Custom Web Applications
Confluence designs and implements custom web applications in a variety of programming languages and platforms. We tailor our approach to the nature of the project - from large-scale, formal, waterfall development with independent testing, to smaller-scale, "agile" development, deploying capabilities in two week sprints. No matter what the approach, we begin with conversations about your needs, suggesting ways to accomplish the goals based on our experience of what works well from across our client base. We document the desired functionality clearly, so it is easy to ensure expectations are met or exceeded. Our clients love discussing new projects with us because of how quickly we "get it" and become a partner in the conceptualization and implementation.
We have special expertise in taking complex data from surveys and making it web-accessible for searching, research and reporting. See our portfolio for some samples.
What Our Clients Say
"[…] and the team at Confluence have been amazing to work with! They've been patient, responsive and open to new ideas and directions, despite a frantic work pace, tight deadline, and ever-increasing amount of content. We issued a challenge in late January to get bellnursery.com up and running for the spring garden season, Confluence delivered. I personally look forward to continuing to work…on this and other projects in the future. "
Portfolio
Share Inc.
Designed and implemented a custom client tracking system (with Access front-end with Microsoft SQL server backend database) to track clients, and all services (financial and otherwise) provided to those clients; system also performs advanced search and reporting functions that were required.
Council of Chief State School Officers
State Profiles: For CCSSO, Confluence implemented a custom database and web application to support the increasingly advanced reporting needs of its Standards, Assessment & Accountability initiative. Implemented using PHP with Microsoft SQL server backend database.
National Teacher of the Year: In this project, Confluence took 50 years of Teacher of the Year state nomination data in which each year was separately stored and integrated all 50 years of data into a single table in an Access database. Designed and implemented a custom Access interface to allow for easy viewing and searching of any year's data by CCSSO staff. Integrated with Microsoft SQL Server database for web-based searching and display of Teacher of the Year information.
Human Rights Campaign
Confluence designed and implemented a custom organization program and policy management system (Access front-end with Microsoft SQL server backend database) with web-based interfaces, such as this Employer Database. We also designed and implemented a custom survey application that allows the various HRC programs to collect LGBT and Trangender policy information from organizations nationwide for the Corporate Equality Index, Healthcare Equality Index, and All Children All Families assessments.
Food for Others
For this food bank, we designed and implemented a custom CRM/Fundraising/Volunteer database using Microsoft Access. We took an existing difficult-to-use Client Intake Access database and made widespread enhancements, creating a much more user-friendly system that makes tracking and reporting much easier.
Musical Theater Center
Designed and implemented a student tracking Access database to provide a user-friendly system with advanced search/reporting features that made tracking and reporting on students and registrations easier.
Maryland Nonprofits
Requirements analysis and assessment for member management system.
AHC Inc.
The database team designed and implemented a custom CRM/Fundraising database using Access.
Isles
Confluence performed a requirements analysis and assessment for an integrated contact and program management database, and assisted the organization with the selection of technical approach and vendor.
Safety Equipment Institute
Designed and implemented a custom Access database to track member organizations, products manufactured by the organization, and certifications/noncompliances for the products. Integrated with MySQL database for web-based searching and display of all certified products, as well as online ability for member organizations to submit products for certification.
Women for Women International
Confluence designed and implemented custom woman beneficiary and sponsor tracking system with a Microsoft Access front-end with Microsoft SQL server backend database).
Literacy Council of Northern Virginia
For this literacy organization, the tem took an existing difficult-to-use Client tracking Access database and made widespread enhancements, creating a much more user-friendly system that made tracking and reporting much easier.
Mobile Citizen
Requirements analysis and assessment for whether Salesforce was the right system for them. After assessing that it was a good fit, provided design, implementation and administration support to streamline the use of Salesforce.
Peace Action
For Peace Action, we implemented a custom design as a Drupal theme and built in numerous dynamic functionalities, including custom-tailored landing pages which retrieve feeds from other areas of the website as well as external sources. The design has also been modified to work as a Salsa web template, which allows users to switch between Drupal and Salsa pages without ever knowing the difference.
Requirements analysis and assessment for an integrated CRM.
National Assembly of State Art Agencies
Major enhancements to existing Access database for tracking state arts funding
Northern Virginia Family Service
NVFS MHS: Performed assessment and troubleshooting of Civer Psych system and helped to develop processed for better use of the system. Designed and implemented a custom reporting system (with Access front-end with Microsoft SQL server backend database) to perform advanced search and reporting functions that were required.
NVFS Survivors Fund: Designed and implemented a custom client tracking system (with Access front-end with Microsoft SQL server backend database) to track clients affected by the 9/11 attacks at the Pentagon, all services (financial and otherwise) provided to those clients; system also perform advanced search and reporting functions that were required.
Community Foundation of the National Capital Region
Designed and implemented database input forms, reports and queries for monitoring and managing the case management services and expenditures related to the Pentagon Survivor's Fund.
Our Place
Designed and implemented a custom client tracking system (with Access front-end with Microsoft SQL server backend database) to track clients, and all services (financial and otherwise) provided to those clients; system also performs advanced search and reporting functions that were required.
