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For more than two decades, and over two thousand projects, we have delivered custom FileMaker apps to teams of web, mobile and desktop users, across a wide range of industries. Beezwax is a Platinum Partner in the FileMaker Business Alliance, designated Reseller and Trainer, with Certified developers through FileMaker v18. And we're excited to be part of a new chapter as FileMaker Inc. becomes (again) Claris International, Inc.
We began as a FileMaker shop, and as the web grew, so did we. Our global customers have always been a driving force: in such a competitive arena, no one can thrive on a single platform. Modern, native web technologies deliver at a global scale.
UX Design is a broad discipline that includes system analysis, prototyping, user studies, planning, UI development, creating personas and more. When you interact with a system, how do you feel? How effective are you? Good UX maximizes the satisfaction and effectiveness of the user.
Thoughtful software is the cornerstone of computing: the beginning, not the end. Great software demands approachable, rewarding interfaces. Without them, people resist using computers; This is a design failure, not a human one.
Beezwax prizes visual clarity, but interface design isn’t purely aesthetic. It’s about grasping the interplay between people and the information they generate and consume. It’s about intuiting and promoting real users’ needs. Ultimately, it’s about improving the relationship between people and work.
From setup, deployment and hosting through optimization, DevOps, and security review, we provide a variety of IT Services to support custom development projects.
You know it's time to move forward to the current version of FileMaker, but aren't sure of all the steps to do this safely and efficiently. We'll look for the gotchas, using our team's knowledge across FileMaker versions, as well as tools like InspectorPro to identify compatibility issues.
Meanwhile, many new features are only potential -- until you implement them. And, of course, we can help with that, too.
Software ages quickly. Rethinking your system may be daunting, but procrastinating can be costly. Leverage your existing solution with innovations, including a new definition of how you work today.
Mapped out over months (or years) in phases, priorities can line up with budget. We approach redesigns incrementally: improvement with integrity, and future flexibility, comes step-by-step.
Many systems we've built started in Excel, Numbers or Google docs. Individuals quickly collect data in spreadsheets, but are challenged to securely share their work with team members, across an organization.
We can convert your spreadsheet collection, going far beyond Excel. Custom business apps can support multi-user workflows with cross-platform interfaces, enable multi-layer security and data validation, tailor reporting and data visualization, integrate email and notifications, link to documents and multimedia, connect with web services APIs, and more. Try that with a spreadsheet.
For your organization, is email a powerful tool or a troublesome burden? Either way, email is such a critical element of your business communication, let's find ways to tame this beast and translate its wildness into efficiency and power: Integrate email into your database, mobile app or web application, using it for notifications, in document workflow, for marketing, and even for automated input and output.
Making the most of our twenty-year working relationship with FilleMaker Inc., we can process orders of FileMaker products for you.
In 2007 we chose Rails as one of our core development platforms and have been happy with the choice. We have been very proud to be part of the maturation of Rails and supportive technologies.
We apply Swift as a powerful, modern programming language to build mobile apps and robust backend services for iPhone, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, iPad and more.
In addition to iOS apps, we also build full-stack web apps, and enable microservice API integrations using Server-side Swift frameworks like Vapor and Kitura.
Our development teams work with you build products and solutions for mobile, desktop and web.
We provide and support a range of hosting options for web and FileMaker applications: Cloud, dedicated server, and other specialized hosting.
Our clients rely on us, not just as programmers, but also as consultants who understand business, technology and workflow dynamics from various perspectives. Our experience delivering applications helps your organization work better, operate more smoothly, and focus on those things you enjoy being best at.
Beezwax will design, build, extend and integrate your WordPress site. We build WordPress plugins, so you can ignore limitations on what seems possible.
Agile development acknowledges: we can't know everything up front. Software projects are complex and ever-evolving, requiring a high level of collaboration and flexibility with customers and ourselves. We prioritize delivering software in incremental working units to: encourage feedback early and often; constantly confirm our heading; and adapt to changing winds fluidly. Improvement with integrity comes step-by-step.
