PiMedia (Toronto, ON) As part of St. Joseph Content, one of four platforms within St. Joseph Communications, Pi Media delivers hybrid, enterprise solutions that integrate their content creation resources with print, documents, and media.

We built their docket and workflow management system that controls their day to day and management activities that includes estimation, scheduling, revisions, production reports, and invoicing.

NXNE (Toronto, ON) Toronto's North by Northeast Music & Film Festival and Conference (NXNE) chose hind-smith.com to create and support the festival artist, venue, registration and scheduling system. The application allows the program managers and operations staff to select and schedule the over 500 bands spread among 50 venues in Toronto, and subsequently register the 70,000 attendees attending the festival.
 
The system also interfaces the myNXNE website http://nxne.com/music/schedule, a unique online feature activated to coincide with the lineup announcement. Fans can log on, listen to MP3s from NXNE bands, choose the shows they want to see, and create a schedule for themselves.

Ontario Archives (Toronto, ON) We built an interactive section of the Archives website to show legacy television footage from the 1950s of London television station CFPL. The footage was converted to Flash and had to meet all the government accessibility and branding standards. You can view our work here:

http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/on-line-exhibits/cfpl/index.aspx

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (Ottawa, ON) Is a national voluntary non-profit organization whose mission is to improve the health of Canadians by preventing and reducing disability and death from heart disease and stroke through research, health promotion and advocacy.

We have created a docket system for Heart and Stroke written in FileMaker 8.0 to control all facets of their print production operations so that print projects are budgeted, produced, and distributed in a controlled manner.

Got My Kids (Markham, ON) We created an online ad management system for this publisher of children’s magazines. Advertisers are able to submit and proof their ads online, with the system collating all the ads and outputting a print ready 300dpi PDF.
Got My Kids

Metcalf Foundation (Toronto, ON) The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation was established in 1960 and is focused on distributing grants in three specific areas.

We have created an integrated system in FileMaker 8.5 that will ties together contact management, email and print correspondence, grant information and process, payments, with a connection to their accounting system.

Sugino Studios (Toronto, ON) We built this firm an enterprise system to manage their Film and Still photography studio. The system estimates (very complicated for the film side), production, call sheets, purchase orders, and invoicing.

The Works (Toronto, ON) Established in 1986 and based in Toronto, The Works is a full-service corporate communications studio. At home in print and online, their award-winning annual reports and corporate Web sites demonstrate their strengths in graphic design, Web design and investor relations.

We created their docket system that controls all aspects of business development, estimation, production, and invoicing.

Innovation Insights (Toronto, ON)is an arm of the Canadian Manufactures & Exporters. Their mission is to work with firms that have best practices and invite other firms to tour the host firms, providing an exceptional day of learning and include an interactive best practice presentation, networking session and plant tour.

We are supporting and enhancing the FileMaker based application that registers and coordinates all event activities.

Mississauga Living Arts Centre (Mississauga, ON) is a 225,000 square foot multi-use facility, which opened in 1997. The Centre has quickly become the home of arts and culture, and arts educational experiences within the greater Mississauga region.

We are supporting and enhancing their integrated FileMaker 6.0 based system that drives their core administrative activities.

Sister companies Marlow and Leeds (U.S.A., U.K., Hong Kong) Are one of the largest promotional products conglomerates in the world.

They have selected hind-smith.com to program their FileMaker based web based catalogue system to support their relationship with FIFA and the upcoming World Cup 2006. End users will include staff at Coke, Fuji Film, Yahoo, and other global brands. More on this relationship can be found here.

Technologies used include FileMaker 6.0, Microsoft IIS, and Lasso.

krplink (Toronto, ON) Is a professional services firm specializing in Integrated Brand Marketing Communications (IBMC), krplink works with clients to identify and achieve their business and communications goals.

We have partnered with krplink to build an online registration and reporting system to reinforce their full service conference and event planning with sophisticated technology. We are providing individualized HTML e-mail and print invitations sent to potential attendees whose names are drawn from the end client’s database. Registrations for conferences can be completed on-line on a new, secure website. Confirmation e-mails and letters can be sent to attendees.

hind-smith.com also provides backend reporting on registration activity. This occurs in real time so that krplink can provide quick feedback to its clients. The mechanism allows clients to view registration activity through a secure web portal.

