Aktiv Software Corporation

AKTIV Software Corporation, from Victoria in British Columbia, designs and builds software and integrated systems. With more than four decades of experience, it serves small local firms, large international companies and provincial governments, and some client relationships date back to its early years.

What AKTIV Software Corporation does

• Integrated systems architecture: design and delivery of combined systems, including custom hardware and software.
• Tracking and workflow systems: tools shaped around an organisation's own business rules.
• Systems integration: joining systems through open hardware platforms, low-cost mini-computers and embedded controllers.
• Systems review: analysis and evaluation of existing systems.
• Server support: setting up and supporting physical or virtual servers.
• iOS development: building apps for Apple devices.

Who it works with

Its most cited work is for the BC government: the TNO news monitoring intranet used by government communications branches, which gathers print, web, radio and television items, and the CLIFF correspondence tracking system, which other Canadian bodies also use. It built the on-demand ordering system for Trafford Publishing in 1995.

Key facts

• Based in: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
• Experience: more than 40 years
• Technologies: several generations of programming languages, multiple relational databases, iOS