Build a Claris FileMaker business solution tailored to your needs

A bespoke Claris FileMaker solution built specially for your business will fit your needs precisely, harnessing powerful technology to transform how you work. We bring all our Claris FileMaker development skills to the task, drawing on our experience of helping our clients across a huge range of sectors. We will work closely with you to make sure that the system you get is the system you need.

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“The new system has achieved absolutely everything we wanted it to.”

Kevin Eley

Porterbrook Leasing Company

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A business solution, not just a new software package

We don’t just create what we think you need – or what you think you need. We want to achieve the very best Claris FileMaker solution possible. That’s why we work closely with you in a genuine partnership approach to get under the skin of your business and to investigate how it could be improved.

This means taking the trouble to understand your business, usually by running a multi-day workshop with your team. We will get to know you, challenge your thinking if necessary, and design a reliable and appropriate solution that draws on our long FileMaker development experience across many sectors. We also implement the new system with great care, ensuring your business functions are never adversely affected.

We can agree on success criteria in advance – both tangible KPIs and also intangible ones such as staff morale – and ensure they get delivered.

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What a FileMaker solution can do for you

Our software development consultants work in partnership with you to design and build a bespoke system that meets your exact needs. Your system can be integrated with existing applications, such as your accounts package and any specialist software for your industry, and adapted to your business processes, however unique they are. It will do what it needs to do and nothing more or less.

Your system will also work on any device that your teams use, across desktop, mobile and the web, whether office or home-based. And it will be easy to use, designed to fit seamlessly with your existing processes or help to introduce an ideal workflow.

Problems solved by a new FileMaker business solution

Paper-based working

Recording information on paper is an inefficient process. It usually needs to be entered into a computer later or stored in paper form which makes accessing it difficult and intelligent data analysis pretty much impossible. Our software development consultants will build you a system that will replace your paper forms through a simple, intuitive interface.

Multiple data entry

We often find that businesses have evolved their ways of working organically so a particular piece of data might be entered several times. A bespoke system means that once entered, the information can be used wherever else it is needed.

Spreadsheet overload

Spreadsheets are important tools but they can become unwieldy. It is easy to delete data or mess up a formula, and hard to control the quality and completeness of the data. It’s also difficult to report on the data intelligently or use it for more than a single simple functional/operational purpose.

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How we work with you

Concept

We start by digging deep into how your business works, your aspirations, and what you want to achieve. This thorough understanding is a critical first step – it is the secret to business transformation.

Design

We gain a detailed understanding of the business processes that the software needs to support and look for ways to streamline and improve them. We then design your new system. 

Build

Our UK-based software developers build your system, testing it carefully to ensure it meets your business needs – while keeping ease of use uppermost in mind. We often create and launch one module at a time, so you see results as soon as possible.

Release

We install the new system, train you to use it and ensure any issues are solved. This process is handled with great care to minimise disruption.

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Case study

New system drives big growth despite small size of team

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Reinventing a FileMaker system produces big efficiency gains

Bespoke inspection app and web portal help put playground safety first

Keeping the Blackpool Illuminations switched on

Bespoke software optimises a business’s entire processes

Hungry to grow, this specialist furniture company needed a comprehensive system to replace improvised Excel and Dropbox solutions. The system has driven strong growth, and we continue to work with them to make it even more powerful.

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A complete overhaul of an existing FileMaker system allowed our property finance lender client to streamline all its business processes. We also recruited and trained an IT team to bring systems and solutions skills in-house for ultimate efficiency. 

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We transformed this aluminium die casting manufacturer’s existing FileMaker system, giving them instant access to detailed real time order and production data. The system has virtually eliminated errors, improved efficiency and helped the business to grow. 

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Our solutions for managing playground safety inspections enable RoSPA Play Safety to provide an industry-leading service. The process improvement has delivered impact impossible with an off-the-shelf product.

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When you have £10 million worth of world-famous equipment in your warehouse, you need to stay on top of where it all is, what it’s all worth, and how to switch it on and off. Our bespoke software system makes all this instant and effortless for Blackpool’s Lightworks workshop.

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This food business needs to keep track of hundreds of very different products to ensure great customers service. We created their system from scratch – a perfect fit for each of their processes. Since then the business has grown – without increasing staff numbers.

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“We’re investing in another company and they’re going through a similar challenge that we had, and we have recommended that they work with Decent Group. It’s very exciting to see the possibilities that they’re able to deliver.”

Nick Shute

Co Founder & Managing Director, Dodds & Shute

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