Christian Blind Mission

FileMaker Delivers Data to Ugandan Children's Hospital

When reconstructive surgeon, Andrew Hodges, worked in Uganda in the early 90s he discovered there were no systems in place to record patients' medical records. In 2004, faced with a return to the country to work for the Christian Blind Mission in Anold children's hospital, he knew a comprehensive database could actually help save lives. But any solution needed to be robust enough to operate from a laptop in remote areas and capable of organising large amounts of complex medical data.

Victoria and Albert Museum

FileMaker Joins the V&A Team (Museum Database)

Responsible for managing and maintaining one of the world's largest collections of art and design objects, the V&A devotes a great deal of effort to loaning out objects from the collection. This activity helps build an even bigger audience for the collections. The V&A also offers entire exhibitions to venues in the UK and overseas. The museum also borrows objects from major museums worldwide and hosts temporary exhibitions. Managing the movement of these priceless objects and exhibitions is a huge logistical challenge.

Gnashers

Dental Practice is All Smiles with FileMaker Dental Management System

Keeping track of five dentists, a hygienist, five nurses, thousands of patients and hundreds of appointments each month is a huge task for his receptionist. Add in administrative matters like invoicing, purchasing, record keeping and the challenge is even greater. But doing it all with a paper-based system is nigh on impossible.

Cardiff University

FileMaker Enables Pathology Research Revolution

Clinical research into kidney cancer is a complex business requiring an incredible degree of accuracy and the highest possible levels of data integrity. In contrast, Cardiff University researchers needed a simple IT answer to the challenges of collating and analysing the wealth of data created during each project.

Taylor Howes Designs

Taylor Howes Designs Gains Greater Control with FileMaker Interior Design Database

Formed in 1991, Taylor Howes is a successful and fast-growing interior design business, which traditionally relied upon several individual spreadsheets to manage each project. But a single project may involve thousands of items from hundreds of suppliers working in numerous currencies.

e-clinic

e-clinic Cuts Cost of Data Management for Private Clinics

Many clinics still manage basic patient information using paper-based or simple spreadsheet solutions. Implementing a more sophisticated database enables them to both improve clinical care and regulatory compliance, as well as reach out to new patients via targeted marketing campaigns.

Skyline Whitespace

FileMaker Takes the Stand (Exhibition Management System)

Founded in 2002 with just 4 employees, Skyline Whitespace had, in just three years, grown to a team of 20 staff generating revenues in excess of £2-million annually. The firm had been using a combination of standard office applications and email to manage projects, an approach that had long since become unworkable.

OATS

FileMaker Greases the Wheels of the Multi-Billion Pound Oil Industry

As the publisher of the world's leading lubricants recommendation directory for the oil industry, OATS required a powerful, robust and fully searchable database platform to deliver information to the figure-tips of its helpdesk and sales support professionals. As well as being concise, accurate and easily updateable, it needed to be multi-lingual and user friendly.

IMAS

FileMaker Enhances IMAS Knowledge Management

Specialising selling companies in the UK financial services sector, IMAS Corporate Advisors has acted for more unquoted businesses than any other adviser in the UK. With a business predicated on in-depth knowledge and analysis of the market, IMAS has a highly structured approach to the gathering and use of financial data.

Bedford Modern School

FileMaker Receives Top Marks with Bedford Modern School

Bedford Modern needed to improve the way it tracked and reported academic data throughout the school year, while providing a tailored management system to enable student registration in each lesson, rather than the standard 'twice a day'. Its existing database had consistently been unable to offer this functionality.

Alastair Sawday Publishing

Alastair Sawday Publishing Manages Special Places to Stay with FileMaker

Alastair Sawday's travel guides include a wealth of information. Managing this mass of data is complex and time consuming. Keeping the costs down, integrating and refining the process of publishing these books is a challenge by anyone's standards.

Croxteth Comp. School

FileMaker Takes Croxteth Comprehensive in to the Digital Age

The demand to comply with new e-Government legislation and a growing need to analyse and evaluate student data in a meaningful way meant Croxtech Community Comprehensive needed an efficient, customisable and robust information management system.

Bryanston School

FileMaker is Best in Class at Bryanston School

Bryanston School needs to track and report academic data throughout the school year, undertake dynamic curriculum management for pupils - including personalised access to timetables, learning materials and assignments - via its virtual learning environment (VLE), and manage the day-to-day operations of the school which includes an extensive estates department.

