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ITI Portal Project Wins IPAC Award
November 30, 2009 - We are very proud that the WelcomeBC portal re-design project has won an IPAC Innovative Management Award.
ITI was the primary contractor for this project, and we provided the portal re-design and development services, including content development and editing, Flash design, and key visual elements. You can check out our team’s portal work by visiting www.welcomebc.ca.
A recent Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development press release notes that the “Institute for Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) award celebrates and encourages innovative managerial initiatives in the public administration of Canada. WelcomeBC.ca was selected as one of the best submissions in the country.”
WelcomeBC had previously made the Provincial Finalists list for the 2008/2009 Premier’s Innovation and Excellence Awards, but this new accolade represents national-level recognition of the project.
ITI Now Offering Affordable Joomla! Websites
November 16, 2009 - We are pleased to announce the launch of our latest service offering: affordable websites based on the Joomla! platform.
These websites are of excellent quality, and because they utilize a global ‘open-source’ development community, we’re able to offer them at a fraction of what a genuinely custom-built site would cost. The offering comes in response to a noted trend in businesses and organizations all across BC, where we are seeing a sizable demand for new websites, but a general reluctance to spend a lot of money on them.
ITI has sourced the highest quality themes and web-parts, and is proud to offer websites that will be attractive and functional for years to come. We provide a wide assortment of designs to choose from, and a selection of ‘web-parts’, including events calendar, subscriptions, RSS feed, photo gallery, search box, blog, product catalogue, wiki, and many more options. Our service offering also includes member log-in, administrative back-end, training, hosting, and maintenance.
With several ITI clients already requesting these sites, we are confident that this new service offering will prove to be very popular.
Two ITI Projects Finalists for 2008-2009 Premier's Awards
March 27, 2009 - ITI International Technology Integration Inc. is closely involved in two projects which made the Provincial Finalists list for the 2008/2009 Premier’s Innovation and Excellence Awards.
ITI designed, developed, and implemented the Case Management System for the new Vancouver Community Court, which opened in summer of 2008. We continue to support and enhance the system. The Vancouver Community Court project is a 2008/2009 Premier’s Award finalist in the Cross-Government Integration Category.
ITI is also providing all of the content writing and website development services in support of the 2009 refresh of the popular Welcome BC portal (www.welcomebc.ca), which is a finalist in the Service Excellence Category. Welcome BC is a one-stop website offering a wealth of information for immigrant and refugee newcomers to B.C.
ITI Builds CMS for Vancouver's Downtown Community Court
January 15, 2009 - ITI’s application team designed, developed and implemented an interim Case Management System (CMS) for the new Vancouver's Downtown Community Court. The system was implemented into production in time for the opening of the new Court last summer.
The project utilized Rapid Application Development (RAD) techniques to create an interim CMS to enable the Downtown Community Court to function until a long-term CMS solution can be implemented.
ITI provided the design, development, testing, documentation, project management, and implementation services needed to complete the project on time.
Vancouver's Downtown Community Court opened in summer 2008. It is anticipated to work with about 1,500 offenders each year. The court takes a problem-solving approach to address offenders' needs and circumstances and the underlying causes of their criminal behaviour. There are two courtrooms in the community court, which is located at 211 Gore Ave in downtown Vancouver.
Looking Glass Demo Luncheon Planned for May 26
May 9, 2008 - ITI is hosting a luncheon at the Union Club in Victoria on May 26, during which we will present and demonstrate the Looking Glass product developed and marketed by Seattle-based Estorian Inc.
Looking Glass is an amazingly powerful and easy-to-use forensic email searching tool which is quite popular in the US. ITI is an Estorian licensed reseller for British Columbia. Event guests
will include various BC government and select private sector clients whose mandate includes email security and FOI compliance and auditing. The event is by invitation only.
