Alliances
Trusted Partners • Complimentary Service Providers • Alternative Service Provider
They’ve helped us before, and we’re confident they can help you too!
Alliance: a union or association formed for mutual benefit, esp. between organizations.
Friends, we’ve made some professional alliances with some talented organizations. And like the above definition suggests, these alliances were created not only for our mutual benefit, but for yours as well.
At eXcelisys, we specialize in custom development and business process consulting. But when it comes to stuff that would take us off of our core competencies, we’re smart enough to enlist the help of our brilliant allies.
If you want to consider other technologies for your custom solution, or you want a place to park your current Web or WAN database application, we have partners that can help meet your needs. Rest assured, they’ve been put through the eXcelisys wringer; they’ve been subject to our interrogations and our due diligence testing methods. In other words, they’ve passed the eXcelisys test.
Hosting Partners
The hosting partners we have listed here are those whom we trust and work with on a regular basis. Simply put, they let us put our client’s stuff in their facilities. We know that these folks exemplify quality customer service and outstanding uptime. They also offer an array of hosting services and price ranges that reflect the diversity of our customers and their demands. That’s why we get along so well.
Amazon Web Services offers cloud web hosting solutions that provide businesses, non-profits, and governmental organizations with low-cost ways to deliver their websites and web applications. Whether you’re looking for a marketing, rich-media, or ecommerce website, AWS offers a wide-range of website hosting options, and they will help you select the one that is right for you.
Simple websites typically consist of a single web server which runs either a Content Management System (CMS), such as WordPress, an eCommerce application, such as Magento, or a development stack, like LAMP. The software makes it easy to build, update, manage, and serve the content of your website.
Simple websites are best for low to medium trafficked sites with multiple authors and more frequent content changes, such as marketing websites, content websites or blogs. They provide a simple starting point for website which might grow in the future. While typically low cost, these sites require IT administration of the web server and are not built to be highly available or scalable beyond a few servers.
Best for:
- Websites built on common applications like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento
- Websites built on popular development stacks like LAMP, LEMP, MEAN, Node.Js
- Websites that are unlikely to scale beyond 5 servers
- Customers who want to manage their own web server and resources
- Customers who want one console to manage their web server, DNS, and networking
WordPress Website Hosting
Whether you are setting up a personal blog or an intricate and complex multi-site for your brand, WP Engine makes managed WordPress hosting a snap. No matter what your requirements are, they can scale to meet them.
Your visitors are impatient. And if your site is slow, they’ll take their business elsewhere. But with WP Engine, your visitors are staying put. Sites run four to six times faster on their unique front-end technology than on another environment. Every WP Engine customer benefits from the same robust, enterprise-grade software technology stack. So whether you have a personal account or a dedicated enterprise solution, you always get an efficient, scalable, secure WordPress eXperience.
24/7 Support • Automatic WordPress Backup and Disaster Recovery • Secure WordPress Hosting
Web Hosting
Media Temple is a web hosting and cloud services provider headquartered in Los Angeles, california. Since 1998, they have provided businesses and consumers around the world with professional-class service to host websites, applications, virtual servers, email, and other rich Internet content. Their infrastructure serves approximately 100,000 customers and over 1 million websites in top-tier datacenters on the east and west coasts of the United States.
Their company is comprised of 180 employees who help create an award-winning culture. They are an always-on company (24/7/365) with a U.S. based support department serving customers in over 60 countries. They provide customer support anytime by phone, web and also Twitter and Skype. English is their primary language but they also occasionally speak Armenian, Korean, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.
They dream of making it simple for anyone in the world to create and host a beautiful powerful website.
FileMaker Pro Hosting
Triple8 Network was founded in 1992. In 1996 they began developing and hosting websites. Today they host thousands of websites and hundreds of servers for clients over 30 countries. Their goal is to offer a much more personal level of service and support when compared to most other large hosting providers, and to provide their clients with a full range of Internet services.
Triple8 Network is a world leader in FileMaker hosting services. Hosting your FileMaker Pro database allows you to access your data anywhere in the world. Their secure, reliable FileMaker Pro Servers are connected 24/7 to a high speed network so working on your database is as easy as if it was on your desktop. FileMaker Pro Hosting allows numerous users to share the same database at the same time. All FileMaker Pro Hosting plans include a Free 30 Day Trial. FileMaker Pro hosting accounts also include a Personal Hosting Plan for your website.
Support Partners
These fine folks offer up 3rd party tools, plug-ins, and other various utilities that we use for some of our development. Rather than horde their brilliant products for ourselves, we thought we would share where we get some of the cool stuff we’re using to dominate projects on your behalf.
