Database Designs

Database Designs is an independent technology consulting firm with 20 years experience serving non-profits, government and business. With deep roots in the Boston metro area, but with clients nationwide, we are proud of the longstanding relationships we have built with a broad range of organizations including community and advocacy groups, universities and independent schools, labor organizations, and medical programs.

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Client Spotlight

  • YAP Mural
    Challenge:

    Develop a secure, web-based information system for the Youth Advocacy Project that would both facilitate the coordination and management of the cases of, and services to, juvenile offenders while allowing the collection of information to assess the overall effectiveness of YAP’s unique approach and allow for the replication of its most successful features.

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Steve Jobs got it right when he banned Flash from Apple's mobile platform

I love Apple products, but I don't like the policies behind the App Store or iTunes.  That said, Steve Jobs got it right when he banned Adobe's Flash from Apple's mobile platform.

Flash is the technology for peristing information about you and your surfing habits outside of your browser.  In other words it a perfect end run around privacy settings.  It didn't start out that way on purpose either.