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Cimbura.com Technology clients include:

Cimbura.com has developed database and spreadsheet tips published in FileMaker Pro Advisor magazine and MacUser magazine.

We make regular contributions to Macintouch.com and MacFixit.com. InfoWorld, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Christian Computing magazine, the Macintosh Product Registry, and various other publications have highlighted our products.

Tim Cimbura is a member of the National Speakers Association and International Brotherhood of Magicians.

Note: All solutions are cross-platform and work on both Macintosh OS X and Windows XP. Some aspects of the applications integrate with other applications like Word, Excel, or Photoshop using AppleScript or VBscript automation. We specialize in integrating FileMaker with the web through PHP, CSS, and HTML.

We have experience maintaining FileMaker Pro servers including one installation of 3 database servers, 3 Apache web servers, 35+ databases, and 1200 users.

Sample Cimbura.com FileMaker Database Solutions:

  • Language Translation/Interpretation DB - A complete solution for running a business that tracks every aspect of a translation or interpreting job for multiple languages including bidding, agreements, billing, clients/workers, financial accounting, etc. Company does $3 million in business annually.
  • Speaker web site with FileMaker content managment. Search for speakers by keywords, display by topic, etc.
  • Photo Studio/Copy Writers DB - Tracks all photos (20,000 or more/year), product data collection, and editorial text items for the web site Target.com. This site is in the top 20 of the most popular web sites of any kind in the world. During 2005, sales for this site doubled.
  • Consulting/Entertainment DB - Solution to run several business processes including bidding jobs, creating invoices, tracking purchases, tax reporting, generating creative ideas/scripts, etc.
  • Big Ideas DB - This database uses web access to allow users that do not have FileMaker Pro to submit ideas for a monthly contest. It organizes and presents the ideas so that they can be judged for prizes and archived for future use.
  • Communications Asset Management DB - Store description and keywords for documents that include Word, Excel, PDF, JPG, and other files so they can be easily retrieved and shared by many people.
  • Project Management DB - Track ad jobs including sample images and thumbnails.
  • Department Contacts DB - Contact database used to create photo directories of personnel, name badges, run various contests and plan events.
  • Library Management DB - Maintain inventory and allow check-in/out of resources for a creative/marketing libraries and props department.
  • Call Tracking DB - Solution that manages requests and completion status including sending status e-mail messages as work progresses.
  • Other databases included project management for workgroups, software and hardware inventory tracking.

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