Custom Cross-Platform, Multi-database Development

Faulkner Database Development creates medium and large-scale database applications that are able to run across multiple platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux) and run against any common SQL-compliant database without recoding or even recompiling. Even if you only run your business on one platform, many of the tools available and widely used today cannot deliver cost-effective database applications.

Let’s talk about two of the more common cross-platform tools for database development, FileMaker Pro and Java. FileMaker, while gaining capabilities in recent years, in our judgment still lacks the ability to do the kinds of application that companies run on, and Java, while certainly capable, is slow and has never lived up to its promise of true, cross-platform performance on an economical basis.

On Windows, many companies choose Microsoft tools, mainly because that is all they are familiar with. Frankly there are better tools. Microsoft Access and Visual Basic cannot deliver fast application development in a prototyping or iterative development environment as quickly as other tools that exist. They also have no cross-platform capability. We use Omnis Studio to develop database and intranet web applications. By specializing in one development environment, and one in which we have years of experience, we can provide greater value to you for your dollar.

In short, we create and maintain custom in-house information systems that help or are critical in running your business and we do it for less than the price of a comparable vertical market application and associated maintenance contract with the flexibility that comes from owning your own solution.