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Database
Creations, Inc., formerly
Cary Prague Books and Software, is a company specializing in the
development, marketing, and distribution of Microsoft Access and
Microsoft Office add-on products, books, videos, business
applications - including accounting and point of sale software, and
developer tools. We also offer customized software development for Fortune
500 and other companies.
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Company History |
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Database Creations, Inc. was
originally founded in 1982 by best-selling author Cary Prague under
the original name of Creative Business Consultants. The company
provided training and custom development for dBASE users. Since
these beginnings, this privately held company has grown to 12
employees and has revenues exceeding $2 Million. We are now
considered one of the leading vendors of Microsoft Office Add-On
software products. We also provide video and CD training on
Microsoft products including Visual FoxPro, Access, Office, Visual
Basic and many other technical topics.
The mail-order company, founded in
1993, distributes more than 200 products through our web site,
extensive magazine advertising and direct-mail catalogs to over one
million Office users each year. Our web site
www.databasecreations.com receives over 100 orders, inquiries, and
catalog requests each day. Additionally, Database Creations, Inc.
has been the official bookstore at Microsoft sponsored conferences
around the United States including Microsoft Access, Office, and
Visual FoxPro. We also participate in Microsoft Tech-Ed and Fusion
conferences. We are the leading advertiser in Access/Office/VB
Advisor magazine as well as the Microsoft Office VBA
Developers Journal, the Cobb Group’s Inside Access and Inside
Office Developer journals, Pinnacle’s Smart Access, Woody's
Access Watch, and CPA Software News.
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Our Products |
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Our products are in
use by over 100,000 users in 74 different countries. The first
product was the Access Business Forms Library, a collection of 35
common customizable forms. Microsoft Corporation licensed this
product for use in the Microsoft Access 1.1 upgrade promotion. Our
second product released in 1993 was the Mail Merge Report Wizard,
which was the first commercial add-on Wizard to create an Access
report design.
Many other software
products followed. The most successful product to date is
Yes!
I Can Run My Business. This fully customizable business
accounting software is written completely in Microsoft Access. Other
popular software products include:
- Business! Professional Edition,
mid-range accounting software for mid-sized businesses
- Business! Standard Edition,
low-end accounting software for small to mid-sized businesses
- POSitively
Business, point of sale system for Yes! I Can Run My
Business
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Application
Builder, create an application shell in MS Access using
wizards and 40 interfaces from the EZ Access Tools collection
- EZ
Access Developer Tools, contains nearly 200 fully
customizable interfaces and components to help you develop
professional Access applications
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Inventory
Manager, a
fully customizable inventory module for Microsoft Access
- TabMaster
Pro Wizard,
which creates tabbed dialogs in Access 2.0, 95 and 97
- Calendar
Construction Kit
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creates calendar and time interfaces for Access 2.0 or 97
User
Interface Construction Kit,
a set of 20 plug and play user interface techniques for
Microsoft Access 2.0, 95, and 97, and winner of the Reader's
Choice Award from Access/Visual Basic Advisor magazine for best
user interface tool.
CheckWriter
for Access,
winner of the Microsoft Network award for best software product
Picture
Builder Add-On Pack Volumes I and II.
Each set contains 1000-1500 bitmap pictures for any Microsoft
Windows application
General
Ledger, a fully
customizable, full featured General Ledger module for Microsoft
Access
Products
distributed by Database Creations, Inc. include software from
several of the leading manufacturers including:
FMS - makers
of the Total Access line of products including Analyzer, Source
Book, Code Tools, Statistics, Speller, Detective, Components and
Agent.
Black
Moshannon Systems - developers
of an award winning search and replace utility called Speed Ferret
Go
Software - makers of
PC Charge software for credit card processing
Z-Firm Inc. - developers of
the award-winning shipping software ShipRush
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Consulting Services |
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In addition to providing
Microsoft Access Add-on products, Database Creations, Inc. is
a Certified Microsoft Solution Provider. We provide consulting
and customization services to Microsoft Access users. We have
written large computer systems in Microsoft Access for Fortune
500 companies including Otis Elevator, Pratt & Whitney
Aircraft, United Healthcare, The Travelers Insurance Co.,
Rockwell International, Southern New England Telephone (SNET), and many
federal and municipal agencies.
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