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Unique Business Needs Require Solutions That Are
Friendly, Fast, & Manageable

  Hickam Development has completed numerous FileMaker Pro database enterprise projects.These projects have ranged in size and complexity but have always been completed with the following concepts in mind:
  • Fully automated system for user friendliness.
  • Fast and Integral access to data.
  • Report functions that exceed the clients current needs.
  • Upgradeable databases that can be maintained over  time.

Developed Features

 


Cable System Marketing Plan Database

Cable Marketing Company, Denver, CO

An enterprise database running over a LAN and WAN (via Citrix) that creates and stores a Cable System Marketing Plan for each combination of cable market and programming partner. The system subsequently tracks advertising and marketing tactics, production orders, and management reports relative to each Marketing Plan. The system makes extensive use of emailing as reminders and for submittal and approval notification. It creates PDF reports that are also automatically emailed to management and employees. It also allows for access to specific Intranet and Internet sites that further enhance the managers’ ability to analyze current information relative to a given market. By unifying research, communication, and presentation, data orchestration was successful in giving this customer more marketing control then ever.

Contact Management/Funding Database
Education Oriented Nonprofit, Denver CO

This system is used as a contact and a fundraising event management tool.  It organizes funding by event and by contact. It reports funding information and contact interaction. It also serves as a contact manager and features various emailing and mass mailing capabilities.

Advertising Sales, Publication Production, Publication Distribution,
and Contact Management Databases

Employment Advertising Publisher, Denver CO

These systems allow for the creation of customers, invoice production, advertisement production and placement, as well as related Internet services tracking. Extensive use of advanced capabilities including export to and interaction with production tools such as Quark Xpress and Accounting software.

They also have an extensive publication distribution database and several minor databases for management purposes. Their systems make use of cross platform capabilities and include the use of plug-in for faxing, file management, sound, PDF and text manipulation.


Installation/Inventory Management Database

National Telephone Company

This system that maintains a national telephone companies PBX and related technology installations at over 200 sites across the country. The system also maintains maintenance schedules, inventory storage, inventory retirement, and inventory moves. It tracks all information for telephone users that are associated with a given PBX. This feature is used to help move workgroups from one location to another and also acts as a web enabled employee locater for over 12,000 employees. This database was created in FileMaker Pro 6 and converted to FileMaker Pro 7. It also includes web publishing.

 

Needs Assessment
Click here to complete a Needs Assessment that will generate a FREE Estimate and design Specification. The design specification is based on industry standards and can be disseminated as a Request for Proposal (RFP).
Hickam Development recommends that a full needs assessment and evaluation be completed before estimating project costs. Although this make take more time than you prefer, it will clarify exactly what you want and need in a database. This assessment may also be disseminated to other vendors for their estimates as well.
Hickam Development has completed numerous Filemaker Pro database enterprise projects.These projects have ranged in size and complexity but have always been completed with the following concepts in mind:

  • Fully automated system for user friendliness.
  • Fast and Integral access to data.
  • Report functions that exceed the clients current needs.
  • Upgradeable databases that can be maintained over time.
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