Claris Connect and the Power of Automated Workflows

Have you ever really gotten into your groove and someone comes along with a suggestion about a “better” or “improved” way of doing things?

If you have, you know that sometimes means you have to let go of what you know to learn something new, which may or may not be a better solution for the tasks you’re already doing.

But what if you didn’t have to give up what you know?

What if you could use what you already love — and that already works — but use it better?

Introducing Claris Connect and the power of automated workflows.

What is Claris Connect?

Claris Connect is a cloud connector that brings all of your favorite apps and programs together in a single platform so you can access them more easily and make them work better for you.

With Claris Connect, you can bring all of your most-trusted apps together to automate workflows and make your day-to-day tasks that much easier to handle.

And with Claris Connect, you can unite the power of those apps to solve your unique business challenges in ways you haven’t even thought of yet.

It’s time to supercharge your innovation and embrace digital transformation without limits on your potential.

Your no code, low-code solution

Who has time for coding or development? Unless that’s your specific job-function, likely not you.

That’s why Claris Connect is going to be your favorite no-code/low-code business efficiency solution.

Claris Connect, an Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), is all about digital transformation. It enables you to stitch together many of the manual tasks you’ve been doing — whether that’s on premises or in the cloud — to create workflows that make your core business tasks easier to tackle.

And automation means fewer chances for errors and more confidence that standardized steps and processes are followed properly throughout your business.

Claris Connect in action

So how does Claris Connect work? Here’s an example.

Let’s say as part of your existing sales processes, you capture leads through your website and then use those contacts for your new product newsletter distribution.

Because your content management system (CMS) integrates with your customer relationship management (CRM) system, whenever someone fills out a form on your website, you collect and store that contact information for future communication.

Unfortunately, you love the newsletter app you’re using but it’s not integrated with your CMS. As a workaround, you set a calendar reminder every week to log into your CMS, export a list of new contacts, and then you manually import those contacts into your favorite email newsletter app.

You’ve perfected the task, but it’s that one time-consuming, tedious step you dread taking every week when you’d rather work on other tasks, like responding directly to customer inquiries.

With Claris Connect, you can embrace the power of automation and drop the manual imports.

Not only can you let Claris Connect facilitate the data exchange for you, you can do it as often as you’d like. Instead of doing it on your existing weekly schedule — that you’ve only set out of necessity — Claris Connect can move those contacts for you instantly when any event you select happens.

Flow, trigger, action

So with our email newsletter example, here’s how you’d put Claris Connect to work for you.

First, in the Claris Connect workflow editor, you’ll create a new flow. A flow consists of any event (trigger) that leads to an action.

In this example, your trigger is every event when a person completes the “Learn More” form on your website. When that event happens, the system triggers Claris Connect to automatically send that data (the action) to your favorite email newsletter app. When you’re ready to send out your next newsletter, your new contact data will already be there, without that manual import you used to have to do.

Claris Connect uses web hooks to listen for those real time event triggers so the system is always working for you. And your flows are generally up and running in just a few minutes.

If you have workflows that need approval, you can set those up in Claris Connect, too. In our newsletter example, instead of sending the contact data directly to your newsletter app, you can set a step for approval.

Claris will send an email to the person you indicate to alert them that they have new data to review. Once the person reviews and approves the information, the rest of the flow is triggered to complete your intended action.

Claris Connect has an easy-to-use interface that helps you quickly build your flow, select your triggers, and set up your actions. You can drag and drop multiple services in the interface to automate workflows without coding.

Claris Connect is cloud-based, but you can connect to your on-premises services with downloadable agents to connect your on-premises data to your cloud.

Today, Claris Connect has more than 100+ connectors for your favorite apps and services. It’s a list that will continue to grow.

Claris Connect runs independently of Claris FileMaker, but includes a connector so you can use FileMaker with Claris Connect.

The power of flow

Claris Connect breaks ground by helping professionals in all industries streamline work processes and embrace automation for many of the manual, repetitive tasks that slow down operations when your time and resources could be used for other things.

Every business has unique business problems, and with Claris Connect, you can stitch together your favorite and most trusted apps to solve them in ways you never thought you could.

Claris’ event-driven workflow integrations means those repeated tasks are a thing of the past and your potential for innovation and business efficiencies has never been greater.

