Dynamics 365

Why Choose Dynamics 365?

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Unified CRM and ERP

Dynamics 365 combines customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) into one integrated platform, streamlining operations across departments.

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Modular Applications

Choose from a range of apps tailored to specific business functions—like Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, Finance, Supply Chain, and HR—so you only pay for what you need.

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AI and Analytics

Built-in AI and machine learning provide predictive insights, customer behavior analysis, and intelligent recommendations to support smarter decision-making.

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Seamless Microsoft Integration

Tightly integrates with Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Teams, Excel, etc.) and Power Platform (Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps), enhancing productivity and collaboration.

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Customizability and Extensibility

Highly customizable with low-code/no-code tools and APIs, allowing businesses to tailor workflows, dashboards, and apps to their unique needs.

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Cloud-Based and Scalable

Hosted on Microsoft Azure, Dynamics 365 offers high availability, security, and scalability for businesses of all sizes.

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Wix

Why Choose Wix?

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Ease of Use

Wix offers an intuitive drag-and-drop editor, allowing clients to easily create and customize their website without needing any coding or technical expertise. This simplicity makes it ideal for businesses or individuals who want to get their site up and running quickly.

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Customization

With a wide array of templates tailored to different industries and aesthetic preferences, Wix allows clients to personalize their site with custom fonts, images, colors, and layouts. The platform provides complete creative freedom to build a unique online presence.

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Cost-Effective

Wix offers a range of pricing options to fit different budgets, making it a cost-effective solution for small businesses, startups, or individuals who need a professional website without breaking the bank. This makes it a great option for those looking to get a high-quality site without major upfront costs.

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Built-In Features

Wix includes a variety of essential features right out of the box, such as e-commerce functionality, SEO tools, a blogging platform, booking systems, and more.

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Mobile Optimization

Wix automatically optimizes websites for mobile devices, ensuring that clients’ sites look and function well on smartphones and tablets without requiring extra effort. This guarantees a seamless user experience across all devices.

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Scalability

As businesses grow, their website needs can change. Wix allows clients to easily scale their sites by adding new features, upgrading to higher-tier plans, or integrating third-party apps to expand functionality.

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Power Pages

Why Choose Power Pages?

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Secure Access

Power Pages enables secure data sharing with external users, offering role-based permissions, authentication options like Azure AD, and compliance with privacy standards.

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Microsoft Integration

Seamlessly integrates with Microsoft tools like Dataverse, Power BI, Power Automate, and Dynamics 365, ensuring a smooth connection with your existing systems.

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Rapid Development

With its low-code platform, Power Pages allows for quick portal development, reducing time-to-launch while maintaining flexibility for custom solutions.

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Scalability

Built on Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure, Power Pages easily scales to accommodate growing user bases, more complex features, and evolving business needs.

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Accessible Design

Power Pages ensures an inclusive experience with responsive design and compliance to WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standards, offering a seamless experience on any device.

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Easy Management

Once deployed, your team can independently manage and update portal content through an intuitive interface, with no coding required.

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Shopify

Why Choose Shopify?

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Easy Setup

Shopify is designed to get your online store up and running quickly. Its intuitive interface and step-by-step setup guide make it accessible for beginners, while still offering flexibility for more advanced users.

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Secure & Reliable

Security is a top priority with Shopify. It includes SSL encryption on every store, is fully PCI DSS compliant for safe payment processing, and provides automatic updates to protect against vulnerabilities. Shopify also offers 24/7 monitoring and support.

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Scalable

Shopify’s infrastructure can handle sudden traffic spikes, growing product catalogs, and expanding operations without compromising performance, making it ideal for businesses that plan to grow over time.

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Built-In Hosting

Shopify takes care of hosting, which means fast load times, high uptime, and no need to manage servers, backups, or software updates. This ensures a reliable experience for your customers while freeing you up to focus on sales.

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Customizable Design

With a wide selection of professionally designed themes and a powerful theme editor, Shopify lets you create a storefront that aligns perfectly with your brand. For more complex customizations, Shopify’s Liquid templating language allows developers to fine-tune every aspect of your store’s look and feel.

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App Ecosystem

The Shopify App Store gives you access to thousands of apps that expand your store’s capabilities—everything from inventory management and live chat to loyalty programs and advanced analytics. This means you can tailor your store to fit your exact business needs, and easily add features as your operations evolve.