Multi-Platform Database Tool
FileMaker Plug-in Tools
360Works is a Georgia LLC company (Prometheus Systems Consulting LLC d/b/a 360Works) established in April of 1996. They were originally founded as a Macintosh IT support consulting company, but by 1999 had shifted their focus to FileMaker Pro consulting and custom database development of desktop applications and Java for web applications. 360Works is a Platinum member of the FileMaker Business Alliance, and currently employs eleven people, seven of whom are certified FileMaker Pro developers. The company president, Jesse Barnum, has been invited to present 360Works products at several FileMaker Developer groups around the country. He also leads the Atlanta FileMaker Developer group, which meets monthly.360Works is known for their Plug-ins. Some of our favorites are:
MirrorSync is a synchronization tool that links FileMaker Server to FileMaker Go and FileMaker Pro. With MirrorSync, users can make changes offline and simply sync their data to and from FileMaker Server when connected.
360Works SuperContainer is a Java web servlet which allows you to upload, view, and download images and files from a web server. In conjunction with the FileMaker Web Viewer feature, it is an effective replacement for container fields in solutions which require users to read and store files associated with records in FileMaker.
360Works ScriptMaster is a free, general-purpose, modular plugin. It comes out of the box with modules for file manipulation, URL and network utilities, Web Services, shell scripting, event/script triggering, and many others!
FileMaker Pro Tools
Geist Interactive makes software for small businesses, organizations, and individuals…
We care deeply about the success of small businesses and have dedicated our business to serving their needs and the needs of their communities. We dedicate almost all of our profits to local education, mostly through the funding and back office management of One Spark Academy, a small “non-school” dedicated to whole child education in Thousand Oaks, CA.Geist Interactive is led by Todd Geist, a long-time leader in the FileMaker Pro community. He has spoken at several FileMaker DevCons, and at Macworld here in the US and in the UK. He has also authored several articles for Advisor Magazine, and a chapter in the Migration Tech Brief published by FileMaker Inc.Todd and his team have created a few favorites: GoDraw, Barcode Creator, GoSign
FileMaker Pro Developer Tools
Goya offers two incredible FileMaker Pro developer tools, Base Elements and Refresh FM, that we have found to be very useful in our FileMaker Pro development services..
Goya has been developing FileMaker Pro databases for over 12 years now. We’ve seen FileMaker Pro through from version 3 to the latest version. There aren’t many Australian FileMaker based companies with such a long history and a comprehensive set of development experience. Goya is one of only seven Partner level FileMaker Business Alliance members in Australia and one of the few that have multiple developers certified in every version of FileMaker Pro. They are recognized worldwide for their expertise and proficiency with developing quality productivity tools. Base Elements – Everything in your entire solution is imported, everything is cross referenced, and it’s all open and accessible for you to search, list, sort, display and relate to every other object. This allows you to get the answers to the questions about a FileMaker Pro solution. The database for your database; Allows you to see a list of all of the layouts in an entire solution, find all of the scripts that do import script steps and print them out, find every button on a layout that’s calling a particular script, and list all of the layouts, see every tooltip calculation across all your files, and know every place a Global Variable is used in a solution.
Refresh FM – An importing automation tool for FileMaker Pro developers. It streamlines and automates the import process of a live data solution into an empty “Development” version of the same solution. Because it’s automated and comprehensively error checked, it allows the developer to know in advance they won’t miss any steps and guarantee the process performs as expected. RefreshFM can be used on any FileMaker Pro solution, and it doesn’t require any changes to the original solution.
Other Developers
Hey, we know not everyone is a good fit for us; we are realistic. But we also know and understand that you came to us seeking quality and wanting someone with an upstanding reputation. So if you feel we may not be the “one” for you, we have listed a few of our peers and colleagues who we think exemplify the same commitment to quality and professionalism as we do. They have been around for a long time, and have excellent track records and reputations. They’re not as cool as us, but very close. We kid.
FileMaker Pro Developer
FileMaker Pro Developer
FileMaker Pro Developers
Richard Carlton has been developing in FileMaker for the past 22 years, servicing the needs of large and small business, as well as government agencies. RC Consulting is a FBA Platinum level consultancy, and staffs a team of 26 FileMaker developers and supporting web designers. RC Consulting is involved with every facet of FileMaker Pro development, including PHP development, iPhone & iPad integration. Richard is the author of the VTC’s FileMaker Go video training, and is product manager for the Sales Beaver application available on the iOS App Store. RC Consulting has offices in Santa Clara, Sacramento, and Fairfield, CA.
Richard Carlton has been in the business of writing custom software and contracting with businesses for computer consultation purposes since 1985. In 1990, Richard Carlton Consulting was created, and later became an “S” corporation.