Tangentia Global Innovation Lab Launch Event

Tangentia is proud to announce the launch of the Tangentia Global Innovation Lab. The lab will showcase Tangentia’s breakthrough technologies and consulting services. The new initiative is intended to be a discovery event series for both current and prospective customers. “The Global Innovation Lab has been a long time coming. We do many things really well and this event is an opportunity for us to highlight our strengths.” says Vijay Thomas, Tangentia’s CEO. With products and services tackling business-critical work in automation, digital, security, cloud and EDI; there are no shortage of questions to be answered.

A quick look at Tangentia.com will illustrate just how diverse a skill set the technology teams at Tangentia manage. In the world of automation we’ve recently been working on a number of projects involving Robot Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence. As a long time IBM partner we’ve developed a close relationship to tackle today’s the biggest automation challenges.

The latest trend in increased threats in internet security has made Blockchain a promising technology for the future. Many businesses are asking the question “How can Blockchain help my business?” This question and many others will be discussed in detail at the Global Innovation Lab. To really begin leveraging the internet in a more secure way, Blockchain is worth taking the time to understand.

Tangentia’s Digital division oversees everything from mobile development, omni-channel e-commerce, and in-depth enterprise analytics. You can look forward to gaining project insights that can help you avoid costly mistakes. With a rise in public awareness of data privacy breaches in large companies. Nothing is more important than keeping your sensitive information secure. It can be incredibly costly to be hacked. If you are interesting in learning more about Tangentia’s security practice, our experts at the event can shed light on Cloud Security, IAM, End Point Management and data privacy.

A technology event would not be complete without a conversation about Cloud services. With Tangentia cloud services across all major cloud providers including Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), IBM Cloud, and more. Whether it is Cloud First, Cloud Native, or Cloud APIs – Tangentia has the answer.Lastly, we’ll discuss the industry standard electronic highway for processing purchase orders with major retailers, EDI. Whether it’s keeping on top of your 850, 857, 810 or 997’s – Tangentia has a network of more than 2000 major retailers with 100% reliable compliant mappings. If any mapping changes are requested by your trading partners, they can be updated across all our customers in real-time. Keeping your business running with less stress and frustration. Got questions about integration with your ERP system? Join us at the event and we will walk you through it’s application as it relates to your business.

Human to Superhuman Automation Event

It's easy to understand, right? Even when explained “what is automation?” by Afaq Qazi, an automation specialist. I tried my best to ignore the thoughts, telling me, “I already know this stuff”. It's easy to tune out when you think you know. The challenge is that maybe I'm wrong. Keeping an open mind, I listened to what Afaq had to say.

The speed of technological change is forcing people to reevaluate what they know about automation. Of course automation is a hot topic and for good reason. It is controversial. It can be good or bad depending on where you sit. As an employee, automation can induce fear in even the most talented workers. Take the GM closures as an example. More automation combined with declining sales means many people will soon be out of work. Knowledge workers are also not without risk of being replaced by automation. As a business owner, automation is required to compete.

I listened to Afaq speak with passion about the work he is doing. This doesn't come across from a website. Ideas about Robotic Process Automation(RPA), Business Process Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain were discussed with the enthusiam of a child in a toy store. I've read about these ideas and watched videos about them on Youtube, but never before spoke with and expert about them. This experience is the same one you will recieve when you attend our Human to Superhuman Event. Connecting your business to the right automation solution is where the real magic happens and it always starts with education and a conversation.

