Development
Delivering clarity at each step of your development experience
We pride ourselves on being able to identify problems quickly to deliver solutions in a matter of weeks rather than months.
How We Work With Our Clients
Whether you have a clear vision of what your business needs or you aren’t quite sure yet, Skeleton Key is here to help you identify business problems, define goals, and streamline inefficiencies with a fully customized Claris FileMaker solution. When we take you on as a client, we follow these five fundamental development steps to make the complex simple again.
Discovery
Sometimes our clients know exactly what their business needs from the Claris FileMaker platform. More often, however, businesses aren’t quite sure what they need, and that’s understandable. Skeleton Key’s team specializes in deciphering complex problems and processes to show precisely how the Claris FileMaker platform can optimize your operations while reducing overhead costs and inefficiencies.
We have the depth of experience to help you decide where to start by identifying your most significant business problems, the root causes of those problems, and the field of options available to address them. We take the time to understand your existing processes, the software you currently use, and what your team wants to be empowered to do that they can’t accomplish right now.
Because we care about the success of each client who reaches out to us, we aren’t afraid to tell you that you might be better off with an off-the-shelf solution, even if we don’t offer it. Integrity has been critical to our success, so we never oversell or give our clients something they don’t really need.
Prototyping
Once we’ve determined that your business can benefit from a Claris FileMaker solution and gained insight into your business processes, the fun begins. During the prototyping stage, we show you what’s possible with the Claris FileMaker platform right before your eyes.
Our team provides a hands-on experience to help you understand how Claris FileMaker can dissolve inefficiencies while seamlessly integrating with day-to-day business operations. By getting a clearer picture of the features you truly need and want, we can start formulating a cost estimate while developing a realistic timeline.
Development and Testing
At the development stage, the magic happens. By this point, we know what needs to be done so that we can transform your vision into a real-world solution built around your business. During development, we continue to consult closely with you to make sure the software will suit your needs and work for your team.
Our agile development approach allows us to isolate issues quickly and understand how addressing each challenge fits into your business’s overall information strategy. At every point in the process, nothing is set in stone, so we can refine the necessary details and choices that couldn’t be foreseen during the Discovery or Prototyping stages.
All along the way, your software solution undergoes rigorous testing to ensure reliability, stability, performance and functionality. That way, there are no surprises when the time comes to deploy the solution across your organization.
Deployment
When your solution has been determined to be ready for deployment, we spearhead each step of the company-wide launch. We collaborate with your team to ensure that the new solution works the way it was designed to while providing additional guidance to get each team member started using it correctly from day one.
Support
Because we don’t offer one-size-fits-all systems, we never just dump a solution on your team and expect you to figure out the rest. When we work with you, we enter into a partnership that’s focused on your business’s ongoing success. That means we provide ongoing support, supplemental training, and upgrades as needed to ensure you get the most out of your new toolset.
Solutions Designed To Streamline The Way Your Business Works
Skeleton Key designs Claris FileMaker solutions built around the technical, financial, and human factors that drive organizational efficiency and growth.
Our Priorities
When you partner with Skeleton Key, you can expect:
- Transparency at every step
- Simple but powerful solutions for complex problems
- A custom solution built around the ways your team works
Why We Love Claris FileMaker
We love the Claris FileMaker platform because it allows us to build a fully customized software solution based on your specific needs without sacrificing the quality or flexibility of the end product.
Take The Next Step
If your business wants to talk more about streamlining operations and simplifying complexity, contact the experts at Skeleton Key today, and tell us what the future looks like to you.