SharePoint Saturday Toronto - July 7th

The 2012 SharePoint Saturday North American tour is on and will be hitting Toronto on Saturday, July 7th. This year Ideaca will be a sponsor!

SharePoint Saturday Toronto will be an educational, informative & lunch hour filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals & MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-orientated topics. SharePoint Saturday is FREE, open to the public and is your local chance to immerse yourself in SharePoint!

Come out and join Ideaca in this fun-filled day of SharePoint...We look forward to seeing you there!

Click here for more information and to register for free!

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Ideaca is proud to sponsor this year's Calgary International Children's Festival

The Calgary International Children's Festival collaborates with like-minded companies to celebrate creativity, education and family. Ideaca has chosen to sponsor the festival this year in order to help the Festival provide an educational experience that improves student's critical thinking skills. Students gain a unique awareness of their place in the world around them. These experiences inspire innovative thinking, which is the driving force of tomorrow's leaders.

"With the help of companies such as Ideaca, we are able to ensure that economic circumstances are not a barrier to a family’s ability to attend Festival performances and workshops,” said David Anderson, Executive Director at the Calgary International Children’s Festival. “Our sponsors help us achieve our goal, which is to bring children and families to an inclusive community event that sparks imagination, inspires creative thought, encourages cultural understanding, and fosters a lifelong passion for the arts.”

“Ideaca is dedicated to improving the health and quality of life of Canadians by investing in our communities,” said Mike Alkier, Managing Partner, Ideaca. “We strive to be strong corporate citizens, and be involved in ways that benefit the regions in which we operate.”

The festival runs from May 22-May 26. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Ideaca named 2011 Top 100 Solution Provider

Last night, at the CDN Top 100 Solution Providers Gala, Ideaca was named #32 for 2011 in the Top 100 in Canada. We have moved up 17 spots from 2010 as last year's ranking of #49!

To be eligible for the CDN Top 100 Solution Providers ranking, companies must meet the following criteria.

• Be registered and conducting business in the country of Canada.
• Source products from a leading distributor in Canada.
• Possess a minimum of one certification or authorization from an IT vendor.
• Ranking is based on total 2011 Canadian revenue - revenue generated in Canada and shipped to a Canadian address. Imputed revenue* is not to be included.
• Revenue will be stated in Canadian currency.
• Complete the online Top 100 Solution Providers application form

To see some of the other companies Ideaca went up against, have a look at the rest of the list here.

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Hang up on the past...dial into mobility NOW!

Last Wednesday evening in Waterloo, Ontario, Ideaca hosted a cocktail event "Mobility...Canada's most overlooked priority & why it is crucial to business success!".

This event focused on the urgent need for Canadian businesses to step up their initiaves in creating a mobile platform for both their employees and for their customers.

Brad Blaskavitch, Sales Director at Ideaca, touched on the many ways a company can develop different mobile strategies to better their customers experience, as well as satisfying the everchanging needs of their employees.

Christa Nesbitt, Sales Director at Ideaca,  also wowed the audience with a few demos showcasing submitting expenses on the go, tracking store productivity and sales in real-time and a virtual tracking program to discover and maintain issues in the field.

If you missed out on this event, it will be hosted again in Fall 2012 in Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. Stay up-to-date for event details in your city!

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SC Magazine Feature Article - Canada's Cloud Opportunity

Gord Smith, Partner at Ideaca, was recently quoted in an SC Magazine feature article called Canada's Cloud Opportunity. 

Although Canada has traditionally been considered a follower in the computing space, there is growing evidence that suggests our cloud computing industry may be different due to rising concerns over privacy and government scrutiny in the United States. 

Gord was quoted in the article stating, "If you operate in the U.S., there's a legal right to have access to that data, and there's a precedent around that. The data is accessible if you operate in the U.S., period."

Could Canada become a new storage haven for international companies fearful about cloud storage in the U.S.? 

Read the full article here.

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York Technology Alliance New Member

Ideaca has recently become a member of the York Technology Alliance.

The YTA is represents the York Region's tech cluster - supporting business developers, innovators, suppliers, and providers. Every month the YTA hosts Peer 2 Peer sessions like "Women in Technology", "Marketing Leadership" and "Leaders in Emerging Companies" just to name a few. These sessions are catered to people in the technology industry to come together from different sectors and discuss hot topics of the month in groups of about 20 people.

Check out the YTA for more details!

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