Data Collection: AGDATA Canada collects both retail and wholesale sales information on behalf of our clients. This requires daily interaction with our client's channel partners to ensure an accurate and efficient transfer of information.

There is significant diversity in the technical capabilities and resources within the distribution and retail channel. AGDATA Canada has years of experience addressing each channel partner's varied limitations and requirements and assisting our clients in meeting their reporting needs.

We focus on creating value for both the sender and receiver of information. For the sender, we use our technical capabilities to provide flexible reporting methods and receive data in the format that is easiest for them to provide.  AGDATA Canada has excellent customer service representatives available to assist our clients through each step of the reporting process.  Our commitment to superior customer service eases our clients' worries about their customers' data reporting experiences.

Additionally, we ensure the highest level of data security and confidentiality for the proprietary information channel partners. Our clients can be assured that this valued asset, their proprietary sales information, is secure.

For the receiver, we offer an efficient process to fulfill specific marketing programs and perform marketing research. AGDATA facilitates collection of required data and custom export formats to meet each client's needs. We also provide weekly reports - including reported, posted and suspended transactions by customer - to allow our clients to monitor reporting activity.

Web-based Data Access Tools: In order for our clients to derive maximum benefit from their data resources, it is important that they have efficient, flexible, real-time access to that information. To enable that, we develop proprietary web-based query and reporting tools that allow consumers of information throughout our clients' organizations to securely access appropriate sets of information when they need it, where they need it. Our web development team strives to create applications that are flexible enough to be powerful, but intuitive and adaptive enough to allow users to access information quickly and efficiently.

Database Design: Our team of database administrators thoroughly understands database design theory and has experience with various enterprise data platforms and applications and has architected database solutions, both transactional (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) in nature. They combine theory and practical experience to optimize the design and management of each client's database.

We can create stand-alone, pre-populated databases for websites or list management, or create comprehensive data integration solutions featuring tight integration with your legacy systems and our data hygiene tools and expertise.

Our approach is simple and effective: We identify the right database architecture, specific to your needs, and then bring it to life with rapid and efficient implementation.

Data Mining: Databases strive to store information at the most granular level possible. In order to extract meaningful and actionable insight from the data, it is often necessary to aggregate the data and apply complex business rules.

Complex Report Development: Our report developers strive to present information in formats that are meaningful, convenient and efficient.

The AGDATA Canada team is expert at providing innovative ways to crystallize information into meaningful and actionable insights that are readily consumable by decision makers. Often this means summarizing information in dashboard formats on one page - and other times it means presenting the full detail in a three-ring binder. We recognize that delivering the right information in the right format at the right time is a critical part of our clients' expectations.

In addition to complex report development, clients often ask AGDATA Canada team members to develop simple on-demand reports to help answer specific business questions. Experience shows that an increase in information directly available to our clients - such as that through a web-based query tool - often adds to a state of information overload.

Measurement: In a business environment that is increasingly focused on the bottom line, allocating resources to derive the maximum return on investment is critical. AGDATA Canada helps our clients make smart resource allocation decisions by measuring the success of past activities and ensuring smart measurement plans for planned future activities.

Communication Tactical Support: We partner with our clients' advertising agencies to support customization, personalization and execution of one-to-one communication tactics at both the channel and grower level.

Marketing Program Management: Over the years, we have written millions of dollars worth of checks to growers and agricultural retailers in Canada on behalf of our clients. This represents literally thousands of individual programs and millions of individual checks.

AGDATA Canada has more than 10 years experience assisting clients in fulfillment of marketing program payments to distributors, retailers and growers. We understand the importance of getting payments right, on time, the first time. We also understand the critical role accurate payments play in the relationship between a client and its customers.