FileMaker Pro advantages

FileMaker Pro 9 and the newer versions includes improved relational capabilities that supports complex, multi-tier queries. The result is the ability to see and compare the most meaningful information.

FileMaker Pro 9 allows multiple simultaneous users. Staff members can simultaneously work on a single FileMaker Pro database. When one person changes data, everyone else sees the changed data. By contrast, only one person at a time can edit a Microsoft Word document, Microsoft Excel spreadsheet or Microsoft Project. Multiple simultaneous users is a must for enhanced corporate efficiency.

FileMaker Pro 9 runs on either Mac or Windows OS. You can mix and match computers on the same network and still use the same database. As a matter of fact, FileMaker Pro is the #1 best selling standalone database for both Macintosh and Windows. With so many users, it also has a large support network and a promising future. You're FileMaker Pro investment is a good one. 

FileMaker Pro 9 is designed for remote program access. People running FileMaker Pro on their computer can access your database (with the proper ID and password, of course!), make entries and update data from anywhere in the world.

FileMaker Pro 9 is designed for remote web access. Don't have FileMaker Pro loaded on a remote computer? No problem. With just one click, your databases are instantaneously accessible from any web browser in the world! And with some additional custom programming, you can turn your databases into an advanced, fully-interactive web-based experience for your staff and customers!

FileMaker Pro 9 is stable. It is far more robust than any previous version, with fewer crashes or corruption.

FileMaker Pro 9 is secure. The Databases designed with FileMaker Pro are virtually impossible to hack. Users can now be limited to seeing only solutions that are designated for their use.

FileMaker Pro 9 is scalable. A simple, functional database can be created in just hours, and can eventually be expanded into a fully relational, scripted database system with many layouts and reports, holding up to 2 terabytes of data.

FileMaker Pro 9 stores all files types, including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, Adobe pdf documents and more. The system can be designed to open any type of file with a click of a button.

FileMaker Pro 9 includes new functions, script steps and design features that make it an even more powerful, flexible database. The developer edition includes tools that make it possible for us to optimize and improve your database solutions like never before.

FileMaker Pro 9 has vastly improved Instant Web Publishing. Now you can publish your database - or only a part of it - on the web for others to access.

FileMaker Pro 9 is compatible with many other programs. FileMaker Pro databases can communicate with other kinds of databases using ODBC and SQL, and can import data from or export data to Excel and delimited text files.

FileMaker Pro 9 will synchronize with a Palm Pilot. Road warriors can take records wherever they go. If you use a wireless Palm, you can access your databases wirelessly from wherever you are.

FileMaker Pro 9 is reliable enough to run your company 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. FileMaker uses a powerful relational database engine that incorporates support for industry standards like ODBC, SQL, and XML.  

FileMaker Pro 9 applications are easy to use. Our years of experience have taught us how to design applications so that the user intuitively knows what to do. Please see our examples.

FileMaker Pro 9 is extraordinarily popular. There are more than 10 million programs in use around the world. Customers include 49 of the top 50 universities in the U.S., the top 250 U.S. school districts, and 70 of the Fortune 100 companies.

Corporate users include AccuWeather, Inc., Banc One, Ben & Jerry's, Caltrans, Comedy Central, Dave Matthews Band, Dunn & Bradstreet, E! Entertainment, Industrial Light & Magic, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, National Fire Protection Assn, Northern Telecom, Ltd., Pratt & Whitney, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Joaquin County Office of Emergency Services, Santa Clara Police Department, AVA Unit, Showtime Networks, Smithsonian Institution, The Sherwin-Williams Company, Trek Bicycle, TV Guide, UCLA and WGBH Boston.

FileMaker Pro has won dozens of awards within many industries.

FileMaker Pro can be customized forever. It's a little difficult to explain how you can have just about anything that you want ? or need. You actually have to experience an application before you begin to realize the infinite number of possibilities to find, sort, report and print data. FileMaker can be customized to handle every single aspect of your business, no matter how easy or complex!

Here's how David Simpson, who develops cross-platform database applications, sums it up:  "FileMaker is unmatched in usability, allowing even novices to quickly create useful database applications for themselves and other users. FileMaker solutions are often developed by individuals and departments who are working independently from a corporate IT department due to cost factors or reduced IT staffing."

There is no question that FileMaker Pro is the very best database software available for small to medium scale development programs. It's ease of use and quick development time is legendary in the database industry.