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in the press Workopolis Nets itself a winning Web site

2008-08-28T20:02:00Z

imason's work with Workopolis was recently profiled in IT Business. The full article can be found here. Here's an excerpt from the article:

"Our mistake was to move forward a bit too quickly, without planning appropriately," Sullivan says. "We tried to go down the path alone and it wasn't working for us."

In the summer of 2007, Workopolis attempted to launch a site to support three million monthly visitors. But the results weren't good – the site was slow and unresponsive – it was time to call in some expert help, Sullivan says.

So Workopolis turned to imason Inc., a Toronto-based IT consulting firm. The Microsoft Gold Partner provided a team of experts that worked alongside Workopolis staff to train them on .Net development for the Web-facing component.

imason works with The Weather Network to launch WeatherEye GOLF

2008-08-12T14:58:00Z

On July 29, 2008 The Weather Network launched their WeatherEye GOLF product that was developed in conjunction with imason inc. The press release from The Weather Network can be found here. From the press release:

"We know that Canadians love being outdoors all year and especially in our short summer season. Many Canadians also love being on the golf course. WeatherEye GOLF is part of an evolution for our desktop widgets and downloads and our continuing efforts to bring critical weather information to Canadians, wherever they may be," says Carrie Lysenko, Manager of Online Applications.

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WeatherEye GOLF employs the latest in technology for Rich Internet Applications, Silverlight 2.0 from Microsoft (Microsoft.com/silverlight). The widget was developed as a collaborative effort from in-house developers and designers at Pelmorex Media Inc., and a dedicated project team from imason inc. (imason.com).

WeatherEye Golf runs at startup, and sits on the user's desktop providing the current temperature for the user's favourite golf course.

With a simple click on the icon, the application opens to show the full short-term forecast. The application also shows sponsorship by Nike Golf Canada.

You can download WeatherEye Golf here.

imason Honoured as a 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year for its work with Workopolis

2008-07-15T12:00:00Z

imason Honoured as 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year for Custom Development Solutions, Application Infrastructure Development

Toronto, Ontario, Canada — July 16, 2008 — Today, imason proudly announced it has won the 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year award for Custom Development Solutions, Application Infrastructure Development. The company was chosen out of an international field of top Microsoft partners as delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology.

“We are greatly honoured to receive the prestigious 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year award,” said Scott Howlett, Principal and co-founder at imason. “We remain committed to continuously building upon our deep technology knowledge base and to providing our customers with the best possible experience.”

Awards were presented in a number of categories, with winners chosen from a pool of more than 2,000 entrants worldwide. imason was recognized for superior technology and innovation in Custom Development Solutions, Application Infrastructure Development. The Custom Development Solutions, Application Infrastructure Development Partner of the Year award recognizes exceptional, innovative partners that focus on the development of customized solutions, Web solutions, and tools built on Microsoft technologies leveraging the Microsoft Visual Studio family of development tools. Specifically, custom development partners may deliver highly customized solutions to support unique customer business practices, deliver one-off enhancements that allow customers to integrate existing systems with new technologies, or develop extensions to existing Microsoft solutions that the customer may already employ. This award recognizes partners that are serving unique customer needs by developing on and with Microsoft technologies and solutions in the area of application infrastructure development.

“By helping one of Canada’s leading providers of Internet recruitment to scale their site with the Microsoft .NET Framework-based platform, imason enabled Workopolis to get to market faster and help provide its customers a better user experience,” says Lora Gernon, Senior Director, Partner Group, Microsoft Canada.

Workopolis is Canada’s leading online job site, where millions of Canadian job seekers and employers can connect by searching or posting jobs by region, career focus, industry and by job title.

“imason’s strength in combining business acumen with leading-edge technology expertise was key in accelerating our business objectives,” said Patrick Sullivan, President, Workopolis.

Founded in 1999, imason is a privately held technology consulting firm with Microsoft Gold Partner Status. imason’s solution offerings feature their “QuickStart” program, designed to help clients achieve dramatic impacts and realize greater returns on their technology investments in a shorter period of time. imason has been a part of Microsoft’s Partner Program for the past 8 years and attained the Gold level of certification.

The Microsoft Partner Program Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions during the last year. For more information about the Microsoft Partner Awards Program please visit PressPass (www.microsoft.com/presspass/ ).

About imason: imason is a technology consulting firm that architects and develops leading-edge web solutions for enterprise customers. Targeted at employee or customer audiences, imason solutions utilize the latest technologies from Microsoft and drive lasting business value. For more information, please visit www.imason.com.

About Workopolis:

Workopolis is Canada's leading online career-solutions provider with over 3.3 million unique visitors monthly in Canada, the most posted resumes and twice as many job postings as the nearest competitor.

Workopolis provides a fully bilingual suite of industry-leading products and services including:

Powerful Resume Database search functions and intuitive screening tools to help connect employers with the “best fit” candidates – contributing to a 71% hiring success rate for customers.
An inside look at niche industries with access to over 100 professional and trade associations.
Career alerts, resume rescue and online salary calculator to help job seekers find the right job.

Headquartered in Toronto, Workopolis has offices in 8 Canadian cities. Workopolis is a partnership of Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. and Gesca Ltd., the newspaper publishing subsidiary of Power Corporation of Canada.

