About Us
Atlantus Communications is an independent technology consulting firm with 20 years experience serving non-profits, government and business. With deep roots in the Greater Vancouver area, but with clients nationwide, we are proud of the longstanding relationships we have built with a broad range of organizations including community and advocacy groups, universities and independent schools, labor organizations, and medical programs.
We look before we leap. Experience shows that software development projects have the best outcome when our clients engage us to first do a strategic assessment of their current data systems, looking at how they work, or don’t work, in expediting their week-to-week workflow.
We promote organization-wide buy-in to technology planning. We generally believe that program and administrative staff responsible for working with-and maintaining-new software should participate in key phases of the design process. Technology initiatives that are planned top-down without input from the actual end-users can lead to problems down the road. By understanding the roles of the people who will work with our software, we build interfaces and workflows that will maximize ease of use and efficiency.
We remain vendor neutral and platform diverse to provide the best solutions to our clients. Software development has entered an era where it more practical than ever to choose the best Open Source or commercial software for each of your core needs and then programmatically connect and synchronize the systems. Our research explores all the options. We have extensive experience with Microsoft web and database technologies as well as other Open Source environments including the Drupal Open Source Content Management System. But we also have extensive knowledge of CRM and CMS software solutions outside of our areas of expertise, and we will direct clients towards these solutions when it best serves their needs.
We offer a range of on-site and off-site mentoring and training programs around the technologies we support. We feature training on techniques for reporting and analyzing data in relational databases; email and web communication strategy for on-line advocacy and contact management; maintaining your website and other significant topics.