FileMaker Database applications - What businesses should know?

“Solutions that help businesses flourish with minimalistic efforts but larger customizations usually contribute massively in transforming them. Apple the name itself says a lot and need not any introduction. Apple means Quality. Though the concerned FileMaker is not directly associated with Apple; but it is a product of Apple’s subsidiary firm i.e. FileMaker Inc and it was developed with an intention to serve the in-house operating systems i.e. iOS and MAC OS X. The users of FileMaker are massively amazed with the business features of the platform that enables any business personnel to keep track of their business process in a hassle free way. FileMaker does this and a lot more for businesses that need to build custom database applications with enormous horsepower. The powerful tool allows users to conveniently assemble customizable database solutions with absolute no need for any programming. Listed below are some strong features that any business should know as far as FileMaker Database applications are concerned; well it’s not a database instead a ERP solution with integrated Templates”.

The FileMaker as a Platform: This is not just a platform for creating business solution rather a fully fledged software application having ability to control any type of business services without failure. It is an extremely insightful, efficient, and ideally suited platform for the businesses that require to create and run solutions across iPad, iPhone, Windows, Mac, and the web. The recent version of FileMaker can be integrated with its all time rival Microsoft’s Windows platform. The best thing about this is FileMaker shuns the need for any programming skills – as a result, sharing information, managing projects, and tracking assets become simplified. Anyone without having any prior expertise or experience in any web programming language can handle FileMaker application without much issue. This is in fact the inborn quality of every Apple product that creates a smile over everyone’s face while browsing their product may it be iPhone, iPad or FileMaker.

Easy to use: FileMaker Database applications are very simple in essence for they integrate an intuitive, easy to use interface. The platform offers flexibility in designing – due to which, businesses find it easy to create the solution they want. FileMaker also allows users to add data they already have and quickly automate their business tasks. What is more? In latest FileMaker Pro, there are more number of templates for better customization offerings and high performance of the application. The FileMaker developer need not to bother about customization since all that he dreams are already there inside if not any, he can integrate with the platform in no time.

Built-in Reporting Tools: Complex programming projects add tons of hassle to a task; however FileMaker lets users prepare their reports on the fly in absolute no time. The platform comes equipped with built-n reporting tools that help make charts, custom reports, or other reports in familiar spreadsheet-like format. You need to keep track of your revenue, or scrap or inventory or profit? Whatever your requirement may be; there is an awesome solution for every requirement. All your business activities can be well controlled by FileMaker application platform that too within very affordable time but with maximum efficiency and accuracy.

Flexibility: Businesses that are large scale or small scale may benefit largely from FileMaker database applications. The tool enables the ability to securely share the same information among FileMaker users on iOS devices, Windows, Mac, and the web. The affordable solution provides almost everything that a business would need to get started – be it managing its content, contacts, assets, or invoices. Now, are you in away from your business; no worries at all if you have FileMaker installed in your smart phone or iPad. Just tack your business activities from your vacation location and remain in contact with your client always. Never give any chance to lose your business at any cost.

Security: FileMaker users can seamlessly exercise control over their data and even centralize their information on a server. The platform also allows businesses to securely access data using verified encryption standards. It further stretches the power by letting users import existing data into FileMaker, as well as into .CSV, Tab, XML, ODBC, and Microsoft Excel files. It also offers highly secure Cloud storage service for the users to keep their business data in a highly secure environment. Moreover, user can access their data from anywhere with an internet connectivity. This makes it future ready for the industry.

Extensive Sales Resources for Businesses: The platform functions as a golden pot for businesses by providing them with an extensive array of sale resources. FileMaker helps save time through its professionally designed presentations and datasheets. Users can seamlessly rely on the FileMaker business partners as well – that assist by exchanging ideas and productive selling tips to the businesses. There are many FileMaker certified development centres around the globe working around clock and can be of very useful for your business.

Make your business global and focus on your target audience activity: With latest FileMaker Pro edition, your business shape can be changed tremendously. Now you can make digital marketing for your business through e-campaign, email fire etc. Moreover, you can keep track of your email campaign by knowing which user has clicked on your advt and who does not. By the process, you will get your target audience. In fact, it encourages you to modify your business services rules and paths for a successful one by providing up-to-date service to your client or customer from the feedback and response from your e campaign. This will definitely improve your business standard and put your business in a different arena when your competitors are struggling to catch the momentum of market; you will be the leader in the industry sooner.

Richer than Programming: Unlike high-cost enterprise applications, FileMaker database applications work more like DIY that requires no programming skills or hours to build custom solutions. The tool, rather, runs exactly as the user needs and offers integration with other data sources as well. Often programming comes with rigid technology; however FileMaker is not a constraint platform as it renders support to both desktop computers and iOS devices.

Although the listed attributes are amazing for businesses to benefit from, the platform has included some more exciting functions of late – to simply enhance the experience furthermore. There are now object component styles, color selection, enhanced starter solutions, layout badge tooltips, script workspace, and others.

