But, after twenty-plus years of rapid growth, STEMCELL’s IT team found that it was spending too much of its time supporting applications that were past their best. “Our mission is to support our scientists with what they need,” explains Beatriz Clarke, STEMCELL’s applications development manager. “We’re a biotech firm, not an IT company, so we cannot justify a huge IT function. And, it’s hard to hire developers in the Vancouver area, Canada’s equivalent to Silicon Valley.”