Customer stories


Affordable Image

An off-site marketing department for companies of all sizes

Against All Odds

Produces highly collaborative global book projects with the world's leading photographers, writers and designers.

Publisher's Clearing House

Opportunity and values in your mailbox -- from Publishers Clearing House direct to you, by way of FileMaker Pro.

USA Today

Tracking work in the complicated pre-press procedures for a major national newspaper once meant filling in tiresome paper forms. But at USA Today, a work tracking system built around FileMaker Pro means that every step in the prepress process is documented easily, effectively, and efficiently -- and FileMaker's user-friendliness reduces the learning curve for new users.

Seattle Publishing

Publishers of the Bicycle Paper and various catalogs, directories and reference guides

Associated Press

Keeping member news organizations up to the minute is the mission of the Associated Press, and FileMaker Pro 6 is the latest technological tool helping to accomplish that mission.

The New York Public Library

Images help The New York Public Library tell its story, whether in the news media or over the web. And FileMaker Pro helps the Communications and Marketing department and the Branch Libraries' Web Office of The New York Public Library keep those images organized.

Rebus

Publishing handy health and medical references without an enormous commitment of time and labor -- it all comes together for Rebus Inc. through the power and flexibility of a custom FileMaker Pro application.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education does exactly what the name implies -- it covers the news of the world of academia, in depth and on time. And helping to keep the news fresh and timely, you'll find FileMaker Pro.

Sells Printing

To track their catalog production and printing processes, Sells Printing Company needed a database -- an easy-to-use database that would work on multiple platforms and be flexible enough to fit in with Sells' established proceedures. The got it all with FileMaker Pro. Sells' FileMaker Pro solution delivers more accurate work order tracking, saving the company costs resulting from errors. And FileMaker Pro's Web publishing capability allows customers to view finished goods inventory online.

Alastair Sawday Publishing

Alastair Sawday Publishing (ASP), the company behind the well-known travel guidebook series Special Places to Stay , has built its book production process on a FileMaker foundation. Nearly every edition published (over 50 books) has been compiled with the help of FileMaker.

Harvard University Press

Publisher of a full range of scholarly books in fields ranging from history and philosophy to psychology and education, affiliated with Harvard University.

Standard & Poor's Financial Communications

Financial Communications, one of the many services offered by Standard & Poors, helps a broad range of financial service clients get their marketing and message out via a variety of means -- from newsletters to interactive Web solutions. A network of FileMaker Pro databases enables Financial Communications staff to check the status of clients, jobs and employee workloads.

Holt, Rinehart and Winston

Textbook publisher Holt, Rinehart and Winston uses FileMaker Pro to run editorial, production, sales, and marketing functions at their five locations across the United States. Holt, Rinehart and Winston's solution of 180 related databases takes advantage of FileMaker Pro's ODBC support to connect with other corporate data sources.

Reno Typographers

Reno Typographers has grown from offering traditional typesetting services to offering high-tech services such as scanning, color separation and digital printing. Needing a job-tracking solution that would keep up with their growth, Reno chose FileMaker Pro. FileMaker Pro's ease-of-use saves Reno training costs, and its Web-publishing capability allows customers to check job status online.

TV Guide

TV Guide's Affiliate Marketing Department needed a solution that could manage art specs, deadlines, printer estimates, vendor information and purchase orders, as well as all the other information needed to serve cable operator clients. By building a FileMaker Pro solution in-house, Affiliate Marketing Manager Cara Hathaway estimates she's saved TV Guide close to $20,000 in developer fees.

Ink Projects

"Little Museums" is the definitive guide book to unforgettable attractions such as the New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum and The Muscle Car Ranch. Authors Lynn Arany and Archie Hobson relied on FileMaker Pro to track the details of 3,000 museums -- museums most road-trippers would drive right past if not for "Little Museums".

The Deal

Publisher of The Deal and associated electronic and print publications covering news of the "Deal Economy”

Progressive Solutions

Printing, mail service, and fulfillment needs for corporate clients are the focus for this growing company.

Shoreline Creations Ltd.

Publisher of Group Tour Magazine and Student Group Tour Magazine, quarterly publications focusing on destinations for recreational and educational group travel

Business Printers of San Diego

Commercial print shop specializing in business printing needs, including marketing materials, brochures, and corporate identity products

Canadian Tradex

Sells trade show booth space and directory advertising to top companies in the forestry, logging, and mining industries