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ISU Corp Partners With Innovation Guelph To Help Canadian Businesses Thrive

ISU Corp has partnered with several Canadian businesses thriving to make a difference with exceptional custom software solutions. With many years of experience in a wide variety of technologies, David Mansilla and his team have brilliantly led the designing, creating, and maintaining of software for organizations worldwide. Recently, they’ve had an amazing opportunity to partner with Innovation Guelph. A non-profit organization aiming to create services and programs to help initiate innovative business startups and provide mentorship for expanding businesses.

We are excited to be partnering with Innovation Guelph to help each other grow exponentially! 

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Top 5 Best Apps For Book Lovers: Millions of Books for Free!

Covid-19 has breached many of us around the world to a sense of yearning for new ways to entertain ourselves at home. This could mean finding new hobbies or reinvesting our time into old ones. In this blog, you will be able to discover 5 different amazing apps that can help you rekindle your love for books and all the magic every story has. So hold on tight because these top 5 apps are yours, Book Lovers!

1. Goodreads 

Goodreads is the number 1 app for all book worms! Ranking at number 1 this platform provides plenty of opportunities to find the right book for you from over a billion books! With an infinite amount of searches for recommendations, author collections, and popular quotes, you will be able to find the right book for you just like the 40 million users on this app!

Platform Availability: Browser, Android, and iOS

Price for Subscription: Absolutely free!

2. Amazon Kindle 

Amazon Kindle has many exclusive features such as a page flip navigation feature where one is able to view the book and bookmark it from a birds-eye view. In addition, this app includes many convenient features while reading; highlighting text, translation/meaning of words, dictionaries, change size and font of text, and size of the page. Amazon Kindle helps you with all of your favorite books with the most comfort in a single touch. 

Platform Availability: Android, iOS, Blackberry, and Windows

Price for Subscription: Available on Amazon Account (book prices may vary)

3. Wattpad

Wattpad is where your talent can shine! On this platform, you will be able to story tell and read to your friends, show your talented writing skills, and make friends from all over the world! Great for iPhone users who are always on the go and love to read!

Platform Availability: Web, Android, and iOS

Price for Subscription: Absolutely free!

4. Amazon Audible 

Amazon Audible is one of the top choices for those who love to hear others read to them. On Amazon Audible you will be able to hear authors read the book to you alternatively. This is great for young kids who love to go to bed hearing a book or even working adults who love to hear stories while multitasking. This app is highly compatible with smartphones, iPads/tablets, and any Amazon product. 

Platform Availability: Android, iOS, Windows phone, Amazon kindle, and Fire TV

Price for Subscription: Absolutely free 30 Day Trial to download (1) audiobook with an addition of $14.95 a month

5. Epic!

All the Epic stories you are about to hear with this app! This app is great for children under the age of 12 and love to spend their spare time reading. With the addition of new books and old, this app is great to find some of your favorite childhood stories. The age-based library of books on this app helps children learn in different languages, in video or audio format.

Platform Availability: Android and iOS

Price for Subscription: Free for all educators or $7.99 a month 


For additional information on apps or if you would like to build your own, please feel free to reach out to us!

 
 
 

The Importance of Software Development

Custom software development is essential when building your first home. There are many questions that you can find yourself contemplating when deciding what best suits you and your family’s needs. There are a series of questions that we have created that can help you choose the best custom option to help you create the “home” of you and your family's dreams.  

Why is software development considered by organizations big or small?

Organizations stand out when there are unique software developments provided that they can help create an educative, creative, customizable, automotive, and supportive opportunity to stem big. This helps create improvement for customers' experience, assist your company's brand and help create the potential for more innovative products. 

Education: Guaranteeing Maximum ROI On Technology Spend

Ensuring your software development journey and all its major components such as training and end-user education are fully prompt and easily transferable to the end-users routine is highly significant in a smooth process. Now, this guarantees that you are getting the maximum ROI on your spending. 

Creation: Creating Solutions Adapting To Fit Your Companies Objectives and Goals

Everyone adheres to their own unique lifestyle which means your living space should be customary to that. Similarly, in software development, an out of the box solution doesn't always equate to overall success in your organization's goals and objectives. You will need a solution that is constructed exactly to one's specifications. 

Integration: Gaining Better Business Intelligence Opportunities By Connecting Your Data 

Technology has developed to become capable of linking systems, single-source truths, and creating business intelligence with consolidated data. 

Customization: An out of the box solution with a personalized unique spin

Software development and customization go hand in hand when creating specific products for a company and its special needs. You will be able to create something suitable to meet the specific criteria requested to help previous investments be more unique.

Automation: Time

Many organizations continue to suffer from manual processes that result in taking up valuable time. When it could be spent on more productive tasks that give employees the opportunity to retain their focus on more subject targets with more value. This will substantially increase employee satisfaction. 

Support: Augment predictable spend based on Internal Resource Skill Set


Support can be brought to software development in many different forms. This could be through helping your solution reach its optimal peak, and providing available resources to technical expertise.

To learn more on how to get a great software development team feel free to reach out to us at ISU Corp.