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Unlock your business’s potential with Claris FileMaker

Claris FileMaker empowers creative thinkers to solve unique business problems with speed and simplicity. The platform helps you build robust custom apps that integrate with your existing tools, automate workflows, and even leverage AI—all without the need for extensive coding.

Cathy

30 September 2025 • 3 min

In today’s fast-paced business environment, organizations need custom solutions that can adapt to their unique workflows and challenges. Enter Claris FileMaker—a platform designed for creative thinkers who want to solve unique business problems with speed, simplicity, and power.

Whether you’re a seasoned developer or completely new to app building, FileMaker empowers you to create customized solutions that fit your workflows perfectly.

The secret lies in FileMaker’s comprehensive toolkit, which includes scripts, triggers, calculation functions, graphical design tools, and robust relational data modeling capabilities.

A complete media management solution

Claris FileMaker is more than just a place to store data. It’s a central hub for all the information and media for your organization.

The platform seamlessly handles various types of content including movies, sound files, and images, providing a single location to manage every piece of data meaningful to your business.

This unified approach eliminates the need to juggle multiple systems and ensures all your important information remains accessible and organized.

Seamless integration with your existing tech stack

Chances are your business already relies on multiple tools. FileMaker doesn’t ask you to abandon them—it integrates them.

With Claris Connect, you can integrate various web services and applications into your FileMaker workflows within minutes, creating a seamless ecosystem where all your tools work together harmoniously.

Professional document generation made simple

Business operations often require various types of documentation, from invoices and contracts to compliance forms. Claris FileMaker excels at generating customized documents that meet your specific requirements.

Its interactive containers allow you to work with field contents directly within your app. Imagine being able to play a video, listen to music, or scroll through a PDF—all within a single field, adding powerful preview capabilities to your workflows.

Create and automate without heavy coding

Building apps in FileMaker is faster and easier than ever before thanks to add-ons. In a few clicks, you can insert calendars, Kanban boards, photo galleries, and more into your app.

FileMaker’s prebuilt JavaScript add-ons are ready to use instantly and require no advanced coding skills – just drag, drop, and you’re ready to go.

Together, these features transform the way you build. Instead of wrestling with complex programming, you can snap together components like puzzle pieces, allowing you to focus on solving real business challenges rather than debugging lines of code.

Effortless collaboration and communication

You can easily share stored documents with customers, vendors or team members via email, all without granting them full access to your app.

This maintains security while enabling smooth communication and collaboration across your organization.

Artificial Intelligence at your fingertips

Claris FileMaker isn’t just about efficiency—it’s about innovation.

From image recognition to sentiment analysis, or even training your own custom models, FileMaker helps you put AI to work directly inside your workflows. The result? Smarter business decisions powered by modern technology.

Take your data anywhere

With Claris FileMaker Go, you can take your apps and data anywhere—desktop, web, or mobile. Mobile-specific features like NFC reading, barcode scanning, iBeacon detection, and location awareness make it perfect for field teams.

Even better, FileMaker apps adapt to the device they’re accessed on, ensuring users see the tools they need with an interface designed for on-the-go tasks. With added support for Siri shortcuts and voice interactions, your team can even update records or trigger processes hands-free.

Share and collaborate without barriers

Need to extend access beyond your immediate team? FileMaker WebDirect lets anyone interact with your FileMaker apps directly through a web browser—no extra software or web programming required. Whether they’re viewing, editing, or searching records, users can get the full FileMaker experience securely from anywhere.

Driving efficiency, cutting costs, unlocking creativity

Claris FileMaker stands out as a powerful tool that enables today’s problem solvers to build custom applications tailored to their specific needs. By streamlining manual processes, reducing costs, and creating new efficiencies for teams, the platform delivers modern technology capabilities through an easy-to-use interface.

Whether you’re looking to replace spreadsheet-based workflows, integrate disparate systems, or create mobile-friendly solutions for field teams, Claris FileMaker provides the flexibility and power to transform your business operations. The platform’s combination of ease-of-use and advanced capabilities makes it an ideal choice for organizations seeking to harness the power of custom app development without the traditional barriers and complexity.

In a world where business needs evolve rapidly, having a platform that adapts as quickly as your ideas is invaluable. Claris FileMaker doesn’t just store your data – it transforms how you work with it, creating opportunities for innovation and efficiency that can give your organization a competitive edge in today’s dynamic marketplace.