FileMaker is Apple-owned software that allows for fast and efficient custom application creation. Because it offers such a streamlined approach to coding and design, we’re able to deliver the solution you need in weeks, instead of months. Now, small to medium-sized businesses can access capabilities that used to be accessible to only the large corporations.
Let's TalkNow you can increase your team's efficiency by harnessing the power of custom applications designed specifically for the way your business runs.
Let's TalkBy opening our Excel file with FileMaker, we can take multiple Excel sheets and combine them together, creating dependency relationships that will allow us to connect, for example, the histories of contacts with individual clients from our above example. What's more, we can easily visualize each row of the table in the shape of a form and navigate between our data, allowing for easy searching. This step can be done quickly and easily, without the need to hire consultants or programmers. You can use many online Filemaker platform resources, such as Claris Academy.
This file that we just created can be made available on a platform called FileMaker Server. Here, it can be available to all of the users within your company. You control permission, so it can be accessible to only a specific department or authorized personnel. Easily add user accounts and grant specific permissions to allow access to only the data you choose for them to see. Your FileMaker Server can be accessible worldwide across computers, phones and tablets. There’s no need to write additional programs for each type of device. FileMaker Server is available across Windows, MacOS, iPad, iPhone, Android and via all of today’s widely used browsers.
Of course most companies will have greater requirements that aren’t as simple as the scenario we illustrated above. Businesses may need any of the following:
Here is where FileMaker truly shines, providing all of the support and capabilities your business needs. But you need an experienced FileMaker expert to create these tools in a streamlined and efficient manner. GoIDEA can help connect the FileMaker platform with external data sources using data API technology. We work virtually and thanks to the speed with which the platform allows us to create our application, we can shorten the time of its creation exponentially, minimizing user involvement and drastically reducing project costs compared to other programming technologies.
Filemaker is a platform that enables rapid applicationdevelopment with the use of a minimum amount of code, also known as low codeprogramming.
Today, many teams use applications like Excel to keep track of customers, meetings, invoices and order. But this can be time consuming and unintuitive, causing wasted time and missed opportunities.
At this stage, most companies realize that they need a special, dedicated application. However, the specificity of the company is usually much more complicated than in our example and it is simply impossible to buy such specific software that meets all their unique requirements. These processes need to be created from scratch. That’s when many businesses give up on their idea, assuming that the process of building a dedicated application will be too difficult, time-consuming and expensive.
For simple information recording, you can get by with simple spreadsheets. But when you want to do more? You may be left needing more capabilities than a simple spreadsheet can offer. For example, let's take a customer list that we have in Excel. Your team realizes it would be helpful to have each contact’s history easily accessible. Excel is no longer enough .Let’s take this idea further. Imagine that we want to share such a list of contacts within your entire department or even with the entire company. Greater efficiency and access can be added when everyone can add customers and all of your contacts for each customer are saved in one place. To do this, we need to create a special, publicly available data set .
Data should be easily accessible, available on both desktops and mobile devices. It also needs to be up-to-date, with the ability for additions and changes to be updated in real time for everyone to see.
FileMaker is a platform that makes the app creation process from an idea to a ready-to-use system quick and easy. You will be free to iterate as much as you want. In the future, your application will grow as your needs and company grow.
Enjoy blazing fast design speeds, seamless integration, and the versatile capabilities the FileMaker platform has to offer. Using our decades of experience in business productivity and our knowledge of this awesome powerful tool, you can now work smarter than your competition.
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