Case Studies

Ecologist Builds Online Database Application Using Caspio, Saving Endangered Plants

Racing against time and rapid environmental changes, the Center for Plant Conservation (CPC) at San Diego Zoo Global needed an efficient and secure solution to optimize their data collection initiatives, which aim to save rare plants from extinction. Dr. Katie Heineman, an ecologist at the CPC, used Caspio to build a production-grade online database application without the need to hire expensive developers, saving thousands of dollars.

GEFCO Uses Caspio Low-Code Platform to Build an Enterprise-grade Logistics Management System

After evaluating several Rapid Application Development tools to create a new logistics management system for one of their major clients, GEFCO found none that met their specific requirements. Ultimately, GEFCO found the stability, scalability, and security they needed to satisfy their key stakeholders in Caspio’s low-code application platform. In just a few days, GEFCO was able to successfully deliver an enterprise-grade solution without requiring additional people, while offering significant savings on development and maintenance expenses.

Collin College Saves $100,000 by Creating HR Applications Using Caspio

With over 52,000 students each year and about 2,000 faculty members, Collin College needed an extensive database system to manage all faculty credentials and transcripts. However, the software solution purchased for the HR department fell short on key functionality. With only four weeks away from an important accreditation review, the college needed to replace the system quickly. Using Caspio, Collin College was able to build the core system overnight, saving an estimated $100,000 on software and management costs.

Barnes & Noble College Transforms Operations Using Caspio

Barnes & Noble College operates 750 of the finest campus bookstores nationwide for top academic institutions such as Harvard, Yale, and University of Pennsylvania. The Operational Finance Department was looking to overhaul paper-based processes that gathered information from store locations and required manual data entry. The process was slow, time consuming, and prone to errors. Barnes & Noble College chose Caspio to bring all these paper-based processes online. The company has since decreased processing time, tightened controls, improved accuracy, and developed sophisticated dashboards with business-critical insights. Furthermore, the 750 store locations are thrilled to spend more time with the over 5 million students and faculty they serve daily.

AMA Cuts Lead Management Processing Time by 75%

The American Management Association is known as a business management thought leader. So when unreliable systems were causing excessive time processing leads and less time following up on them, they knew they needed a solution, and fast. As a non-profit organization, they didn't have a lot of money to spend on expensive IT development. They turned to Caspio's scalable and robust platform and were able to build the applications themselves. They were able to quickly create an automated system that efficiently manages the hundreds of leads they receive daily.

Indiana Department of Natural Resources Saves $100,000 with Caspio Web Apps

With a tight budget that left little room to hire contractors, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources discovered it could affordably create their online database applications using Caspio. Caspio's simplified approach to database design, packaged as a cloud service, helped the DNR avoid hiring programmers and save an estimated $100,000 annually compared to hosting similar applications with the state's datacenter.

Houston Community College Launches Searchable Class Schedule in a Few Short Weeks

With six satellite locations and 4,400 faculty spread throughout the region, Houston Community College had to juggle the collection, organization and distribution of large amounts of curriculum information and class schedules. As the college expanded, the old system became overbearing and sluggish. HCC signed up for a free 14-day trial of Caspio and quickly built an online class schedule database that had both students and faculty excited by the application's performance, ease-of-use and added functionality.

Non-Profit Manages $1 Billion in Japan Disaster Relief with Caspio-Powered Donor Database

In the aftermath of the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in 2011, the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) wanted a better way to track funds earmarked for relief efforts. See how a small non-profit with a tight budget and limited IT resources used Caspio to create a donor database tracking $1 billion in Japan disaster relief.

City of Thousand Oaks Wins “Best of California” Award for Green Cloud Applications

With a small budget and limited IT resources, the City of Thousand Oaks enlisted a volunteer intern to create its Green Business Certification Program, the first fully-automated city program of its kind in California. The intern didn't have much IT experience, but found he could build several applications quickly and easily using Caspio. For their efforts, the City was recognized with the 2012 "Best of California" award and the intern was hired on as a full-time employee.

Solar Energy Non-Profit Saves $100K and Receives National Recognition Using Caspio-Powered Applications

Solar Oregon needed a better way to manage data for their state-wide solar adoption programs. With hundreds of workshop and solar tour attendees, finding a solution that would allow them to easily manage contacts and events was essential to build an active solar community. Using Caspio, the non-profit created a complete program in less than two months, saving an estimated $100,000 in development and management costs.

Florida Department of Health Uses Cloud Computing to Publish Environmental Health Data

Working with Caspio, the Florida Department of Health published a series of Government 2.0 applications, despite not having the budget to employ programmers to create web applications. Using the Caspio cloud database and its visual app-building tools, the web manager at the Division of Environmental Health created a series of inspection data reports, making information of public interest easily available online.

AJC Enhances Online News Reports with Interactive Web Applications

As one of the top 20 newspapers nationwide and with over 3 million monthly unique visitors to their websites, it's important that the AJC gets news online fast. They needed at least two unique database applications on their website per month and often had little notice as to what application they would require. They adopted Caspio and were able to transfer outdated systems online in minutes. They now create over 10 applications a year, without needing to use expensive IT resources.

Georgia Government Entity Completes Data Intensive Project Ahead of Time and Under Budget

The Georgia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council was tasked with creating an online application for state agencies to apply for newly available grant funds. It was a massive project with over 200 required data fields, strict security standards but a small budget. With no time to write code, they turned to Caspio and completed the project ahead of time and with money left over. They launched the application online and had the first completed response in less than 30 minutes.

Nightingale Home Healthcare Finds an Efficient Cure in Caspio

Nightingale Home Healthcare needed a way to improve manual and complex business activities between their support staff and nurses working remotely. They were heavily burdened by everyday tasks such as filling out administrative forms, managing nurse locations, in-home care assignments, time-off requests, and more. Using Caspio, Nightingale quickly built web applications to automate and modernize these tedious activities, so their organization could scale quickly and work efficiently.

State-wide Kentucky Program Uses Caspio to Streamline Academic Data Management

AdvanceKentucky needed a solution that would give over 500 teachers, school administrators, and program staff across 79 high schools in the state of Kentucky the ability to update thousands of student records in real time while maintaining stringent security standards. After trying to solve the problem with products like Excel, Access, SharePoint and Database.com, AdvanceKentucky successfully used Caspio to implement the solution.