Success Stories

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The Client: Brandon School

The Challenge: Brandon School needed help developing more effective solutions for several administrative processes. Attendance was being taken on paper for students across multiple campuses, the billing system was time-consuming and unable to produce desired reports, and the calendar couldn’t display the information that people were hoping to see.

The Solution: We eliminated paper attendance tracking and increased the accuracy of on-site attendance across five residential locations and one day location. In doing so, reports from the attendance system could be generated for the billing office, streamlining billing processes, saving time, and reducing errors. Finally, we developed a calendar solution that allowed the school to create recurring events, consolidate student meetings/events into a central location, and offer users day and week views of everything happening at Brandon.

“Our custom database brings together every area of our human services organization including contact management, clinical records, facilities management, billing, and more. Kim has made countless improvements to our Db while building new modules which greatly improve our decision making and data management capabilities. We truly value Kim’s technical skills and her ability to translate our needs into logical workflows.”

—John Beevers, Brandon School

The Client: HouseWorks

The Challenge: HouseWorks determined that considerable time and money would be saved by moving the home modification department’s data from an in-house solution into the Cloud. After the company’s resident IT Manager set up a FileMaker Cloud Server, HouseWorks needed assistance in migrating the data.

The Solution: I prepared and moved multiple files from VDC to FileMaker Cloud and worked with HouseWorks staff to coordinate user performance testing sessions to ensure acceptable performance. The migration caused no workflow disruptions and will reduce HouseWorks’ costs.

“When we started looking at the newly offered FileMaker Cloud option to transition our FileMaker environment, we didn’t know where to begin or what questions to ask to make this a successful migration.

Having worked with Kim in the past, we knew we found the right person to help us with this project as well. With her solid FileMaker background and many years of experience creating and maintaining FileMaker environments, we felt we were good hands. Kim analyzed the project quickly, laid out the groundwork, explained each step along the way and documented everything for us afterward. Kim was a pleasure to work with during the transition, and we are extremely happy with the outcome.

Now we are ‘in the cloud’ with our FileMaker environment and all the work was done extremely efficiently, in what felt like a minimal amount of time, cost and effort, thanks to Kim.”

—Fred Baars, HouseWorks