MONTREAL, June 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Alithya Group inc.
(TSX: ALYA) (NASDAQ: ALYA) ("Alithya"), a leader in strategy
and digital transformation employing more than 3,000 highly
qualified professionals and offering enterprise solutions
throughout Canada, the United States, and Europe, is
proud to announce the launch of BénéClic, a new mobile application
that improves accessibility and connection between volunteers and
sick children at Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU)
Sainte-Justine, one of the four
most important pediatric centres in North
America.
BénéClic's enhances the volunteering program's goals by matching
young patients and volunteers based on their common interests.
CHU Sainte-Justine approached Alithya with a need to develop a
user-friendly mobile app that would streamline what was previously
a lengthy process, which included manual administrative functions
for fielding requests and finding available volunteers, without
specifying any particular interests and spoken languages. The
project was embraced by the Alithya Digital Solution Centre (ADSC),
a specialized cluster of more than 400 full-time professionals in
Montreal and Quebec City.
Working closely with CHU Sainte-Justine, Alithya leveraged the
expertise of its professionals to create an application, available
on iOS and Android for tablets and mobile phones, using React
Native. The app focuses on fulfilling the service requests of
patients and their families, using specific fields to help find
optimal matches from within the hospital's Volunteer Service.
User-friendly interface and experience for various types of
users
ADSC leveraged the expertise of its UX specialists,
who regularly apply their expertise to finding a balance between
established goals and end-user needs by conducting user research
and statistical analysis in order to develop effective interfaces
for mobile applications, websites, and much more.
Alithya's UX specialists applied an agile approach to
prioritizing the user experiences of all stakeholders and their
needs, including young patients, their families, caregivers,
volunteers, and administrative employees. The process included
development of a navigation and a graphic design ꟷ crafted in
collaboration with the graphic designers at CHU Sainte-Justine ꟷ
adapted to the context of pediatrics, ensuring an attractive and
intuitive interface for the app's young audience. Alithya also
developed an accompanying web platform solution for the program's
administrators featuring high-level functionality, simplified
maintenance, and well-documented support.
Quote by Steeve Duchesne, Senior Vice President, Digital
Solutions at Alithya:
"We are proud to have extended our
expertise, engagement, collaborative leadership, and our culture of
innovation to CHU Ste-Justine. The Alithya Digital Solutions Centre
was conceived as a centre of excellence for advancing the
state-of-the-art in digital technology, and I can think of no more
noble use of our expertise than in support of such an important
component of caring for sick children. Since the company's
founding, community involvement has been a staple of Alithya's
corporate culture. This project in particular tugs at the heart
strings of our organization, as it will facilitate and optimize the
happy moments that children at CHU Ste-Justine are able to
experience."
Quote by Dominique Paré, Head of the Volunteering Service at
CHU Ste-Justine:
"The resulting BénéClic application puts
the connection process at the fingertips of young patients and
volunteers, enabling them to establish an ideal match through
fields of interest that will significantly improve the quality of
time spent together. Whether a child is seeking a Nintendo partner,
someone to watch movies with, a drawing enthusiast, or more,
BénéClic moves the process one giant leap forward by enabling a
significant increase in rapid, positive responses to patient
requests. We thank Alithya for their dedication and professionalism
in delivering this valuable tool that will improve the quality of
time spent between the children and our volunteers."
Alithya was recently nominated for a Technology Association of
Georgia (TAG) Technology Award for
its delivery of Faster Families, a Microsoft Power app and
matching app developed for Adoption-Share, a US-based non-profit
organization dedicated to reducing adoption barriers and increasing
child placement.
About Alithya
Alithya is a North American leader in
strategy and digital transformation. The company employs more than
3,000 professionals in Canada,
the United States, and
Europe. Alithya's integrated offer
is based on four pillars of expertise: business strategies,
enterprise cloud solutions, application services, and data and
analytics. Alithya deploys leading-edge solutions, services, and
skills to develop tools designed to meet the unique needs of
customers in a variety of sectors, including financial services,
manufacturing, renewable energy, telecommunications, transport and
logistics, professional services, healthcare and government. For
more information on Alithya, visit www.alithya.com.
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