Workopolis is the exclusive Official Supplier of Online Recruitment Services for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

For additional information:

Sacha DeGroot (imason)	Amy Davidson (Workopolis)
SmackDab PR	Environics Communications
sacha@smackdabpr.com	adavidson@environicspr.com
519-208-2831	416-969-2830

Product or service names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners

imason Announces Search QuickStart for Microsoft Search Server 2008

2008-03-06T20:33:00Z

imason Inc. today announced that it has released its Search QuickStart offering, which works with Microsoft Search Server 2008 to provide customers with a fast, cost-effective way to pilot Microsoft Search Server and explore the benefits for their organization. “Our customers come to us for technology consulting they can trust and enterprise search is an area where we have developed a reputation for our deep industry expertise,” said Jeff Dunmall, Principal at imason Inc. “By working with Microsoft, we feel confident that our Search QuickStart offering will provide enterprise organizations with a solid foundation for developing a comprehensive Search strategy using Search Server.”...(read more)

imason a Two Time Award Winner

2007-11-02T16:15:00Z

imason Wins Second Customer Experience in 2007 Microsoft Partner Program IMPACT Awards Annual Microsoft Awards recognize Canadian technology partners’ and their commitment and leadership in the channel community TORONTO, ON – November 2, 2007 – imason Inc. announced today that it has been selected as the winner in the Customer...(read more)

Business Enablement Series Registration

2007-11-01T16:10:00Z

Nearly two decades ago the broad adoption of desktop office tools caused a productivity revolution that allowed knowledge workers to bring greater innovation, higher revenues and lower costs to their organizations. Today, market demands and global competition are amplifying a familiar refrain – do more with the people you have....(read more)

imason Recognized by Microsoft

2007-09-19T16:06:00Z

imason inc. announced as a finalist in two categories for the Microsoft Partner Program IMPACT Awards. Annual Microsoft Awards recognize Canadian technology partners’ and their commitment and leadership in the channel community. TORONTO, ON –September 19, 2007 – imason inc. announced that it has been selected as a finalist in the Customer Experience and Winning Customer Award categories for the 2007 Microsoft Partner Program IMPACT Awards. The fifth annual IMPACT Awards recognize excellence within the Microsoft technology partner community in Canada as well as the innovative solutions and value they deliver to customers....(read more)

imason a Finalist Again

2007-06-11T16:02:00Z

imason inc. announced as a finalist in two categories for the Microsoft Partner Program IMPACT Awards Annual Microsoft Awards recognize Canadian technology partners’ and their commitment and leadership in the channel community...(read more)

imason and TorStar Announce Joint Venture

2007-05-08T15:59:00Z

ourfaves.com revolutionizes word of mouth with a site that lets locals sound off on the best of Toronto. Toronto, ON — On Wednesday, May 2nd, ourfaves.com will officially open its online community seeking to amplify local opinion on what’s great in the city. Harnessing the power of city search, social networking, and user-generated content, OurFaves enables local aficionados and passionate urbanites to share and discover Toronto favourites on a city-wide scale. OurFaves is a revolution in word of mouth that promises to connect people with one another, and their community, in a whole new way, both online and off. Toronto is the first to get the fave treatment, but plans are in the works to bring OurFaves to other North American cities in the months to come....(read more)

Workopolis Gadget

2007-02-08T17:01:00Z

Workopolis Canada's job site and resume database, uses a gadget for potential employees and employers who tie in the Workopolis back-end system. Users can search for jobs regionally, by career focus and by job title and also shows comparative information of jobs to resumes across the various regions in Canada. (http://www.workopolis.com/workopolis_gadget)...(read more)

imason Joins Another Microsoft Advisory Council

2007-01-29T16:58:00Z

imason has accepted an invitation to join the Worldwide Partner Conference Advisory Council, a key avenue Microsoft uses to make positive changes to its largest annual conference with over 12,000 attendees from around the world. ...(read more)

imason Wins Again

2006-11-04T15:53:00Z

imason was announced as the 2006 IMPACT Award Winner for the Custom Development Solution of the Year. The fourth annual IMPACT Awards recognize innovation and excellence in the Canadian technology partner community. Microsoft Canada and selected finalists celebrated together as winners were announced at a gala event that took place in Toronto on November 3rd. This win recognizes our innovative technology consulting and .Net development work on toronto.com. This same solution gained imason international recognition and a nod as a worldwide finalist for the Technology Innovation Partner of the Year Award at Microsoft's WorldWide Partner Conference in Boston this past summer. ...(read more)

Are You Ready

2006-11-01T15:52:00Z

What are your organization's top information challenges today? With the launch of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft has taken another leap forward to help companies simplify collaboration, protect and manage content, find information, improve business insight and more! imason has been on the Beta program of this software for months and we're already helping our clients solve important business issues using this next generation of technology. In fact, our work with Direct Energy will be showcased during the Launch Event taking place at the Toronto Congress Centre on December 5th....(read more)

Kevin Clement Director of Business Engineering

2006-10-02T15:49:00Z

imason inc. is pleased to announce that Kevin Clement has joined our team as the Director of Business Engineering. Kevin Clements Kevin's name will be familiar to many people at Microsoft Canada. He has worked with many Microsoft Canada teams in the past and he joins imason with a wealth of business development experience from his very successful experiences at other leading consulting organizations. ...(read more)

Microsoft Discovery Program

2006-09-04T15:47:00Z

Thank you to all who joined us for the Microsoft Discovery Program. These events gave an opportunity for guests to get a guided preview of the 2007 Microsoft Office System, Exchange Server 2007 and Windows Vista. If you missed our events, it's not too late to discover first-hand how Microsoft software helps: simplify collaboration, protect and manage content, find information, improve business insight and reduce security risks and deployment costs. ...(read more)