John Sherrah Delivers Keynote Address at Capstone Symposium
December 6, 2007 - ITI President John Sherrah delivered the Keynote Address at this year’s Capstone Symposium 2007, held on December 5th. Capstone is a symposium of exhibits and presentations about software products produced by Computer Systems Technology graduates from Camosun College, in cooperation with local businesses, industry, and government. John’s presentation was on “25 Years in Computing”, in honor of this being the 25th annual Capstone Symposium. As a veteran player in the Canadian IT industry, John has witnessed some amazing changes over the last quarter century.
You can download John’s PowerPoint presentation here: 25 Years In Computing
Second Annual Equinox Affair Announced
September 6, 2007 - The theme of ITI’s second annual Equinox Affair this fall is Casino Royale. The event takes place at the Union Club on Wednesday October 10, 2007, from 4 to 7 pm.
The Equinox Affair is our chance to show our thanks and appreciation to our clients. The event, exclusively for ITI clients, is by invitation only.
The Guest Speaker this year is Miko Matsumura, Vice President of SOA Product Marketing at Software AG (who recently acquired webMethods). He also serves as chair of the SOA Adoption Technical Committee at Oasis and is the organizer of the SOA Link Interoperability Initiative.
Miko regularly speaks throughout the world on SOA issues, as well as blogs at www.SOAcenter.com. Mr. Matsumura emerged as an industry thought leader at The Middleware Company, where he was a co-creator responsible for building the partner program for SOA Blueprints, the first complete vendor-neutral specification of an SOA application set.
We are very fortunate that Mr. Matsumura was able to take time out from his busy schedule to come and speak at the Equinox Affair event.
ITI Awarded Supply Arrangement with Tourism BC
September 4, 2007 - ITI is very pleased to have been awarded one of several recently-issued Supply Arrangement contracts with Tourism BC.
We anticipate opportunities for a wide range of consultants arising from this arrangement, including Project Managers, Business Analysts, Programmers, Database Administrators, Technical Writers, Network Administrators, and Hardware Specialists. The Supply Arrangement remains in effect through August, 2010.
ITI To Manage Province's EMIS Project
August 22, 2007 - ITI has been engaged to manage the BC government's new Emergency Management Information System (EMIS) project.
This phase of the initiative involves managing the pilot project and coordinating project resources from 3 Ministries - the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Environment, Agriculture and Lands - toward the project goals.
The EMIS project is an important ongoing initiative in the Emergency Management Branch, which introduces a modern emergency management software service into the provincial health sector.
New Contractor Module for TimeMachine™
May 18, 2007 - Our ITI application developers are putting the finishing touches to a new Contractor module for ITI’s popular TimeMachine ™ time and project management application.
The new module offers improved ease of use and more powerful functionality for contractor time reporting, including invoice and status report uploads, and per-month time and hours reporting for individual projects.
Learn more about TimeMachine™ by visiting the TimeMachine™ product page.
ITI Newsletter Now Available By Subscription Only
May 17, 2007 - Due to recent privacy concerns, the ITI Newsletter is no longer available on the ITI website. Distribution will be to the email subscription list only. To subscribe, send an email to info@iticanada.ca requesting your email address be added to the subscription list.
ITI Welcomes New Employee
May 15, 2007 - ITI International Technology Integration Inc. is pleased to welcome Matthew Harris as our newest employee.
Mr. Harris brings a background in application development, web design, and network administration. He will be working in a number of areas at ITI including marketing, project coordination, and technical consulting.
ITI has over 20 years of practical and successful experience applying advanced technology solutions to complex business requirements. Based in Victoria, ITI provides a full range of IM/IT services including project management, strategic IT planning, business analysis, application design and development, system maintenance and support, application hosting, information management, and website design.
Contact: Meggan Podgorenko, Manager of Business Development - PH: 250.595.8282 - FAX: 250.595.8088 - TF: 1.877.595.8282 – EMAIL: meggan.podgorenko@iticanada.ca
Please visit ITI online at www.iticanada.ca for more information about our company and services.
Major Pillville Deal Closed in Japan
April 30, 2007 - ITI is extremely proud of Paul Roberts and Don Sherrah, who returned this week from Japan after closing a major deal with one of Japan’s top 5 pharmaceutical companies.
