| It is the #1-selling
easy-to-use database that helps you easily manage
people, projects, assets, and more. It gives you the
tools you need to manage, customize, and share your
information on a network or over the web with Windows
and/or Mac users. FileMaker has matured into a very
powerful and sophisticated tool for developing database
solutions while still maintaining a rapid development
cycle that is much shorter than other comparable
database programs. It was originally developed as a
personal database application for the Macintosh computer
and has since moved tremendously into the Windows
market. In an effort to build upon FileMaker’s
reputation for user friendliness, FileMaker Pro (now its
latest version 8) has been purposely redesigned so that
its user interface more closely resembles that of
Microsoft’s Office.
FileMaker Pro also offers the ability to create a single
solution that can be accessed from multiple platforms
such as Windows XP, Mac OSX, Palm OS, Pocket PC, and the
web. In addition it can serve FileMaker files to both
Windows and Mac clients concurrently from Server or Pro
running on either platform. It offers support for up to
250 simultaneous clients and provides convenient
features like online backup.
With its built-in Web server and out-of-the-box business
templates, FileMaker has received high praise for being
the ideal application for beginning Web site
administrators who want to quickly (literally with one
click) add Web database publishing capabilities to their
Web site or company intranet. |
