We design, build, adapt, customize and upgrade data systems based on the best possible tools for organizational growth and development. Because we operate in multiple technology realms, we can help our clients adapt and integrate existing data systems to new software requirements and systems as well as creating new systems from scratch.
We think of ourselves first as custom developers in the buy-versus-build continuum. Yet the reality is that hardly any assignment we take on today requires we start from scratch. We draw on our own extensive library of software tools that work with everything from Microsoft .Net to Drupal to networked Access databases.
We provide expertise on:
- contact relationship management,
- community and educational services management,
- membership, and
- advocacy.
We can help you find effective solutions to problems like these:
- How can I safely escape from a traditional, outdated, hard-to-support contact management system or a mass of Excel spreadsheets?
- How can I track all my constituents―volunteers, members, donors, clients, activists, training participants―in one seamlessly integrated system?
- How can I manage grants, programs, community projects, and client services in a way that reflects how my organization thinks and works?
- How can I free myself from network or web site maintenance, security updates, and hosting headaches?
- How can I have a system that balances programmability for developers with administrative controls I can learn and use?
- How can I choose among the often dizzying array of strong commercial and open source contact management and data systems choices? And how can I match those choices to the best options for me for on-line donation, registration, email marketing and other tools and still have them talk to my database?
- And how can I do these things without paying or fortune or spending months and months customizing that system to my needs?
If these sound like your questions, let’s talk.
Salesforce answers key questions facing many organizations today
We help many of our clients evaluate and adopt Salesforce. Salesforce has steadily grown over the last ten years as the leading Internet cloud-based services for managing contacts. And the Salesforce Foundation’s donation and discount program brings enterprise-grade software as a service within the budget nonprofit organizations, large and small.
Our projects have ranged from:
- Basic contact and donor management migration, set-up, training and support.
- Complex management of human services and community programs.
- On-line registration for professional develop programs
- Management of grants and projects for organizational clients.
Database Designs has registered as a Salesforce partner, takes part in the lively nonprofit Salesforce community, work closely with the Salesforce Foundation’s Nonprofit Starter Pack, and also offer our own training and events.
Other Important Options
We are Microsoft development partners, able to rapidly build powerful customized .Net web data systems to meet mission critical needs.
For Contact, Donor and Member management, the open source combination of Drupal and CiviCRM (www.civicrm.org ) make a great combination. CiviCRM 3 has improved usability, workable reporting, and tools for customization. In other situations, we may recommend using Drupal’s own emerging data tools to create powerful support for your programs and services.
We are Microsoft development partners, able to rapidly build powerful customized .Net web data systems to meet mission critical needs.
A Salesforce option for organizations who need more intensified tracking of their donors and supports, Convio’s Common Ground offers a powerful enhanced version of Salesforce.
We admire the elegant simplicity of Mission Research’s Giftworks, and are partners for data migration and implementation
SalsaLabs Democracy in Action offers a complete on-line suite with integrated on-line political advocacy, its own email services and basic contact and donor management.
And we can work with, adapt, or help you in migration tasks with other systems including Kintera, Convio, Raisers Edge, and older custom Filemaker or Access databases.