Claris Connect, built on Claris Core, is secure with end-to-end encryption, HSM key management, OAuth, MFA, AI-based threat protection, and more.

Ready to give Claris Connect a try? Join the more than 50,000+ global companies who trust Claris with a free 15-day trial of Claris Connect. And if you'd like to learn more about how a fully-integrated business management solution can streamline your workflows and help you take your business to the next level, register for one of our free webinars today.

Whether you’re relatively new to your job or you’ve been honing your skills for years, you likely have preferred (and hopefully efficient) processes to get everything done. Often, that means relying on your favorite apps and programs to handle many of the things you’re required to do.... Learn More

Whether you’re relatively new to your job or you’ve been honing your skills for years, you likely have preferred (and hopefully efficient) processes to get everything done. Often, that means relying on your favorite apps and programs to handle many of the things you’re required to do.

Have you ever really gotten into your groove and someone comes along with a suggestion about a “better” or “improved” way of doing things?

If you have, you know that sometimes means you have to let go of what you know to learn something new, which may or may not be a better solution for the tasks you’re already doing.

But what if you didn’t have to give up what you know?

What if you could use what you already love — and that already works — but use it better?

Introducing Claris Connect and the power of automated workflows.

What is Claris Connect?

Claris Connect is a cloud connector that brings all of your favorite apps and programs together in a single platform so you can access them more easily and make them work better for you.

With Claris Connect, you can bring all of your most-trusted apps together to automate workflows and make your day-to-day tasks that much easier to handle.

And with Claris Connect, you can unite the power of those apps to solve your unique business challenges in ways you haven’t even thought of yet.

It’s time to supercharge your innovation and embrace digital transformation without limits on your potential.

Your no code, low-code solution

Who has time for coding or development? Unless that’s your specific job-function, likely not you.

That’s why Claris Connect is going to be your favorite no-code/low-code business efficiency solution.

Claris Connect, an Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS), is all about digital transformation. It enables you to stitch together many of the manual tasks you’ve been doing — whether that’s on premises or in the cloud — to create workflows that make your core business tasks easier to tackle.

And automation means fewer chances for errors and more confidence that standardized steps and processes are followed properly throughout your business.

Claris Connect in action

So how does Claris Connect work? Here’s an example.

Let’s say as part of your existing sales processes, you capture leads through your website and then use those contacts for your new product newsletter distribution.

Because your content management system (CMS) integrates with your customer relationship management (CRM) system, whenever someone fills out a form on your website, you collect and store that contact information for future communication.

Unfortunately, you love the newsletter app you’re using but it’s not integrated with your CMS. As a workaround, you set a calendar reminder every week to log into your CMS, export a list of new contacts, and then you manually import those contacts into your favorite email newsletter app.

You’ve perfected the task, but it’s that one time-consuming, tedious step you dread taking every week when you’d rather work on other tasks, like responding directly to customer inquiries.

With Claris Connect, you can embrace the power of automation and drop the manual imports.

Not only can you let Claris Connect facilitate the data exchange for you, you can do it as often as you’d like. Instead of doing it on your existing weekly schedule — that you’ve only set out of necessity — Claris Connect can move those contacts for you instantly when any event you select happens.

Flow, trigger, action

So with our email newsletter example, here’s how you’d put Claris Connect to work for you.

First, in the Claris Connect workflow editor, you’ll create a new flow. A flow consists of any event (trigger) that leads to an action.

In this example, your trigger is every event when a person completes the “Learn More” form on your website. When that event happens, the system triggers Claris Connect to automatically send that data (the action) to your favorite email newsletter app. When you’re ready to send out your next newsletter, your new contact data will already be there, without that manual import you used to have to do.

Claris Connect uses web hooks to listen for those real time event triggers so the system is always working for you. And your flows are generally up and running in just a few minutes.

If you have workflows that need approval, you can set those up in Claris Connect, too. In our newsletter example, instead of sending the contact data directly to your newsletter app, you can set a step for approval.

Claris will send an email to the person you indicate to alert them that they have new data to review. Once the person reviews and approves the information, the rest of the flow is triggered to complete your intended action.

Claris Connect has an easy-to-use interface that helps you quickly build your flow, select your triggers, and set up your actions. You can drag and drop multiple services in the interface to automate workflows without coding.

