Today's software systems are becoming increasingly complex, with growing expectations for enhanced functionality through deeper integration, real-time data access, and advanced analytics.
At CIMA+, we rise to meet this challenge with the expertise, tools, and innovation needed to help our clients navigate this rapidly evolving landscape. By seamlessly integrating systems, software, and data, we help businesses and communities realize the solutions of tomorrow—today.
We can tackle your technological challenges
Our clients face numerous challenges, including the integration of complex systems and managing large volumes of data from various sources. These organizations must also adapt to the rapid evolution of technologies while ensuring the security and quality of processed information. The industry is evolving towards smarter, more connected solutions.
At CIMA+, we support this transition by offering services in systems engineering, software systems integration, software development solutions tailored to each organization’s specific needs and data management.
Our expertise: facts and figures
CIMA+’s achievements span more than 30 years and speak for themselves.
Our specialized services
Rely on our multidisciplinary professionals to meet your requirements and expectations. For your project, we can offer you a full range of engineering services—from start to finish.
Our system engineering team adopts a multidisciplinary and integrative approach to the design, development, and management of complex systems. From concept through implementation and lifecycle management, we apply system engineering principles to deliver innovative, scalable solutions that enhance performance, reliability, and sustainability, and are tailored to the unique needs of each project.
Our services include:
- Stakeholder needs elicitation
- ConOps authorship
- Requirements definition and management
- Concept exploration and selection
- System architecture definition
- Change management/change propagation
- Business analysis
- Operational design
- Verification and validation plans
- Functional safety / RAMS program development and engineering
Our systems integration service ensures seamless coordination between diverse subsystems, technologies, and software, resulting in cohesive, high-performing solutions.
System integration is used when we want to unlock capabilities using functionality that are mostly available through existing software systems.
By effectively managing the complexities of integrating various components, we facilitate efficient communication, functionality, and data flow across systems.
Our services include:
- Scope definition and integration planning
- Analyzing business capabilities and constraints
- Assessing IT infrastructure capacities and limitations
- Designing data flow and transformation processes between integrated systems
- Developing cohesive, integrated system level architectures
- Managing and designing interfaces
- Engineering the optimal technologies for integration
- Developing integration, verification and validation test strategies
- Planning system cutovers
When done properly, system integration enhances operational efficiency, minimizes errors, improves decision-making through real-time data access, and enables systems to scale as business needs evolve.
Our software development service focuses on creating tailored solutions from the ground up, ensuring innovative, high-performing software applications that meet specific business needs.
Software development is used when we want to create new capabilities by building functionality that does not exist in any current software systems.
By crafting custom applications, we address unique challenges, optimize workflows, and unlock new opportunities for growth and innovation.
Our services include:
- Requirements gathering and analysis
- Designing tailored software architectures
- Building scalable and secure applications
- Designing of user-centric interfaces and experiences
- Developing server-side applications as well as web and mobile applications
- Integrating with other existing systems or tools
- Deploying cloud solutions, hybrid architectures, or on-site infrastructures
- Ensuring data security and compliance
- Managing iterative development cycles using the Agile method or other methodologies
- Implementing and testing software functionality
- Supporting ongoing maintenance and enhancements
When done effectively, Software Development enables businesses to innovate, gain a competitive edge, improve operational performance, and quickly adapt to changing market demands.
Our data management and integration service focuses on the orchestration, large-scale processing, and synchronization of data streams from various systems such as operational systems, IoT devices, and distributed infrastructures.
By combining these data streams with Big Data approaches, we enable fast and accurate decision-making while modeling physical environments in real-time through digital twins.
Data management in this context relies on the ability to capture, analyze, and leverage massive volumes of real-time data. This allows for the unification of event streams from multiple critical sources and the automation of processes, optimizing asset management and enhancing predictive analysis capabilities.
Our services include:
- Database management systems
- Collection and management of massive data from multiple sources, including sensors, control systems, IoT, and real-time field data
- Design of distributed and Big Data architectures to handle and integrate large volumes of data in a scalable manner
- Implementation of real-time data pipelines to manage and process critical events at scale
- Analysis and monitoring of Big Data quality and integrity to ensure decisions are based on reliable information
- Automation of operational processes through real-time event-driven data flows
- Securing and governing massive data, ensuring compliance with cybersecurity standards and regulations
- Optimization of predictive maintenance strategies and asset management through Big Data analytics and digital twins
- Ongoing support for the evolution of distributed data management and Big Data systems
Data management and integration enable companies to better harness Big Data, optimize operational performance, and enhance their decision-making capabilities. This leads to greater efficiency, better problem anticipation, and increased responsiveness to changes in complex and dynamic environments.
Discover our system, software, and data management projects
Our teams have successfully completed hundreds of large-scale engineering projects.
Atwater water treatment plant
Ville de Montréal needed to expand the offices and the employee parking area at the Atwater water treatment plant. This project required surveying work on a large scale, given...
Pavement condition assessment
CIMA+ used a drone to conduct a survey in order to generate a high-definition orthophotograph for the purpose of analyzing the condition of the pavement and quantifying the damage....
Simulation of the removal of industrial equipment at AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel, a paint and chemical products company, needed to remove a piece of equipment from a very tight space. CIMA+ conducted a survey using a 3D scanner, created a...
Commission scolaire de Montréal (CSDM) Schools
The CSDM wanted to carry out an assessment of the condition of the walls of a number of schools in the region. Many of these schools are historic buildings,...
Digital twins for maintenance installation, Via Rail
In anticipation of making changes to its Montréal and Toronto maintenance centres, VIA Rail Canada wanted to conduct the 3D digitization and 3D modeling of a given section in...
Condition assessment of walls, L’Étincelle school
The architectural firm of Bertrand + Paquette was called upon to assess the condition of the walls of L’Étincelle school, a historic brick building with many bas-relief designs.
The...
Bridge and smokestack inspection
Smokestacks must undergo regular inspections. Traditionally, these visual inspections are conducted by workers who rappel down the wall, which is a slow and tedious method. In order to speed...
Inspection of confined spaces, Horizon Utilities Project
This project involved 3D documentation of 237 underground electrical rooms in Hamilton and St. Catharines, Ontario with millimetre-level precision, making it possible to visualize their existing condition, take measurements,...
Lighting at Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium
The work to improve the site’s lighting system required preparation of an inventory of the various structures available to accommodate the lighting fixtures and estimation of the volume and...
Site monitoring and quality control
The worksite for complete reconstruction of the rue Sainte-Catherine infrastructure and roadway in Montréal has been underway since April 2019.
A 3D-scanner survey is carried out from time to...
Awards and recognition
Our teams have successfully completed hundreds of large-scale engineering projects.
2022 - Lac-Mégantic Microgrid
CIMA+ took home top honours in the energy category at the
2022 Grands Prix du génie-conseil Québécois for their Microgrid project in Lac-Mégantic.
2024 - Preemption software system for fire safety
CIMA+ took home top honours in the Technology category at the 2024 Grands Prix du génie-conseil québécois for the Trois-Rivières preemption software system for fire safety project.
CIMA+: a one-stop solution for all your engineering needs
We are proud of our multidisciplinary approach. By offering you everything under one roof, you benefit from a simplified collaborative approach to deliver projects quickly and on time.
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