The arrangement includes licenses for 200 Pillton Manager program licenses, as well as Pillville simulation licenses for 1300 sales reps.
Mr. Roberts and Mr. Sherrah presented Pillville demos to a number of pharmaceutical interest groups in both Toyko and Osaka, and ITI anticipates much further success in Japan in the future.
Pillville Sales Training International, an ITI partner, develops and markets a number of pharmaceutical sales training tools and simulation games to train pharmaceutical company reps in sales techniques and strategies.
Pillville products have trained more than 1,500 drug industry reps in the last year. Pillville products are currently in production in 16 countries, in seven languages, and we expect to break into new international markets over the coming year. More information about Pillville is available by visiting the PSTI website at www.pillville.ca.
ITI Proceeds to CLIR Phase 2
March 15, 2007 - ITI is pleased to have been granted approval by the Ministry of Environment to proceed to Phase 2 of the Cross-Linked Information Repositories (CLIR) project.
CLIR is an application that allows users to search multiple information repositories simultaneously through a single search window, enabling more informed decision-making by providing access to multiple sources of environmental and natural resource information through a single web-based user interface.
ITI Becomes Qualified Supplier to WorkSafeBC
February 1, 2007 - We are very pleased to be one of the firms accepted as a qualified supplier of information technology services to WorkSafeBC.
This arrangement is anticipated to generate a number of contract opportunities for Business Analysts, Project Managers, Testers, IT Architects, and Developers in their Information Systems Division, and in some cases for other areas of WorkSafeBC.
The WorkSafeBC arrangement is the latest in a series of recent qualified supplier arrangements secured by ITI, and WorkSafeBC joins the Ministry of Finance, BC Hydro and Open School BC, with whom ITI has entered into similar arrangements.
ITI becomes FTR Authorized Reseller
January 8, 2007 - ITI has signed an agreement with FTR Limited to become an authorized FTR reseller.
ITI has been working with the provincial Courts Services for several years and we support the Digital Audio Recording System (DARS) in use in courtrooms throughout the province. The DARS system incorporates software developed by FTR, a global software company who provide rich media digital asset management systems for justice and public safety venues. ITI developed software which further enhances the DARS functionality and capabilities. FTR solutions are sold through a global network of authorized resellers and systems integrators and can be found in over 15,000 recording venues located in over 30 countries.
ITI has over 20 years of practical and successful experience applying advanced technology solutions to complex business requirements. Based in Victoria, ITI provides a full range of IM/IT services including project management, strategic IT planning, business analysis, application design and development, system maintenance and support, application hosting, information management, and website design.
ITI and Peak Featured in 2010 Commerce Centre Newsletter
January 5, 2007 - ITI International Technology Integration Inc. and our partner company Peak Systems Inc. of Seattle were included in a feature story in the latest 2010 Commerce Centre Newsletter about corporate partnership success stories.
The story showcases the ITI/Peak partnership and the background that led to our successful joint bid for the development and implementation of a document, records and information management system.
The 2010 Commerce Centre Newsletter can be viewed at 2010FallNewsletter2006.pdf.
ITI Partners With Pillville Sales Training International
November 14, 2006 - ITI International Technology Integration Inc. has formed a partnership with Pillville Sales Training International Ltd. (PSTI) to design, build and market the line of Pillville training products.
PSTI has been an ITI client for several years, but the two companies recently entered into a formal partnership to take things to the next level. Paul Roberts, the creative mastermind behind Pillville, designs and creates a number of pharmaceutical sales training tools and simulation games to train pharmaceutical company reps in sales techniques and strategies.
Pillville products have trained more than 1,500 drug industry reps in the last year. Pillville products are currently in production in 16 countries, in seven languages, and we expect to break into new international markets over the coming year.
ITI Appoints an Account Manager to the Marketing Team
June 23, 2006 - ITI International Technology Integration Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Kathryn Siemens to the Marketing Team.
