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Imanet

Imanet was a software company based in Windsor Ontario, servicing the international trade community. Imanet's core products are in the areas of customs brokerage and freight forwarding. Founded in 1989 by Cedomir Bekic, Imanet focuses on developing a highly automated and unified platform tying together customs brokerage, freight forwarding and accounting into one efficient database. They also have developed their own document management system which use linux based servers at client sites to provide FAX-to-SCP on the back end with a .NET based web GUI on the front end for customs filing, entry automation and text manipulation. In 2005 Imanet software was used to process well over 25% of all shipments coming into Canada. In 2010 Imanet was purchased by Descartes Systems Group, a software as a service provider based in Waterloo, Ontario.

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Imanet was a software company based in Windsor Ontario, servicing the international trade community. Imanet's core products are in the areas of customs brokerage and freight forwarding. Founded in 1989 by Cedomir Bekic, Imanet focuses on developing a highly automated and unified platform tying together customs brokerage, freight forwarding and accounting into one efficient database. They also have developed their own document management system which use linux based servers at client sites to provide FAX-to-SCP on the back end with a .NET based web GUI on the front end for customs filing, entry automation and text manipulation. In 2005 Imanet software was used to process well over 25% of all shipments coming into Canada. In 2010 Imanet was purchased by Descartes Systems Group, a software as a service provider based in Waterloo, Ontario.

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  1. date of foundation: 1989 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "1989". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332137208

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