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July 2010: "Social Media". What's the fuss?

Almost every day we see or hear about social media.

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June 2010: Qualitative data - a powerful tool for managing your Broker/Agency network.

Qualitative data can be a powerful tool for managing the performance of your distribution network. Insurance carriers (as with most organizations today) are rich in data but poor in information.

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April 2010: Managing Performance by the Numbers

The insurance industry is all about the numbers. Premiums, growth, profitability and new business dollars are all good indicators of how a broker is performing. Raw data will always be the main source for performance metrics.

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March 2010: Are you driving data or is data driving you?

There is a ton of data available to every business; extracting information and further analyzing the results is a major challenge.

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March 2010: Succession Planning

You are sitting at your desk opening your mail when you come across Bob Summers retirement party invitation. At first you disregard it but then make a note of the date. What you may have missed is that Bob is one of your top producers, and you stand to lose his entire book-of-business because he does not have a successor that will be loyal to your organization.

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February 2010 : Catalytics receives Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Status

Catalytics receives Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Status and is recognized for competencies in:

Gold Certified status represents the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies, and those partners have the closest working relationship with Microsoft.

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February 2010 - The Challenge: Who's "best"

In any business, it is a difficult task to determine who’s “best”. In the insurance sector, where independent brokers can sell any of your competitors’ products, the task of determining who’s “best” is even more complicated. To minimize the subjective nature of performance assessment, it is important to have a well defined evaluation process. This process must include a selection of appropriate performance metrics, and an ability to set expectations with each broker before the evaluation period begins.

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August, 2009 – CA Magazine

Alex Resnick, President of The Catalytics Group Inc, is quoted in an article on “Business Intelligence for the CME” on the dangers of relying exclusively on information contained in traditional reports to manage your business.

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March 23, 2009 - Using Information to Drive Performance

Alex Resnick, President of The Catalytics Group Inc, elaborates on the importance of consistent data analytics and the challenges faced by organizations to manage data.

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February 28, 2009: Rating Brokers Intelligently

February 2009 publication of Canadian Underwriter magazine features Giovanni Damiano, Senior Vice President, Marketing, of Chubb Insurance Company of Canada in an article on how Chubb Insurance effectively manages their brokers using our scorePoint™ solution.

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February 1, 2009: Catalytics receives Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Status

Catalytics receives Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Status and is recognized for competencies in:

  • Data Management Solutions Partner
    Our Data Management Solutions Partner status enables us to specialize in delivering migration tools and services, database administration tools and services and performance tools using SQL Server technology.
  • ISV/Software Solutions
    By being a ISV/Software Solutions Partner, Microsoft provides us with technical training and architectural guidance ensuring our applications are developed and tested on the Microsoft platform.
  • Networking Infrastructure Solutions
    Awarded for our proven proficiency in implementing solutions based on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Operating System.

Gold Certified status represents the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies, and those partners have the closest working relationship with Microsoft.



September 17, 2008: scorePoint™ nominated for Microsoft Business Intelligence Impact Award

scorePoint™ Strategic Indexing solution selected as a finalist for the Microsoft Business Intelligence Impact Award.

Microsoft Partner Program IMPACT Awards recognize excellence in Microsoft Canada's technology partner community. The annual IMPACT awards acknowledge the outstanding work resellers and solution providers are doing with Microsoft-based technologies and products to deliver virtually seamless solutions for their customers.

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June 2, 2008: Catalytics delivers an independent analysis of CPM systems at CICA IT Solutions

CICA IT Solutions Conference

The Catalytics Groups’ President, Alex Resnick delivers presentation at the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, Information Technology Solutions Conference on Independent Analysis of CPM Systems.

Overview of presentation on "Independent Analysis of CPM Systems"
Imagine driving a car without an instrument panel? Or the speedometer shows your speed from 5 minutes ago. You run the risk of getting a ticket, or much worse getting into an accident. Now imagine you're the CEO of a company without an instrument panel - that's just one of the reasons for CPM (Corporate Performance Management). CPM measures and manages the performance of an organization and includes strategic planning, scorecarding, budgeting and forecasting, consolidation and Business Intelligence. The seminar will explain CPM, position CPM systems by size of company and will include CPM trends. We will also discuss key differentiators of the CPM systems that are sponsoring the conference.



May 2008: Catalytics joins York Technology Association

YTA is a forum for executives and entrepreneurs in growing technology companies to meet, collaborate, and build their business. Members get together to network, learn and lead their organizations to greater success.



March 11, 2008: Catalytics launches scorePoint™

Catalytics launches scorePoint™, a unique software solution that allows companies to define and manage complex organizational scoring requirements.

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January 2008: Catalytics receives Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Status

  • Catalytics receives Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Status and is recognized for competencies in:
    • Data Management Solutions Partner
      Our Data Management Solutions Partner status enables us to specialize in delivering migration tools and services, database administration tools and services and performance tools using SQL Server technology.
    • ISV/Software Solutions
      By being a ISV/Software Solutions Partner, Microsoft provides us with technical training and architectural guidance ensuring our applications are developed and tested on the Microsoft platform.
    • Networking Infrastructure Solutions
      Due to our proven proficiency in implementing solutions based on Microsoft Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003 Operating Systems, we have been awarded the Networking Infrastructure Solutions Competency for technology partners by Microsoft
  • • Gold Certified status represents the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies, and those partners have the closest working relationship with Microsoft.


March 2007: Catalytics completes BI deployment for Apotex Inc.

Catalytics completes successful deployment of Panorama's SAP BI solution for Apotex Inc.

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January 2007: Catalytics received Microsoft Gold Partner status

  • Catalytics received Microsoft Gold Partner status
    • Gold Certified status represents the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies, and those partners have the closest working relationship with Microsoft.


April 2006: Cutter IT Journal- Dashboard Development from Planning to Implementation

  • Getting on the Same Page: Dashboard Development from Planning to Implementation


September 2005: Cutter IT Journal- SOX Without Losing Your Shirt

  • SOX Without Losing Your Shirt


May 2005: Catalytics nominated for Microsoft Impact Award

  • Microsoft Partner Program IMPACT Awards recognize excellence in Microsoft Canada's technology partner community. The annual IMPACT awards acknowledge the outstanding work resellers and solution providers are doing with Microsoft-based technologies and products to deliver virtually seamless solutions for their customers. More than 300 entries were submitted by technology partners from across Canada.


May 2004: Catalytics nominated for Microsoft Impact Award

  • Microsoft Partner Program IMPACT Awards recognize excellence in Microsoft Canada's technology partner community. The annual IMPACT awards acknowledge the outstanding work resellers and solution providers are doing with Microsoft-based technologies and products to deliver virtually seamless solutions for their customers. More than 300 entries were submitted by technology partners from across Canada.


...2003: Catalytics receives Panorama Partnership status

  • The Panorama Software Global Alliance Program provides our company with the opportunity to leverage Panorama’s Business Intelligence (BI) market place solutions by creating a viable framework from which we can develop solutions in collaboration with Panorama Software.



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