Your company may have a lot of ideas, but are they gathering dust instead of traction? Do you have a project that feels stuck? If your team lacks the time or expertise to make your visions a reality, our software consultants often provide expert guidance and support to help a company move forward.
Software development teams may try to convince you that the solution lies in some new software. We approach things differently - we help you use the software you already have!
We work with your current software to help you do that and more!
Managing your project in-house may seem cost effective, but working with a software consulting company saves you time, money, and stress.
Trying to squeeze in this project between your other day-to-day tasks.
Relying on off-the-shelf solutions that aren’t designed for your business.
Hire a new employee, or spend time and money to train an existing employee for a one-time project.
Focus on your project, getting more done in less time!
Truly understand your business and recommend a solution tailor-made for you!
Use their existing skills to complete your project!
We make the development process as easy as possible. We want to help businesses achieve their goals, so we take the time to understand your business strategy and what you really need. From there, we can look at how to best support your business needs and transform the way that you work.
Generally speaking, we offer software consulting for any program that we provide training on, including Microsoft Office applications, such as:
Identify Your Business Needs First, we take time to really understand you, your business and your goals
Develop A Plan We use that information to develop a plan that spells out the important details, like the tools that we will create to solve your problem, as well as the cost and timeline needed.
Implement the Plan Your Project Manager will keep you up to date on our progress. You will also review the ongoing project and make any necessary amendments.
Finalize and Support Once your project is complete, we will make any necessary minor adjustments. Then, we can train your team on using the final product.
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The Challenge: Our client needed to track their
drivers’ scores and response rates. The organization was manually
updating an Excel report daily to track those indicators. The Excel
report’s data source is a manual extract from their dispatching
software.
Our Solution: We provided a fully automated report
with a Power BI Dashboard to track drivers’ scores and response
rates using the exported Dispatch software data. The report is
interactive, enabling users to drill through indicators per city,
broker, and driver, and to aggregate data per day, week, month,
quarter, and year. The report includes conditional formatting to
differentiate lowest and highest scores. Great Canadian Training set
it all up and trained the client and their staff on how to use it.
Later the client came back to set up another report that linked to
data extracts saved on OneDrive.
The Result: The client now has key metrics that
they can track and measure. They can save their reports in an easily
accessible location, so they have the information they need at their
fingertips. This helps them investigate discrepancies and address
issues immediately, limiting their negative impact. This has
directly impacted the level of service they have been able to
provide and helped them remain competitive amongst their
competitors. Their staff is trained on the new dashboard and is able
to make the most use out of it, helping them realize the full
benefit from their investment.
The Challenge: A private sector client had obtained
new branding guidelines. They had an old, large and cumbersome
report in Microsoft Word that needed to be updated with the new
branding. However, their marketing and branding assets were only
accessible using Adobe products.
Our Solution: We worked with them to proof and
rebrand the report as a new document with the new branding and to
meet all the client’s specific criteria for the report. We worked
with feedback from the marketing company, the branding document, and
samples.
The Result: They are now able to use their branding
assets to the full. Their updated documents are being used to
showcase their strengths and provide a professional, cohesive image
in their industry.
The Challenge: A government department needed
specific Word, PowerPoint and Excel templates made accessible. This
included testing, remediating and converting files into accessible
formats that met the federal government’s standards.
Our Solution: We ensured their files met the
standards outlined in WCAG 2.1 Levels A & AA, The Accessible Canada
Act (ACA), 508-Compliance Guidelines that meet US Government ADA
Standards, and the federal government’s internal standards. Their
files are now tested and available in accessible formats in both
English and French. We also created accessibility guidance documents
customized to the client to maintain and apply accessibility
standards to other similar documents.
The Result: The client can make updates to their
files and ask us any questions or for the support they need. They
can make other similar files accessible and meet the appropriate
necessary standards. Furthermore, they are able to align their
ability to provide information internally and externally to their
organization’s values.
The Challenge: A government department needed to
bring together multiple disparate datasets to make better decisions.
They wanted to build an Excel tool that could be updated over time
with new data to help them.
Our Solution: We met with various stakeholders and
built a preliminary tool designed to combine and expose relevant
data. Upon analyzing this preliminary data, the department
determined a modified approach might be required to meet their
needs. We were able to immediately pivot and support them in
research, outreach and other efforts both related and unrelated to
the Excel tool itself to help them move toward their goals.
The Result: This project could have easily been
shelved or endlessly delayed. By supporting their team as they
refined their goals, the project maintained its momentum and
continued to move forward.
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