Kathryn's responsibilities will be to strengthen relationships with our existing clients, introduce ITI services and products to new clients, and work to strengthen our brand across the province.
Kathy Siemens brings over a decade of sales and marketing experience, a technical background and extensive IT knowledge, and superb people skills, to our team. We anticipate that Kathy will be a key person to help us to maintain our growth as a company and broaden our client base,” says Meggan Podgorenko, Manager of Business Development.
ITI Welcomes a New Director of Operations to Our Team
June 08, 2006 - ITI International Technology Integration Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Don Sherrah as ITI’s new Director of Operations.
Don Sherrah has been working with ITI for over 10 years, and has held a variety of roles including Network Support Analyst, Business Analyst, Project Manager, and Marketing Director. Don has formed many strong and enduring relationships with ITI’s clients, and he knows and understands the business and technical environments in BC government extremely well. Over the coming years ITI will be relying on Don to foster growth, provide vision, and lead our company into the future.
As Director of Operations, Don Sherrah will manage the day-to-day operations, provide direction to ITI internal staff, and be responsible for corporate planning and HR management.
“As a Tier-2 company, we have the resources and financial depth to compete with the big players, yet our business model gives us the flexibility to consistently provide customer-focused service and ensure a win-win situation for all our clients. Knowing the exceptional team that will be supporting me over the next years, it's an exciting time for both myself and the company.”
John Sherrah Finalist for VIATeC Executive of the Year Award
May 05,2006 - ITI President John Sherrah has been chosen as a finalist for the 2006 VIATeC Executive of the Year Award. The award recognizes an individual who has had a significant impact on the success of an organization as a direct result of their leadership. Mr. Sherrah was nominated for his dedicated hard work in making ITI a BC-owned and -operated company, keeping dollars and jobs in the local economy.
Award winners will be announced at the VIATeC Technology Awards, to be held on May 17th at the Victoria Conference Centre from 5 pm to 9 pm (tickets can be purchased online at ). The finalists in each award category participated in short film interviews, which will be shown during the event.
ITI Spreads Its Wings
October 24, 2005 - Victoria’s own ITI International Technology Integration has just become a Canadian Controlled Private Corporation and is poised to grow, says company president John Sherrah.
“In the past, as a foreign-owned company, we had the incredible experience of working with cutting-edge companies like Japan Airlines, Hitachi and NEC,” says Sherrah. “However, by becoming a Canadian-controlled corporation, we can really leverage our expertise with information management systems to explore some lucrative niche markets here in BC and across Canada.”
Sherrah became majority shareholder of ITI in September, 2005. The company provides a range of services, including project management, business consulting, systems analysis, design and development, as well as desktop support and technical training.
“Canadian ownership allows ITI to act more quickly and to pursue technically challenging projects more aggressively,” says Meggan Podgorenko, who is in charge of business development at ITI. “The power is in our hands, and we intend to expand our business here in Canada.”
ITI is taking advantage of BC’s booming technology sector, and is providing a major sporting event in Vancouver with a web-enabled document and records management system.
“The organization chose us as being able to provide an application that is intuitive, manageable, easy to use and, most importantly, cost effective,” says Podgorenko."
Government ministries also rely on ITI to provide complex technology solutions – they worked with the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia to convert 80,000 pages of Hansard documentation to searchable MS Word and Adobe PDF documents.
“We use ITI because they have a very wide variety of available skills and their staff is very professional,” says Dexter Ratcliff, an IT director at the BC Ministry of Attorney General. “ITI remains a preferred company to deal with and their projects continue to come in on budget and on time.”
As well, ITI has been working with the BC Ministry of Attorney General and Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General to provide data conversion and application support for a complex database application called FIGARO that allowed the ministry to replace three legacy systems with a single solution. ITI just completed a major re-development for FIGARO2 which included adding additional business areas and complex J2EE and Oracle VPD functionality.
“We’re a local company employing local talent – we don’t outsource any projects overseas,” says Sherrah. “We employ 60 people here in Victoria, and we’ve also just opened an office in Vancouver.”
