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Real-World Advice for Implementing a Successful Custom Software Project (part 3 of 4)

Welcome to the third part of this summer’s blog series - Harnessing the Power of Digital Transformation. This post offers real-world advice on implementing ...

Announcing the Claris Beyond User Group!

The Claris FileMaker Western Washington group and the Claris Connect Meetup are joining together to form a new user group called <a href="https://www.portagebay.com/claris-beyond" target="_blank" ...

NEW VIDEO! Claris Connect: Using the Stripe Connector

You can capture a variety of actions on your customer’s side and initiate corresponding processes in FileMaker. Examples include updating a customer record in FileMaker ...

How to Calculate the ROI of Digital Transformation (part 2 of 4)

Welcome to the second part of this summer’s blog series - Harnessing the Power of Digital Transformation. Watch the video, and read the post, to ...

NEW VIDEO! Claris Connect: Handling Events With Outlook

The Claris Connect Meetup has been gathering online for 18 months where we’ve reviewed a lot of connectors and have had some great discussions about ...

The Age of Digital Transformation and Why it Matters (part 1 of 4)

Not only is our job to stay up to date on the latest technology, but also to understand our client’s businesses so we can help ...

Announcing Claris Studio + The Problem Solvers Circle

Last week, Claris announced two exciting new initiatives, the first a new Software as a Service (SaaS) platform ...

Introducing Our Digital Content & Marketing Coordinator: Kim Nellans

One of our goals as we’ve grown through the years is to be able to hire a person to coordinate the planning and implementation ...

Happy 10th Birthday to our FileMaker Blog!

Welcome to post #182 of our Portage Bay Solutions blog! Our blog launched ten years ago on this date and is something we enjoy ...

Export All Data From FileMaker Pro: Free Demo

Use our FREE, updated modular export script to export all data from FileMaker Pro! In FileMaker Pro 19.4, Claris introduced the ...

Wireframing and Balsamiq

When it comes to Claris FileMaker development, having a clear plan prior to development is definitely key. When communicating design concepts and generating ideas with ...

Introducing Office Hours

Visit our Office Hours page to get the Zoom links. Every first and third Thursdays, from 1pm - 2pm Pacific, we’ll be “in ...

Comparing Claris Connect and other iPaaS Systems

iPaaS stands for ‘Integration Platform as a Service’ and if that isn’t one of the less clear product categories around, I don’t know what ...

10 FileMaker Quick Tips

To start the year off right, here’s 10 quick FileMaker Pro tips to optimize your daily workflow and improve your FileMaker experience. I wish ...

Our Thoughts on Heading Into a New Year!

It’s time for moving on from the holidays and towards Auld Lang Syne and new year wishes. We’ve collected some personal and business reflections ...