This company needed a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system that included a special system to track speaker bookings. Off-the-shelf software did not have the necessary features. A custom database made the job easy.

This company needed to closely monitor overseas shipments in order to maintain adequate inventory on hand in the US. The program also included a CRM (Customer Relationship Management)  system linked to invoices so that salesmen could follow up immediately after a shipment was sent to a customer. 

File-Makers' sales lead generation systems are capable of generating thousands of leads per month. This program was specifically designed to import thousands of sales leads, analyze them using a custom-developed algorithm, automatically categorize leads into proper pre-defined territories, and make them available for sales follow up. 

Custom reports are a major advantage of custom databases. In this example, a school administrator needed a visual graph showing the maximum number of children in their childcare facility during each time segment of each day during a date range. The administrator can regenerate the report for any desired date range. This information helps the school determine staffing requirements. 

Databases are ideally suited to dealing with large quantities of information. This program simply and quickly eliminates duplicate values from hundreds of thousands of telephone numbers. 

This program emulates the look and feel of a real trading software system, but doesn't use real money. The simulation is so real that the trader can develop the skills necessary to trade without risking real money. It in includes special features to analyze the trader's performance, error types and rates, and decision trend analysis. 

Existing modules like this CRM module are very common and make database development faster and less expensive