Claris Connect is cloud-based, but you can connect to your on-premises services with downloadable agents to connect your on-premises data to your cloud.

Today, Claris Connect has more than 100+ connectors for your favorite apps and services. It’s a list that will continue to grow.

Claris Connect runs independently of Claris FileMaker, but includes a connector so you can use FileMaker with Claris Connect.

The power of flow

Claris Connect breaks ground by helping professionals in all industries streamline work processes and embrace automation for many of the manual, repetitive tasks that slow down operations when your time and resources could be used for other things.

Every business has unique business problems, and with Claris Connect, you can stitch together your favorite and most trusted apps to solve them in ways you never thought you could.

Claris’ event-driven workflow integrations means those repeated tasks are a thing of the past and your potential for innovation and business efficiencies has never been greater.

Claris Connect, built on Claris Core, is secure with end-to-end encryption, HSM key management, OAuth, MFA, AI-based threat protection, and more.

Ready to give Claris Connect a try? Join the more than 50,000+ global companies who trust Claris with a free 15-day trial of Claris Connect. And if you'd like to learn more about how a fully-integrated business management solution can streamline your workflows and help you take your business to the next level, register for one of our free webinars today.

Claris International Introduces FileMaker Marketplace

At aACE Software, we know that having a strong workplace innovation platform can mean the difference between a business that's thriving versus one that's struggling to keep up. That's why we built aACE on the FileMaker platform. aACE is a powerful business management solution for Mac and PC, robust enough to handle your company's core operations out of the box yet flexible enough to be customized for your particular workflows. And thanks to the new FileMaker Marketplace, it's easier than ever to extend your aACE solution's functionality with a host of FileMaker-based integrations.

To learn more about how integrating aACE with other FileMaker solutions can help improve the speed and efficiency of your company's operations, check out our success story on the aACE+ DayBack calendar integration. And to see aACE in action, register for a webinar today!

“All of the information we need is now contained and accessible and linked together, so a sales person can click on their order and see when purchase orders are due in or when shipments are due in and what has been ordered. Company-wide, the need for internal follow-ups has been reduced by somewhere between 24 and 36 hours per week." - Lance Caffery, Chief Production Officer, American Christmas

The past few months have been a time of exciting changes at Claris International – including the rebranding of the company formerly known as FileMaker, Inc. Among these new developments is the launch of FileMaker Marketplace, a new easily-searchable directory of FileMaker-based solutions that... Learn More

The past few months have been a time of exciting changes at Claris International – including the rebranding of the company formerly known as FileMaker, Inc. Among these new developments is the launch of FileMaker Marketplace, a new easily-searchable directory of FileMaker-based solutions that allows users to quickly find the apps, templates, trainings, and other products that best meet their needs. We're delighted to share that aACE 5 has been given a prime spot as a featured listing!

At aACE Software, we know that having a strong workplace innovation platform can mean the difference between a business that's thriving versus one that's struggling to keep up. That's why we built aACE on the FileMaker platform. aACE is a powerful business management solution for Mac and PC, robust enough to handle your company's core operations out of the box yet flexible enough to be customized for your particular workflows. And thanks to the new FileMaker Marketplace, it's easier than ever to extend your aACE solution's functionality with a host of FileMaker-based integrations.

To learn more about how integrating aACE with other FileMaker solutions can help improve the speed and efficiency of your company's operations, check out our success story on the aACE+ DayBack calendar integration. And to see aACE in action, register for a webinar today!

“All of the information we need is now contained and accessible and linked together, so a sales person can click on their order and see when purchase orders are due in or when shipments are due in and what has been ordered. Company-wide, the need for internal follow-ups has been reduced by somewhere between 24 and 36 hours per week." - Lance Caffery, Chief Production Officer, American Christmas

Improve Efficiency, Accuracy with a Workplace Innovation Platform

G2 Crowd defines workplace innovation platforms as “high productivity collaborative development tools used… to solve business challenges not addressed by existing systems.” Platforms like FileMaker allow businesses to easily customize solutions to fit their particular needs. Even simple applications make a big difference – FileMaker’s Workplace Innovation Report found that out of over 400 businesses surveyed, 85% reported saving time and money after adopting a workplace innovation platform.