We analyze your organization's unique workflow -- and then build your application to optimize it.
Often, the best fit for a unique business workflow is custom software, tailored to your users, built with your specific needs in mind. Based on careful listening and review, we design and build software that reflects the unique initiatives you value most. Everyone contributes.
Beezwax blazes new trails with integrating JavaScript with FileMaker, with layout components and widgets using the Web Viewer, data visualization, AJAX methods, and solutions for RESTful integration.
Cloud and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) can simplify deployment, and reduce costs and overhead for organizations that rely on custom software apps.
We can translate your data into dynamic visual reports or interactive web graphics to help users more quickly and fully understand information.
We build out wireframes to illustrate information so that it can be understood quickly and clearly, at a glance. Decisions are still being made and ideas solidified. The overall goal is to create a detailed plan outlining what each page or screen will include from a functional standpoint. This includes how content is grouped or arranged, the ways that information will be structured, and how elements will work or interact with one another.
A platform of choice across a wide range of projects, Ruby on Rails is ideal for responsive web applications that organize complex data interaction through elegant UIs, and integrate with a wide range of APIs.
Ruby is a popular open source programming language, well known for its simplicity and power, and found at the heart of the Ruby on Rails web framework.
We build custom FileMaker solutions for almost any purpose, across Mac, Windows, iOS, Web and the Cloud.
Beezwax can be light on the JavaScript when necessary, but we enjoy getting elbows-deep in more robust JavaScript implementations when needed.
Tableau is a modern data visualization tool that features ease of use, live updates, fast visual analysis of data and publishing to the web.
D3 is a powerful and widely used data visualization JavaScript library. It is capable of delivering detailed, interactive and scalable visualizations of your data in a web browser.
React is a JavaScript library widely used as a base in the development of single-page or mobile applications.
FileMaker Pro is a leading tool for building data-driven, multi-user, secure custom business apps that work across mobile, desktop and web platforms.
The Data API supports modern web standards like REST and JSON, expanding the ways web services, local applications, and cloud-based systems can connect to the FileMaker Platform.
Git is a version-control system for tracking changes in computer files and coordinating work on those files among multiple people. Simply put, Git is the single tool virtually all modern developers rely upon to manage development, code review, testing and deployment.
An open-source database application popularly used as a backend for data store for web applications.
MapKit JS is Apple's software toolkit and API that allows you to embed Apple's mapping resources on your webpage
FileMaker Go is an iOS app for iPhone and iPad that delivers your FileMaker application to mobile devices.
Plugins, themes, custom development, server and hosting deployment, publishing workflow, integration, social media.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) describe the presentation of web pages and other documents. Our developers and UX designers work together to build complex, stylized CSS content to manage how your applications look.
macOS is a Unix-based graphical operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac family of computers.
Use Excel as a tool for input or output, and build a database-driven application to manage sophisticated workflow from end to end.
Developed and maintained by Google, AngularJS is a popular open source Javascript framework used for building applications for web, mobile and desktop.
An open source testing framework used to drive test and behavior driven development in Ruby and Rails applications.
Vapor is a popular server-side Swift framework used for building scalable, responsive solutions with the rich UI of native mobile and desktop applications.
WebDirect is a secure way of deploying a FileMaker application to a web browser. Your business information and workflow can be extended anywhere - no FileMaker client required.
Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby.
SQL is everywhere: embedded in web, desktop and mobile applications. The many flavors of SQL drive a large majority of database servers world wide.
We create DSLs for particular use-cases, from configuration files to full-blown APIs.
Not only is Swift the language for building apps on Apple's platforms, it's the basis for modern web and services platforms such as Kitura and Vapor.
FileMaker Server component of the FileMaker platform. Server is tasks with hosting database files and providing services such as backup, data integrity, file maintenance and activity reporting.
