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Welcome to CapeTown Computing

A systems development company with experience working with some of the largest and best companies in Canada, perhaps the world.

No Challenge Is Too Great

CapeTown Computing is a proven provider of high impact, large volume transaction processing applications, through development, design and full system engineering of systems for Industry leading companies both in the legacy and client/server arena.

With intellectual property amassed from industry projects for clients and internal projects geared towards an enhanced customer offering for your most demanding challenge.

With a well established portfolio presented under two product areas. The Imageion™ and Art of Commerce™ platforms.

Simple, Elegant, Effective

Systems that are deeply routed in client server relational database technology, desktop applications, web applications and distributed component objects

We established a solid performance platform and easily enhanced applications development environment that moves seamlessly to new database and operating system platforms.

With expertise in relational database technology from the late 1980's through to present day technologies, CapeTown Computing can deliver on the most challenging application engineering initiatives.

We have your system.

With systems running in 10+ year engagements, CapeTown Computing has a proven track record of returning substantial value for your companies investement. With a solid eye on performance, perserverance and care.

We provide simple, elegant and cost effective solutions to complicated business problems through the use of technology.

With cross industry experience and long standing business expertise at your disposal for your next project or management change initiative, we are a proven added value partner.

With projects spanning multiple industries and diverse business partners, we have shown we can deliver results in the most demanding environments.

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  • Desktop
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  • Server
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  • Microsoft Windows
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  • UNIX/Linux Systems
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  • Mac OSX Systems
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Chronology

With 27+ years of experience implementing and integrating systems for businesses across industries, the company has gained mature products and substantial expertise.

Range of Industries

The company has worked in the Systems Development and Infrastructure market space within such industries as Insurance and Reinsurance, Banking, Law, Chain Retail, General Inventory, Construction, Engineering, Manufacturing, Process Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Distribution, Transportation, Accounting, General Management and Administration. Registered as a sole proprietorship in Ontario, Canada in 1987 and incorporated as CAPETOWN COMPUTING CORPORATION ("CAPETOWN COMPUTING") in 1998.

From 1991 through 1999 works with DYLEX LIMITED accounted for our sizable works where the divisional inventories across a Canadian distribution network in as much as 1.2 billion retail and 750 million cost values (BIWAY, NATIONAL LOGISTICS SERVICES) were managed from source to distribution center to store level ultimately reaching a point in development where stores were informed of goods inbound in a paperless environment, along with carrier system integration and warehouse inventory workflow operational automation. In addition CapeTown handled special projects in inventory specialties for all divisions, Fairweather flagship stores and Dylex Distribution working independently with divisions and with Dylex IT Services.

Client Service Expertise

Dylex Limited was Canada's largest retailer involved in the operation of specialty retail stores, such as women's wear, menswear, and family stores. From its onset the company provided a diversified customer focused delivery through chain branding while maintaining retail and manufacturing operations in an integrated environment, where at its peak it was operating 17 chains with more than 2,700 stores in the United States and Canada.

In 1998/2000 we were called upon by Munich Reinsurance Company (MLMC) to assist in year 2000 transitional development projects, GolfTown Canada to provide start up technological assistance for their emerging retail chain of stores and Games Workshop Canada for a new head office applications environment with Sales, Retail Store and warehouse operations integration.

With Munich Re, we were able to assist them in completing two mainframe to Windows client/server application transitions and added value by way of sharing database access and performance technology for their other projects. At the time Munich Re held the status of the worlds largest Reinsurance Company with assets exceeding 200 billion (CDN) and a surplus of 74 billion (CDN) and in-force premiums of 36.6 billion (CDN), nearly twice that of its nearest competitor.

Market Experience

With Golf Town we worked with IBM Canada to create the head office and store systems infrastructure that would allow for a balanced processing approach to their PC based Retail Store and centralization of information. This resulted in leading edge IBM Retail hardened equipment at the store level and a clustered server network at head office. Upon achieving an initial count of 13 stores and a head office move from temporary startup to a permanent facility, Golf Town began the process of bringing in technology and staff to allow them to move towards self sufficiency in IT. In September of 2007, Golf Town was acquired by OMERS for 240 million (CDN), it operated 32 stores and employed over 1200 people at the time.