A problem many businesses face is having information siloed in different softwares and spreadsheets that don’t talk to each other – FileMaker’s report shows that 85% of the companies they spoke to reported this issue before they adopted a workplace innovation platform. These statistics back up what our own customers have been saying for years: patchwork solutions are a minefield of lost productivity and preventable data entry errors.

So how can you keep your business from falling into that trap? The first step is to implement a business management solution robust enough to support your core operations. For example, aACE fully integrates accounting, CRM, and ERP to eliminate duplicate data entry and easily share information across departments.

“All of the information we need is now contained and accessible and linked together, so a sales person can click on their order and see when purchase orders are due in or when shipments are due in and what has been ordered,” says Lance Caffrey of American Christmas, a longtime aACE customer.

He adds that the time his company has saved with aACE has had an impressive impact: “Company-wide, the need for internal follow-ups has been reduced by somewhere between 24 and 36 hours per week." Companies surveyed in FileMaker’s report experienced similar success, with 57% revealing that implementing a Workplace Innovation Platform helped their business reduce the amount of time wasted on inefficient tasks by 51 to 100%.

You may find that implementing an end-to-end solution like aACE is all you need to increase the efficiency of your operations and the reliability of your data. But if you have complex processes that are particular to your business, you may benefit from an integrated custom app. FileMaker offers easy-to-follow tutorials for creating your own custom apps, which can be built to suit any workflow. And because aACE is built on the FileMaker platform, integrating an app with your aACE solution is a cinch.

“From a production and an accounting standpoint, I could not ask for a more comprehensive solution,” says Jasmine Crandall of the Midwest Bottling Company about her company's aACE solution. “And because aACE is FileMaker-based, the customization possibilities are limitless. We will never have to alter the way we do business to accommodate our business management solution – instead, our solution is able to change to accommodate our needs as they develop."

Check out our listing in the new FileMaker Marketplace to learn more about why our clients call aACE “the best in everything” and “a critical component to the success of our company.” And to see what aACE can do for your business, join a webinar today.

"aACE software is easy to use, intuitive, logical, and easily customized. It is clear that the architecture of aACE has been very well thought out. We were able to automate some previously manual processes that is resulting in literally hundreds of saved labor hours each month." -Daniel Chapman , Founder & CEO, Redd Remedies

Getting ahead in today’s marketplace means constantly evolving to meet your customers’ needs. Shouldn’t your business management solution do the same for you? At aACE Software we believe it should – and that’s why we built our solution on FileMaker, which was recently ranked #1 in... Learn More

Getting ahead in today’s marketplace means constantly evolving to meet your customers’ needs. Shouldn’t your business management solution do the same for you? At aACE Software we believe it should – and that’s why we built our solution on FileMaker, which was recently ranked #1 in Workplace Innovation Platforms by G2 Crowd.

G2 Crowd defines workplace innovation platforms as “high productivity collaborative development tools used… to solve business challenges not addressed by existing systems.” Platforms like FileMaker allow businesses to easily customize solutions to fit their particular needs. Even simple applications make a big difference – FileMaker’s Workplace Innovation Report found that out of over 400 businesses surveyed, 85% reported saving time and money after adopting a workplace innovation platform.

A problem many businesses face is having information siloed in different softwares and spreadsheets that don’t talk to each other – FileMaker’s report shows that 85% of the companies they spoke to reported this issue before they adopted a workplace innovation platform. These statistics back up what our own customers have been saying for years: patchwork solutions are a minefield of lost productivity and preventable data entry errors.

So how can you keep your business from falling into that trap? The first step is to implement a business management solution robust enough to support your core operations. For example, aACE fully integrates accounting, CRM, and ERP to eliminate duplicate data entry and easily share information across departments.

“All of the information we need is now contained and accessible and linked together, so a sales person can click on their order and see when purchase orders are due in or when shipments are due in and what has been ordered,” says Lance Caffrey of American Christmas, a longtime aACE customer.

He adds that the time his company has saved with aACE has had an impressive impact: “Company-wide, the need for internal follow-ups has been reduced by somewhere between 24 and 36 hours per week." Companies surveyed in FileMaker’s report experienced similar success, with 57% revealing that implementing a Workplace Innovation Platform helped their business reduce the amount of time wasted on inefficient tasks by 51 to 100%.

