Insights
-
Four Benefits of PowerApps
January 15, 2019
Businesses rely on forms to collect data from employees in the field or in the office. Following the retirement of InfoPath several years ago, […]
-
Christmas greetings from Convverge
December 20, 2018
As the holiday season is upon us, we find ourselves reflecting on the past year and those who have helped to shape our business. […]
-
10 processes you can automate using Microsoft Flow
November 12, 2018
If you’re thinking about using technology to reduce manual processes, you have many options to do so. For those with Microsoft 365 licenses, you […]
-
Microsoft Ignite: Convverge’s Top 5 Trends
October 3, 2018
Even if you weren’t in Orlando last week you’ve probably already heard, Microsoft’s Ignite conference took place. Microsoft has been innovating at lightspeed over […]
-
Export to PDF – Power BI’s leveling up
August 20, 2018
For anyone using Power BI and still looking to take, store, and share snapshots in real-time as PDFs, your life is about to get […]
-
Introduction to Process Automation
August 13, 2018
Creating the Foundation for Work Process Automation Let’s talk executive to executive. You need work process automation. Have you heard the term before? Does […]
-
Microsoft Teams is now free!
July 12, 2018
If you’ve been wondering about the new collaboration tool giving Slack a run for its money called Teams and you work at an organization […]
-
Calgary-based technology firm REFINECO Inc. announces rebrand as Convverge
May 28, 2018
CALGARY, May 28, 2018 /CNW/ – Software development firm REFINECO Inc. is excited to announce its official rebrand as Convverge Inc, – a venture […]
-
Power BI Desktop Update – April 2018
April 18, 2018
The month of April brings with it some great Power BI news! For those of you who are using Power BI as your self […]
-
Power BI + SharePoint Online: Integration made better
February 13, 2018
As part of Power BI’s regular updates to their product, they have updated the Power BI Service to now have some well desired features, […]
-
Power BI – What’s the BIG deal?
January 31, 2018
By now, most people are aware of BIG data terms that are out there in industry. Most organizations are finally gaining traction in the […]
-
Mainstream support for SharePoint 2013 ends in 3 months!
January 25, 2018
For those who still have SharePoint environments running on SharePoint 2013, per Microsoft, mainstream support for SharePoint 2013 will end on April 10, 2018. […]
-
What is Office 365…..really?
July 10, 2017
If you ask people what Microsoft Office 365 is all about, they’ll likely say Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. But did you know that […]
-
Why is ERP Software Popular Again?
November 8, 2016
If you have spent any time online in the past two years, you are starting to see a solid trend emerging: the clear resurgence […]
-
ASC Listed as One of Top SharePoint Sites!
November 4, 2016
Alberta Securities Commission public website was listed as one of the top SharePoint sites in Canada by topsharepoint.com! We are proud to say that’s our baby! REFINECO was […]
-
Hiring of an Engagement Manager
June 24, 2016
REFINECO is actively recruiting for an engagement manager. Full details of the position are available here.
-
Node.js gaining ground at Microsoft
February 26, 2016
We have started to use Node.js alongside of a number of Microsoft stack technologies in the Application model within SharePoint and Dynamics. Talk about […]
-
Here is the new face of REFINECO
January 15, 2016
Well folks, it took us a while to get this to you, but we finally did it. We’ve been so busy with our customer […]
-
Site Refresh
December 1, 2015
It’s always a challenge to get the old corporate site refreshed. Our development team put their heads together to come up with a design […]
-
Bringing User-Friendly To A New Level
January 20, 2015
As published in New Technology Magazine (November 2014) Tailored solution allows companies to chart their way through mountains of disparate data. Calgary-based REFINECO, Inc. […]
-
International Programmers’ Day – A Day To Celebrate
January 7, 2015
Happy International Programmers’ Day! The internet has conflicting results about when International Programmers’ Day is – some say January 7th and others say the […]
-
RefineCo, Inc. Makes Debut on Alberta Venture’s 2015 Fast Growth 50 Rankings
January 6, 2015
Winners recognized for strong business growth and ambition. RefineCo, an Alberta-based technology services and solutions firm, is proud to be named one of Alberta’s […]
-
The Importance of Establishing Client Relationships
December 12, 2014
Client relationships define business success. Long-term working relationships with clients are typically the most consistent, reliable source of work and financial stability for a […]
-
Some Interesting Things Coming for Workforce Software
November 28, 2014
Empowering Users vs Industrial Software Software designed to empower workers rather than forcing workers to use software (I’m looking at you, SAP) isn’t exactly […]
-
How to Build a Modern User Interface For Intranets and Sites
November 17, 2014
I’ve spent most of my career working for Ad agencies learning everything about customer service, design and ideas. In fact, I would say this […]
-
Mobile-friendly SharePoint Intranets? Save Your Money, for now.
