Advanced Services
Meta-consulting, for developers
If you’re a filemaker developer that’s hit a wall, and found out about us through filemakerhacks.com or elsewhere, you’d be right in thinking we’re honored to consult for you when your project is particularly thorny or esoteric. Our extensive experience has taught us that outlier problems get solved faster when you make and help friends. What are you stuck on? We’d like to help.
Data analysis, reporting, and charting
Let us help you identify and achieve the sophisticated analysis you desire, using the most appropriate tools for the job. The results of our analysis can feed back directly into your operations, helping you manage your data more effectively and powerfully. Contact us.
Filemaker Go / Mobile
Key features:
- collect barcodes and capture signatures
- create invoice and proposals on location
- dispatch tickets to onsite technicians
- take pictures and insert to your database
- email pdf documents
- view formatted reports away from the office
- work off-line without internet connection, and upload when ready
Let us free you from your office – contact us today!
WebDirect
Not familiar with WebDirect? Available in Filemaker Server 13, this breakthrough technology runs your custom solutions directly through your desktop or tablet’s browser, allowing you to extend your reach. Supported browsers include Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer on the desktop, and Safari and Chrome on a mobile browser; both HTML5 and CSS3 compliant.
Interested? We’re here to help transform your Filemaker experience. Fill out our ‘inquires’ form so we can learn more about your needs.
Project Management
We see to ensure clarity and good decision making throughout — ours is an ’iterative’ process, ensuring you have a sense of the project all along the way; our focus at every stage of your project is to reduce uncertainty and “dis-ambiguate” so we can make the best possible decisions and achieve the most advantageous outcomes for you.
We have more than 20 years experience in Filemaker development and look forward to making your solution clear, value-laden, and powerful. Ready to begin the conversation?
Training and Support
Why Our Clients Choose Us
Convenient
No two businesses or organizations are the same, and your business occupies a unique niche, though your software may not reflect that to the degree you wish. When we build a custom solution for you, many of our clients understand the learning curve will be far gentler with our results, since it was built from the ground up to address your particular needs. There will be no distracting “features” you didn’t ask for. No five steps when only two were needed. Your convenience means time, aggravation, and money saved.
Tell us how we can best serve YOUR needs.
Competitive
The cost of custom software might seem prohibitive, but in many cases, there is great savings and opportunities for efficiency to be had. In nearly all specialized industries, the cost of commercial software is comparable to or exceeds the cost of custom development. Whether you’re developing software for Taxi companies, school districts, wineries, retail systems, or product manufacturers, we can competitively streamline your systems and improve your business model.
But first you need to call.
Expansive
“If you’re a hammer, all the world’s a nail” – but if you’re Kevin Frank and Associates, there’s a vast toolset we can bring to bear when solving your problems. Discovery is both the first and an on-going part of our design process – and we commonly identify both achievable short-term objectives, as well as larger goals and opportunities for your organization, in a continuous process.All companies are evolving, as are the technologies available. Our clients depend on future flexibility, and we strive to create solutions that will grow with your industry and individual needs.
Let us help you manage your future growth – by design!
Empowering
You require one or more features that aren’t available from commercial software packages. Sound familiar? Don’t be limited by off-the-shelf. Our clients are one-of-a-kind, and are trying to custom serve their clients in a unique manner as well. You occupy a unique value proposition, and are best qualified to know how to serve YOUR clients, often DESPITE your software! If your database tools aren’t supporting you as they should, step up and let’s change it. Let us know how we can make the difference for you!
We’d like to help.
Specific
Our clients range from knowing EXACTLY what they want, to more vaguely sensing the insufficiency of their software. Fortunately, our design process involves deep discovery of your needs and best possible outcomes – beyond just enumerating a few added features. You can rely on us to help you determine their needs – and divide them according to their immediacy. In many cases, our discovery allows transformative change in the organizations we serve. We’re skilled at assessing and developing projects of all sizes for just the right fit.
Initial consultation is free.
Reputable
You’ve seen or heard about our work, or know of our reputation as one of the top development firms in the area. Perhaps you know us from the filemakerhacks.com or other online forum and discussion communities, or have seen us speaking at the developer’s conferences in Cupertino. We’ve been ‘certified developers’ as long as the distinction has been made, and doing this for more than 20 years and are here to stay, and are excited about the changes and opportunities the next 20 years will bring. Let’s begin making a difference in the future of your organization.