Our Work
Electric Edge Systems Group has completed a wide assortment of successful projects for
companies and organizations of all sizes. We enjoy working on both large, enterprise-wide
systems as well as applications for small business.
In the case of large-scale systems, our organized approach, teamwork and experience in
all phases of systems development are key to our success. At the same time, we really
enjoy working with smaller clients due to the increased flexibility, creativity, and the
dramatic positive impact that our work can have for our clients.
Large Scale Projects
Fisheries and Oceans Canada - QMS System
Fisheries and Oceans Canada is at the forefront of quota management for various groundfish
fisheries. The Quota Management System (QMS) handles the information processing needs of
the sophisticated Integrated Fisheries Management Plan.
The main purpose of the QMS System is to facilitate transfers of fishing quota between
commercial licences across various groundfish fisheries (and will scale to accommodate
other fisheries in the future). The system automates the application of a wide variety
of complex business rules that govern the transfer of fishing quota.
The 1st phase of this project is complete and the 2nd phase is slated to start soon.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada - FOS System
Electric Edge Systems Group provided a wide variety of modifications and enhancements to
Fishery Operations System (FOS) to accommodate major changes to business logic as well as
new functionality required by the Integrated Fisheries Management Plan.
Electronic catch monitoring was one of the new technologies introduced in the plan.
It allows for the electronic capture of data while at sea that has allowed for the removal
of at sea observers to monitor vessel fishing activity (which is cheaper and less cumbersome
than having an extra person on board). Electric Edge added functionality to the FOS system
to allow for this data to be added to the system via a web interface or web services which
are accessible to approved third-parties. This project included the retrofitting of the
FOS to provide data via web services.
Along with the electronic catch monitoring enhancements, Electric Edge also added tight
integration with the Quota Management System in order to combine quota data and catch data
into a single report used to determine if a licence should be allowed to continue fishing or
require it to transfer more quota onto it before being allowed back out.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada - NRLS
Electric Edge Systems developed the web application for a major Fisheries and Oceans initiative
named "National Recreational Licensing System" (NRLS). NRLS was created to allow members of the
public to obtain a salt-water recreational fishing licence for Pacific or Atlantic waters.
The system handles the business rules for each of five fishing regions (each has different age
groups, licence terms, prices, and taxes) and is fully bilingual. The system also processes
payments via a third-party credit card processing service (Internet Secure).
Numerous technology comparison documents were produced during the development of this application
which were used to aid Fisheries and Oceans Canada in it's technology decisions.
Currently, NRLS has been fully implemented for Pacific tidal waters
(see www-ops2.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/elic). Implementation in the Atlantic region was put on
hold as the recreational fisheries in that region have been discontinued.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada - ISM
Electric Edge aided in the design and development of the Integrated Systems Management (ISM)
project. We produced the requirements document for the entire system and developed security,
the overall application framework, and some of the management tools for this project (which
was then handed back to Fisheries and Oceans Canada (FOC) for completion. This project was
designed to benefit users of the various FOC systems, and to aid the information systems
manager in maintaining those systems.
The ISM system was designed to allow users to have a centralized login, which gains them access
to all of the systems that they are authorized to use (as opposed to having to remember a
username and password for each system). ISM also gives users the ability to submit issues and
notices about any system that they have access to, and view any scheduled or emergency system
outage notices.
ISM provides the information systems manager with a tool to allow the assignment of developers
to systems on a month-by-month basis. This gives the manager the ability to easily see whether
any system is under-supported and which developer should be handling user requests for a system.
The system drives automatic assignment of captured errors and any user-submitted issues to the
correct developers.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada - FNS
Electric Edge Systems was brought in to bring the code in the five-year-old Fishery Notification
System (FNS) up to the current coding standards (which Electric Edge developed for FOC). We also
converted the system's data from MS Access to Oracle (which is the regional standard). FNS is used
to produce and send notices regarding fishery openings, closing, and regulations. A searchable
reporting module is also available online for recreational and commercial fishers.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Section 61 Inspection Reporting
This system was designed and developed by Electric Edge Systems Group in order to give fishery officers
a central place to store the inspection report data that they collect in the field. This system
provides an easy to use interface for adding new reports, finding past reports, and keeping track of
data regarding the inspected businesses.