November 8, 2014
Nearly every one of our customers asks us ‘Will this work on the tablet and my phone?’ Well guess, what, the answer is always […]
-
Finding a Great Screen Capture Tool
November 6, 2014
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, and what better way to describe what you see than with a screen capture. In Quality […]
-
Handling Large Data with SharePoint 2010 Custom WCF Service
October 16, 2014
Calling your custom WCF web service successfully with a small, known and fixed amount of test data only to have it fail with large […]
-
A New Vector Toy for Designers
October 9, 2014
Adobe Illustrator has a formidable new opponent – meet Affinity Designer by Serif! Serif specializes in creating software as an alternative to high end […]
-
Paging with SharePoint Lists
October 2, 2014
Let’s say you have a SharePoint web part that displays data from a SharePoint list and you are running into performance issues, as you are […]
-
How to Hide the SharePoint Ribbon
September 25, 2014
When it comes to SharePoint there’s this menu called the ribbon. From my experience this menu is not really customizable and generally only used […]
-
RefineCo, Inc. Finalist for Calgary Chamber’s Breakout Business and Small Business of the Year Award
RefineCo, an Alberta-based technology services and solutions firm, has been listed as a finalist in the Breakout Business category of the Calgary Chamber’s Small […]
-
RefineCo, Inc. Wins Silver for Best Enterprise Solution at the 2014 CDN’s Channel Elite Awards
September 18, 2014
RefineCo, an Alberta-based technology firm, was honoured to win silver at the 2014 CDN’s Channel Elite Awards for the Best Enterprise Solution. The awards […]
-
6.5 Reasons Why You Should Use Google Analytics
September 11, 2014
Google Analytics launched in 2005 and it has forever changed the way that people think about analytics. Being free of charge, there is literally […]
-
How to Overcome Slow SharePoint End User Adoption | Part 5: One Size Fits All Training Program
September 10, 2014
Having conducted SharePoint training for various organizations ranging from startups to large corporations, I have picked up a lot of tips and tricks in […]
-
How to Overcome Slow SharePoint End User Adoption | Part 4: Mismanagement of the Training Effort
September 9, 2014
In this five blog series, I will describe the top five obstacles that I have encountered on the SharePoint battlefield and share my recommendations […]
-
How to Overcome Slow SharePoint End User Adoption | Part 3: Lack of Governance
September 8, 2014
In this five blog series, I will describe the top five obstacles that I have encountered on the SharePoint battlefield and share my recommendations […]
-
How to Overcome Slow SharePoint End User Adoption | Part 2: Lack of Communication
September 7, 2014
In this five blog series, I will describe the top five obstacles that I have encountered on the SharePoint battlefield and share my recommendations […]
-
How to Overcome Slow SharePoint End User Adoption | Part 1: Preconceived Notions of SharePoint
September 6, 2014
About 80 percent of fortune 500 companies currently use SharePoint for web-based business development and document management. Over the years SharePoint has evolved into […]
-
The Business of Analysis
September 5, 2014
Look around. There you go, as easy as that was, you’ve just done some analysis. Now try it again but this time try to […]
-
Fun with :before and :after pseudo elements
September 4, 2014
For a recent client project I had to create an HTML/CSS template that would display a branched account linking structure. Instead of using background […]
-
What’s In Your Date?
