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Located in Toronto Canada, the fifth largest city in North America, Symposium Technologies is well situated to service clients continent-wide.

The Symposium Advantage

Symposium’s approach differs markedly from that of other software developers. This results not only in a vastly superior product, but also a vastly superior business relationship. We deliver both the technical solutions necessary for your operational requirements, as well as a working relationship that accommodates your operational realities and makes your project as stress-free as possible. The benefits to you are considerable - enormous savings, both in time and money, and a much higher degree of efficiency, much sooner.

Among the reasons to consider Symposium are the following:

Quick Development Cycle
Emphasis on Turn-Key Systems
Efficient Implementation and Integration
Responsive Technical Support and Training
Comprehensive Knowledge and Consulting
Business-Oriented
Flexible Contracts and Pricing

 

Quick Development Cycle

In software, development cycles can seem endless. Solutions are often "two weeks away and 80 percent complete" for months if not years. Symposium’s approach stands in stark relief to this. The software engineering team at Symposium has perfected a design methodology that allows them to produce powerful, stable, solid and practical software-based solutions in a time frame far superior to that achievable by any other competing vendors. By staying tightly focused on our core competencies and emphasizing business excellence, we can deliver solutions to meet your unique needs and requirements on time and on budget, every time.

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Emphasis on Turn-Key Systems

More often than not, providing complex software solutions to large organizations and companies involves a great deal of customization work, even when the application in question is ostensibly characterized as turnkey.

Here at Symposium, we have put a great deal of effort into building an unprecedented degree of flexibility into our systems. This results in powerful, versatile applications that can be quickly adapted to address the complex dispatch, vehicle monitoring, and event management needs of your organization, regardless of their scope. The end result is that you save time and money, and avoid the difficulties associated with changing your ways of doing things.
 

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Efficient Implementation and integration

Implementation is the bridge between the promise of a theoretical fix, and a practical, working real-world solution. Therefore, the ability to effectively deploy any given system is key to the success of the project. Symposium has extensive practical experience implementing our systems in a host of different environments, and will work closely with you to develop and carry through on an implementation plan which is quick, organized, straightforward, and cost-effective.

Symposium develops all its systems on the basis of an open, modern architecture that will work with the full range of ODBC databases, traditional and wireless networks, and GIS mapping systems. We also have a great deal of experience in building interfaces for third-party hardware systems such as GPS receivers, remote sensing and monitoring equipment, and a host of others. Using our applications as a basis, we can work with you to develop a fully integrated software and hardware-based technology solution.
 

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Responsive Technical Support and Training

The best software in the world will do little good if your staff can’t operate it, or your IT/IS people can’t maintain it. To that end, Symposium offers structured training and support services designed to ensure you get the most out of our systems, both now and in the future. Our support and training models concentrate on capability transfer – transferring the skills and tools to your organization in order to provide you with the ability to manage the systems internally to the appropriate degree. We in turn make ourselves available to act as the back up to your technical support personnel, and if required to guarantee your system’s mission critical integrity.

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Comprehensive Knowledge and Consulting

Symposium Technologies has extensive practical experience in a whole host of areas related to system design, development, deployment, and integration. We can help you make decisions on technology needs analysis, sourcing, implementation, and follow-through. We keep fully abreast of developments in many fields of technology, and our advice is always impartial, unbiased, and is grounded in practical business considerations. We always follow the rule of knowing our clients needs and priorities, and in turn tailor our recommendations to reflect this basic yet oft-overlooked requirement.

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Business-Oriented

At Symposium everything that we do is rooted in our understanding and appreciation of the fact that the solutions we provide must be real world solutions. It is this which in turn drives our development, and allows us to build software that reflects and accommodates these realities, enhances your capabilities, captures potential efficiencies, and improves capability..

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Flexible Contracts and Pricing

No matter what your operational reality, we can work with you to develop license, support, and payment schedules that take into account your needs and constraints. We are true believers in "win-win" business arrangements, and make use of any number of creative and flexible structures which can allow you to take full advantage of the capabilities of our systems, while staying within budget.

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