The Children's Hospital School at Great Ormond Street

FileMaker gets A* from The Children's Hospital School at Great Ormond Street and UCH

The Children's Hospital School at Great Ormond Street needed to manage, update and report against a large volume of educational data to support, monitor and track progress of the 1,300+ pupils.

Dubbs

Dubbs Duplicates Business Success With FileMaker

As one of the UK's leading video and DVD duplication houses, Dubbs needed to automate its entire order processing, invoicing and dispatch systems across the business to achieve operational efficiencies and minimise production errors.

Baker Labels | Sportstiks

Baker Labels Stick to What They Know

A rapidly expanding customer and employee base was proving very costly and putting tremendous pressure on Baker Labels' manual information management processes.

Pret a Manger

Pret Gets Online DataTherapy with FileMaker

Despite a commitment to establishing an online ordering facility across Pret's network of global outlets, its development teams had struggled to find the right database platform: one that was flexible enough to allow for rapid growth of the new delivery model, while versatile enough to manage a host of new projects.

Unicol Engineering

FileMaker Manufacturing Database Passes Its Screen Test

Unicol produces mounting solutions for thousands of products for hundreds of manufacturers. Each product is available in variety of sizes, specifications, colours and configurations. As a result, Unicol products number in the tens of thousands. Until 10 years ago, the company struggled with a manual ordering, pricing and invoicing system. When, in 1998, Ricky Clark took over the back office, he immediately spotted a clear need for a more efficient system and set about finding a solution.

Wood & Douglas

Wood & Douglas Tune in to FileMaker Manufacturing Database

A leading manufacturer of radio communications equipment, Wood & Douglas needed a database solution to better manage the multiple elements involved in each project undertaken by the business. The company comprises many departments including production, research and development, marketing, accounts, service and dispatch.

Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council

FileMaker Helps Cut Council Costs

As a branch of a local government, the print department is, like all areas of the public sector, hugely focused on cutting costs and delivering more service for less money. Key to this is keeping as much print work in-house as possible. With staff and equipment infrastructure costs fixed, the goal is to maximise use of internal resources and minimise the level of outsourcing.

London Research Institute Cancer Research UK

FileMaker Streamlines Cancer Research

The use of laboratory mice in the LRI's research helps scientists understand the biology of cancer and discover drugs used to treat and prevent development of the disease. All work is carried out under project licences issued by the UK Government and is closely monitored by Home Office inspectors.

WOW Creative

FileMaker Delivers the WOW Factor!

Fast paced design agency 'WOW' has built its reputation on delivering innovative and thought provoking campaigns to an enviable portfolio of clients. But creativity alone does not guarantee success, and the agency required an IT platform on which to manage day-to-day operations and keep the business profitable.

Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum Evolves Unique Research Methodology with FileMaker

Researchers in the Natural History Museum's Department of Zoology required a flexible new approach to managing the vast amounts of data collated in two externally funded research projects, involving the study of parasite evolutionary biology.

European Medicines Agency

FileMaker Forms Flexible Rapid Application Development Tool

Charged with the responsibility for the protection and promotion of public and animal health, managing data is paramount for the European Medicines Agency (EMEA).

Blackpool Sixth Form College

FileMaker Gives Blackpool College a Data Education

With over 1600 full time students, Blackpool Sixth Form College required an entire information management system to register students, record marks, handle progress reviews and send disciplinary referrals.

SWS Solutions

Database Developer Drives Smooth Workshop Operations

A typical garage will produce some 4,000 invoices every year, while individual invoices can comprise multiple line items (e.g. parts and labour). Their database systems need to be easy-to-use and implement without the need for spending weeks on training courses or referring to a user guide to perform the most common daily tasks.

British Alpine Ski School

FileMaker Delivers Alpine Access for British Ski School

Every year thousands of UK skiing enthusiasts book courses with the British Alpine Ski School (BASS) in resorts across the French and Swiss Alps. BASS needed a user-friendly system to capture client data entered into its website.

Media 10

FileMaker Event Management Database Puts on a Great Show

With anywhere from 400 to 600 exhibitors per show, keeping track of their needs, wants and contractual obligations is a mammoth task. For as long as anyone can remember, Media 10 has used FileMaker to make sure that contracts were signed, welcome packs assembled and sent out, invoices sent and paid, and so on. But the system in place hadn't been upgraded in years and came nowhere close to living up to FileMaker's potential.