Sass is an extension of CSS that adds power and elegance to the basic language. It allows you to use variables, nested rules, mixins, inline imports, and more, all with a fully CSS-compatible syntax.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Amazon's cloud computing platform, available worldwide for hosting solutions, small or large.
Backbone.js is an MVC (Model/View/Controller) JavaScript framework that allows for better organization of web applications.
FileMaker's XML API allows for powerful integration of web development frameworks, platforms and services to a FileMaker database application.
FileMaker Cloud provides a secure, reliable and easy-to-maintain platform to deploy custom apps in the cloud.
A platform for building modern mobile apps, with functions to handle handling two-way sync, API integration, offline clients, push and even a built-in object database.
Akamai's platforms feature a content delivery network (CDN) with thousands of servers worldwide, and added functions for security and testing - perfect for supporting huge sets of worldwide users.
Zapier is a kind of web service of web services. Create workflow automations that link your apps together and transfer data.
PHP is an open source programming language used for web development and building content-driven applications on platforms including WordPress, FileMaker, Drupal and Joomla.
*nix is an abbreviation that represents the family of Unix-based operating system such as Unix, Linux and macOS.
AppleScript is one of many options for integrating and automating desktop workflows built around FileMaker and other Mac-native applications.
Start with the basics of Unix platform automation.
Go (often referred to as Golang) is a programming language designed by Google. Go is a statically typed, compiled language in the tradition of C, with the added benefits of memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, and CSP-style concurrency.
Google Maps provides street maps, satellite views, traffic, route planning and more. Use Maps alongside your existing systems, or integrate it with your data and workflow.
Fuzzy matching can actually make your search queries smarter. Elastic helps users find close (not necessarily exact) matches, as well as search across multiple data sets.
Ember is a popular JavaScript framework. We use it for building scalable, responsive Web solutions with the rich UI of native mobile and desktop applications.
QuickBooks accounting applications for desktop, server and online cloud-based services help businesses manage payments, bills and payroll.
Barcode is a kind of language that allows information systems to communicate with each other. Mobile systems based on scanners or iOS devices can both read and speak barcode.
Python is popular, open source programming and systems scripting language. Its capabilities extend to everything from managing servers and handling email, to integrating FileMaker with other platforms.
HTML5 structures and presents content in modern web applications.
For handling big data and real-time web applications.
MySQL is one of the most popular database backends for web and mobile applications. It's a solid and mature choice, although these days we work with many alternatives.
A member of the Microsoft Office suite, Access is a relational database management tool designed for creating business applications.
Oracle offers enterprise databases and related platforms that can integrate with web, mobile, FileMaker and desktop applications.
Integrate your custom business apps, and extend the functionality of your existing systems through Google's APIs to take advantage of their services.
A design app. Sometimes, THE design app. Sketch is a powerful design toolkit used for building the UI and UX of modern interfaces.
Adds server functionality and server management tools to macOS X.
Google Analytics tracks website activity, to help you understand who is visiting a website, and why. With the right integration, you can even connect this info with other important data about customers, orders, and more.
One of the most popular SQL databases. Instead of needing a dedicated server, it sits in its own file alongside the application.
A front-end web development framework integrating HTML, CSS and Javascript design templates used to build the components of web pages.
A authentication ruby library/gem popular with Rails developers.
OmniAuth is an authentication system for web applications based in the Ruby programming language.
A language-independent and standardized format for constructing data objects with name-value pairs. JSON is used extensively to pass data between applications of all types.
Heroku provides cloud infrastructure to build, deliver, monitor and scale apps, of all different sizes, types and uses, across multiple platforms.
A PHP micro Framework
The leading cloud-based platform for integrating SMS, voice, video and more.
Flexible, customizable e-commerce platform for selling products and services.
An ORM library for use with PHP frameworks.
Security implementations for PHP, such as SSH, RSA, and SFTP.
Vapor is a Swift development framework for web applications. Leaf is a Vapor-specific HTML templating language.
