Workopolis

Challenge

Workopolis is Canada's leading online career-solutions provider with over 3.3 million unique visitors monthly in Canada, the most posted resumes and twice as many job postings as the nearest competitor. By the summer of 2007, Workopolis had decided that it needed to move to a leading-edge Internet platform, and selected Microsoft's .NET platform. Soon after, they turned to imason for support.

Solution

Workopolis engaged an imason project team to work alongside the Workopolis team. The primary focus was on modernizing the platform, but a secondary focus was knowledge transfer to the Workopolis technical team. "imason's strength in combining business acumen with leading-edge technology expertise was key in accelerating our business objectives," said Sullivan.

The combined teams moved Workopolis.com from an Oracle-based application to a .NET application that employs the latest web standards for HTML and CSS.

Result

The re-launched Workopolis.com site can now handle up to five million users every month. And the Workopolis team is equipped with the skills and resources to continue to evolve the .NET web site in the future.

"By helping one of Canada's leading providers of Internet recruitment to scale their site with the Microsoft .NET Framework-based platform, imason enabled Workopolis to get to market faster and help provide its customers a better user experience," says Lora Gernon, Senior Director, Partner Group, Microsoft Canada.

Related

• Article in itbusiness.ca: Workopolis .Nets itself a winning Web site, August 20, 2008
• In July 2008, imason won the 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year award for Custom Development Solutions, Application Infrastructure Development for our work with Workopolis