Camrose, Alberta is home to 18,772 people (2021 Census) and a county business base that just hit a new high: 1,439 active business establishments in 2025, up 8.4% from 2024 and 22.2% since 2020. Global Maple System builds the software, websites and automation that let Camrose businesses keep pace with that growth — without having to build an in-house IT department to do it.
That growth is landing on very small operations. Roughly 95% of Camrose County businesses have fewer than five employees, and 78.3% have none at all — which means invoicing, scheduling and inventory are often still running on manual processes or spreadsheets. The local business base grew 30% in a single year between 2023 and 2024, and 22% over five years, and back-office systems that worked at last year's volume start to crack under this year's.
The city's economy runs on agriculture and agri-food processing (grain, oilseed crush, malting, feed), advanced manufacturing and metal fabrication, healthcare and continuing/long-term care, post-secondary education, craft food and beverage production, and construction and building materials. That shows up in employers like The Bethany Group, Covenant Health's St. Mary's Hospital, the University of Alberta's Augustana Campus, EVRAZ Camrose Works and Cargill's Camrose Canola Crush Plant and Animal Nutrition operation, and in the places where the work happens — Downtown Camrose, Millang Industrial Park, Ervick Industrial Park, Railway Junction Industrial Park and the Duggan Mall retail corridor.
The right software looks different depending on where you sit. A café or boutique downtown is usually juggling disconnected POS, booking and accounting tools that don't talk to each other. A multi-site care operator like The Bethany Group, coordinating communities across central Alberta, needs centralized scheduling and records instead of per-site manual coordination. A grain, malt or metal fabrication plant needs scheduling and dispatch that can flex with seasonal and order-driven demand. And a local site owned by a national or multinational parent — like Cargill's crush operations or EVRAZ Camrose Works — needs its plant-level systems talking cleanly to corporate ERP, reporting and supply-chain platforms. We build for all of it.