An Object Relational Model (ORM) framework used with Vapor
Apple's framework for creating and running test within the Xcode
Adaptive layout is the techniques and tools available in xCode that allow developers to reuse layout resources across multiple iOS devices.
HTML abstraction markup language. A popular library for creating beautiful markup that can be converted to HTML.
database connector
An deeply scalable, enterprise-class, universal platform for hosting applications and services.
GitHub manages collaboration -- software source code, sharing and team review -- whether its for secure and private business systems, or for software we share socially with the open source community.
Managing information, transactions, communications and relationships with clients and customers. Effective account management leads to increased sales and loyal customers.
Involves the recording, processing, analysis, and reporting of the financials of a business or other organization.
Managing operations and logistics, including people and other key resources.
Working the media and messages to support marketing initiatives that drive branding and sales.
Includes the management of tangible and digital resources, generally in a database system.
Very large data sets require new methods to help with efficient, scalable discovery, analysis, storage/search, querying and visualization of that data.
The process of turning work effort and delivered value into documents detailing that value for the purpose of receiving payment from customers.
Analysis and planning of an organization's revenue and expenses across various periods of time, typically including both short-term and long-term.
Organizations analyze risk, aim to reduce vulnerabilities, and look to improve their ability to continue operations following disaster or disruption.
Organizing time.
Systems supporting the work of people who manage communications, both internal and external.
Organizations seek to achieve regulatory compliance by gathering information and understanding of the legal landscape governing their industry.
The process and system of managing data and transactions of all contacts for an organization to facilitate things like sales and marketing.
Handling an array of tasks and tools for creating, storing, retrieving and editing content. Much of the web is driven by content management systems.
Business organizations make agreements with other businesses and individuals. The resulting contracts need to be created, negotiated, documented, tracked, enforced and updated.
Processing payments is a fundamental part of E-commerce. Credit card and other payment processing involves secure interaction with payment gateways and authorization services.
Curriculum includes the content, resources, and processes that support learning in an education or business training environment.
Manage the details of customers and track sales and service interactions with the goal to improve the relationship and increase sales and customer retention.
Generating documents, for distribution or storage, as well as managing related data, assets and workflow.
Storing and tracking documents, along with managing related metadata, assets and workflow.
eCommerce is the process of selling goods and services online. It interfaces with many areas, including web development, transaction processing, inventory control, funds transfer, marketing and data management.
The design, copy writing, planning, analysis and distribution of targeted email and email newsletters.
Includes end-to-end development and tracking of large events, including concept, branding, promotion, scheduling, budgeting, and site and resource coordination.
Involves the management of the spaces and infrastructure of an organization or business and the people and activities that take place in them.
Supporting the organization's financial structure by managing things like funding, capital, analysis and forecasting.
The planning and execution of relationship building with donors that leads to requesting support of organization initiatives through material and financial resources.
An iterative process involved in the design and testing of technological products. By necessity, hardware engineering must work closely with software and electrical engineering processes.
Organizations with systems that handle electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) must make sure to safeguard data in compliance with HIPAA, which defines privacy and security rules for protecting such data.
The management of people, generally employees, and their relationship to the business organization. Helping make sure all the humans are well cared for.
The record of the details, involved parties and communication trail with respect to events that occur and potentially need to be reported.
A broad discipline tasked with ensuring the physical and digital security of stored information, with the aim of preventing access, theft, manipulation, duplication and extortion.
Oversees the handling of copyrights, trademarks, patents, and other legal rights of value to an organization.
Business processes and systems, adapted to language, cultural and regional differences.
Manage tangible items -- track quantity and details such as description, cost, exact location. Get insight into the flow and availability of inventory and interface with sales systems.
Software systems can manage tasks and communication, ensuring that the people involved with a project have good grasp of who is doing what and when.
All the wonderful, magical things you can do with technology rely upon the underlying hardware, software and networking, and a plan to manage it all.
Beakers and potions and things that see really, really, really small things. It's a lot to keep track of.
