These days there are so many options in terms of how to display and access applications, that it is often best to plan on a hybrid application right from the start. Some will call this ‘responsive’, but that is typically used just in the context of web-sites.
A simple web-based app which does all you may need it to do when you are using your phone may end up seeming pretty basic once you try to fire it up in the office and do full-fledged accounting or CRM work. In that case, an application which is larger, more expansive, and provides a lot more features than you could ever use on a phone will be required.
So in this case a hybrid application is your best choice. The employees may be using a simple time-tracker in the field. But the bookkeeper in the office needs to pull up all the time for every employee, for example, and be able to sort by job, by date, or by several other factors. Then that data needs to be linked to QuickBooks, or internally processed in FileMaker, or exported to the accountant as a CSV file.
This is what I mean by a hybrid application; that is, an application that shows you more expansive data depending upon which device you are using. So by accessing the application from a certain device, you are basically telling the system, ‘hey I only want to see this type of data’. For example, if a sales person opens up the app on his phone, then he is only going to be shown Customer Name, Phone, Email, and Address, with a map to the Customer Business. But if that same salesperson opens up the app on his desktop, then he will not only see the basic Customer Contact Info, but he will also see the History of Sales to that Customer.
In both cases, it is the same application, but it is displaying the data you need when you need it in the correct format.
That is what a hybrid application can do.
And that is what FileMaker Pro can do for you.