The FileMaker database has been around since 1985, first for the Mac and then for Windows, moving from being a simple flat-file system to a more powerful development tool. Despite its increased functionality (including the FileMaker Go app for iOS that extended it to mobile devices for viewing and updating databases), FileMaker remains far easier to use for building database applications than competing applications like Microsoft Access.The new release, FileMaker 14, brings the development interface up to date with a new script workspace in FileMaker Pro and Advanced (where you build databases and create the layouts and scripts that turn them into database applications), and adds mobile web publishing to FileMaker Server 14 to extend mobile options beyond iOS.FileMaker gives you the familiar tools of a database system: records stored in tables that can be connected by relationships; layouts on which you can place fields (including calculated ones), add themes and apply styles; and scripts for creating reports or sending emails. You can also do more complicated programming, complete with branches and loops in your code. The layout and database management is all done graphically, and FileMaker 14 keeps this admirably simple. However, the scripting tools have been long overdue for an update.
Source: FileMaker 14, First Take: Going mobile Review | ZDNet
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