Private Matters
www.privatematters.com
Electric Edge was involved from the early idea stage, moved on to the technical design phase,
and then completed development of this unique system. Security and ease of use were the driving
factors for this site geared toward baby boomers and seniors. Private Matters provides end-of-life
planning that goes far above and beyond a typical last will and testament.
Maverick e*volutions
Electric Edge's vice-president Bryan Stevenson designed and developed this complex online procurement
system from the project's inception. The system is essentially an online marketplace designed to help
buyers to find service providers as easily as possible while providing a wide range of related data to
make the decision and ordering processes as easy as possible. A full audit trail for all purchase
decisions is made available to procurement managers. All transactions are mapped to the general
ledger accounts setup by procurement managers, and that data can be exported to corporate accounting
systems for easy integration with the application. A great deal of emphasis has been placed on usability,
system flexibility (for all ranges of business size), and dispute resolution handling.
BC Ferry Corporation
Electric Edge personnel have developed several enterprise-wide systems for BC Ferries. Company president,
Phil Bailey and vice-president Greg Rusak have been providing their services to BC Ferries since Electric
Edge Systems was founded, and for the three years prior to the launch of the company. The following are
some of the systems that Mr. Bailey and Mr. Rusak have developed at BC Ferries as partners in Electric
Edge Systems Group:
- Revenue Audit Processing System
- Bank Reconciliation System
- Ship Log Maintenance System
- Travel Pass System
The financial systems listed above efficiently process over 4 million monthly transactions and include
over 80 maintenance forms, 20 reports and 30 nightly batch processes. Mr. Rusak and Mr. Bailey were
involved in all phases of development including system design and specifications, data modelling,
development, deployment and maintenance.
Small Scale Projects
Resort Realty
www.resortrealtycb.com
Mount Crested Butte is a beautiful ski resort town nestled high in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
Resort Realty of Crested Butte sells a wide variety of condos, houses, land and businesses in the
resort area and surrounding communities.
Prior to Electric Edge’s involvement, the Resort Realty’s website was based upon a generic third
party realty office template. The company required a new website with a more distinctive appearance,
as well as powerful but easy-to-use listings maintenance and search capabilities. While building
the website, Electric Edge worked closely with Resort Realty’s SEO consultants to improve the site’s
profile among all of the popular search engines.
Dean Linnell - "Whistler's Realtor"
www.whistler-realestate.com
The Whistler ski area is consistently rated as the top ski destination in North America by leading
skiing and snowboarding publications. Whistler will also be the venue for a large number of events
in the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Dean Linnell is a leading realtor in Whistler. He hired Electric Edge Systems Group to perform
various upgrades to his website. This included a professional re-design, expansion of the amount
of information shown for each listing, and the ability to import local real estate listings directly
into the website's database from the Whistler Listing System (Whistler's version of the MLS system).
Boutique Hotels & Resorts of British Columbia
BHRBC manages a group of smaller luxury hotels and resorts. BHRBC needed to communicate with
various groups using attractive, targeted marketing material sent via e-mail.
Electric Edge Systems was hired to develop a system that can use templates created by BHRBC’s
graphic designers. The templates contain a variety of graphic elements, with various areas for
marketing text. The system allows BHRBC staff to select a template, enter the applicable marketing
text, preview the results, and then e-mail the completed material to one of many mailing lists
maintained by BHRBC. The templates can be used in this way over and over again.
The marketing e-mails retain the stylish graphics and layout of the template when viewed by recipients
whose e-mail software can display HTML content. At the same time, if a recipient’s e-mail software is
only able to show plain text, the text of the message will display correctly. This avoids the display
of “jibberish” characters that can occur when HTML content is forced upon a plain text e-mail client.
Hilton Whistler
The Hilton Whistler is one of the leading luxury hotels in the world-class ski resort of
Whistler, British Columbia. Like many newer hotels, rooms and suites in the Hilton Whistler are
owned by individual investors who receive a share of the rental revenue generated by each suite.
Electric Edge created a secure website that owners can logon to in order to generate individualized
reports that provide up to date financial statements. The site also provides access to strata
information and other pertinent data and documents that are easily updatable by Hilton Whistler staff.
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