There are free trials available for the Windows and Mac FileMaker products App Store rules prohibit free trials of iOS applications. Note: There is also a version of FileMaker called Go for iOS, but I will be looking at that in a separate review.

I started experimenting with the FileMaker stack, and put together this review. This got me to thinking about projects I have coming up for which FileMaker might be a possibility. I have a colleague who is a FileMaker Certified Developer, and he mentioned some of the ways he has worked with it.

File-sharing and size limitations have caused me troubles for quite some time.

On the other end, there are applications like Microsoft Access that are geared toward individual users and often are looked at to allow teams to collaborate on projects. There are big products, like Oracle and SQL Server that can help companies keep their information organized, but licensing and sheer size can be overwhelming. Given the amount of data that we all seem to be collecting these days, there needs to be some way to manage this stuff. Considerations for making FileMaker Pro your database solutionĭerek Schauland describes his experience working with FileMaker Pro 11 and discusses some of the various versions of FileMaker that might be options for your database projects.

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