Database Design

Data is just Data until you get it Organized!

The ParaProductions database experts can help you get your data organized and turn it into useful information the your whole company or your customers can use.  We can put together a database that will facilitate any of your information needs, be it a large or small database, internal to your company or applications that are accessible through the Internet.  Our databases experts will put together a design that will allow you to expand your data needs into the future.

Our databases include tables, forms, and reports, and can also contain specialized programs that manipulate your data for you.  Tables are the underlying basis of all of your data content.  From there we can design forms that give you a user friendly way to access your data.  We can also design reports to extract your data in any form that you need to see it in - spreadsheets, charts, etc.  If you need extra programming to extract data for a particular need, we have the expertise to do that also.  We can also build an interface for your database that is accessible from your company Intranet or your website on the Internet that will be easily accessible by any of your employees or customers for retrieving or entering information.

If you have Date Problems, We have Data Solutions!

• Do you still have all of your information on paper records?
  Problem:  You have kept paper records for years, and it has worked for you because you know where everything is.  But no one else in your office can find anything  Or you have too many filing cabinets in your office, and do not have enough room for your employees to work.
  Solution: There are several ways that we can turn your paper records into searchable and usable information on your computer systems that can be accessed quickly by you, your employees, or your customers.  First of all we can scan your paper records and put your valuable information into a custom database designed by ParaProductions and you.  If scanning is not possible, we also have the resources to hand enter your paper records into the custom database.

• Have you created a Word document or Excel spreadsheet that contains a lot of information that you would like to organize better, be able to sort and generate reports from?
  Problem:  You may have accumulated a lot of data that you have stored in Word or Excel, and it has gotten to the point where it is really hard to search through to data to find what piece of data that you are looking for.   You would like to be able to sort and display a report on just certain parts of the data, but that is not possible to do in Word or Excel.  You have thought of putting this all into an Access database, but just do not know how to go about doing this or you just do not have the time to create a database.
  Solution: The information that you have put into Word or Excel can easily be turned into a database.  ParaProductions can convert this information into a database that will allow you to search through your information quickly, or to sort your information into any format that you would like it to appear in.  A database will also allow you to generate printable reports, and to retrieve or enter information into forms that are easy and understandable for any of your employees or customers.

• Would you like to have your company information and records to be easily accessible by many people in your company including the ones that have very little knowledge of using a computer?
  Problem:  You have a company network and you know there must be some way to share the data that you have accumulated on your computer.  You have sent a copy of your Excel spreadsheet to one of your employees or co-workers, but they have such a hard time manipulating the information that would be useful to them.  You have wondered about how to make this information easily accessible to all the people in your company that might benefit from having this information.
  Solution: ParaProductions can design a database for you from your existing data, or even take your existing databases and put them on your company fileserver and make the information easily accessible to all of your employees, co-workers, or even your customers.  They will be able to search for and manipulate this information, and they can even generate reports that can be used to track the information or to present at meetings.

• Do you want your information to be accessible from your company Intranet or on the Internet?
  Problem:  Your company has a website on the Internet.  And you have information on your computer or that is accessible from your computer from your company network.  You also have many employees that work at other offices or from home, but they cannot access this information.  If only you could get this information put into a website format, you know that many other people in the company or your customers would greatly benefit from being able to view and manipulate this data.
  Solution: ParaProductions can take your information and make it available to your employees, co-workers, or customers inside of a web browsers such as Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator.  Forget your former application that has been so hard to use.  ParaProductions can turn it into a program that anyone can understand.

• Do you have Too Many Programs with the Same Information?
  Problem:  You may have searched for the right program to organize your information in - a customer list and contact program, an accounting program, a medical office program, etc. Yet you never have been able to find the right one that does exactly what you want it to do.  In fact, you have to purchased several software packages to get the results that you want.  But none of these programs will share this information with each other.  So you have to make repeated entries into all of these programs.
  Solution: There are two solutions to this problem:
  1. ParaProductions can create a bridge between programs for you. We can instantly move data after you have entered it from one program to another in order to keep all of your data current. We design a custom program for you to do this.
  2. ParaProductions can custom design a program for you so that all of the same information will be in one program. This solution will save you much time and also training headaches with your employees as ParaProductions will create the program to contain all of the data of your former programs in one. And it will be much easier for everyone to use. This will stop those phone calls from your employees about why they have to enter the same information into so many different programs.

ParaProductions can design a database application for you precisely as you would like to have it. We will design the application to present your information exactly as you would like it to be viewed.

• Secure and Hidden information - only to be seen by the people you want to see it.
• Different views of the same information
• Simplified data entry screens
• Viewing and data entry screens designed for many cases: Management, Employee, Customer, etc.
• Reports for you to analyze your data

ParaProductions has 17 years of experience in analysis and design of databases. We specialize in Oracle, Microsoft SQL, and Microsoft Access, and also have experience in many other database programs.

Select the links below to view our pricing on designing customs databases for you.

What is a Database?

Let's define exactly what a database is. If spreadsheets are the "number crunchers" of the digital world, then databases are the "information crunchers". Databases excel at managing and manipulating structured information.

What does the term "structured information" mean? Consider that most ubiquitous of databases - the phone book. The phone book contains several items of information - name, address and phone number - about each phone subscriber in a particular area. Each subscriber's information takes the same form.

In database "speak", the phone book is a table which contains a record for each subscriber. Each subscriber record contains three fields: name, address, and phone number. The records are sorted alphabetically by the name field, which is called the key field.

Examples of possible databases:

Schools - Student, Parent, and Faculty Records, courses and scheduling

Churches - Membership records, collections accounting, and ministries tracking

Medical - Patient charts and records, patient scheduling, medication and supplies inventory

Law - Case management, client records, client time and billing, office scheduling

Businesses - We can design a custom database to organize all aspects of your business

• Employee information
• Employee time reporting
• Management of project hours
• Work orders
• Pay check calculations
• Customer lists
• Customer quotations
• Mailing lists
• Sales tracking
• Inventory records
• Service and repair records
• Business expense tracking - automobile, purchases
• Calculation databases such as sizing up a frame for a painting.
• Sharing data between stores through the Internet

Clubs and Organizations - Event schedules, members, dues payment and billing, mailings, contributions

Restaurants and Catering - Preparing and generating menus, customer tracking, equipment data & tracking

Manufacturing Companies - Control of documentation for parts and manufactured items.