CapeTown systems accounted for Canadian retail, trade sales, mail order sales and head office administrative support for Games Workshop, a customer since 1995 through to 2003. In addition to providing head office support for day to day business merchandising and warehouse operations, support for IBM Retail Equipment at the store front was also provided along with database integration of retail store sales and inventory management. Games Workshop Canada represented the Canadian arm of the global United Kingdom based company.

Integrity and Work Ethic

A strategic alliance with Lord of the Rings productions and that popularity, the group reported sales of £136,650,000 sterling in 2005 and employed 3200 at its current standing peak.

In 2001 through 2005 we worked with Maritime-Ontario Freight Lines, providing systems infrastructure and web presence development and integration of their pre-existing PC/UNIX applications culminating in a company web site supporting their customer, alliance partners, internal resources and paperless initiatives across their Canadian terminals and third party locations, with transaction volumes of 25 thousand carriage shipments per month while not including consolidations, flow through, web user access and document image transactions.

Maritime-Ontario Freight Lines, as of 2007, was reported to be billing 150 million (CDN) per year, with 20 terminals, 1200 employees, in a 160 tractors and 1150 trailer operation. M-O is a 40 year operation in Canada, formerly a supplier to Dylex/Biway where their relationship with us began from a supportive role in the overall Dylex/Biway Inventory Logistics System for their portion of that carriage.

Global Presence

In September of 2004, the CAPETOWN.COM domain name, the companies primary domain name was sold to a U.S. company specializing in city domain space marketing.

The company then focused development efforts on our Imageion™ product which would provide service based workflow and content storage management. Imageion™ allowed us to expanding upon our existing Image++ product for digital and document imaging and management, our existing internal system for resource and billing management that had been developing for internal use and our work in transportation web and workflow under the ship2.com banner. We became the first client of the system, it became part of how we operate the day to day and valuate our I.P. assets.

TRISI Sales (formerly Frank Trisi Sales), a customer with CapeTown Computing, since our inception, with an average sales volume of 5 million (CDN) in the mid to late 2000‘s, made use of Enterprise Commerce systems platforms, Art of Commerce™, as it began to make strides with customers such as Walmart, Zellers, Canadian Tire, Home Outfitters. With EDI and web requirements the company found itself in a position of transition in the very competitive housewares industry with approximately 4000 items in its catalog and an agent network across Canada.

Well Established

“Your Expression” made use of our Retail Application and a custom card creation application that we provided when they decided to implement a compliant year 2000 application and track customer information in its business. Utilizing our signage generation software, we scaled it to meet the customer requirement at the register in their busy downtown store.

For Color Steels, CapeTown Computing provided support for their network introduction and expansion to Montreal, in replacement of their existing dated infrastructure an ethernet based network that provided a mixed operating environment between UNIX and PC based systems was introduced. When the company moved to a larger more expansive facility, we were called upon again to provide support for an upgraded server environment with in-house internet presence and communications capabilities while performing that move.

With an additional customer base of 100 customers, throughout the balance of the work effort and the achievement of two product platforms, the Art of Commerce™ X-Chain Merchandising System and the Imageion™ Web and Workflow System and three additional offerings; shIP2.com, Image++ and the Entertainment Centre Management System (ECMS). The company has amassed a significant amount of experience and expertise.

Track Record

CapeTown systems find their engagement run times with customers reaching and exceeding the decade mark and in some cases twice that.

10+ Year Systems

CapeTown systems find their engagement run times with customers reaching and exceeding the decade mark and in some cases twice that. This is in strong recognition of a working concept of systems that work. The longevity of their use is what makes them stand out across an almost 30 year working period of the company.

Our company began with the recognition of the need for professional database transaction processing systems for business at the small and medium sized enterprise level as well as the need of large corporations to create scalable solutions for fast paced changing aspects of their businesses that demanded special attention.

In short, the benefits of relational database combined with the benefits of personal computing is what drove the creation of our company. The results are the systems that came to the surface after that period along with the vision for their next steps in maturity.

Our First Decade

Our first decade found the company deeply immersed in product inventories, distribution, logistics workflow, transportation and time keeping.

A well established working relationship with Dylex National Logistics Services resulted in a strong partnership with Biway Stores which drove fast paced logistics workflow systems development resulting in a paper free flow of goods to stores through internal and third party providers and carriers resulting in a Client/server windows integration of our retail logistics work into the Store Receiving and Inventory Logistics system (srails).

