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Just to provide you with more background on what I do and where I work now I thought I would blog a little information on my company, Ivara. I am the VP Finance and Admin at Ivara Corp (parent company of Aladon LLC).

Ivara is an asset reliability software company located in Burlington, Ontario just outside of Toronto. Our target market is large fixed plant, continuous manufacting facilities principally in the metals and mining, pulp & paper, power generation and utilities and CPG verticals.

Our value proposition is that our software coupled with our implementation and maintenance methodology improve business performance by preventing industrial equipment failure while increasing production and lowering costs. Ivara was started in 1996 and is backed by two VC's (Almasa and Propulsion Ventures based in Montreal, Quebec).

As in any growing business our customer's success is directly correlated to our success. Success means different things for our customer depending on their strategic and competitive position in their market. In some cases we have worked with customers to reduce maintenance expenses as they try to make adjustments in their cost structure. In some cases we work with customers to drive more throughput with the same asset base through improved uptime and productivity of their assets. In all cases we strive to reduce the maintenance cost per unit of production whether they can sell as much as they can produce or they are slowing down production.

By analyzing why, where and how a customer's equipment fails, Ivara's software drives the right work at the right time.

Ivara has a proven solution and I am thrilled to be part of what we all see as a huge opportunity in an expanding and still underserviced space in the software landscape.

If anyone would like more info on what we do check out the website, contact me directly and I would be happy to set up a time to discuss more in a one on one setting or with a larger group at your organization.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled business and finance updates.....