Russ Catanach is Marketing Director at Beezwax, as well as host of the podcast DIY For Business. He’s sharing his insights, especially from a business perspective, on being a longtime Claris FileMaker user and developer.

In the Claris Roadmap 2023 announcement video, Andrew LeCates, Claris’s director of product marketing and evangelism, reconfirmed their goal of making FileMaker solutions more versatile and accessible. He also mentioned the company’s commitment to FileMaker and its core user community under a simplified platform stack, which includes Claris FileMaker, Claris Connect, and Claris Studio, with continued investment in FileMaker Server, FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Cloud and FileMaker WebDirect.

In this blog post, we will explore a solution for optimising a FileMaker app that handle large amounts of data. We will address the challenges of data storage, file corruption, and performance degradation when dealing with historical data. By leveraging cloud storage and serverless computing, we can offload and query this data efficiently, ensuring better performance and scalability.

At the July 2023 meeting for FM-DiSC, Fabio Bosisio from Beezwax demonstrates a clever approach to handle historical data in a FileMaker solution, utilizing a combination of AWS services and AWS Serverless framework. Use cases include archiving, data mining, and reporting. Learn how to achieve optimal performance when archiving historical data on AWS S3, and how to leverage Amazon Athena's Interactive SQL to execute queries via a FileMaker Pro app.

You’re invited to explore this blog post and demo file – as you embark on expanding your Claris FileMaker solutions into the vast and captivating realm of JavaScript.

As conference speakers at dotfmp Berlin, Christos Savva, Fabio Bosisio and Vince Menanno from Beezwax present three sessions: • Enhancing FileMaker with Python • What do you do with all this historical data in your app? • Elements for Building Great Solutions

Greetings from Tableau Conference 2023 (TC23) in Las Vegas, and beyond. Beezwax’s Data Analytics & Tableau Developer team is attending, both in-person and virtual. TC23 is designed to reveal and inspire, with new product information, plus Tableau (and Salesforce) company roadmaps. There’s plenty of insight from TC23 sessions including technical topics, case studies, thought leadership, cool demos, community inspiration, and hands-on learning.

Claris FileMaker 2023 puts powerful, native audit logging within reach of developers, with a greatly reduced code footprint compared to existing approaches. In this blog post we introduce the OnWindowTransaction script trigger, leveraging it along with native FileMaker script transactions to create an audit log that is efficient, scalable, flexible, performant, and convenient to implement.

FileMaker 2023 introduces Perform Script on Server with Callback. The end result is improved performance, better management of complex script workflow, enhanced user experience, and new possibilities for handling integration with APIs, email and services like Claris Connect.

Beezwax is proud to sponsor and provide mentors for Los Altos Hacks VII. This event is a 2-day, student-led, in-person hackathon, and the largest high school hackathon on the West Coast.

Want better collaboration, performance and insight for your FileMaker development teams? With InspectorPro you can leverage advanced diagnostics, perform in-depth analysis, and gain insights with new visualizations. Check out these videos from InspectorPro creator & Beezwax Chief Innovation Officer, Vince Menanno.