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Join Us in Welcoming Mike Ross to the Portage Bay Team

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Many of you have known Mike Ross, founder of Ross Digital, LLC, for many years and are aware of his expertise as a FileMaker developer and his likability as a person. We’re delighted to announce that he has now joined the Portage Bay Solutions team! Read more
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FileMaker DevCast: Five Thousand Downloads and Now on Spotify

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BIG NEWS! The FileMaker DevCast has reached 5,000 downloads! And guess what? Every episode of the DevCast is now available on Spotify, in addition to being on PodBean and Apple Podcasts. Read more
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Announcing the Release of FileMaker 2024

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The much-anticipated FileMaker 2024 release is finally here, bringing a host of marvelous features, including AI and semantic search, to improve your business operations and drive success. Download your free trial of FileMaker 2024 now and get a first-hand feel for these new features. Read more
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Over 50 Claris Engage Session Recordings Now Publicly Available

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The session recordings from Claris Engage 2024 are publicly available, for free, on Claris Academy, so you can now watch session content at your convenience. Within the ten main categories you'll find a total of fifty-two videos that cover a wide range of topics and provide useful information from thought leaders within the Claris Community. Read more
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Claris Engage Recap + DevCast with Special Guest, Clay Maeckel

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During the Claris Engage conference in February, Clay Maeckel, Chief Software Architect at Claris, graciously shared some of his time with us as a guest on our podcast, for Episode 13 the FileMaker DevCast. In the first part of the podcast, our citizen developer host, Dan Smiley, and Clay discuss a variety of areas. Then the podcast wraps up with our team sharing post-conference takeaways, insights, and favorite moments.  Read more
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Finding the Creative Synthesis of SXSW, AI and FileMaker

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This March I had the opportunity to attend SXSW Interactive, one of the premiere gatherings for creatives, technologists, and business leaders. It’s no surprise that SXSW is known as the conference of creativity. I left the event with new, innovative ideas spinning in my head. In this post, I share with you my key insights from the conference, along with demonstrating the role that AI can play in our modern workplace, based on my own experience using it to synthesize the conference materials. Furthermore, I also want to leave you with a creative parallel - demonstrating how SXSW and FileMaker have grown up in similar fashions. Read more
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