August 28, 2014
So you’re developing a new enterprise application and everything is working. You have the clients talking to front end servers; front end servers routing […]
-
How to Enable WCF Trace for SharePoint
July 24, 2014
Troubleshooting when things go wrong with your WCF application in a SharePoint environment can be a nasty task. SharePoint tends to hide the actual […]
-
Overriding the SharePoint Modal Dialog Close Button
July 16, 2014
The close button in a SharePoint modal dialog is built into SP.UI.ModalDialog and simply closes the dialog. However, we would like to run some backend code […]
-
SharePoint 2010 Document Property Promotion
July 3, 2014
Creating custom solutions such as a custom upload to a document library in SharePoint exposes some features that are very useful out of box, […]
-
Marketing & Innovation: Key to Growth
We’ve known since the turn of the last century that marketing works. A good marketing approach with a solid campaign is truly the key […]
-
Why and How to Start a Company Blog
June 26, 2014
Starting a company blog is certainly easier said than done, but the fact that you are reading this now shows that we are succeeding! […]
-
Setting Reputable Expectations and 5 Mistakes to Avoid
June 24, 2014
If you’ve been involved in project management, then you’ve likely come across a scenario where expectations were missed or not met. Expectations have many […]
-
5 Reasons to Attend a Conference This Year
June 5, 2014
After leaving the comfort of university and embarking on your career journey there aren’t a lot of formal learning opportunities. You no longer have […]
-
The Paperless Era is Here
May 29, 2014
Whether you like it or not, the world is slowly inching towards a paper-free workplace. I’ve been involved in a few projects recently where […]
-
Custom jQuery Confirm Dialog in ASP.NET
May 21, 2014
For one of our new SharePoint modal dialog forms, a button needs to prompt the user whether or not they want to check in […]
-
ASP.NET No Postback After File Download in SharePoint
May 15, 2014
We have an ASP Button control in SharePoint that allows the user to download a file. When the button is clicked, the file is […]
-
RefineCo, Inc. Expands Leadership Team and Aligns Organization to Support Growth
May 8, 2014
RefineCo is proud to announce that Shaun Stepanowich has been promoted from Chief Technical Architect to Director, Technology. May 2014 marks Shaun’s two year […]
-
How To Debug a FAST Search Pipeline Extension
April 28, 2014
Developing a FAST Search Pipeline extension for SharePoint FAST Search is a good way to get FAST to crawl custom properties for files that […]
-
Decoding HTML with jQuery
In many of our SharePoint modal dialogs, the back-end needs to send some JSON to the front-end when the dialog is closed. However, this […]
-
RefineCo, Inc. Listed in the 2014 Branham300’s Next 50 Canadian Information and Communication Technology Companies
April 22, 2014
Results recognize RefineCo as one of Canada’s top technology companies. RefineCo, an Alberta-based technology firm, is proud to announce their debut on the Branham300. […]
-
The Importance of Quality Assurance
April 11, 2014
When a stunning software, system or application is released to the public, people only show their admiration to the creators and developers. Admittedly, without […]
-
Git 101
April 2, 2014
Here is a quick how-to on how to create a local Git repository and push to a remote repository. For those that don’t know, […]
-
IE8 Memory Leaks
March 27, 2014
One of our clients wanted us to create a media gallery webpart for them. The webpart allows you to page through a folder structure/gallery […]
-
A Day in the Life of a Front End Developer
March 14, 2014
Here’s a peek at an average day for a front end developer at RefineCo: 8:30am – Walk into the office and brew up a […]
-
Video.js not falling back to Flash with MP4 videos in Firefox
March 11, 2014
Having videos in your intranet/portal is a great way to interact and deliver content to your users. For our video player webpart, we use […]
-
FAST Search in SharePoint
February 21, 2014
Document sharing is a key benefit of SharePoint. But what good is this feature if you can’t find the document you are looking for? […]
-
How to Keep Employees Engaged in the Company Intranet
February 13, 2014
As a company, your intranet can be a powerful corporate tool or a stagnant place that employees visit when they must. If properly structured, […]
-
ASP.NET Output Caching in SharePoint
February 6, 2014
So you’re developing your web parts and web sites and everything is working perfectly; a little slow, but, otherwise fine. In comes the idea […]
-
How To Determine if Microsoft SharePoint Online Is For Me?
February 2, 2014
We hear the story time and time again: business likes SharePoint; company does not have adequate IT infrastructure to host it themselves; business looks […]
-
Customizing SharePoint OOB Forms
January 29, 2014
With my short time working with SharePoint, I have noticed that when you try to do any item creation of file uploading you always […]
-
Benefits of SharePoint 2013 for Business to Business (B2B) Document Sharing
January 17, 2014
Many RefineCo customers in the Calgary oil and gas industry share documents with each other or with their vendors. It’s how business gets done. […]
-
How ‘Metro’ is Microsoft?
November 1, 2013
I think everyone agree that Microsoft had a lot of fail recently in the consumer space. They continue to release peripherals – that very […]
-
SharePoint 2016 – What the future holds
October 14, 2013
First, I want to say that we’ve verified with a Microsoft resource that some of these details are indeed on their road map, however, […]
-
Why Skeuomorphism is Dead
October 13, 2013
So with SharePoint 2013 and Windows 8 we’ve seen a new “flat” design trend, right? Heck, even iOS7 “transformed” into a “funky new cybernetic” […]
-
SharePoint: jQuery 2 is not for you!
October 3, 2013
So the jQuery team released v2 a few months back and hopefully everyone had a chance to settle in. We have had much time […]
-
Alberta Securities Commission launches new public website
September 16, 2013
Congratulations to the Alberta Securities Commission with the launch of their refreshed public website. We’re proud to have played a part in launching it […]
-
We’ve moved
September 11, 2013
Due to our recent growth, we’ve moved into a larger office space. You’ll now find us hard at work at 420-602 11 Avenue SW.
-
Exciting New Initiatives
September 3, 2013
SharePoint 2013 and Office 365 gives us new opportunities to explore different approaches when solving line-of-business problems: not only are we now storing business […]