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Europe’s largest independent recording studio runs on FileMaker 14 Platform — SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ —

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — London’s Metropolis Studios, Europe’s largest independently owned recording complex, has implemented a custom system built entirely on FileMaker 14, the platform that allows users to quickly create and run custom solutions that work seamlessly across iPad, iPhone, Windows, Mac and the web. The platform is used to help speed up a multitude of processes across the entire organization. Over the past 25 years, Metropolis has seen the likes of Adele and the late Amy Winehouse make sweet, chart-topping music within its studio walls.Click here to read the full story and watch the video.Being the fast-paced creative business that it is, as Metropolis grew, its business requirements grew with it, including its finance and invoicing demands. Metropolis sought the services of SAP and its enterprise-class finance system; however, it soon became clear that the solution wasn’t meeting the company’s business requirements.Facing the need for an alternative solution fast, Metropolis, already having used solutions built on FileMaker in other areas of its business, set about building a turnkey financial system in mere weeks. Once the system was implemented, Metropolis quickly realized that the FileMaker solution was faster, smarter, more agile and inherently more upgradeable than its SAP predecessor.

Source: Europe’s largest independent recording studio runs on FileMaker 14 Platform — SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ —

FileMaker 14, First Take: Going mobile Review | ZDNet

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

Review: FileMaker Pro 14 continues to make the best better | TechnologyTell

Review: FileMaker Pro 14 continues to make the best better

by Gary Coyne on June 28, 2015 at 6:21 pm

FileMaker (an Apple subsidiary) recently released version 14 of their award-winning database software that’s been around 30 years (and I should know; I bought the version 1 in 1985). This release is interesting in that while there is a good range of new features, there are a also few updates to some of their core tools. And, like a true geek, the place where this release shines for me is the spectacular update to their scripting. Is it perfect? No, I feel there are several areas where some UI improvements are still needed. Nonetheless, there are new tools, new scripting opportunities, new UI features, and some very powerful server features. So sit back, pick up your beverage of choice, and read all about it.FileMaker Pro is a database software application that lets you create and manage databases. What’s a database? Consider an electronic collection of business cards where you can search for plumbers, plumbers in your state, and/or plumbers that do house calls. A web search engine is a database, but the contents are based on what’s on the web. If you have an organization and you want to look up members of that organization, you need a custom database.

Source: Review: FileMaker Pro 14 continues to make the best better | TechnologyTell