Advisors and advocates on all legal subjects, from contracts and IP, through compliance and litigation.
Building, documenting and tracking official work output and communications by Legal department experts.
Manage licensing, subscriptions, that sort of thing.
Adapting solutions, products and content to the language and culture of specific locales.
Machine learning (ML) is a field of computer science that uses statistical techniques to give computer systems the ability to "learn" (e.
The process of taking raw materials and products and transforming them into something new to supply to the market.
Research to collect data, both quantitative and qualitative, to aid in decisions about marketing initiatives.
The activities associated with promoting an organization or event. Marketing encompasses branding, advertising, print media, digital media and advertising in all of its forms.
Handling a diverse set of tasks which, depending on the office size and organization, can vary as to administrative and operational scope.
Operations, broadly defined, typically executes the functional strategy for an organization. This includes everything from development and design through production, manufacturing and logistics.
Systems supporting purchasing, procurement and global supply management.
Managing sales partnerships, co-marketing and related B2B contracts.
Point of sale (POS) solutions help a business process customer purchases and payments, both standalone (e.
Print production takes creative designs, especially digital, and streamlines the process for the physical production of things like cards, brochures, books, and even 3-D materials.
Defining the planning, measurement and refinement of business processes with a goal to improve strategy, resources and operations across an organization.
All organizations have processes, which need planning, monitoring, measurement and a strategy for continued operation and improvement.
Managing the sourcing, bidding, buying and other business activities to procure goods and services for an organization.
With your business behind it, we can help build products and solutions.
Program management aims to improve process and performance for any set of related projects.
Coordinating all of the activities, resources, and information that drive a team or organization to project success.
QA policies and teams ensure that software application projects meet a high standard and perform according to project specs and user needs.
Recruitment is in essence the marketing of an organization to potential job candidates. Recruiting efforts should effectively communicate the core values of the company with the goal of attracting and engaging candidates in the hiring process.
A subset of event management, responsible for the gathering of participant information and payment information.
Activities that focus on innovation, whether generalized discovery or development of new products and services.
Royalties management often involves tracking income, contracts, audits and various reports related to intellectual property.
Supports and often leads an organization's revenue generation, working with clients/customers and potentially other sales channels such as distributors, partners and e-commerce.
All kinds of things - people, events, assets, spaces, projects, tasks - can be scheduled in relationship to one another.
Security is now a discipline applied across all levels of an organization, from personnel and systems through risk management and compliance.
The process of gathering and documenting requirements and then iteratively building, testing and deploying a software product to meet the requirements.
An activity where the requirements of individuals, teams and interacting teams is taken into account in the design and arranging of space, typically in offices.
Defining goals, setting direction and planning strategy for an organization to pursue its vision.
Studios that support artistic or creative activities need tools and processes to help manage scheduling, tasks, finances, personnel and more.
Involves the research and acquisition of materials to be consumed in manufacturing or resold as products.
Used to gather information from individuals for the purpose of providing analysis to support a decision making process.
The transmission of audio, visual and digital information over wires and television/radio waves.
The organized process of examining software components for functionality and quality can be handled at a granular level with unit tests, or at higher levels with different approaches including performance, usability and acceptance testing.
The documentation of time spent on tasks and by individuals, departments and whole organizations. Time tracking can interface with billing, payroll and productivity analysis.
Training is the process of offering new skills and information to individuals and teams with the goal of increasing performance and productivity .
Handles the functions that bridge between other enterprise resources including supply chain and distribution.
Includes a broad array of functions related to helping internal or external users of systems or services.
Vendor management is a class of systems and supporting software that allows customer to manage their relationships with vendors, ensure the control of the process and an array of choices related to vendors.
Version control, also known as revision control or source control, is the management of changes to documents, computer programs, and other collections of information.
Video and audio engineering benefits from well-organized workflow, and robust systems to track data and metadata, across projects, people and content.
Creative departments and firms produce content for movies, videos, music and multimedia experiences.
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