Web and backend reporting were built on a FileMaker 6.0, Microsoft IIS, and CDML platform.

Foreign Service Examination and Career Counseling (Ottawa, ON)helps individuals prepare for a position at the officer or executive level, or higher, in the public and private sectors.

We built and host three ecommerce sites for them on our SSL 3.0 enabled ecommerce servers. The ecommerce databases are built on a FileMaker 6.0 platform, allowing our client to easily view and fulfill orders on the web as the orders appear directly in their local copies of FileMaker the instant they are submitted.

The sites can be viewed at:
http://www.foreignserviceexamprep.com
http://www.post-secondaryrecruitmentexamprep.com
http://www.publicserviceexamprep.com

First Choice Hair Cutters (Pickering, ON) is the dominant price value family hair care chain in Canada.

We have created a system in FileMaker 8.0 that collates sales data from over 50 of their franchise locations to provide consolidated management reporting and integration into their accounting systems.

Raeber (Winnipeg, MB) is a succesful marketing and design firm in the heart of Canada.

We are building them a customized docket system in FileMaker 8.0 that will manage all aspects of business development, estimations, dockets, timesheets invoicing, and reporting. As well, the system will integrate seamlessly with QuickBooks.

Inform Group (Toronto, ON) is a communication firm that specializes in helping government and public agencies formulate and deliver strategic messages.

We work with the company to supply web based database technology to support the electronic marketing projects they deliver to their clients.

Riddoch Communications (Toronto, ON) is a multi-disciplined design firm with clients in a variety of industries. We have built the fim a docket system in FileMaker 7.0 to handle estimations, requests for quotations, production, and invoicing.

Q30 Design (Toronto, ON)is a design consultancy that works with organizations to help define and communicate brands. We support their FileMaker docket and invoicing system, based on the Studio Manager package.

Bruce Mau Design (Toronto, ON) collaborates with some of the world's leading architects, artists, writers, curators, academics, entrepreneurs, businesses and institutions. Since its inception in 1985, Bruce Mau Design has gained international recognition for innovation across a wide range of business and cultural disciplines.

The firm is collaborating with a New York design company on their latest publication. We have built a web based collaboration tool with a Filemaker 7.0 backend so that the research information and images that will eventually comprise the book can be collated, shared, searched, and edited in real time.

The Autumn Group (Markham, ON)is an integrated agency offering traditional and interactive solutions to their clients.

We are enhancing and supporting their installation of the FileMaker based Organizer Pro solution.

Stash Media (New York, NY)produces a monthly DVD magazine for animation, VFX, and motion graphics. We supply Stash with FileMaker hosting services so that personnel in New York and Vancouver can share their FileMaker databases without the expense of setting up their own IT environment.

Community Association for Riding for the Disabled (Toronto, ON)strives to improve the lives of children and adults with disabilities through quality therapeutic riding programs. We support their legacy FileMaker 6.0 system and have improved their network and backup infrastructure.

Interfusion (Kleinberg, ON)is a strategic marketing firm with blue chip clients around the globe. We partner with them to provide emarketing solutions for the Sony Store.

Ketubah Ketubah (Toronto, ON)is an on-line gallery and shop specializing in Jewish marriage Ketubot and other Judaica. We are bridging their in-house FileMaker system with their online ecommerce site built in ASP.net, giving them the best of both technical platforms. As well we provide overall network and other IT support.

Camp Kirk (Toronto, ON)offers a safe and structured social environment in which children with learning disabilities can begin to experience themselves in a positive way. We support their legacy FileMaker 6.0 system and have improved their network and backup infrastructure.

StudioType (Toronto, ON)

is a creative design studio with several large automotive clients. We built a docket and invoicing systems for them to help them properly manage their workflow and analyze costs.

Interfusion (Kleinberg, ON)

Is a strategic marketing firm with blue chip clients around the globe. We partner with them to provide emarketing solutions for the Sony Store.

Camp Oochigeas (Toronto, ON)

Camp Oochigeas is the only camping facility in Ontario that offers chemotherapy treatment onsite. This unique aspect allows children who are on treatment, as well as those who are not, to attend Camp Ooch. We support their legacy FileMaker 6.0 system and have improved their network and backup infrastructure.

DSC (Toronto, ON)is a leading supplier of intrusion alarm products to the global security industry. We provide DSC with FileMaker training and support services.

