Database applications can help the users to be both more efficient, productive and more creative - as problem solvers, for example. These application qualities make the database and its usage better investments of development funds and users time.

In addition to the efficiency and productivity increase related benefits, database applications can indeed provide assistance in situations that require problem solving skills and creativity. Creativity-related topics are addressed elsewhere on this website. This section provides some examples of tools that either directly or indirectly help to increase efficiency and productivity.

<<< The links in the Current section's content area in the left lead to descriptions of different computerized tools and previous work examples. Each subsections contains an Additional images and information link that provides additional images and information on the functionality area.

Next subsection, Achieve more with less effort, contains an overview of the user efficiency and productivity increase-related tools and topics. The rest of the examples shown in this section are presented from the functionality prospective. The functionality pieces, or tools, as they are called here, can be assembled as needed for different type of database applications. For new applications the functionality pieces can be customized for the users needs and wants, and additional, application-specific functionality pieces can be added. This helps to speed up the application development process.