Creative Pro Starter Kit

FileMaker today announced website that features stories about many well known companies that have used FileMaker.

"FileMaker 7 allows creative professionals to become more productive immediately, allowing them to focus more of their time on the higher value activities that result in better service for their clients," said Ryan Rosenberg, vice president, marketing and services, FileMaker. "The flexibility and ease of use of FileMaker Pro already makes it the solution of choice for creative and business professionals at the top agencies and studios in the industry. Now we're giving the creative field a bundle of free solutions so they can extend the power of FileMaker to improve the way they serve clients," he added.



The Creative Pro Starter Kit includes five complete, ready-to-use database solutions, developed by experts serving the creative services industry. The solutions can be used immediately by creative, business, traffic and production professionals to productively access and manage client details, job status, digital assets, timesheets and project activities.

• ClientTracker, developed by iSolutions, is a pre-programmed, ready-to-use client tracking database that provides storage retrieval and management of complete contact information, including multiple notes per client contact. ClientTracker can also track multiple projects for each client.




• Praesto Jr., developed by Base Builders, is a job and client tracking solution for creative professionals that want to track projects, tasks and clients simultaneously. Praesto includes three modules -- Projects, Tasks, Firms -- that allows users to tracks all aspects of multiple project and the assignment and progress monitoring of associated tasks.




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  Asset Tracker, developed by New Century Data , is a digital asset management solution that stores multiple media types (images, graphics, sound, video) along with related information, such as client, job number, owner, usage rights, and a thumbnail description of the image. The media types can also be published to the web, along with text copy, to streamline the client approval process.




• Job Time Tracker, developed by Soliant Consulting , is a job time tracking solution that helps creative agencies manage the complexities of clients, jobs and invoicing. The solution includes storing and viewing information on jobs, time entries, tracking agency employees working on jobs, work activity descriptions and reporting formats for internal and external audiences.




• JobCharge Timesheet, developed by EnglishComp provides a ready-to-use timesheet application for collecting and managing hourly charges for creative professionals. The solution features individual personal timesheets at log-in, timesheet reporting by employee/job/date, storing of client invoicing information (codes, job numbers, billing) in tables available through pull-down lists and the ability to duplicate prior days' timesheets.

by MacNN Staff