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Maintenance and Enhancements

What You Can Achieve with MERAK:

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Timely Updates

Your Challenge – There can be a lot of updates involved to keep a website running smoothly, including software upgrades, new features, and security patches. It can be difficult to make time to review, implement, and monitor it all.

Our Solution – MERAK will take on the task of regularly monitoring and implementing patches and updates for your website. You can keep your focus on your brand and your services while we make sure your site is always current and clean.

Your Challenge – Adding new features indiscriminately can end up making your site slower for visitors and harder to use. It may bog down the user experience with unnecessary and unoptimized details.

Our Solution – We’re careful about what new features will be a good fit for your website without slowing it down. We’ll do the work of determining what will enhance the experience for you and your clients without unforeseen bottlenecks.

Your Challenge – Sorting through an influx of new options for features and improvements is overwhelming without knowing what updates will fit with your website’s functionality and capabilities. With so many options, it’s tough to determine what will make a meaningful difference.

Our Solution – We can handle the decision-making process or guide you through it as a team to determine what will work best for your goals and needs as a user. By focusing on what adds the most value for you, we can make sure any changes will be welcome ones.

Your Challenge – With constant changes to regulations and ever-evolving threats to online security, it can be difficult to keep on top of what’s expected for compliance and needed for safety.

Our Solution – Our team at MERAK will work ahead of the curve to monitor changes to requirements as they come and consistently update security measures to combat new threats. We’ll ensure your websites and apps are secure, accessible, and compliant.

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Monitoring

What You Can Achieve with MERAK:

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Round-the-Clock Oversight

Your Challenge – You can’t keep an eye on your website all the time, particularly if its functions are important but not something you’re checking on every day. We monitor your site so if anything goes wrong, you’ll be the first to know so we can correct it together before it affects your users.

Our Solution – We track everything about your site’s performance, sending you instant alerts when anything needs attention. You get peace of mind, knowing we’re working behind the scenes to make sure everything is going smoothly.

Your Challenge – Keeping on top of security concerns and compliance can be a huge hassle, and letting things slip can result in serious damage to your customer’s trust. With MERAK’s monitoring, we’ll stay ahead of common risks like SSL certificates or domain issues.

Our Solution – We keep an eye on security updates and risks to track possible vulnerabilities. If anything needs attention, we’ll alert you right away to get things sorted out together.

Your Challenge – Constantly checking on your site for unexpected issues is a drain on time and resources. With real-time notifications, we’ll let you know any time something is worth your attention.

Our Solution -We send immediate notifications and explanations of your next steps whenever something unexpected comes up. This means we can work together to keep your site running without missing a beat.

Your Challenge – Performance issues such as slow load times or security trouble can show up unexpectedly, and it can be hard to determine the source before they impact your operations.

Our Solution – With website and application performance monitoring, we can identify slowdowns and failing security measures quickly, making a path to resolution of technical issues faster and cleaner.

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Service Desk

What You Can Achieve with MERAK:

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Fast Issue Resolution

Your Challenge – You may not have the time or comfort level to troubleshoot tech troubles on your own, but we can take the panic out of an unforeseen issue. Through monitoring, we often spot and fix potential problems before they happen, and if you pass an issue on to our Helpdesk, we’ll quickly diagnose the problem and take action to resolve it.

Our Solution – MERAK uses smart ticketing, diagnostics, and monitoring to keep downtime to a minimum with Freshdesk. We act quickly to track down a solution and avoid impact to your operations.

Your Challenge – When troubleshooting with customer service on a high-use platform, wait times and difficult communication can slow down a quick fix. Trying to get a handle on new tools, convoluted methods for contacts, and prohibitive security can make it a chore to get in touch with someone who can help.

Our Solution – We pay attention to ticket prioritization so urgent issues are resolved quickly while keeping up with rapid response times for all users. We can also provide training to familiarize you and your staff with new platforms and tools so you’re not stuck wading through platform support articles when learning new systems.

Your Challenge – It’s a headache to deal with continuous updates, upgrades, and security patches across your essential tools and platforms, especially when you need them up and running consistently. We’re happy to take the pressure off and ensure your systems are up-to-date and well secured.

Our Solution – We stay consistent with monitoring for updates and implementing them safely so there’s no sudden failures or lingering backlog to worry about. You can stay focused on your business without concerns around vulnerabilities or outdated tools.

Your Challenge – Some simple fixes can be automated, but more complicated issues need a human touch; someone who knows the bigger picture of your processes, goals, and experience with the tools you depend on.

