Customer stories


Publisher's Clearing House

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

Tesco

FileMaker streamlines the creation of marketing materials in-store, saving millions for Tesco, Britain's biggest food retailer.

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.

Wagner Worldwide

Footage File Relies on FileMaker Pro To Get to the Right Clip

Scitex Digital Video

Scitex Digital Video needed a fast and effective method of tracking incoming technical support calls from its 2,000 customers. The FileMaker Pro-based solution they now rely on allows technical support staff to instantly pull up information about each customer as calls come in -- this means better customer service. FileMaker Pro's ease of use means that new Scitex employees are up and running within a day.

ImageTracker

Helping photographers on the cutting edge of digital imaging stay organized -- that's the goal of ImageTracker, an exciting new FileMaker Pro-based software tool.

B Productions

"FileMaker Pro saved us a lot of time, made us more efficient, and we're really very happy with that!" -- Andy Biskin, Production Manager, B Productions

Scharff Weisberg

Scharff Weisberg, Inc. brings audio-visual technology -- from special effects to sound systems -- to productions like Broadway hit "Sunset Boulevard" to the Blue Man Group. And FileMaker Pro brings organization to Scharff Weisberg, documenting workflow from beginning to end.

Dewar's

At Dewar's ‘World of Whisky' Visitor's Centre in Scotland, visitors create unique electronic postcards, then send the postcards to friends and families via email using a system powered by FileMaker Pro.

Moonchasers

Photographers Gail Ward and James Rigler travel the globe capturing striking images of the moon, then publish those images for all the world to see. Keeping track of those images, and of Moonchasers.com, Gail and James' growing business, is a full-time job for FileMaker Pro.

Antenna Audio

Antenna Audio's interactive audio guides tell the stories behind the exhibits at leading museums like the Louvre in Paris, the Royal Academy in London -- even the Elvis shrine at Graceland. FileMaker Pro orgnizes the elements of these audio tours, storing exhibit information along with technical details for the production team.

eMotion Studios

Communications agency eMotion Studios creates a distinctive identitiy for each of their clients, and bring those identities to life through projects like multimedia web sites and digital video presentations. For each client, eMotion uses FileMaker Pro to create a custom digital video database containing up to 2,000 clips of video footage. These large volumes of footage can be cataloged, managed and made instantly accessible to staff at eMotion.

Ackerman Galleries

Artist Gary Ackerman's two galleries selling fine art, gifts and jewelry.

Pro Sound

Thorough, personalized service -- the foundation of any successful business. And at Pro Sound in San Diego, California, clients depend on service built on the foundation of FileMaker Pro.

GM Voices

You're hearing voices -- on courtesy phones, in information booths, on voice mail systems and over the Web -- and they're coming from GM Voices. Each week, GM Voices produces, edits, and distributes thousands of multi-lingual voice recordings to clients worldwide. GM Voices relies on FileMaker Pro to manage activities, customers, project proposals, orders, production, and more.

Monster Cable

At Monster Cable, the world's leading manufacturer of audio, video and stereo speaker cabling products, FileMaker Pro is the backbone for critical sales and marketing applications. FileMaker Pro's ease of use and diverse capabilities enable Monster Cable staff to track photographic images, create and route new product work orders, develop and publish client presentations - even remind a sale representative an opportunity is ripe for closing.

Pics4Learning

Pics4Learning, a partnership of Tech4Learning and Florida's Orange County Public Schools, allows schools around the world to learn from each other. Students' and teachers' photos are digitized and uploaded via the Web to the FileMaker Pro-based Pics4Learning database, where they are available to any student or teacher who needs them.

AV-Store

AV-Store is the only exclusive online distributor of Sony audio and video products for the UK, and its Web site offers the complete range of Sony consumer products -- over 1200 items, all illustrated and fully described. FileMaker Pro keeps the entire AV-Store Web site organized, with categorized, searchable product listings, prices, technical descriptions and illustrations.

Prada

To create www.prada-press.com, the official source of press information on the America's Cup, Prada turned to FileMaker Pro. Thanks to their powerful and easy-to-use FileMaker Pro-based Web site, Prada can "successfully manage thousands of media queries coming from all over the world."

Sonic Solutions

Sonic Solutions, developer of cutting-edge audio and DVD production software, relies on a FileMaker Pro-based Call Tracking database to quickly and accurately serve customers in need of support. After considering more expensive SQL-based options, Sonic Solutions chose FileMaker Pro -- a cost-efficient solution capable of doing everything they need.

Progressive Solutions

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

Walter Murch and Sean Cullen, Film Editors

Award-winning film editor Walter Murch and his associate Sean Cullen take full advantage of FileMaker Pro's flexibility in tracking and documenting individual shots. FileMaker Pro coordinates closely with the Mac-based Final Cut Pro editing suite to ensure that vital information on each stage of the editing process is always close at hand.