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Ease of use
Intuitive interface and drag-and-drop functionality
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Customizability
Flexible platform that can be tailored to specific business needs
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Integration
Seamless integration with other software and services
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Limited scalability
May not be suitable for large-scale enterprise applications
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Limited functionality
May not have all the features required for complex applications
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Limited support
May not have extensive support resources compared to other platforms
- Increasing demand for custom software solutions
- Opportunity to expand into mobile app development
- Opportunity to offer cloud-based solutions for increased accessibility
- Competition from other custom software development platforms
- Increased focus on data security and privacy may impact demand
- Decreased demand for custom software solutions during economic downturns
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High - rated users
The database management is great, easy and powerful. The scripts and conditional logic are superpowerful, you can make almost any kind of process with the scripts, just takes time and a high learning curve to squeeze all its possibilities. Building simple static interfaces is fairly easy and quick.A) UI: the interface engine is completely outdated for a modern app, is not that you can't build beautiful UI, you can, as far it does not require real responsiveness and conditionals. When a layout (page) needs to have a dynamic interface, which means conditionals for show/hide elements and adapt the rest of the elements, you just can't. Is possible to hide elements of course, but not to adapt the behavior for the rest of the elements. In a simple interface with only a few fields, you can handle it easily, but for complex/flexible UI, it becomes a nightmare with a lot of data that you cannot show dynamically. 10 years ago it was all that was out there, and therefore the CRM UI were those big messy layouts with a lot of data. For nowadays the web design moved to dynamic UI where less is more, if you want an interface to be easy to read and understand, you really need to show less data at the same time, for that you need dynamic and flexible UI, which is not possible to build with Filemaker. B) Data access/constraint: relations in the database are made in a way (classic relations between tables) that while is intuitive and easy to understand, is very difficult and limited for big and complex relations. Why? It is possible to make any relation, but the quantity of relations you need and the complexity (usually chaos) that comes with is huge. Also, real constraints far data calls from the UI are not possible, you always have to call the full data from the UI.
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Average - rated users
FileMaker has been around for decades and has a massive community of developers at every stage. The product gets better year after year and is much than any Microsoft product I have used. You can create a shared hosted database in minutes, with no programming. It has saved my clients and me tons of time and money. The server version is also very stable.I wish the server version was more powerful for websites to use as a backend or more powerful just to use with more that 250 people. I think this is the main limitation of the program.
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