and Advantages

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cloud applications

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services such as software, databases, virtual machines, network, and storage over the internet. Before cloud services became widely available, organizations had their own computing services deployed on their own hardware on their own premises, often referred to as “on-prem”. Cloud computing has gained popularity in recent times with businesses exploring and adopting cloud technology to conduct their business. Three of the top cloud service providers include Microsoft Azure, Google, and Amazon Web Services. Cost, scaling, security, performance, and reliability are some of the reasons why organizations are choosing the cloud over on-prem. Cost Typically, it costs less to use cloud services as compared … Read more

An Introduction to Kubernetes

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Microsoft Cloud Azure

Get up to speed with Kubernetes, the popular open-source container orchestration platform. Learn how to deploy, manage, and scale applications in a cloud-native environment. Discover the benefits of Kubernetes and start building your own

Scaling Azure SQL databases up and down

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Azure

With Azure SQL, you can easily scale your databases up and down to meet your changing needs. Get the most out of your data with automated scaling, performance tuning, and cost optimization. Make sure your database is always running at its best with Azure SQL