InfoHarvest Company Profile

Our Mission

Benefits to You

Our background in the agriculture and food industry enables us to add value to your information by constructing topical links to related Web sites. Such links give users easy and fast access to a wealth of material. This makes your pages a one-stop shop for relevant information.

Usage of the World Wide Web is unprecedented in Internet history. Businesses are using the Web to increase their visibility and to market their products and services. In today's global market place the Internet provides a level playing field for all businesses regardless of size or location. On the Internet InfoHarvest's storefront is next door to IBM's.

Our Experience

Mark Johnson is the Chief Scientist of InfoHarvest Inc. He has been working with networked computers since 1969, specializing in the application of information technology to the natural sciences. Mark was part of the first graduating class from the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. He worked with the Alberta Research Council, developing real-time and analysis software for the Alberta Hail Project, leading the ARC's Geographic Information Systems program, and designing and implementing a database of soils in Alberta. Mark is now applying his software development experience in providing Web pages based on databases.

Marilyn Johnson, M.Sc. is the senior consultant and business manager of InfoHarvest Inc. She was raised on a farm at Kitscoty, Alberta and then moved into the scientific area with her first off-farm-work at the Alberta Hail Project. After completing her M. Sc. in agricultural marketing from the Department of Rural Economy at the University of Alberta, Marilyn worked as a market researcher with Alberta Agriculture and Food (AA&F) before joining the dynamic team at InfoHarvest Inc.

Some of Our Work

The Alberta Canola Producers Commission is refreshed every night by harvesting information from the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange and AA&F. The information is sorted, processed, and presented in a format developed for the Commission. News items and commentaries are updated by Commission staff using online Content Management forms.

Alberta Health needed an Extranet site to support communication with health professionals across the province. InfoHarvest provided several components, including a multi-user calendar system, a database for user information and authentication, and a web application for generating custom mailing lists.

The Alberta Centre for Active Living maintains a database of hundreds of links to online resources. InfoHarvest software helps maintain the links through online editing forms, automatic link checking, and both basic and advanced search functions.

InfoHarvest provided a web application to tie a graphical database and an Access database together in a data-driven information site on land variability issues. This site also supports an automated pop-up glossary and user-selectable data displays.

InfoHarvest Content Management (IHCM) technology allows our clients to maintain their web sites themselves using simple, web-based forms. A catalog that changes day-to-day is maintained by its owner at ESP-Enhancement.com, using IHCM technology to create pages, enter text, and upload pictures, then edit the site from any web browser. The software handles the linking of the pages, and even automatically creates the "What's New" section of the home page.