by William | Apr 19, 2018 | HighPower Data News
HighPower Data Solutions and HighPower Resources LLC are pleased to announce that we have moved to a new office location. We have always been based in the Minneapolis area, and continue to do so. The new offices give us expanded space for our growing team of software...
by William | Mar 14, 2018 | FM Products
Northern Dewatering, Inc, is a company based in Rogers, MN which pumps water away from construction and excavation sites. Usually ground water, rain, and melting snow are factors which flood a worksite and make any construction work more difficult. So NDI, ‘dewaters’...
by William | Mar 14, 2018 | Mobile
It used to be that if you wanted to go mobile, you had just one choice in terms of size. But now Apple has released three different sizes of iPads ( 12.7, 9.4, and iPad mini (7.9). As for phone sizes, besides the regular large size, there is also the large Plus sizes...
by William | Mar 14, 2018 | Business Growth
There are five areas in your business which affect your bottom line. They are: 1. Number of Leads each week 2. The percentage of those leads converted to customers 3. The dollar amount of each transaction for one customer 4. The number of transactions per customer 5....
by William | Mar 14, 2018 | FM Tips
Many people know that FileMaker has a special field called a Container field, which allows you to insert a file into it, and store it within FileMaker. This makes FileMaker a great document storage system. But some people do not realize that while it is great for...
by William | Mar 14, 2018 | FM News
“Learning FileMaker 16” There has been a new book published by Apress, and authored by Mark Munro called “Learn FileMaker Pro 16”. It is not very often that FileMaker book gets published, so if you want to get this you can buy softcover for $49.99 or the ebook for...
by William | Mar 14, 2018 | HighPower Data News
HighPower Data Solutions is pleased to announce the availability of additional developers to serve your needs. Besides Carl who was added as a full-time FileMaker developer in August, we are now adding Ben. Ben is another full-time developer. He will be doing...
by William | Jan 15, 2018 | FM Products
This is a company that contacted us from Switzerland. Dig-n-go provides “gourmet” bike tours all over Europe. This company was started by two brothers and when we met up, they were trying to run their entire company using Bento. Bento was FileMaker Inc’s attempt at...
by William | Jan 15, 2018 | Mobile
The FileMaker Pro platform has truly become a full computing platform which provides a “blank slate” upon which you can create and meet your various business needs. Take, for example, just the ‘simple’ option of providing a mobile business software option. Because of...
by William | Jan 15, 2018 | Business Growth
Sometimes called the Customer Conversion Rate, this is the percentage of Prospects who you are able to convert to an actual sale so that they become your customers. Some businesses will have a very high conversion rate, and some will have a low one, depending on the...
by William | Jan 15, 2018 | FM Tips
There are a lot of little features in FileMaker Pro which are simple to implement and just make your application a little easier to use. One of these is the ability to specify the display value of a boolean value. Since a boolean is either 1 or 0, it may seem like if...
by William | Jan 15, 2018 | FM News
Just what are the key benefits of a FileMaker application? Here is what FileMaker, Inc has stated is their primary benefits and focus: 1. FileMaker Cloud Using Amazon Web Services anyone now can have cloud access to all of their data. 2. Mobility FileMaker Go is the...
by William | Jan 15, 2018 | HighPower Data News
HighPower Data has been able to coordinate the hosting for some of our clients, and we can do the same for you. Using either FileMaker Cloud on Amazon Web Services, or other third-party hosting companies, we can manage all aspects of your FileMaker Hosting needs. Many...
by William | Dec 13, 2017 | FM Products
If you are building a FileMaker application which you are going to sell to the general public, or to a niche section within an industry, then you are going to eventually need to do some beta-testing. In order for this to be successful, there are a few elements you...
by William | Dec 13, 2017 | Mobile
Recent versions of FileMaker, especially 15 and 16 have added functions for beacon support. This is the newest and coolest mobile feature lately. It uses beacons which are placed around a physical facility and are used to provide guidance and indications to any mobile...
by William | Dec 13, 2017 | Business Growth
In the great book, “The 1-Page Marketing Plan”, author Allan Dib says that the very first thing you need to do is to determine your marketing niche; who are you targeting for your business marketing? He recommends that you develop a clear focus of exactly what kind of...
by William | Dec 13, 2017 | FM Tips
With the release of FileMaker 16, the ability for FileMaker to speak with the rest of the web-connected world has vastly expanded. They have done this in two ways: one which allows FileMaker to reach out and connect with other services, and another which allows those...
by William | Dec 13, 2017 | FM News
Sometimes it is hard to keep track of which operating systems currently work with which versions of FileMaker. Between OSX, Windows, iOS, and FileMaker upgrades it is easy to get confused. If you ever need help, here is the page on the FileMaker site which will help...
by William | Dec 13, 2017 | HighPower Data News
What’s the difference? Consulting is the service which we provide to most of our clients; we examine a problem they are facing and help to design and build a custom FileMaker application which will help to solve their problem. You assign us the task, and we take care...
by William | Oct 25, 2017 | Mobile
FileMaker announced recently that there have been 3 million downloads of their mobile application, FM Go! on the iTunes App Store. This is really an amazing number. This shows the incredible interest people and business have in having mobile access to their data....
