FileMaker Reviews

I use it for personal productivity and database stuff. I'm a unit-level computer manager, so I use it personally for stuff here at work, making my life easier. I use it extensively for lots of different things, both work and personal. It is not used widely throughout the university, but it is used.

I use it locally. They do have a cloud version, but I just don't use that.

I use it quite extensively for some of the stuff, and it is doing the job.

I used it before and I was trying to bring it to my new company. I've been having trouble. The world has changed. It's too bad IT has just gone way south and the IT industry just basically can't build stuff that's bulletproof, and so everybody gets worried about ransomware attacks and all this other stuff.

I like FileMaker due to the fact that it's relational. You can put it right in and it's user-friendly. It's easy to code and it's easy to make things. You can design reports and so on. It doesn't require a whole lot of coding experience.

I've used FileMaker in the past. I've used a program, platform called Omnis, which is a RAD, a rapid application development program. We're just trying to find some tools. We've got lots of data, lots of data and Excel has not changed since 1989 or thereabouts. The structure has not changed. It's still the same old entry formula, and you've got limited space and no debugger. Its reporting is not easy. You could spend your life understanding Excel. No one can afford to do that anymore. FileMaker is much easier. 

It's a pretty good tool and there's a lot of support and there's a lot of people out there that know how to use it.

FileMaker has done a good job setting up value-added resellers, much like Adobe Connect.

It has a pretty good interface. 

We are using FileMaker for our customers. When we are sending invoices, or making proposals, etc., we make calculations and offers to our customers via the solution. We also store our assets in the FileMaker inventory.

The database is the most useful aspect of the solution. It's where I spend most of my time when working with it.

It's a good application that's easy to use.

I have found its resilience to attack most valuable. It's really difficult to attack the software.

It's really stable as well.

I think standardization to the IT world could be improved in terms of working with relational databases and using the connector to go over databases to standard API. Also, all the standard patterns that are used for the development of software could be improved to use less scripts and to use more procedures, functions, and so on.

Multimedia data management is not really developed in FileMaker. So for master data, it should be really enhanced to do it quite well.

The lack of a specialist of the program is one of the main issues of this system. Finding someone who knows it is really hard.