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Unit 11: Collaborating on Database Storage and Sharing Files

changing requirements - easier to build and also easier to change. Almost any collaborative Notes
activity between groups of users or teams can benefit from web based database applications.
Since programming is not required to build a database driven web application on Lightspoke,
business users are now empowered to create, maintain and manage their own databases.
Best of all, Lightspoke is free for non-commercial use. If you want to use this for your business
or at work you will find Lightspoke inexpensively priced at www.lightspoke.com.

11.2.2 Software Creations

Software Creations has been in the business of developing databases for the past 20 years. They
started developing the first online databases over 15 years ago for “Bulletin Board Services”
(Remember the “BBS”?), and migrated to developing web-based databases in the early 90’s.
They have extensive experience designing, developing and implementing online applications
and databases. “Interactive”. “Dynamic”. “Value-Added”. These are all words you have no
doubt heard associated with the development of a successful website. Keep in mind that a
website is basically a collection of “pages” (right now, mostly HTML to be replaced in the near
future with XML). These pages can be arranged to deliver a lot of cool and important information
to your site’s visitors. But if you want your site to really stand up and deliver, you’ve got to add
a degree of “interactivity”; that is, the ability to interact with your users beyond just going to the
next page. For this, your site needs database access: the ability for it to accept queries, process
input and display results over the web.

It is one thing to be a popular website. Quite another thing to be a profitable website. Even if
yours is a non-profit organization, you still need to be focused on exploiting the customer
service potential of your website. In all cases, they want to enrich the experience of their visitors;
and in today’s world, that takes a certain level of interactivity. This is accomplished on today’s
website through programming and data access.
You don’t develop a long term business relationship with an end-user (i.e., someone who
returns to your site on a regular basis) with eye-popping graphics. You get people to return by
giving them something worth returning for. This is either an on-going, enhancing experience,
or access to information they need when they need it.
They do web-based database development. It can add to your site the interactive, dynamic,
value-added processes it requires to deliver the services you want to deliver to your end-users.
They can go on and on about it, but this, basically, is the bottom line: They do web-based
database development. MS SQL, Access, Oracle, DB2 or any ODBC compliant database
management system.

11.2.3 Zoho Creater

Zoho Creator platform sports easy and intuitive interface to create databases on your own
quickly. Just drag and drop fields/data types to create forms/tables. You can also add business
rules through drag and drop. Zoho Creator supports 20 field types such as Text Field – Single
Line, Multiline. Checkboxes, Radio Button and more. You can also add Images, Notes and also
Upload files to the form/table. Zoho Creator helps you slice and dice the collected information
into meaningful reports and perform business intelligence analytics efficiently.
Pivot Table: See the collected information summarized in a grid
Pivot Chart: Interactive graphical representation of the summarized information
Simple and powerful data mining tools like Search, Sort, Filter. Zoho Creator supports grouping
of data based on specific columns. Records with same value for the selected column(s) will be

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