Digital Adoption Consulting FAQ

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27+ years in Data and High Tech supporting Small, Medium, and Enterprise clients providing pre and post implementation advisory and support, on-premise and cloud solutions expertise, project management, planning, delivery, and software development. 

At Haylar, we have been supporting Canadian and US businesses across sectors, verticals, and industries.  

Digital Advisory - Data Pipelines, Business Intelligence, custom web development, Shopify, E-commerce/Web Marketing, Google and MS Cloud services.

Certified Snowflake Partner.  Qlik BI Analytics Certified. Alation Data Cataloging and Data Governance, MS Power BI, and Google Workspace, Google GCP, and Google E-Commerce and Web Marketing experienced.  A member of CDAP Marketplace - Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada.

Haylar Technologies Inc follows an agile project management approach, which emphasizes collaboration, flexibility, and iterative development. This approach allows us to deliver high-quality digital solutions and projects on time and within budget.

Yes, Haylar Technologies Inc provides cloud migration services to help businesses move their applications, data, and infrastructure to the cloud. We can help you choose the right cloud provider and develop a migration strategy that minimizes downtime and disruption.

Yes.  We have supported customers on their Shopify site customization and upgrade.  Have also built and refined a custom Shopify Grocery Store theme that we're looking to list on the Shopify marketplace. 

We have also supported customers across many other industries and sectors; not just e-commerce.  Experienced from:

- Insurance

- Banking & Finance

- Manufacturing and CPG

- Travel

- Civil and Infrastructure

Yes.  We're experienced in E-commerce and Web Marketing, have members of our extended team that have 20+ years in Sales and Marketing expertise, and we are nearing our 'Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce' Professional Certification.   

This really depends on the customer environment and it varies client to client.  About 1 - 1.5 months to build the CDAP Digital Adoption Plan report. 

Happy to discuss this during a meeting.  From a high level, can share projects such as building and delivering Shopify Solutions, leveraging and delivering online community platforms, through to building/delivering/supporting data ingestion and data pipeline needs for clients (sales, finance, supply chain, ops, etc). 

This is the link to more information on the CDAP program: link

The Boost Your Technology Business Grant, which we at Haylar Technologies Inc. are authorized Advisors with CDAP, gives you:

• up to $15,000 to develop a Digital Adoption Plan
• up to $100,000 in 0% interest free loan from the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) to implement your plan
• up to $7,300 to hire a skilled youth to implement the technologies that can propel your business forward

Some  of the details:

You can get a 0% interest loan of up to $100,000 to pay for new technology.

When you are ready to move forward with your digital adoption plan, apply for a 0% loan of up to $100,000 from Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC).

Eligibility

You're eligible if you have completed a digital adoption plan:

• As part of CDAP and have received your grant payment OR
• Under another recognized digital adoption program and submitted it to CDAP

Loan amount

• Your business revenues are between $500,000 to $5 million: loans between $25,000 and $50,000
• You business revenues are over $5 million: loans between $25,000 and $100,000

What does it cover?

The BDC loan covers items directly related to the digital adoption plan. Some examples are:

• Acquiring IT equipment
• Installation of new technologies
• Updating and/or expanding IT equipment
• Training staff on onboarded technologies
• Materials and support services directly related to onboarding the technology
• Further advisory services on particular aspects of the digital adoption plan

Terms

• The loan has a 5-year term with 12-month capital postponement (total of 6 years)
• There are no fees
• You have 6 months from the completion of your approved plan to make a loan request
• You must meet BDC credit worthiness requirements

Contact us today to learn more.

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Absolutely!  We can provide these upon engagement and request.