by William | Feb 6, 2023 | Business Growth, Project Tracking Software
Create an automated digital SYSTEM We are in a new reality. Workers are demanding to work remotely and employers are relenting—even at Apple. Rather than fight the inevitable, HighPower Data has the automated business solution to let your business continue to...
by William | Jan 25, 2023 | Business Growth, FM Tips
Close-up scene of transmission gear spare parts in the light blue scene with lighting effect. The abstract scene of gear part of automotive transmission system. How FileMaker can help your business in the ‘remote economy’ All businesses are in a new...
by William | Jan 19, 2023 | APPS, Business Growth, FM Products, HighPower Freelance Software, Power Biz CRM, Project Tracking Software
power icon New CRM & Project Manager for Agency Freelancers We keep improving Freelance and making it more useful for growing your agency. Our Story In the 1990’s, I discovered this awesome software development tool called FileMaker Pro by Claris. It was...
by William | Jan 4, 2023 | Website Design
vector illustration of an accident of a two cars Why you need someone to manage your plugins for you So here is a fairly common problem: plugins that ‘do not play well with others’. What happens in most cases, is that it causes the site to crash. We had a...
by William | Dec 22, 2022 | APPS, Business Growth
Rudolph reindeer. Merry Christmas. Santa Claus’s reindeer. Sticker. Not only toys, but software can be a misfit too. The Wrong Choice for your Company Somewhere in a boardroom in America right now, someone is making a decision about the best way to run YOUR...
by William | Dec 6, 2022 | FileMaker Speed
Here are the top three mistakes people make when trying to build with FileMaker Pro by Claris FileMaker applications can be really fast and zippy, if they are built correctly. FileMaker is easy to use, which is great! But it is also easy to use wrongly, which is not...
by William | Aug 9, 2022 | Business Growth, HighPower Data News
What happens if the last project did not work out? We have noticed a pattern in the last three months here at HighPower. Four times in the last three months, we have had new clients hire us, even though months earlier they had passed over us for a “less...
by William | Jun 25, 2022 | APPS, Business Growth, HighPower Data News, Project Tracking Software
An interview with the owner reveals some powerful benefits to hiring HighPower Data to use FileMaker to run your business We sat down with Joe Cherrie, owner of a printing company, to discuss the ways that HighPower Data Solutions was able to assist them by installing...
by William | May 19, 2022 | FM Tips
Why a common fear of FileMaker users almost never happens We will sometimes get calls from clients who are concerned that their copy of Claris’ FileMaker is accidentally deleting records. Or sometimes we get the companion, related worry that FileMaker is not...
by William Miller | Apr 23, 2022 | Uncategorized, Website Design
We have been doing websites for years. We thought we should tell you about it! Our focus as a company has always been business automation. We want to help businesses succeed by helping them to automate as many of their digital processes as they can. Or to take...
by William Miller | Mar 24, 2022 | FileMaker Speed, FM Tips
Nobody likes a boring looking application! And that is why people like to add graphics, and colors, and text highlights, and sizes, and lots of other visual enhancements to their application. And there is (almost) nothing wrong with this. An application needs to be...
by William Miller | Feb 22, 2022 | Business Growth, Tech News
We have a number of clients who create, rent, or sell movies, videos and video equipment. This is a brief overview of how they use FileMaker to run their business. How to use FileMaker to advance your video business: 1. Use FileMaker to create a massive database of...
by William | Dec 28, 2021 | Business Growth, FM Tips
And why that is both good and bad! FileMaker was officially started in April of 1985. That is over 36 years ago! There are not many software programs that are still around since that time. That is something really amazing about FileMaker. It originally started as a...
by William | Dec 23, 2021 | FM Tips
From the author who wrote “Easy Apps!” comes three tips to speed up FileMaker I believe that the greatest problem encountered by FileMaker users is an unnecessarily slow FileMaker system. Why is it ‘unnecessarily slow’? Because if you program...
by William Miller | Dec 9, 2021 | APPS, Business Growth, HighPower Freelance Software, Power Biz CRM, Project Tracking Software
Your business system can be your number one bottleneck to growth. I purposefully used the phrase “let your business grow” rather than “help your business grow”. Here’s why; a healthy business should grow; that is what it does. If you are...
by William Miller | Nov 26, 2021 | FM News, FM Products, FM Tips
Claris’ Newest Offering in the FileMaker family builds on a solid set of releases in the version 19 space A few years back, Claris made a commitment to provide more frequent updates. Now, rather than having to wait for sometimes a year or more, they began...
by William Miller | Oct 30, 2021 | Business Growth
How using FileMaker Pro can help you avoid the loss of valuable employees Recent studies have reported the following trends across America: • Professionals are not excited to go back to the office: 34% of workers who were remote are not excited about returning to the...
by William Miller | Oct 9, 2021 | FM News, Tech News
Claris, the makers of FileMaker Pro, have clarified their relationship to Apple. FileMaker has been around for more than forty years. It was owned by a few different companies during its early years. One of those companies was Claris, which then changed their name to...
by William Miller | Sep 23, 2021 | APPS, Business Growth, FM News, HighPower Data News, Project Tracking Software
Two Software Products have been added to the Claris Marketplace Claris has approved the addition of two of our powerful software tools to their Claris Marketplace. If you are not aware of what this is, the Claris Marketplace (marketplace.claris.com), is an...
by William Miller | Sep 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
or, How you can improve your business using FileMaker Pro There was an interesting article in Lucept: ( https://lucept.com/2021/08/06/elon-musks-5-step-rd-strategy/ ) about Elon Musk and his engineering philosophy. I will summarize the five main points from his...