Years of delivering successful FileMaker development projects have truly made Mindfire Solutions an expert in this field. As a FileMaker Business Alliance (FBA) partner, Mindfire Solutions provides expert off-shore FileMaker development services across multiple platforms – iPad, iPhone, Windows, Mac, and the web. If you have any software development need involving FileMaker, reach out to sales at MindfireSolutions dot com and we will be responding to your query in one business day.

Why does it help to upgrade to latest version of FileMaker?

“Up gradation means enhancement i.e. increased productivity and smarter end product. In IT industry, the upgrade process is highly encouraged to meet the expectations of the industry. FileMaker is a flagship product from FileMaker Inc, a subsidiary firm of Apple has a tremendous track record over years. With time, it delivers accurately what the customer needs or wants. Hence it is still in the market with potential value retained within it to attract any business body. FileMaker is highly efficient and productive tool for handling any type of business. With FileMaker one can easily get in touch with his business from anywhere. Hence there is an overwhelming popularity of FileMaker in the industry. It becomes even more powerful with every newer version that is more features loaded; so if you are not upgrading your FileMaker then, probably you are losing a lot in terms of time, effort and productivity. Let’s discuss why you should upgrade your FM and how it can help you.”

Latest FileMaker has more templates than before: The silent motto of FileMaker is “No more coding, No more expertise, start your business ERP from within FM!!”. Usually, a business ERP means lots of coding, lots of back-end programming and lots of server data; however with FileMaker, the concept is absolutely changed. It does not require high level coding from an expert programmer rather a common man can design its business solution without much hassle. You need not to worry about the look and feel of your application; neither should you worry about the database access. All are taken cared by FileMaker itself. There are many enterprise standard templates and themes available for your FM application. Moreover, these latest templates are highly optimized and having amazing user interface. So, FileMaker developers will love the experience of designing the business applications with FileMaker.

It’s more feature loaded: Apart from designing tools i.e. Templates; it has many advanced features added with the recent version of FileMaker. You can now do anything with your script i.e. starting from creation to edit and view; all can be done with Script Workspace. Auto complete and Search options are added for better user experience. You can now organise all your important FM solutions with visual effects that are already present inside the application as icons or you can also create your own icon to manage these apps. Along with that, integration of Place-Holder, Button bars, Button icon, Colour selections etc. can help you a lot for improved user experience and hence quality of your application.

Now, access your FM application from non-apple machines: Apple never takes any chance for its customers and always tries to keep them alive within its ecosystem. But things have changed a lot, now FileMaker is available with its rival Windows machine! What’s more? You can access your FM application from a windows machine that might be laid at the corner of your home being unused for a long time. Now turn ON your windows machine and do some productive work from that. It is really a welcoming feature of FileMaker and it helps FileMaker in gaining more popularity in the industry.

Remain in touch with your business during vacation: Vacation creates a new page on your memory and that too a pleasant one. It comes very few times in one’s life. With the association with latest FileMaker, you are not going to make it an unpleasant one due to stress in mind for timeline, business activities behind your back and all. Access your business activities through your FM app installed on your iPhone or iPad. You can keep track of each and every activity of your business from anywhere anytime while roaming outside. You can make online discussions with your team using the FM application. Also you can keep track of your inventory, profit, loss and revenue etc from a remote place through internet connectivity on your iPhone or iPad. So it is really an amazing feature that enables you to be with your beloved business along with your beloved spouse or family members.

Track the activities of your customer and find new target audience: With the latest FileMaker, you can do the maximum use of social media sites for promoting your business without much effort and hassle. You can also do some e-campaign for getting more customers for your business that in turn will give you better revenue. That is not the end! You can also fire bulk emails as a component of your e-campaign promotion for your business to attract new and unknown customers in your locale or outside. The most amazing thing is that, with FileMaker you can know who has opened your email and who did not. This will help you in getting the right information about your customer or audience. It will also help you in finding any loopholes if any within the application; so that, you can take immediate action for improved campaign program for your business. On the other hand, it can help you in reaching at the right customer i.e. the user who had opened your emails. By this way, you can extend your customer base and also increase revenue in a much efficient and smarter way.

Boost Your Business Kit!! From above discussion, we have already understood that FileMaker is the best option for any business to automate the enterprise processes. Recently, FileMaker Inc. launched “Boost Your Business kit” for its FM users for increased productivity. It is designed for every platform like iPad, iPhone, MAC and Windows as well; so that the user can have better access for its business activities. It comes at an amazing offer price of just $828 for the first year along with some added advantages. If you purchase a FileMaker Server 14 annual license with five concurrent connections then you will receive five FileMaker Pro 14 annual licenses at zero additional cost, i.e. almost 40 per cent savings off the first-year price itself. Explaining the same, Brad Freitag, vice president, Americas Sales and Asia Pacific, FileMaker, Inc told that “This is a great way to make your business even more mobile, with iPhone, iPad or via a web browser, and, we have the best combined platform ecosystem for groups looking to build their first custom app.” Now with this Business boost tonic, you can achieve more mileage from your existing business!!

FileMaker is one of the core competencies of Mindfire Solutions. We have been developing FileMaker web and database application development for more than 12 years now. Mindfire is a FileMaker Business Alliance partner. If you have any custom FileMaker application development needs, you are at the right place. Please write to us about your requirements and we will get back to you within one business day.

