When you work with Database Designs on software selection and planning, you gain access to our 20 years of experience with hundreds of projects. We start by being good listeners, looking for the nuance and distinctiveness of your work and challenges. Then we look for patterns that fit your organization's experience with the experience of others.

When we assess your data and online systems and infrastructure, we seek to document solutions at three levels:

1. What are the underlying infrastructure requirements, including back-up and security, maintainability, long term costs, licensing costs, and modern openness to integration across systems?
2. What is your organizatin's workflow: for providing basic week-to-week services; for periodic oversight and analysis  internally; afor ccountability to advisors and funders; and for major annual cycles?
3. What are the detailed specifications of data structures, required features, page layouts  and “user stories.”

There are some distinctive values that drive our technology assessments:

• We aim for solutions that give our clients room to grow and for your social impact to grow.
• Our research explores both existing commercial and Open Source options as well as solutions we can provide or integrate ourselves.  We place high value on technologies that  encourage communities of sharing of experience and data.
• We match solutions with technology depth in your organization in order that you become self-reliant in whatever technology you adopt.
• We bring a distinctive combination of data and technology strategy plus heads-down software development experience.  Where strategy and implementation are separate, impractical specifications may result.  Where planning closely connects these elements, you have a much better chance of workable, practical, forward-looking results.