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Developing custom apps is so easy with FileMaker
July 07, 2017

Developing custom apps is so easy with FileMaker

Jeroen Aarts | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller

Overall Satisfaction with FileMaker Pro

We have developed a standard financial solution with FileMaker. FileMaker is a very flexible product to build apps that deploy as classic desktop applications, as well as web and mobile apps. FileMaker is designed as a rapid application development tool to automate the process for small or mid-sized businesses, departments or teams.
  • You can rapidly build custom apps with FileMaker.
  • FileMaker custom apps deploy easily on desktops and laptops, web and mobile devices.
  • It has an amazing ease of use from an end user's perspective.
  • For developers, it has a great toolkit builtin, which allows for short development cycles.
  • The developer IDE still has some room for improvement.
  • OAuth integration is possible, but only with a fixed set of providers.
  • More documentation on the innerworking of the FileMaker database engine would be welcome.
  • The ROI of FileMaker as a business platform is higher than any other programming language or tool that I am aware of.
  • It allows organisation to quickly adapt to changes in business processes.
  • An issue is that its binary file format and the integration of code, layouts and data in 1 file does not easily allow to reuse code.
As compared to other tools, FileMaker is a more robust and backwards compatible tool. As a product is always has had a stability that is unseen. I have developed solution over the years that even after 15 years are still used and loved by customers. As compared to programming or scripting languages like .NET or PHP, the development in FileMaker goes much faster. This relates to an integrated Developer IDE, including design tool for layouts, charting tools, etc.
FileMaker is particularly suited for small to medium sized businesses, departments or teams. It is not suited for massive and large scale applications used by hundreds of users. The web technology - called WebDirect - is very powerful, in that it lets developers deploy a web solution without any knowledge of HTML, CSS or Javascript. However, also, in this case, WebDirect is not meant to deploy large scale web applications or websites.

Using FileMaker Pro

I love working with it.
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Technical support not required
Well integrated
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
Familiar
None
  • Searching data
  • Sorting data
  • Navigating to different modules
Yes - It works great!