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
- Data management
Our expertise: facts and figures
CIMA+’s achievements span more than 30 years and speak for themselves: we have completely changed the Canadian landscape.
Our specialized services
Rely on our multidisciplinary professionals to meet your requirements and expectations. We can offer you a full range of engineering services for your project—from start to finish.
Our systems 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 systems engineering principles to deliver innovative, scalable solutions that enhance performance, reliability, and sustainability that are tailored to the unique needs of each project.
Our services include:
- Identification of stakeholder needs
- ConOps authorship
- Definition and management of requirements
- Concept exploration and selection
- Definition of system architecture
- Change management and communication
- 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 migration
When done properly, systems 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:
- Gathering and analysis of requirements
- 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 orchestration, large-scale processing, synchronization of data flows and centralization for warehousing from various sources such as operational systems, IoT devices and distributed infrastructures.
Data management in this context relies on the ability to capture, process, 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
- Integration of operational and business data into a single source of truth
- Activation of analytical capabilities, including the creation of automated reports powered by business intelligence and predictive analysis methods
- 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
- 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 leverage their organization’s different systems through an organized data distribution strategy.
This leads to greater efficiency, better problem anticipation, and increased responsiveness to changes in complex and dynamic environments.
Our advanced analytics and operational simulation service enables you to create decision-support tools by harnessing the power of your historical data and modelling complex environments that accurately reproduce your operations.
The aim is to enable informed, data-driven decision-making by presenting your information in an understandable way and creating dynamic mathematical models that reflect the reality of your issues.
First of all, advanced analytics allows you to explore your data, identify key trends and predict future behaviour using sophisticated statistical and machine learning techniques. This approach enables you to make informed decisions based on facts and rigorous analysis.
Secondly, operational simulation gives you the ability to reproduce your business processes in a controlled environment, to test different strategies and assess their impact before deploying them across your organization. By simulating complex scenarios, we help your teams anticipate risks, validate options and reduce the level of uncertainty.
Lastly, because our optimization is based on operational research, we go beyond descriptive or predictive analysis: we identify the best possible decisions from a range of scenarios, taking into account your specific constraints (resources, capacity, priorities, budget).
Our optimization models enable you to allocate your resources more efficiently, minimize costs, increase your operational performance and maximize added value.
Our services include:
- Designing a customized analytics maturity roadmap to steer your business towards a data-driven decision model
- Creating automated business intelligence (BI) reports to gain a holistic view of your performance and operations
- Exploring and investigating your data to obtain accurate critical information and solve problems in a timely manner
- Training statistical and machine learning models to predict trends and events based on a combination of variables
- Modelling complex operational scenarios using dynamic simulation to test different strategies and assess their impact before deployment
- Optimizing your operations, planning activities, resources and networks using advanced operations research techniques to maximize performance and minimize costs
- Optimizing predictive maintenance, asset management and fleet management strategies
- Forecasting consumption, production and demand trends
- Applying space utilization management, route optimization, cost management and project planning recommendations
Advanced analytics and operational simulation are transforming the way businesses leverage their data to achieve unprecedented levels of performance. By integrating cutting-edge techniques to analyze and simulate complex scenarios, we enable organizations to navigate dynamic environments with agility.
This proactive, predictive approach not only promotes greater operational efficiency, but also enables accurate anticipation of future challenges, supporting optimal responsiveness and informed decision-making.
Discover our system, software, and data management projects
Our teams have successfully completed hundreds of large-scale engineering projects.
Preemption software system for fire safety
The project created for the City of Trois-Rivières was aimed at optimizing the speed and efficiency of its fire response services. In collaboration with CIMA+, an...
Road safety plans for the entire province of Québec
A series of cohesive RSPs represents an intervention strategy that targets increased road safety throughout the territory while promoting a cooperative approach involving the various stakeholders within the community....
Transit signal priority system for a number of intersections in Laval
The Société de transport de Laval (STL), in partnership with Ville de Laval, retained the services of CIMA+ to assist in the implementation of bus priority measures (BPM), including...
Lac-Mégantic Microgrid
After the 2013 rail disaster, the City of Lac-Mégantic saw an opportunity to rebuild the downtown area, while integrating renewable energy sources and smart grid technologies to serve the...
Strategic study related to the electrification of public transit networks
Within the limits of the available technology, and from the perspective of helping to achieve the Québec government’s target with respect to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the participating...
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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