Legal Aid Alberta Implements Microsoft Dynamics® CRM

By Andrew Slessor director, solutions

Posted in: Case Studies

Legal Aid Alberta Improves Client, Case and Financial Management with Microsoft Dynamics® CRM

Legal Aid Alberta (LAA) provides cost-effective services to 200,000 Albertans in need each year. These include those escaping domestic violence, youth, people living with mental illnesses, Aboriginals and immigrants. With an increasing demand for legal services, LAA ...

World Usability Day

By Sarah Berg user experience consultant

Posted in: User Experience Tagged with: Videos

This Thursday, November 7 is World Usability Day, a day dedicated to making the world a more user friendly place. From the World Usability Day website:

Technology today is too hard to use. A cell phone should be as easy to access as a doorknob. In order to humanize ...

PanEx 2011 Unites Developers and UX Professionals

By Sarah Berg user experience consultant

Posted in: User Experience

Last night I attended PanEx 2011 organized by UX YEG, Edmonton's User Experience community group. The event brought together local developers and product owners with members of the user experience community, to review locally developed websites and hear feedback from a panel of user experience experts. It was a ...

Committed to Disruption

By Jim Ward Founder

Posted in: Leadership Tagged with: business innovation strategy Microsoft

One of the things I love about our industry is the counterintuitive truths that make themselves evident on a regular basis. You know, the kind of things that are obscure one day, obvious the next. For thousands of years, the world believed that the sun revolved around the earth, which was, as ...

SharePoint 2010 Data Access with LINQ to SharePoint

By Anthony Haxby solution developer

Posted in: Development Tagged with: SharePoint 2010 LINQ XML Web Development SharePoint Microsoft

In SharePoint 2007 a popular and (relatively) straight-forward method of querying SharePoint Foundation data from lists was using the SPQuery class and involved writing the query using the Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML). Unfortunately writing CAML XML is a process that is typically error-prone and most developers rely on tools ...

Case Study: Human Security Report Project

By Bob Evans user experience consultant

Posted in: Case Studies Tagged with: Website Web Development HSRG

The Human Security Report Project (HSRP) is an independent research centre affiliated with Simon Fraser University’s School for International Studies in Vancouver, Canada. The HSRP’s mission is to provide the research, data, and analysis that are necessary for evidence-based policy-making in the areas of conflict prevention, peacemaking, and peacebuilding. ...

Exciting new features in Dynamics CRM 2011

By Andrew Slessor director, solutions

Posted in: XRM

We have been implementing Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 for a few months now and I am excited with many of the new features that have been added to the system. While several of these new features were consistently requested by customers in CRM 4.0 deployments, they could be only be ...

Bringing Teams Together: Calendar Overlays in SharePoint 2010

By Sarah Berg user experience consultant

Posted in: Information Worker Tagged with: SharePoint 2010 Intranet

Calendar aggregation is a topic that will come up time and time again when discussing desired functionality for a collaborative environment. Outlook 2007 introduced the ability to view multiple calendars side-by-side or overlaid and users have grown comfortable with the idea that they can see many people's schedules and availability ...

An Opportunity to Pause

By Jim Ward Founder

Posted in: Leadership

I was at the Microsoft Canadian Leadership Summit in Redmond last week. It's a great event for learning about future trends and technologies, as well as considering and applying the lessons presented by Microsoft experts and futurists. As in the past, I was blown away by great presentations from Andrew ...

SQL Server Replication

By Mike Hebert solution architect

Posted in: Data Management Tagged with: SQL Server

Database replication is all about distributing data. There are many common scenarios where replication may make sense, whether it is to enable a mobile workforce, to allow intensive reporting or data mining without interfering with day-to-day operations, or to improve data availability.

At the most basic level, changes made to ...

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Legal Aid Alberta Implements Microsoft Dynamics® CRM

World Usability Day

PanEx 2011 Unites Developers and UX Professionals

Committed to Disruption

SharePoint 2010 Data Access with LINQ to SharePoint

Case Study: Human Security Report Project

Exciting new features in Dynamics CRM 2011

Bringing Teams Together: Calendar Overlays in SharePoint 2010

An Opportunity to Pause

SQL Server Replication

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