Our Solution – When things get complicated, our team is ready to help. We’ll always provide the right level of support, whether it’s a simple fix with minimal intervention or a deeper consultation to reinvent your processes.

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We believe technology should work for you. Since 1994, we’ve helped businesses use IT to overcome challenges and grow. From a Guelph basement to a remote team serving clients across the country, we deliver tailored solutions that fit your business.

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WordPress

Why Choose WordPress?

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Ease of Use

WordPress is designed to be intuitive and easy to use, even for those with little to no technical experience. You can quickly add and edit content, manage media, and customize your site.

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Flexibility

Whether you need a simple blog, a professional business site, or an e-commerce store, WordPress can handle it all. With thousands of themes and plugins available, you can tailor your site to meet your specific needs.

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SEO-Friendly

WordPress is built with search engine optimization (SEO) in mind. It offers various tools and plugins to help improve your site’s visibility on search engines, driving more traffic to your site.

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Responsive Design

WordPress themes are designed to be responsive, ensuring your site looks great on all devices, from desktops to smartphones.

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Community Support

With a large and active community, WordPress offers extensive support and resources. Whether you need help with a technical issue or want to learn new skills, the WordPress community is there to assist you.

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Security

WordPress takes security seriously. Regular updates and a wide range of security plugins help protect your site from threats and vulnerabilities.

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We believe technology should work for you. Since 1994, we’ve helped businesses use IT to overcome challenges and grow. From a Guelph basement to a remote team serving clients across the country, we deliver tailored solutions that fit your business.

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Data Analytics

What You Can Achieve with MERAK:

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Organized Data

Your Challenge – It can be great to have a lot of data to draw from, but if the backlog is overwhelming or the data isn’t reliable it can muddy your results.

Our Solution – We help you clean and organize your data with Power BI and custom widgets to take the confusion out of your data and ensure the insights are actionable.

Your Challenge – Calling the shots without clear data analytics can be frustrating when you don’t get the results you were planning.

Our Solution – We’ll give you the ability to make smart, informed decisions with real-time insights. We make sure you have the right data set on hand to take your next steps with confidence.

Your Challenge – Your data could be spread out over different platforms and tools, making it tricky to combine into an overall view and a clear picture.

Our Solution – We make integration simple with tools like Microsoft Fabric, so that your tools talk to each other seamlessly. We’re here to make your data analytics easy to work with and simple to read.

Your Challenge – If you feel like your competitors are quicker on their feet and more flexible, it may be time to take a closer look at your data practices to put a new system in place.

Our Solution – We help you spot interferences and understand new trends in your market to stay ahead.

Your Challenge – You’re gathering data, but feeling unsure about how to keep it safe and compliant with the latest regulations in the face of every-evolving threats to security.

Our Solution – We’re here to help! We prioritize your security with encryption and strong attention to compliance.

Your Challenge – Nobody can predict the future, right? You’re too busy trying to adjust to changes you didn’t see coming to prepare for what might happen.

Our Solution – With predicative analytics tools, you get a look at what’s coming up. We’ll set up insights into trends, risks, and opportunities, so you can set your business up for success.

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We believe technology should work for you. Since 1994, we’ve helped businesses use IT to overcome challenges and grow. From a Guelph basement to a remote team serving clients across the country, we deliver tailored solutions that fit your business.

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Portals

What You Can Achieve with MERAK:

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Eliminate Bottlenecks

Your Challenge – Disconnected tools and platforms make it difficult to optimize your systems without compromising security and existing data.

Our Solution – A specialized platform can consolidate key business processes on a single secure, optimized space as well as improve accessibility and workflow automation.

Your Challenge – Your team or customers struggle with fragmented communication across different websites and tools

Our Solution – Our solutions provide hubs for collaboration, data and document sharing, and task management.

Your Challenge – Data siloed across systems leads to incongruities and difficulties in meshing multiple sources together, affecting your ability to learn more about your business’ performance and plan for the future.

Our Solution – Our portals integrate with your existing tools, ensuring accurate data collation and improved efficiency.

Your Trusted Canadian Technology Solutions Partner

We believe technology should work for you. Since 1994, we’ve helped businesses use IT to overcome challenges and grow. From a Guelph basement to a remote team serving clients across the country, we deliver tailored solutions that fit your business.

From coast to coast to code — our 100% Canadian team creates and powers secure data-sovereign solutions you can trust. No offshoring, no shortcuts — just #CodedInCanada.

Team MERAK - Our Canadian team creates secure data-sovereign solutions you can trust.