Lighthouse of the Big Bend
Uncorrupted an existing database and made widespread enhancements, saving the organization tens of thousands of dollars in potential replacement costs, and creating a much more user-friendly system that makes tracking and reporting much easier.
Catholics for Choice
Confluence designed and implemented a custom contact management system using existing Microsoft Access front-end modules with a Microsoft SQL server backend database.
National Council of Jewish Women
Requirements analysis and assessment for CRM.
ENO Transportation Foundation
Confluence designed and implemented a custom CRM system with a Microsoft Access front-end with a Microsoft SQL server backend databas) with many advanced reporting features and web-based searching contact profiles. All web functionality was implemented in ColdFusion.
Visitors' Service Center
The Visitors' Service Center helps prisoners while they are incarcerated and newly released to create, maintain and strengthen family and community ties so they are better prepared for successful transition back into the community in Washington DC. All Confluence staff who have had the opportunity to support VSC have been touched by the powerful impact of such a small nonprofit. Over the years, we provide all the desktop and server support. We also modified an existing Microsoft Access database to help the organization track clients and client services, and designed and implemented a Microsoft SharePoint extranet site to support the work of the Board of Directors.
Designed and implemented a client tracking Access database to provide a user-friendly system with advanced search/reporting features that made tracking and reporting on clients and provided services easier.
Birthright Israel Foundation
Confluence assisted with the design and implementation of new interactive features on the website which included developing a form to upload photos for a photo contest, and developing an administrative site to manage the photo contest.
La Piana Consulting
After performing a strategic technology assessment, Confluence recommended that this virtual organization move to Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Standard Suite. This offering combines Microsoft Exchange, LiveMeeting, Office Communications and SharePoint into one integrated, hosted solution. For staff that must collaborate but work across the country and travel often, SharePoint offers a centralized, easy-to-use and easy-to-access web space for files, discussions, announcements, contact information and more.
We designed and implemented a web-based display of data collected by the Lodestar Foundation to support the Collaboration Prize. This included a searchable full-text indexed MySQL database with custom PHP programming to house applicant data.
Partners for Community Solutions
Designed and implemented custom project and grantee management system (with Access front-end with Microsoft SQL server backend database) with web-based user profile creation/update, event registration, and many advanced reporting features. All web functionality was implemented in ColdFusion.
Lorton Community Action Center
Designed and implemented a Client tracking Access database to provide a user-friendly system with advanced search/reporting features that made tracking and reporting on services provided easier.
Association of Public Health Laboratories
Our ASP.net team designed and implemented a highly scalable and searchable online resource center for public health laboratory members to search and report on the portfolio of all past member profile information and surveys.
Loudoun Citizens for Social Justice
Confluence implemented a customized Microsoft Access database to assist in managing this organization's donors and other contacts.
Council for Resource Development
Confluence designed and implemented a custom membership management system using Microsoft Access as a front-end with a hosted Microsoft SQL server backend database. The system included web-based user profile creation/update, membership enrollment/payment, a dynamic calendar, event registration, publication purchases, and many advanced reporting features. All of the web functionality was implemented in ColdFusion.
Advocates for Youth
We designed and implemented a custom contact management system using Microsoft Access as the front-end with a Microsoft SQL server backend
Samaritan Inns
Confluence took over support from previous database database developer, and implemented major enhancements to an existing client tracking and reporting Access database.
Mustard Seed
Designed and implemented custom child beneficiary and sponsor tracking system (with Access front-end with Microsoft SQL server backend database) with web-based beneficiary/sponsor matching/registration, and many advanced reporting features. All web functionality was implemented in ASP.
Professional Aviation Safety Specialists
Requirements analysis and assessment for union member management system.
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
For ASTHO, we implemented a highly scalable and searchable full-text indexed Microsoft SQL Server database to house the data collected from their annual survey of all state health organizations. The project included custom .NET programming for integration with the Ektron CMS and a dynamic map to help users visually analyze location-oriented data.
Loudoun Interfaith Relief
We designed and implemented a Client tracking Access database to provide a user-friendly system with advanced search/reporting features that made tracking and reporting on services provided easier.
Rainforest Action Network
The team designed and implemented a custom contact management system (with Access front-end with Microsoft SQL server backend database).
American Lung Association
Confluence integrated two disparate Access databases used for tracking State of Tobacco Control (SOTC) and State Legislated Actions on Tobacco Issues (SLATI) in order to allow bidirectional access to data. Designed and implemented additional functionality to track state Tobacco Cessation information. Implemented ability to extract data in XML in order to make desired data viewable and searchable on the web.
The Community Partnership for the Prevention of Homelessness
For TCP: We purchased and set up a new server at TCP that freed up an older but functional server to be redeployed, and upgraded a dozen computers, cabling the facility and setting up the newly upgraded machines.
Confluence designed and implemented a custom client program management system (Access front-end with Microsoft SQL server backend database).
American Rights at Work
Assisted in making modifications to a legacy Microsoft Access database and helped in assessing and analyzing the best way to move to a new system.