With commercialization work in the time keeping and point of sale system we called Billiard Management System (bms) for its initial appearance in the Billiards point of sale industry and then the Entertainment Centre Management System (ecms) and now finds itself well positioned to wellness and hospitality. Undergoing enhancement and redesign over that period to suit the dynamic needs of each new customer, resulting in a solid customer installable product that could adapt to new customers without further enhancement.

Market Experience

With Golf Town we worked with IBM Canada to create the head office and store systems infrastructure that would allow for a balanced processing approach to their PC based Retail Store and centralization of information. This resulted in leading edge IBM Retail hardened equipment at the store level and a clustered server network at head office. Upon achieving an initial count of 13 stores and a head office move from temporary startup to a permanent facility, Golf Town began the process of bringing in technology and staff to allow them to move towards self sufficiency in IT. In September of 2007, Golf Town was acquired by OMERS for 240 million (CDN), it operated 32 stores and employed over 1200 people at the time.

CapeTown systems accounted for Canadian retail, trade sales, mail order sales and head office administrative support for Games Workshop, a customer since 1995 through to 2003. In addition to providing head office support for day to day business merchandising and warehouse operations, support for IBM Retail Equipment at the store front was also provided along with database integration of retail store sales and inventory management. Games Workshop Canada represented the Canadian arm of the global United Kingdom based company.

Professional Expertise

The company deeply immersed in the commercialization of the prior decades work into a product we initially called CapeTown Enterprise now Art of Commerce (aoc). Encapsulating the materials management and logistics inroads made, adding sales and supply chain channels, automated replenishment, EDI, digital media integration (image++), web application models for business to business, business to consumer, retail chain and sales person integration.

IBM called upon us to work with GolfTown Stores which resulted in 13 big box store retail systems infrastructure with IBM Server and Point of Sale, applications integration and ultimately completing their head office move to permanent facilities with a clustered IBM Server environment.

Maritime-Ontario called upon our firm for technical network and systems restructuring services as well as a remote document capture system and website for delivery of their shipment support, document imaging and document printing initiatives to their customers, consignee, third parties and customer service representatives really solidifying our performance levels in a web and workflow environment at the 25k shipment mark per month.

Materials Management

Having a firm grasp of the materials management, retail chain, wholesale trade, logistics and transportation requirements the company set out to improve the offering for service based industries that didn’t move product in an effort to create an workflow system that could support professional billing for client centric enterprises resulting in the Imageion (images in action, image input-output network).

Our goal was to establish a firm grasp of industries we had some experience with but not all encompassing systems relationships with such industries as legal, digital media enterprises, architecture, building support and construction companies of all classifications. The approach was one of integrating the parties working on a project both inside and outside a given organization in order to dashboard the results of the work and embody the planning, daily diary, time keeping to drive the billing and audit process. Image++ became as central to the system as the workflow process.

Our Vision

A methodical way to integrate and professionalize new business workflow at the onset of business relationships that would set the tone for a future working relationship by providing a system that could act as a work order system for clients, without the client needing such a system for themselves. We found that clients didn’t have that capability over our entire history.

Taking the same building blocks in the creation of our web and workflow platform that we did with our materials and logistics workflow based systems so that we could deliver a high performing, quality product that was elegant, cost effective and simple to use. A system that could operate at the 100m-1.2b dollar level of business and 22k-33k per week transaction mark within an economical client/server database infrastructure.

With customers using our systems for 10+ years, which stretches out there investment across a long period of time. Our systems allow customers to focus on the business they are in so we can focus on the business of delivering systems that work.

Client Record

CapeTown Computing has worked directly or indirectly with the following enteprises over the last 30 years.

