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Well-suited for workgroups, it fills the void between desktop software like Excel and enterprise-grade tools built on Oracle or SAP. Its strength lies in its ease of use: A developer can build in hours what might take days or even weeks to create in a traditional programming language.
FileMaker solutions deploy to desktop, mobile and web clients with a single shared codebase.
Developers often choose to create device-specific interfaces, but the underlying application, data architecture and business logic all live within one common solution.
It’s certainly not a new concept to code-once, deploy-to-multiple-platforms, but in the case of FileMaker, deployment is a one-step process of publishing an app to an application server.
No need to compile or modify solutions for a specific OS or platform.
Users work with FileMaker solutions via desktop, mobile and web clients much as they might access a website via browser on a desktop or mobile device.
This code-once, deploy-once approach simplifies development effort significantly.
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