Ocarina Workshop

Ocarina Tunes into FileMaker for Family Business Success

Ocarina Workshop is a small, family-run business with a multi-faceted remit. It manufactures musical instruments, publishes music and teaching materials, and has thousands of large orders going out each year to schools worldwide, as well as a large number of small orders shipping to the general public.

St Anthony's Girls' School

FileMaker Ensures Best Behaviour

To create a comprehensive database that would allow staff to monitor and track the individual behaviour of over 1350 students as they move through their school careers - in the most cost effective manner.

Haycock Associates

FileMaker Delivers a Watertight Estate Management Database for the National Trust

Haycock Associates is a hydrology consultancy that has worked with the National Trust for many years to manage water supply and sewage infrastructure on all its properties. This is not an inconsiderable challenge as many of the historic properties have antique sewage and water systems. Also, the surrounding grounds and gardens have been landscaped or altered over time, which affects the way water flows around the estates.

i2i

Building Business with FileMaker

Architects, planners and engineers must cope with huge volumes of business-critical information in every single project they undertake. The management of this data is very admin-intensive, costly and takes focus away from the job in hand - designing great buildings.

Cancer Research UK LRI

FileMaker Drives Graduate Recruitment for Cancer Research UK LRI

The London Research Institute (LRI), a division of Cancer Research UK, faced a complete failure of its recruitment software less than three weeks before its annual graduate recruitment drive.

TimeHarvest

Hosted Rental Alternative of Digital Printing Software is a Win-Win-Win

Things have gone well for TimeHarvest and its products have sold strongly. But, even with a customer list that reads like a Who's Who of professional digital printers, the company is still looking for ways to improve their market leadership position.

YSE Limited

FileMaker Takes to the Slopes (Ski Resort Database)

With 192 beds in 21 chalets under management, a resort staff of more than 50 most of whom need to be hired afresh every season, and a weekly 180-seat charter flight from the UK, YSE is no small operation. And unlike conventional hotels where rooms are identical or similar, at YSE each room and every chalet is unique. Add to all that the fact that the season only runs for five months of the year and the operational challenge becomes even greater.

Green Tourism Business Scheme

FileMaker Takes a Green Holiday

With more than 2,000 clients ranging from tiny two-room B&Bs to larger 250-bed hotels and new members joining all the time, the scheme had firmly outgrown its Excel-based assessment filing system. Filing assessments was a cumbersome process, the final report looked like an ordinary spreadsheet and, most importantly, there was no way to analyse data across various assessments.

Advanced Peripheral Systems

FileMaker Heats-Up Security Business for APS

Advanced Peripheral Solutions (APS) needed to replace its disjointed service management infrastructure - to eliminate heavy administrative overheads, streamline business processes and deliver improved customer service.

College of Naturopathic Medicine

FileMaker: The Natural Choice for CNM

As one of the UK's leading natural medicine training providers, The College of Naturopathic Medicine (CNM) manages 12 sites across the country, each running 12 or more courses at any given time, to over 1,500 students.

Boston University London

FileMaker Goes Back to School in London

The university needed an easy-to-use tool to manage the inflow of students and help them make the most of their London experience. As most are young and living and working outside the US for the first time, the students needed help with housing, choosing room-mates, and obtaining visas as well as the usual student matters such as choosing courses and professors, obtaining grades and more.

SJ Berwin

Mac Compatibility Seals the Deal at SJ Berwin

The design team of pan-European law firm, SJ Berwin, faced the impossible task of keeping track of thousands of jobs using a paper-based system. Experiments with spreadsheet programmes proved unsuccessful and an alternative was sought - one powerful enough to manage the entire workflow, while flexible enough to do so in both Mac and PC environments.

Fairprint

FileMaker Print Management Application Keeps the Presses Running

Since its founding in 1997, Fairprint had grown such that its manual order system was limiting its ability to expand further. Under the paper-based system, sales reps would write out an order form which would then follow the job throughout the company. As a result, there was no way of accurately tracking a job. As one director put it "there was a constant stream of people running about chasing jobs." By 2004, management had recognised the need for an automated solution.

OrganicAssistant

FileMaker Gets the Organic Seal of Approval

OrganicAssistant is one of the largest databases of organic suppliers in the UK with over 30,000 products listed. It connects the hundreds of businesses that create, distribute and sell organic produce, providing a central resource for consumers and the industry.

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