ITI has almost 20 years of practical experience applying advanced technology to complex business requirements. Today, from its head office in Victoria, ITI and its staff provide a full range of services, including business analysis, systems design and development, project management, intranet/extranet development, network installations and maintenance, and technical training.
ITI Appoints a Human Resource, Marketing Analyst to the Team
October 03, 2005 - ITI International Technology Integration Inc is pleased to announce the appointment of Brad Craig to the Marketing Team as the Human Resource, Marketing Analyst for the Victoria and Vancouver area.
“With his enthusiasm and diverse background, as well as his University degree, Brad Craig will help our Marketing and Human Resource area. He will support our business by building solid relationships with our clients, resources and media. He will also add strength to our corporate presence in the government and public sector markets. We are all happy with our continued growth as an organization and welcome Brad to our team,” announces Meggan Podgorenko; Business Developer of ITI.
ITI launches CAREERS 2.0
June 15, 2005 - ITI International Technology Integration Inc. is pleased to announce the release of the next generation of our web-based applicant management system - CAREERS 2.0.
For Applicants - Careers offers the ability to upload multiple versions of your resume to allow applicants to stress particular industries or roles, define a detailed personal skills matrix based on the needs of our clients and apply to various job postings. For your security ITI utilizes a strict Privacy Policy, no information will be shared with outside parties without prior consent.
For Corporate HR and Recruitment Managers – Careers offers the ability to create custom job postings with expiration dates, track candidates who apply for various positions, define the skills matrices for applicants, search the skills matrices using an exponential set of criteria, use a text search engine for resumes, send automated update reminders to applicants, create users based on a security matrix, and manage resumes including adding notes to each resume only viewable by the corporate staff.
“With a team of over 50, I truly believe that one of the main reasons for our success comes from the quality of the people who work with us, completing assignments on time, on budget and always with the clients best interests in mind! We are always looking for qualified IT professionals with a wide rage of skills & experience and Careers 2.0 allows our Marketing Team the ability to quickly find the best candidates for all opportunities.” states Don Sherrah, Marketing Director
Annual Holiday Party
October 27, 2004 - ITI is hosting this year’s Annual Winter Celebration at The Gorge Vale Golf Course on Friday December the 10th starting at 6pm.
ITI’s Annual Winter Celebration is a party to recognize the exceptional staff (subcontractors and employees) who over the past year have helped make ITI a driven competitor to work with and for. This year ITI was home to over 60 staff on various IT projects in Victoria, Vancouver, Toronto, Vermont and Texas. We look forward to more great projects in the near future and for years to come.
We hope that all of our invited guests will join in the festivities and allow us to show our thanks and appreciation for all their efforts in making ITI successful.
Without you we wouldn’t be where we are today! From everyone at ITI, we look forward seeing you all there.
Meggan Podgorenko
Business Developer
High-Tech Food Drive
October 23, 2004 - ITI is in the High-Tech Challenge for the Mustard Seed this year. We are competing with a number of Victoria IT companies in the challenge to raise the most food for the food bank. The Mustard Seed raised more than 4,500 kilograms of food last year and continues to do this event every year with IT companies to help the less fortunate during the holidays.
So, what ITI is asking of you …… We NEED your support in this challenge!
We ask you to please search the back of the cupboards for any types of food that you could spare to the Mustard Seed. They are taking everything - cereals, staples, meats (canned of course), baby products (food diapers, etc.), pastas, dairy products (powder or canned), personal needs (paper towels, shampoo, facial tissue, etc…), baking supplies, vegetables (canned) and soups. Those cans of beans, SPAM and mashed pumpkin that have been stowed away in your cupboard for a year are ideal to help a hungry family enjoy the holiday season!
We ask you to please come to ITI headquarters on 854 Pandora and drop off your Mustard Seed donations starting Wednesday Oct. 23, 2004 until November 25th, 2004. We appreciate all your help and would like to thank you in advance for your generosity.
