FileMaker & Beacons

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...

Marketing Focus: Select Your Niche

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...

FileMaker and Web Services

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...

FileMaker Pro OS Requirements

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...

Coaching vs. Consulting?

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...

FM Go! – 3 Million Downloads!

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....

Google Alerts for your Business

Google has a great little tool which scans the web for any submitted text and sends you a daily alert if a particular word or phrase was found on the web. This is a great business tool for marketing, prospecting, and customer satisfaction. You could enter your...

Real-Life: An Application to Track Human Tissue Samples

One of the applications which we have helped to sell as a vertical market solution is an app called “LifeLab”. It is software designed for human tissue banking. Basically, people who are suffering from cancer, and will be undergoing radiation or chemotherapy store...

New FileMaker 16 Feature – Data Encryption

FileMaker 16 has a number of functions which will improve the security of your data. Note that FileMaker has always had a number of security protocols in place. For example, Encryption At Rest (EAR) is something which has been around since about FM13. This is a really...

FileMaker Go and iOS 11 Compatability

Apple released iOS 11 on Sept. 19th, 2017. FileMaker still has versions of FM Go out there for 14, 15, and 16. However, iOS11 is only compatible with FM Go 16 and Go 15. Also, please note that iOS 11 only supports 64-bit applications. Please see this knowledgebase...