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Product/Service Name: Avant Systems Group Company: Avant Systems Group ; 815-1661 Portage Avenue ; Ph: (204) 789-9596 Avant Systems Group (AVANT) is a Canadian company based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The firm was founded by local entrepreneur Patrick Hannah to help organizations take advantage of new and emerging business opportunities through the effective implementation of Information Technology. AVANT has successfully grown from start-up to maturity and now offers a full range of professional Information Technology services. Since 1993 AVANT has worked with a number of firms in a wide range of industry sectors including government, entertainment and gaming, healthcare, telecommunications, and agri-business. In 1997 AVANT seized the opportunity to support Canadian telecommunications companies Maritime Telephone and Telegraph and Manitoba Telephone System in their continued deployment of the TecNet Circuit Provision System application. When the original developer of TecNet dropped support for the product, AVANT stepped in and agreed to provide application support and enhancement services. Since that time the product has been enhanced dramatically both functionally and in supporting current technologies. When all four Maritime telecommunications carriers in Eastern Canada became Aliant, TecNet was selected as the Circuit Provisioning System of choice, supported by AVANT as partner of choice. Enhancement and support of the TecNet application continues to provide critical network resource management capabilities to both Aliant and MTS Allstream - Manitoba Division. As a resource management application specialist, AVANT had been looking for additional opportunities to diversify and apply the experience gained in other industries. For example, Patrick Hannah and key staff have spent years of IT consulting to the hog industry in Manitoba with clients such as Elite Swine Inc., Landmark Feeds, and Maple Leaf Foods. In 2003, an opportunity arose at the Manitoba Pork Council (MPC), which allowed AVANT to fulfil that objective. The issue of livestock traceability came to the forefront with the BSE scare in beef. The MPC wanted to get in front of the issue and hired AVANT to rejuvenate an older application and update their business process capabilities in managing the vital resource information of their producer members. AVANT combined industry and IT expertise to develop the application which has come to be known as NOAH, a Membership, Registration, and Tracking System. NOAH delivers exactly what MPC needs to assist their producer members to provide complete transparency. In 2005, the Alberta Pork Council also acquired NOAH from AVANT. AVANT抯 current objectives are to continue to expand, if possible, the use of the TecNet Suite in the telecommunications industry, and the use of the NOAH application in the Canadian and North American agri-business livestock marketing field. In addition, AVANT is making investments to further diversify by applying its expertise to the financial services, manufacturing, and transportation industries. Our mission is to improve each clients? business through professionally delivered information technology solutions. |
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