What Are the Pros and Cons of Filemaker? [closed]

Answer 1

It has been more than a year now since I run through FM and use it in developing solutions for various clients. The following are my FM experience:

1. learning curve is much less than using the hard coded industry standard technology;
2. it can fit well as to industry standards platforms because of it's ODBC and JDBC connectivity. Your data is not locked in FM and other data format can get in FM;
3. it fits well as front end and back end solutions.
4. FM can match enterprise platform having a right database design and deployment i.e. workgroup or department oriented solutions. This is data to it's workgroup owner and make it available for other workgroups or departments;
5. FM is fits well for rapid application development that employs prototyping;
6. FM has many more capabilities you therein...

I suggest you try it yourself and I'm sure you'll love the stuff FM can offer!

Happy computing...