Businesses today often assume that a web-based program is the modern answer to every software project. In reality, the best platform depends on your organization’s priorities. FileMaker combines the database, user interface, business logic, reporting, and security into a single platform and can often be combined with a web portal.
Your team relies on FileMaker every day to track clients, manage inventory, handle orders, and keep projects on schedule. But what happens when people outside your office—like customers, suppliers, or field staff—need access to that information? That’s where a custom web app comes into play. Instead of scrapping your current setup and starting from scratch, you can add a web portal that connects directly to FileMaker.
Outside of their technical discussions, our devs have been building web applications whose origins all started with the question, “What if?”, and turned into, “What else?”. Real-world problems often become inspiration for innovative software.
When we need a way to think through interface structure before building it in FileMaker, we turn to Figma. This helps us avoid rebuilding layouts when the workflow doesn’t make sense. Over the course of our projects, we’ve learned some practical tips that have saved us time and provided consistency.
At the urging of one of our clients versed in the Incident Command System (ICS), we developed a FileMaker-based app for use during emergency responses, specifically to improve the resource ordering process.
