Claris FileMaker（クラリス ファイルメーカー）の評判・口コミ 全209件

What do you dislike?

Support can sometimes be slow. The licensing model could be simplified.

What do you like best?

FileMaker is an affordable, robust platform for rapid application development. It's ideal in a context where flexibility is important like creative or innovative workgroups.

Recommendations to others considering the product

Download a trial version. Don't hesitate to ask questions to the FileMaker community.

What do you dislike?

Didn窶冲 find a way to have Filemaker read your mind yet... seriously it can get quite addicting.

What do you like best?

Short developpement time : the fastest way to go from an idea to a full multiuser deployment... it窶冱 like magic... and it actually looks super good !

Recommendations to others considering the product

Don窶冲 hesitate to ask community they are very helpful and always ready to share knowledge.

What do you dislike?

FileMaker Cloud - the recently-introduced new option for deploying FileMaker - can be confusing to set up. It requires buying a hosting product from Amazon in addition to buying licensing from FileMaker, two things with different and complicated pricing structures. It would be nice if FileMaker Cloud were offered as a single all-inclusive product.

What do you like best?

A great help for small-to-medium companies and work groups that handle a flow of events or projects with lots of unique particulars. I have set up FileMaker systems for event planners and event venues, youth programs, handlers of government-regulated materials, safety inspectors, design firms, and professional service providers. They tend to choose FileMaker after determining that a spreadsheet is not enough, and off-the-shelf business software won窶冲 accommodate all the special details of their specific business.

FileMaker hits the sweet spot because it has robust back-end data management tools and also very flexible front-end interface components that can be customized so each user has just the widgets and screens they need to work efficiently.

Recommendations to others considering the product

If you have the budget, hire an experienced developer who knows how to apply FileMaker窶冱 advanced features to meet your needs. If your budget is limited, consider collaborating with a developer who can do some advanced stuff while you take on DIY aspects that are easy to learn, such as creating fields and styling the screens.

What do you dislike?

It doesn't ask if you are sure you want to make changes.

What do you like best?

We have scaled from a $4m a year company to a $26m a year company with this as our backbone.

Recommendations to others considering the product

If you with to create a custom solution, hire an internal developer. Outsourcing has become challenging and expensive.

What do you dislike?

FileMaker is constantly striving to improve the platform. However, it is frustrating to see some legacy aspects of the platform depreciate and be removed. Things like custom web publishing with xml and php and runtime application support are currently depreciated (or no longer maintained). Many of these features are critical to long time users of the platform. Charting capabilities are also extremely limited, which creates a rather significant barrier for certain use cases in my organization.

What do you like best?

FileMaker is the best rapid application development platform for the average end user. It has a very steep learning curve, and possesses a unique balance of easy to use features for new developers and users, as well as powerful programatic capabilities for seasoned developers.

What do you dislike?

Long term scalability is always a concern in many of the applications we have developed. However when we get to needing to scale state wide or nationally we will cross that bridge then.

What do you like best?

Having a business background I often found I needed a custom app to solve a real problem in business. However I needed something fast and economical but also something that could continue to evolve. FileMaker has been the best approach for this.

Recommendations to others considering the product

Wether you need an internal custom app or a real prototype for hashing out a large project FileMaker meets a the needs to start solving your communication and data needs.

What do you dislike?

What's not to like? An ever-growing list of calculation functions and script commands, an ever-improving pallet of layout and UI tools, and increasing interaction with other technologies?

What do you like best?

I've been able to make a 20-year career programming in FileMaker and its associated products, helping businesses and individuals organize and share their information, and automate their business processes. And yet FileMaker surprisingly easy for the new user to pick up and begin to solve problems with. Ease of initial use, combined with extensibility that is off the charts, for all FileMaker's great features, this has to be the most important attribute.

Recommendations to others considering the product

For small to medium-sized workgroups, stop looking, this is your answer!

What do you dislike?

New versions and releases, too frequent. Licensing is somewhat complex. The need for too much third party plugins to do several tasks, not offered on the platform.

What do you like best?

Very powerful and stable if properly used. Has veteran and very experienced developers. Ease to get into, very friendly for small teams. Rapid development tool. Feel the power of commanding an handful of competent programers on a project. It's like the special forces, where a half squad of 5 do Job usually done by a platoon of 30.

Recommendations to others considering the product

Hire someone "combat proven" and experienced on the FileMaker platform and you will not regret it.

What do you dislike?

Would love built-in css support for true responsive design, as well as option for advanced developers to code in a lower level native languages.

What do you like best?

Versatility. Beginners can build simple apps with little or no scripting that increase team efficiency and effectiveness by orders of magnitude. Advanced users can take those simple apps to the next level and build sophisticated solutions at about 25% cost/time of a traditional from-scratch custom web app.

Recommendations to others considering the product

This is a powerful platform, it's not magical. This is a business tool that will transform your business if you invest in learning how to use it.