Knack Database Consultancy
Knack?
Knack is powerful multi user database application that can be used stand alone, or in combination with your website. Put simply, Knack enables you to do more with your website and extends your ‘line of business’ applications online. Fundraising, Service booking, Membership or Administration - Knack can help organisations do more, and improve efficiency.
Obviously, every system is unique with different groups of users, needing different things from the website and system: Our Consultancy recognises this and always starts with a free of charge fact find. After all, how can we offer any meaningful input before we understand your objectives and resources.
Business Analysis is the art/science of understanding the requirement and helping clients define and refine the specification.
Starting with Analysis, we’re with you all the way from initial conversations to professional implementation and user training. We’ve developed some really powerful bespoke video tutorials and effective ways of delivering training so your system gets used as intended. We do as much or as little as is required. Our focus is always cost effectiveness and simplicity - and in the process use as little jargon as possible.
Analyse → Define → Specify & Design → Build → Test → Implementation → Train
Isoblue is a Knack Expert & Specialist
Isoblue have been working with Database lifecycles for over 30 years and we’ve been working with Knack for 5 years commercially. Over the years we’ve used some great tools, and have a lot of experience with Filemaker, DBase, MS Access, MS SQL and Caspio. Isoblue has completed work for over 700 clients across the world.
In addition to Database expertise, we build websites and we’ve been listed as Squarespace Specialists since 2009. Isoblue have completed hundreds of Squarespace projects completed across 5 continents.
Squarespace or Wordpress & Knack
The combination of Squarespace or Wordpress and Knack is a hugely powerful combination for any organisation requiring more control especially where processes don’t fall readily into an off the shelf solution.
We’ll help you look professional, target your audience, grow your business and take control and extend your website back down into your line of business.
System Support & Maintenance through the lifecycle
Websites and Software Systems have a life cycle. Support from Isoblue reflects the system life cycle and maintains the value of your investment.
From Start to Finish
Analysis
Specification
System Build
Integration with Zapier and other API's Directly
Technical System Testing
User Acceptance Testing
Video Training
Full Website Build - Squarespace, Wordpress etc
Coaching and Mentoring
Fully qualified Graphic Designers
Maintain: Correct - Perfect - Adapt - Prevent
Correction - Faults are sometimes overlooked during testing. These are corrected. and over time these will be eliminated.
Perfection - After delivery, improved ergonomics, processes become apparent. This is normal and the system is improved by reveiwing and revising the way it works to a point when it’s more perfect.
Adaptation - Time changes everything, new laws, new products, changes in customer expectations the system need to be adapted periodically to remain useful and current.
Prevention - Sometimes change is needed to prevent obsolescence: This is less of an issue since the advaent of tools like Knack that evolve and prevent the software getting out of date!
Charities and Not-for-profits
Charities have, arguably, the most to gain from tools like Knack: Rapid development, low code, agility and so on all means that systems can be deployed quickly and kept up to date with the minimum of fuss.
Isoblue is uniquely placed as a Social Enterprise to help support Charities and Not-for-profit organisations to leverage No-Code Databases and promote fundraising, cost efficiency and service delivery” We can help you realise all of the promise! Most importantly, we can also help you to deal with staff churn and continuity.
“As small business and a Social Enterprise, we combine our technical and design skills with a pragmatic approach, targeting the results you’re aiming for, whilst thinking about your Cause and stakeholders. We build websites & systems focussed on outcomes: we help organisations design, develop & deploy simple systems that get used!.
because if systems don’t get used - the rest doesn’t matter.”