Meggan Podgorenko
Business Developer
John Sherrah Goes To Jail For Charity
October 5, 2004 - Fundraising campaign taking place in communities throughout BC. Local business people (participants) are arrested by volunteer sheriffs during the campaign. Every participant has an opportunity to plead their case before the Judge and, no surprise here... they are always found guilty! They are sentenced to spend 1 hour in our County Jail (MAYFAIR MALL) where they phone friends, family and co-workers and business contacts to raise funds (bail) for The Kidney Foundation. Every participant is encouraged to collect their pledges after the event and knowing they have helped a good cause leaves them with a good feeling. Each of the twenty-eight events take place over two consecutive weekdays during regular business hours. Since 1991, RoundUp has raised more than 2.2 million dollars for kidney patients in BC.
With your support John helped the Kidney Foundation meet their targets, thanks to all of you who bailed him out.
Your support is always appreciated!!!
Meggan Podgorenko
Business Developer
FIGARO 2 Project Awarded to ITI
June 30, 2004 - ITI International Technology Integration Inc. is awarded the licensing application system, called FIGARO (Filming, Investigators, and Gaming Audit Regulatory system).
The licensing system was developed to meet the needs of business areas within three divisions of Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General. FIGARO was launched February 24, 2003 and was currently maintained by ITI International Technology Integration Inc. ITI will continue to perform the development and implementation of enhancements to the FIGARO system in a project referred to as FIGARO Phase 2.
“We are very happy for the award of FIGARO 2 and the CVSE project. We have presented strong teams for both projects from ITI that have extraordinary skills and leadership to make both project a success! We look forward working with The Ministry and maintaining our ITI high standards”, says, Don Sherrah, Marketing Director of International Technology Integration Inc.
ITI provides clients with leading edge technology, without losing sight of day-to-day client requirements. ITI has almost 20 years of practical experience applying advanced technology to complex business requirements. Established in 1985, ITI International Technology Integration Inc. provides professional IT services with winning professional teams that have built strong relationships in private sectors, Crown Corporations and the Government. ITI’s services include expertise in management consulting with a wide range of application development, records and document management, full website design, system maintenance, Internet/Intranet/Portal design and development, as well as packaged application development and hosting.
CVSE Project Awarded to ITI
May 31, 2004 - ITI International Technology Integration Inc. was awarded the system maintenance and minor system enhancements for the Commercial Transport Management System (CTMS), automated vehicle Inspection System (AVIS) and the National Safety Code System (NSCS) with The Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General.
“We are very happy for the award of FIGARO 2 and the CVSE project. We have presented strong teams for both projects from ITI that have extraordinary skills and leadership to make both project a success! We look forward working with The Ministry and maintaining our ITI high standards”, says, Don Sherrah, Marketing Director of International Technology Integration Inc.
Established in 1985, ITI International Technology Integration Inc. provides professional IT services with winning professional teams that have built strong relationships in the private sector, Crown Corporations and the Government. ITI’s services include expertise in management consulting with a wide range of application development, records and document management, full website design, system maintenance, Internet/Intranet/Portal design and development, as well as packaged application development and hosting.
New Members Appointed To The Victoria Team
January 5, 2004 - ITI International Technology Integration Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Armer and Meggan Podgorenko as the newest members of the Victoria team. Armer and Podgorenko responsibilities will be to introduce ITI services to public and private sector organizations.
Both Michael and Meggan will bring a fresh attitude and enthusiasm in helping our clients find the right solution to all their business problems. They will be providing client relationships on all levels. I am please to have them apart of out team”, announces John Sherrah; President of ITI.
ITI provides clients with leading edge technology, without losing sight of day-to-day client requirements. ITI has almost 20 years of practical experience applying advanced technology to complex business requirements. Established in 1985, ITI International Technology Integration Inc. provides professional IT services with winning professional teams that have built strong relationships in private sectors, Crown Corporations and the Government. ITI’s services include expertise in management consulting with a wide range of application development, records and document management, full website design, system maintenance, Internet/Intranet/Portal design and development, as well as packaged application development and hosting.
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