How Can FileMaker Ease Your Life at Work?

File Maker is not just a database!! Yes!! FileMaker is not a database rather a fully fledged database software application for all your business needs. You don’t need any exceptional programming skill to design your business application in File Maker. In the latest File Maker 13, there are a large number of attractive and interactive themes available to make your application even better. Moreover, there are many new modules and plugins available in File Maker that helps the File maker developer in producing effective business application for all your needs. To add this, the latest version also allows you to develop responsive apps that can be fitted to any screen size and resolution with special emphasize on iPhone and iPad models.

All your business information is much more secure than before: With 128 bit encryption technology, your business application is highly secure than before. There is no chance of data loss in your application when it is under the surveillance of File Maker. Well, here we would like to mention that, File Maker is a product from Apple’s subsidiary farm File maker Inc and hence you can imagine the quality of service and security provided from an Apple product.

Make sure you are giving a dedicated machine for your database server: If you want more efficiency from a file maker application, there are many things to consider and we will discuss them one by one. The first thing is to host your application on a dedicated server; because this will improve the performance of your application. We usually find many applications being hosted in a single machine to avoid unnecessary expenditure; but this will hamper the performance of every application in that machine. If you need better performance and efficiency, you have to dedicate a machine only for your application, so that it will noo share the resource with any other application.

Give enough RAM for your application: RAM has an magical effect on the performance of any application. Isn’t? A file maker developer used to take the advantage of cache memory for better performance and optimization. On the other hand, when the application runs, it needs memory to save those caches. So, you must provide enough memory so that the required memory can be gained without any hassle and hence without hampering the performance of the application.

Keep your back up in a different Hard drive: It is always recommended to keep a back up of your entire previous database for security purpose; this will help you during a software crash that may happen anytime unexpectedly. File maker developer should keep the progressive back up folder in the same machine to keep track of each and every data change of your application; but you should keep it in a different hard drive other than the database of the application. This will improve the performance of your fm application.

Spare enough space for temp files in the master machine: The database server used to create many temp files and folders during the execution of a task and it get deleted once the task is done. So, you must keep enough space for those temp files and folders to avoid lag in the application. To get maximum benefits of Filemaker, you may consider hiring services of a FileMaker database development company.

We provide custom FileMaker development services. If you would like to talk one of our FileMaker certified developers, please get in touch with us at Mindfire Solutions.

How Can FileMaker Ease Your Life at Work?

FileMaker Pro is the flagship product of FileMaker Inc. which is a subsidiary of Apple. It is undoubtedly the most powerful and efficient ERP solution for Apple users at an affordable cost with enterprise standard quality and reliability. Well, we don’t need much introduction for the quality of any product from the Apple’s house due to its magnificent track record since its inception. Since FileMaker is a product from Apple’s house, we can guess its compatibility with all types of Apple devices like iPhone, iPad and MAC. Fortunately this time Apple has brought good news for its rival windows operating system users because, the latest FileMaker pro can also be run on a windows machine. But anyway let’s stick to our topic. Let us discuss how you can get benefited from FileMaker by simplifying your everyday life.

The best tool to handle your everyday task: Though FileMaker is an ERP solution but, it doesn’t require any third party scripting language or database for its operation i.e., it can operate on its own as a self made software. It has its own templates, methods and database etc to deal with all types of tasks for the user. We can use this tool to handle all our day-to-day life assignments. Moreover it can also be assumed as a personal assistant who works for you for 24x7 to keep track of your business exercises. FileMaker developers can customise your application as per your requirement to give you full access for your need in the system.

Manage your office work from anywhere: Since FileMaker developers can create an environment to access all types of data and information of your business from your office PC hence it is extremely powerful when we think about productivity. Moreover FileMaker developers can customise your application so that you can accesses your application from a remote place using your iPhone or iPad without any hassle. The best part is you can now modify the data in your office PC from anywhere of the world using mobile networks (internet access). To add this, FileMaker has many plugins which can help your business expanding in an exponential rate using e-campaign and social network accesses from the application itself.

Filemaker is future ready with Cloud Computing: Apple understands and gives maximum priority to the demand of the users and the same happens with FileMaker as well. The latest FileMaker version is compatible with it’s in – house cloud service. So the iPhone and iPad users don’t need to worry about the device memory to keep enough data for the application. You can take the advantage of cloud services for your application. This is like a boon for the future FileMaker developers and hence its users as well.

You don’t need to panic for any security threat at all: Since, Apple is prominent for its quality and reliability hence you don’t need to scare for the security features of the FileMaker application. The FileMaker Pro developer can build an awesome application for your business need without compromising on the quality and reliability of the application. Moreover you don’t need to think much about the data that you might have stored in your Apple’s cloud services since it is extremely secure and safe with industry standard encryption technologies. To get maximum benefits of Filemaker, you may consider hiring services of a custom FileMaker development company.

We provide FileMaker development services. If you would like to talk one of our expert FileMaker developers, please get in touch with us at Mindfire Solutions.