You may find that implementing an end-to-end solution like aACE is all you need to increase the efficiency of your operations and the reliability of your data. But if you have complex processes that are particular to your business, you may benefit from an integrated custom app. FileMaker offers easy-to-follow tutorials for creating your own custom apps, which can be built to suit any workflow. And because aACE is built on the FileMaker platform, integrating an app with your aACE solution is a cinch.

“From a production and an accounting standpoint, I could not ask for a more comprehensive solution,” says Jasmine Crandall of the Midwest Bottling Company about her company's aACE solution. “And because aACE is FileMaker-based, the customization possibilities are limitless. We will never have to alter the way we do business to accommodate our business management solution – instead, our solution is able to change to accommodate our needs as they develop."

Check out our listing in the new FileMaker Marketplace to learn more about why our clients call aACE “the best in everything” and “a critical component to the success of our company.” And to see what aACE can do for your business, join a webinar today.

"aACE software is easy to use, intuitive, logical, and easily customized. It is clear that the architecture of aACE has been very well thought out. We were able to automate some previously manual processes that is resulting in literally hundreds of saved labor hours each month." -Daniel Chapman , Founder & CEO, Redd Remedies

SMEs Leveraging Custom Apps for Success, Says 2018 FileMaker Report

This year's annual survey focused attention on the diverse ways small and mid-sized businesses are using custom apps to achieve success. The respondents were were hundreds of FileMaker users and developers from across three continents. Their businesses ranged in size from as small as five employees to as large as 1,000; however, the majority were representatives from companies with less than 100 people on the payroll.

These organizations needed and developed the precise tools to overcome challenges such as inefficient, paper-based processes; unsustainable reliance on spreadsheets; scattered and disorganized data; and tedious, error-prone manual data entry.

Some of the most noteworthy findings this year include:

• 94% reported that packaged software just wasn't flexible enough for their unique needs
• 93% reported that their app helped them spend less time on inefficient tasks
• 91% reported increases in team productivity with their app
• 84% noted FileMaker's ease of use
• 81% noted FileMaker's flexibility
• 76% reported already seeing a return on investment from the custom app
• 70% reported seeing an increase in customer satisfaction
• 64% reported an increase in mobile team productivity after deploying their custom app in the field

In more descriptive comments, the respondents explained that their custom app on FileMaker was easy to build, flexible for customizations, and required only a minimal time investment. The report includes several notable halves: Half the companies were up and running with their new app within 3 months. Half reported spending less than 5 hours per week developing and maintaining their customized tools. Another half reported on plans to integrate their app with systems such as SQL Databases, Google Calendar, electronic health care records, student information systems, SharePoint, Amazon merchant services, mapping programs, FedEx Shipping Manager, Slack, Jira, GIS, or Oracle. And half shared that they had seen an increase of at least 40% in team productivity.

Some of most detailed results were reported from NMR Group Inc, where they're using custom app to collect data on energy efficiency. Likewise, Kung Fu Monkey Productions is using apps to track ideas, scripts, projects, and tasks for television shows around the world. And a short segment focused on Merchant Services Group LLC explains how they started their custom apps with CRM tasks and are now gradually expanding their variety and usefulness. From these examples, it's clear to see that a custom app can be a valuable addition whether your company is focused on professional services, wholesale distribution, light manufacturing, or anything in between.

Download the free report to read more about your opportunities to leverage custom-built applications for a competitive advantage in your industry.

If you're already growing your business using FileMaker apps, you can look forward to the time when you need a fully integrated solution. When you're ready for a comprehensive, yet cost-effective suite that handles all your accounting, CRM, and ERP needs, we're ready to discuss how aACE can help you take the next step.

"aACE is the best alternative to Microsoft Dynamics, Sage, or NetSuite ERP software vendors." ~ Bryan Anderson, All Solutions 360 LLC

FileMaker has released the 2018 report on how businesses around the world are leveraging custom apps. This year's annual survey focused attention on the diverse ways small and mid-sized businesses are using custom apps to achieve success. The respondents were were hundreds of FileMaker users and... Learn More

FileMaker has released the 2018 report on how businesses around the world are leveraging custom apps.

This year's annual survey focused attention on the diverse ways small and mid-sized businesses are using custom apps to achieve success. The respondents were were hundreds of FileMaker users and developers from across three continents. Their businesses ranged in size from as small as five employees to as large as 1,000; however, the majority were representatives from companies with less than 100 people on the payroll.

