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FileMaker Streamlines Cancer Research
Cancer Research UK is the country's leading independent organisation dedicated to cancer research. With an annual scientific budget of well over £300 million, the charity supports world-class research by 4,500 scientists, doctors and nurses at 35 hospitals, institutes and universities across the country. The London Research Institute (LRI) specialises in understanding how healthy cells turn into cancers.
FileMaker Goes Back to School in London
As the London campus of a well-respected American University, Boston University London is host to nearly 1,000 US students a year. Three times a year a fresh group of 300 to 350 students arrive in the Capital for a semester of academic study and work placement.
Alastair Sawday Publishing Manages Special Places to Stay with FileMaker
Alastair Sawday Publishing (ASP) is the company behind the well-known and highly respected 'Special Places to Stay' travel series. The books are a collection of travel guidebooks covering over 5,000 B&Bs, hotels and self-catering places in Britain, France, India, Italy, Ireland, Morocco, Croatia, Spain and Portugal, plus an expanding collection of Green Places to Stay. The creation and maintenance of these guides and their accompanying website, www.sawdays.co.uk, is administration-intensive. Information on each place is gathered from ASP's inspectors, editors, readers and from the owners themselves and compiled into a database that has to remain aware of the content crossover between the guides too; for example, an owner of a B&B may also rent out self-catering accommodation, perhaps in another country. It's a complex picture to paint in one system.
FileMaker Drives Graduate Recruitment for Cancer Research UK London Research Institute
Cancer Research UK London Research Institute (LRI) is internationally renowned for its work in studying the biology of cancer. The LRI has 46 senior scientists, including two Nobel prize winners, and 550 research staff. Given the high profile of the Institute it has become something of a 'destination company' for hundreds of graduates looking to win one of only 25 studentships each year.
FileMaker Enables Pathology Research Revolution at Cardiff University's Department of Pathology
Cardiff University is one of Britain's leading teaching and research universities. The Department of Pathology employs approximately 50 medical and scientific staff and is currently housed within the School of Medicine at the University Hospital of Wales. The department lies at the interface between basic science and medical practice. A major activity consists of research into the causes and therapy of human cancer and more recently, age-related diseases.
FileMaker Forms EMEA's Flexible Rapid Application Development Tool
A decentralised body of the European Union headquartered in London, UK, the main responsibility of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) is the protection and promotion of public and animal health, through the evaluation and supervision of medicines for human and veterinary use. Established in 1995, EMEA has used FileMaker from the very start and has, over the years, successfully developed numerous database applications meeting a wide range of requirements – both scientific and administrative.
Pret a Manger Gets Online DataTherapy with FileMaker
Pret a Manger is the well-known British sandwich company whose business philosophy is to provide customers with food that is natural and preservative free. College friends Sinclair and Julian opened their first shop in London in 1986 and since then the business has expanded into Hong Kong, New York and Singapore. There are now over 160 shops in total and the business is still privately owned.
Mac Compatibility Seals the Deal at SJ Berwin
Leading pan-European law firm, SJ Berwin, has rapidly grown since its formation in 1982 and today has 170 partners and over 500 lawyers in nine locations across Europe. Its team of associates work with sophisticated buyers of legal services who rely on SJ Berwin for advice ranging from corporate finance, reconstruction and insolvency to litigation and intellectual property law.
FileMaker Drives Point of Sale for Tesco
Tesco PLC is a British-based international grocery and general merchandising retail chain. It is the largest UK retailer by both global sales and domestic market share, and number 3 in the world. Significantly, Tesco now controls just over 30% of the grocery market in the UK, approximate to the combined market share of its closest rivals, Asda and Sainsbury's.
FileMaker Ensures 'Best Behaviour' at St Anthony's Girls' School
St Anthony's is an 11-18 all girls' comprehensive school founded over 100 years ago. The school, which is a Technology College and Beacon school, is situated in Sunderland. It has over 1350 students and 90 teaching staff. Last year the Deputy Head requested a system that would allow senior members of staff to monitor student behaviour on a student-by-student basis identifying any serious incidents. At the last inspection in 2003 Inspectors commented upon, "the happy and secure environment where pupils develop academically".
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