You can lead a horse to water…

A badly managed database is largely useless!
Imagine the last time you opened your computer diary and changed a meeting. The diary is a database of events, and adjusting the details means that you always know what you are doing. More importantly, so do your colleagues. Now imagine not amending it for a few days. You [...]

Sharing the information

Let’s look at the basic reasons for having a database in the first place. Some years ago, we had a call from a small company in London who needed a fairly simple database to store nothing more than contacts and companies. We went along and asked what they currently did with keeping track of the [...]

What would you like it to do?

FileMaker Pro, the number one database software for Mac or Windows, is widely regarded as the most versatile development software on the market. Some of us have been developing databases longer than Operandi have been around, and it is rare that you have to tell a client that something they requested can’t be done. Recently, [...]