FileMaker DevCon 2018 was in Dallas this year, and it was great!
The thing that most impressed me about it is the amount of integration which is going on with FileMaker. There were many, many sessions, about how to integrate FileMaker with things like: MailChimp, SalesForce, Tableau, AWS, the Google API, Microsoft Add-ons, and the FileMaker API for connect to any web service, using JSON to connect and share data, connecting FileMaker to the Internet of Things (that is web-connected hardware).
This is where the world is going right now. All of our data systems need to talk to each other. It is not enough anymore just to have your data in its own little silo of information. That information means something when you can interact with other services to analyze and share it.
FileMaker is perfectly poised to be the hub system between all these disparate technologies. Because it can present a pleasing interface on the front-end, and a robust system of connection to almost anything on the back-end, it is in the right place to server all of these needs.
So DevCon was great. We go every year so that we can get smarter and better equipped to meet the needs of our clients.