ArtofDisplay.com (Mississauga, ON)is a full service exhibit house focusing on project management and show logistics.

We created an enterprise system in FileMaker 7 to control all aspects of their business development, estimates, dockets, graphic inventory, invoicing, and reporting.

Wellspring Pharmaceutical (Oakville, ON)is a pharmaceutical company that develops and markets niche products licensed or purchased from major pharmaceutical companies. hind-smith.com rewrote a series of FileMaker applications that control and manufacturing and packaging processes at Wellspring.

Logos Brands (Toronto, ON) is an integrated, full-service design house that specializes in the development and implementation of corporate and packaging graphics.

We have helped Logos rewrite their estimation and docket control systems in FileMaker, and created a completely new web portal into this system so that clients could view in real-time updates to their projects.

Colour Innovations (Toronto, ON)is a full service printing facility offering Digital Photography, Scanning and Retouching, Film Output, CTP (Computer-to-Plate), DAM (Data Asset Management), and Multi-colour Lithography services.
We worked with and enhanced their existing FileMaker system to help the sales team create RFQs (Request for Quotations) consistently and quickly so that the estimation team could turn them around quickly.

Clinical Pharmacology Services (Tampa, FL)performs clinical research, patient care, consulting, education, and legal consulting in the pharmacology arena.

We have helped CPS migrate an Outlook based Legal Case Database into a robust FileMaker solution, providing support and consulting services.

Sun-Canadian Pipeline (Waterdown, ON)is a subsidiary of Sunoco that runs a pipeline throughout the southern Ontario corridor. We upgraded their FileMaker systems from v3.0 to 6.0, and provided user and advanced training to their team.

Canadian Scholars' Press (Toronto, ON)provides instructors at the post-secondary level with a wide variety of options in sharing material with students and colleagues.

We have helped CSPI consolidate various FileMaker and Windows address book databases into a single enterprise system, and streamline their print on demand system so that it is driven completely by FileMaker.

Crammond Dickens Lerner (London, UK)is an up and coming European ad agency. We built an integrated estimation, job bag, and invoicing system customized to their exact specifications.

Aware Marketing Group (Toronto, ON)has been listed for five years in Profit Magazine's list of Canada's 100 fastest growing companies. We provide them with onsite FileMaker programming resources to support their enterprise order entry, manufacturing, and import systems. Take a look at their website (www.aware.ca) to check out the web enablement of their catalogue we performed.

Emond Montgomery Publications (Toronto, ON)serves the academic law and law-related community with outstanding texts, casebooks, and related legal teaching material. We are integrating a FileMaker based accounting system into their operations to control sales, inventory, and payables.

Songwriters Association of Canada (Burlington, ON)is dedicated exclusively to Canadian composers, lyricists, and songwriters. We provide them with an IP network for database sharing, as well web enabling several databases so that members can check on the status of songs. (Click here for the web work)

TelePartners (Toronto, ON)is a direct marketing and CRM company. We provided project management services to launch a major new contract on behalf of a federal government agency. (Click here to read the case study).

Custom Specialties (Scottsdale, AZ)is an Arizona distributor of promotional based products. We remotely repaired some significant issues they were having with their databases without interrupting the day-to-day operations of their business.

Superior Computer Services (Maple, ON)is an Ontario based software developer. We have helped them build specific modules for software projects they are working on.

White Dragon Media (Toronto, ON)is a preferred channel for buying television advertising in the People's Republic of China. We support their website, email, and other Internet support requirements.

ADS Studio Productions (Brantford, ON)is fully integrated media production company specializing in state of the art creative audio design solutions from concept to completion. We built some specialized CD and cassette labeling modules for the company.

The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (Hamilton)promotes a safe and healthy working environment by providing information and advice about occupational health and safety. We helped them install and troubleshoot their FileMaker server running under Macintosh OSX.

Russ Taylor Renovations (Oakville, ON)provides the finest basement and home renovations in Oakville, Mississauga, and Toronto.

Somerville McDonald (Toronto, ON)is the alignment of two organizations to address and realize synergies in the electrical distribution construction industry. We built them a Work Management Database (WMD) that was remotely accessible, contained robust reporting functionality, expandable and versatile enough to address the changing needs of new contracts and clients in FileMaker 8.5.