These organizations needed and developed the precise tools to overcome challenges such as inefficient, paper-based processes; unsustainable reliance on spreadsheets; scattered and disorganized data; and tedious, error-prone manual data entry.

Some of the most noteworthy findings this year include:

• 94% reported that packaged software just wasn't flexible enough for their unique needs
• 93% reported that their app helped them spend less time on inefficient tasks
• 91% reported increases in team productivity with their app
• 84% noted FileMaker's ease of use
• 81% noted FileMaker's flexibility
• 76% reported already seeing a return on investment from the custom app
• 70% reported seeing an increase in customer satisfaction
• 64% reported an increase in mobile team productivity after deploying their custom app in the field

In more descriptive comments, the respondents explained that their custom app on FileMaker was easy to build, flexible for customizations, and required only a minimal time investment. The report includes several notable halves: Half the companies were up and running with their new app within 3 months. Half reported spending less than 5 hours per week developing and maintaining their customized tools. Another half reported on plans to integrate their app with systems such as SQL Databases, Google Calendar, electronic health care records, student information systems, SharePoint, Amazon merchant services, mapping programs, FedEx Shipping Manager, Slack, Jira, GIS, or Oracle. And half shared that they had seen an increase of at least 40% in team productivity.

Some of most detailed results were reported from NMR Group Inc, where they're using custom app to collect data on energy efficiency. Likewise, Kung Fu Monkey Productions is using apps to track ideas, scripts, projects, and tasks for television shows around the world. And a short segment focused on Merchant Services Group LLC explains how they started their custom apps with CRM tasks and are now gradually expanding their variety and usefulness. From these examples, it's clear to see that a custom app can be a valuable addition whether your company is focused on professional services, wholesale distribution, light manufacturing, or anything in between.

Download the free report to read more about your opportunities to leverage custom-built applications for a competitive advantage in your industry.

If you're already growing your business using FileMaker apps, you can look forward to the time when you need a fully integrated solution. When you're ready for a comprehensive, yet cost-effective suite that handles all your accounting, CRM, and ERP needs, we're ready to discuss how aACE can help you take the next step.

"aACE is the best alternative to Microsoft Dynamics, Sage, or NetSuite ERP software vendors." ~ Bryan Anderson, All Solutions 360 LLC

Improve Your Business Processes with FileMaker Tutorials

FileMaker also understands this need for efficient operations. This robust yet easily modified platform makes it simple to create software solutions that align precisely with your business needs. These build-to-suit apps run on PC and Mac, plus iPhone and iPad, and they don't require extensive coding experience.

In fact, FileMaker has developed a library of guide videos to walk you through the process of creating a custom app that can target the pain-points that your organization struggles with. Whether you run a professional services company where the sales staff need to coordinate better, a wholesale distribution business that needs closer monitoring of inventory, or a light manufacturing shop where the staff in the office need to know what's happening on the floor, a custom FileMaker app can help.

The video library is organized according to your role and experience level:

• Tutorial 101 gives you an overview of what FileMaker can do. It's useful whether you'll be developing apps yourself or just using the tools that another citizen developer creates. It discusses common business problems, how a custom app can quickly resolve such challenges, and how the Starter Solutions can put you on the fast-track to solving these problems. It also gives users an overview of FileMaker navigation so they will be up-to-speed when the custom app rolls out.
• Tutorial 201 concentrates on creating a solution. Beginning with the planning phase, it walks step-by-step through designing a data model that will be effective for your needs, then delves into creating the tools and layouts for your data. Beyond these basic aspects, this tutorial also explores how to make your custom solution as effective as possible for the end-users. Then it discusses calculations, reports, scripts, and security needs. This is the perfect starting point for a new citizen developer.
• Tutorial 202 is designed to help you move forward when you realize the benefits of your custom apps. Once it's in place, the next step is to add features that will give your team more of the functionality they need. This obviously requires user input, so this segment also discusses ways to test your app with users so you know for sure what's working and what needs refinement. Under-the-hood, this tutorial explores script parameters and variables, multi-level reports, email automation, creating dashboards, and more.
• Tutorial 301 focuses on new features in the 2017 release of FM16. The more advanced topics include using card windows, animations, and transitions for user interactions; creating PDF files; capturing signatures; and working with JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data.