We are 15 years old – Time passes by quickly when you are having fun

Time passes by quickly when you are having fun

As we enter 2018, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all our global customers, partners, associates and friends on behalf of all at #TeamTangentia. The entire extended team of Tangentia sincerely wishes each of you a fantastic 2018 and thank for your support, encouragement and business over the last 15 years. We hope to connect with each of you during 2018 and look forward to many more years of working together. As the title says it seems like 15 years passed by very quickly since we started in 2003, but all of us at Tangentia still think of ourselves as a startup and we try to keep the same energy and enthusiasm that made us succeed over the last 15 years.
The other day I registered to attend a startup conference and was rejected as their definition of startup was less than 10 years in existence and less than $10 million in revenue. We obviously failed their litmus test and it got me thinking. Are we really a startup? or Are we a normal stable business? and the answer I realised is YES to both.
Tangentia via our own global offices as well as via a global partner ecosystem now has the processes and infrastructure to deliver “Global Boutique” Technology Solutions like a global consulting major. When we started, many of our critics said that “Global Boutique” was an oxymoron and could not be done but we were able to pull it off. Today, if you are a medium sized retailer in India looking for an eCommerce solution or a Canadian bank looking for a mobile application,Tangentia could deliver a solution that covers the entire spectrum from designing, developing, testing, hosting and managing the solution using our global resources. We guarantee the same highest levels of security and project governance that our customers expect from the larger consulting companies and this is done via our SOC 2 certification and our global Project Management Office(PMO). Even with the maturity in our infrastructure and processes, we have strived to keep our soul, distinctly startup. We take on projects that most of the larger firms say “cannot be done” and actually pull it off. Our associates have a “can do” attitude that some of our customers have said, has transformed their entire project teams and we push hard everyday to make things incrementally better.
I would also like to specifically mention our IBM relationship which is 15 years old this year – Tangentia is a gold certified partner of IBM and provides resell and consulting around IBM solutions in USA, Canada and India. We have added a few other partnerships over the last few years and look forward to nurturing those as well but the IBM partnership will always be special I guess.
So how does Tangentia look 15 years from inception. From a 2 person startup, we now have 4 business units.
People: The Tangentia People group provides strategic IT staffing for companies globally. The IT staffing involves on-site, offshore as well as near-shore models and our People’s group counts some of the large global consulting companies as customers.
Projects: The Tangentia Projects group business designs, builds and operates complex IT applications for medium and large enterprises globally. The projects are primarily around eCommerce, EDI/B2B, Security, RPA and Business Analytics.
Partners: The Tangentia partners group resells, implements and finances IBM, Microsoft, Oracle,SAP,Salesforce, Sailpoint, BluePrism, Automation Anywhere, ServiceNow and other partner software in USA, Canada and India.
Cloud: The Tangentia Cloud group hosts multiple SaaS business applications on the Tangentia Cloud platform like Tangentia Commerce Cloud for agile enterprise eCommerce, Tangentia Gateway for cloud EDI and OrderManagement, Tangentia Secure for enterprise access management and security. The Tangentia Cloud Platform now has 2000+ customers that use our platform daily.
Thank you for taking the time to read this blog and keep following our blogs and social media posts as we journey into the future.
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Stories from the last 15 years – Do you want to keep driving trucks or change the world?

Ask most people in Toronto about what they remember about 2003, and many might remember the crippling power outage that shut down most of the North East in August of that year. For me personally, it was the start of Tangentia towards the end of 2003.

I always wanted to start something of my own but the catalyst was when the French company I worked for at that time sold their operations in Canada sans me ( yes I was literally the only employee left in Canada). I decided that if I was going to have to build a business from scratch, might as well do it as an entrepreneur rather than an employee. Throwing caution to the wind, I looked around and found Mohan who was somebody I hired as a java programmer at a previous job in Montreal and who had also moved to Toronto.

Mohan, believe it or not, had got himself a truck driving license and was driving refrigerated containers to Chicago from Toronto! Having been to business school and having read Steve Jobs do the “do you want to sell sugared water all your life” to John Sculley, I asked Mohan “Do you want to drive trucks all your life or change the world” and he agreed to help me during the week and drive his trucks over the weekend. So now I had a programmer and I took on all the remaining positions in the company.

We got our first project which was for a customer in Montreal that wanted us to install an AS2 software on an AS400 and integrate it with their JD Edwards ERP system and they wanted it done ASAP. With no projects in hand, we had to think fast. We asked them if they had their maintenance agreement with IBM up to speed and they said yes. Far from installing software on it, neither Mohan nor I had ever seen an AS400 server but I felt that if somebody could do it then we should be able to do it as well.

It was already past noon in Toronto and the customer wanted the install done the next day in Montreal and we did not budget any travel costs. So this is what we did: Mohan got a rental car and he drove to Montreal – I got hold of IBM support and conferenced Mohan as he drove to Montreal, and we figured out that the AS400 libraries were different from a windows directory etc. However, with Mohan’s strong UNIX background, we were able, over the next 5 hours that it took him to drive to Montreal, to understand what had to be done.

Mohan stayed with his uncle as we obviously had not budgeted a hotel and walked into the customer’s office the next morning. We had a few minor hiccups but before the end of the day the software was installed and the customer who was a large apparel manufacturer was transacting EDI purchase orders and invoices seamlessly with Walmart via AS2. I spoke to the customer a couple of years later and everything was still working as we had installed it!!

We got lucky, as in 2003 Walmart was mandating all their vendors to move their EDI from the VAN ( Value Added Network) to AS2 and we got very busy doing these small migration projects all over North America. This is the origins of the Tangentia EDI & Ecommerce group that 15 years later has 1000+ customers globally including many Fortune 500 companies that outsource their entire B2B Infrastructure and Order Management to us.

Somebody wise once said – the harder you work the luckier you get.

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