FileMaker pro 7

At MoleSoft FileMaker Pro was a natural choice as a main tool for our custom solution development.

We have been developing custom solutions in the UK with FileMaker since version 2.0. Now the majority of users are on PCs and we have FileMaker server able to supply up to 250 users at any one time. We have always been able to rely on the software with clients needing very little support once our solutions are delivered.

Now FileMaker 7 has arrived. New features include:

• New advanced Security, web publishing
• Import, store and export more types of files including pictures, movies, music, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, and more. Easily create a digital library of documents, music and pictures, store proposals within client records, or link schedule files directly to a student.
• Reduced data file count
• Even easier data restructuring
• Faster access to information by opening multiple windows in the same database at the same time. For example, you can access a customer's record in one window and open another to view information for a different customer.
• Dramatically increased database capacity with an expanded database size (8 terabytes) that is 4,000 times the old limit. Stores virtually unlimited amounts of any type of information, including movies, pictures.
• Multiple tables in a single file
• Produces easier to read, more informative reports with calculation-based formatting, with new background options, and new portal options.
• Ensures more accurate data entry and safer updates with the option to confirm record and layout changes before they are saved.
• Extends richer solutions to the web so remote users can access your database through their web browser in a more intuitive interface.
• More easily create and modify links between data through the new Relationships Graph for a bird's eye view of all the relationships within a given file.
• More powerful databases with new developer features, functions, and calculations with a choice of over 100 new and enhanced developer features.
• Data protection using the new, advanced security system by securing your database with accounts names and passwords and assigning custom privileges to each user or group of users.

Most of this means little to our customers but you can be certain that these enhancements will result in even faster turnaround of projects with corresponding lower bills. However such a major structural change means that thought needs to be given to the migration of any current FileMaker systems. MoleSoft are happy to advise on your choice of path.

Trade magazines gave FileMaker 6 rave reviews see - PC Plus (6/6 star) or PC Magazine (10/10) FileMaker 7 is better. What will they give it?

Call Crispin on +44 (0)1372 275 055 to discuss your project and how you can migrate to this great new software architecture.

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