Beyond these training videos, at FileMaker.com you can also view session recordings from DevCon 2017. If you were unable to attend, or if there were sessions that really sparked your interest this year, you can review the latest practices in the field by developers, users, and business teams. The resources in this area of the site are divided into two genres. Based on your FileMaker experience, you can study fundamentals for beginners, deeper functionality for experienced developers, and complex techniques for experts. Alternately, based on your business role, you can watch sessions focused on app integrations, on organizational success, or on setting up a FileMaker installation.

These free FileMaker resources can benefit you no matter what level of experience you have with developing company-specific apps. Don't miss out on the chance to learn what they have to offer!

Tackling the pain-points of your SMB one at a time can help move your company forward, but there is a point of diminishing returns to this approach. Maintaining and coordinating a collection of apps will eventually consume more resources than it provides benefits. The solution to this challenge is an integrated suite of tools that supply a synergy across all departments of your business.

aACE 5 offers this operational synergy. This comprehensive yet affordable business suite integrates your accounting, CRM, and ERP tools. It generates optimal visibility across your organization, resulting in better use of time, better collaboration among teams, and better info for decision-making.

Learn more today about how aACE 5 can accelerate your business velocity.

"The aACE team was able to efficiently make required adjustments, and today we are operating in a system that is much more powerful, and much more integrated in our business process." ~ Doug Jacobs, President, Restylers' Choice

Every entrepreneur who runs a small or mid-sized business knows how vital it is to use resources effectively. Waste, delays, and miscommunication can cost you time, money, and opportunities. FileMaker also understands this need for efficient operations. This robust yet easily modified platform... Learn More

Every entrepreneur who runs a small or mid-sized business knows how vital it is to use resources effectively. Waste, delays, and miscommunication can cost you time, money, and opportunities.

FileMaker also understands this need for efficient operations. This robust yet easily modified platform makes it simple to create software solutions that align precisely with your business needs. These build-to-suit apps run on PC and Mac, plus iPhone and iPad, and they don't require extensive coding experience.

In fact, FileMaker has developed a library of guide videos to walk you through the process of creating a custom app that can target the pain-points that your organization struggles with. Whether you run a professional services company where the sales staff need to coordinate better, a wholesale distribution business that needs closer monitoring of inventory, or a light manufacturing shop where the staff in the office need to know what's happening on the floor, a custom FileMaker app can help.

The video library is organized according to your role and experience level:

• Tutorial 101 gives you an overview of what FileMaker can do. It's useful whether you'll be developing apps yourself or just using the tools that another citizen developer creates. It discusses common business problems, how a custom app can quickly resolve such challenges, and how the Starter Solutions can put you on the fast-track to solving these problems. It also gives users an overview of FileMaker navigation so they will be up-to-speed when the custom app rolls out.
• Tutorial 201 concentrates on creating a solution. Beginning with the planning phase, it walks step-by-step through designing a data model that will be effective for your needs, then delves into creating the tools and layouts for your data. Beyond these basic aspects, this tutorial also explores how to make your custom solution as effective as possible for the end-users. Then it discusses calculations, reports, scripts, and security needs. This is the perfect starting point for a new citizen developer.
• Tutorial 202 is designed to help you move forward when you realize the benefits of your custom apps. Once it's in place, the next step is to add features that will give your team more of the functionality they need. This obviously requires user input, so this segment also discusses ways to test your app with users so you know for sure what's working and what needs refinement. Under-the-hood, this tutorial explores script parameters and variables, multi-level reports, email automation, creating dashboards, and more.
• Tutorial 301 focuses on new features in the 2017 release of FM16. The more advanced topics include using card windows, animations, and transitions for user interactions; creating PDF files; capturing signatures; and working with JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data.

Beyond these training videos, at FileMaker.com you can also view session recordings from DevCon 2017. If you were unable to attend, or if there were sessions that really sparked your interest this year, you can review the latest practices in the field by developers, users, and business teams. The resources in this area of the site are divided into two genres. Based on your FileMaker experience, you can study fundamentals for beginners, deeper functionality for experienced developers, and complex techniques for experts. Alternately, based on your business role, you can watch sessions focused on app integrations, on organizational success, or on setting up a FileMaker installation.

These free FileMaker resources can benefit you no matter what level of experience you have with developing company-specific apps. Don't miss out on the chance to learn what they have to offer!

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