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Abrica
Advanced Profiles
AEJ Leasing
AeroFleet Cab Services
Airport Grill
Applied Bio-Systems
Arch-Tech Design & Drafting
Armstrong (TMG)
Baka Communications
Bank of Nova Scotia
Biway
Bookman Law
Borstone Construction
Brightside Financial
Butterfield & Robinson
CCS Computer Cable Systems
Citicorp Vendor Finance
Clearway Construction Group
Collins Barrow
Color Steels
Cott Beverages
Crown Paving
Covers Couture and Decor Toronto
Danier Leather
Daren Martenfeld Carr Testa
Definitive Systems
Denis Financial Services
Digital Entertainment Group
Downsview Group
DunBloor Construction Group
Dylex

ECMS Customers
Airport Billiards & Lounge
Annex Club (The)
Black Jack Snooker & Karaoke Club
BoomTown Billiards
Breakers Club
CB2 Billiards and Sports Bar
Celebrity Billiards II
Churchill Billiards I
City Lights Billiards & Cafe
Club 2000 Billiards Cafe
Crazy Eights Billiard
Dublin Pub
Duff's Sports Bar & Billiards Cafe

E-M

Eye on You Productions
Fairweather
Fidelity Leasing
Games WorkShop
Golf Town
Grand Mechanical and Construction
Gratitude
HDH Products
High View
High Point
IBM
Inn On The Park
Interquest Technologies
JD Smith and Sons
Knud Simonson Industries
Landbury Developments
Law Society of Upper Canada
Leerok Financial Services
Liftow
Manitoulin Transport
Maritime-Ontario Freight Lines
Martins Enterprises
McGinnins & Company
Miles Santo & Associates
Moloney Electric/Hammond Manufacturing
Monarch Marking Systems
Mother Parkers
MovingForward2015
Mowat Express
Munich Reinsurance, Munich Life Management Company
Municipal Leasing

ECMS Customers
Eight Ball Cafe (The)
Fredricks Billiards
Games Gallery
Gentleman's Quarters
Green Room (The)
Greenwood Billiards
Hanger (The)
Hot Shots Billiard Lounge
Islands Billiards
Jubilee Billiard
Kam's Billiard Lounge I
Kam's Billiard Lounge II
Kumar Enterprises
Maronies Restaurant Inc
Medical Enterprises Co.
Metro Golf Dome
Metropolis
Millies Billiards
Mulligans

N-Z.

NOW and Associates
National Logistics Services
New Arrow Contracting
New Dominion Railings
Obvious Solutions
Osram Syvania (TMG)
Patronato EPASA
P&P Masonry
PlanHold Clearprint Chartpak Picket
Purolator
Robertson Electric
RS Material Handling
S.W. Bricker and Associates
Salvati Fashions Toronto
Sajus Technologies
Sector Technologies
Silverside Computer Systems
Soiree Toronto Inc.
Spielo Manufacturing
SportFX International
Stanford Engineering Construction Control
Star West Construction Company
Strategic Resources
Superior Machining & Repairs
Symbol Technologies
Team Corporation
Teklogix
Toronto Air
Toronto Dominion Bank
Transportation Management Network
Triangle Marketing Group (TMG)
Trisi Sales
UAP Napa (TMG)
United Parcel Services
Versa Construction
Weber Marking Systems
Western Apparel
Western Waste & Recyclers
Westinghouse Electric
Wholesale Floral Group
Your Expression Stores
Zuccato Group

ECMS Customers
National Billiards of Canada
Partners Billiards
Pendale Billiards & Lounge
Petrina's Billiards & Sports Bar I
Petrina's Billiards & Sports Bar II
Petrina's Billiards & Sports Bar III
Pot Black Services
Rack and Roll
Rack Billiard Club (The)
Rack em Up Pool & Pub
Rouma Management Services
Sector Technologies
Sharma Enterprises
Shooters Billiards
Silver Cue Billiards
Time Square Billiards
Tony's Place I
Tony's Place II
Ultra Commerce
Wells Hospitality

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Statistics

Established Platform

Business system volumes in excess of 1.2 Billion Dollars Canadian per annum.

Geographically disbursed impementations of 300+ locales operating at 22k/33k average/peak weekly transactions.

Design

High volume transaction based systems capable of managing multiple client and multi-divisional enterprises.

Design integration for traditional trade, establishment, EDI and e-commerce.

Development

Web, Desktop and Server application development.

Depth and reach in programming language, data storage technologies and relational database technologies.

Integration

Integration expertise across diverse applications, operating system, hardware and data acquisition technologies.

Disparate systems connectivity.

Infastructure

Full systems engineering.

Network, operating system, hardware and equipment expertise for successful systems.

Expertise

27+ years, Insurance, Banking, Law, Retail, Construction, Engineering, Manufacturing, Logistics, Distribution, Transportation, Accounting, Administration.

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