FileMaker Excellence Award Winners for 2009

Each year, FileMaker recognizes FileMaker Business Alliance (FBA) partners who have demonstrated an impressive level of professionalism and creativity in using FileMaker software to deliver excellent solutions to their customers.

The FileMaker Excellence Award winners are chosen from the 1200 FileMaker Business Alliance members worldwide who are FileMaker consultants, solution providers, plug-in developers, trainers, and hosting companies that serve a wide variety of industries.

FileMaker Excellence & MadDog Award Winners

FileMaker Excellence Award for Business Driver of the Year

Capita Financial Software Ltd, KAMAR Limited, and Facility Wizard Software are being honored for their overall sales achievement. They have sold the most FileMaker licenses in their respective geography for 2009:

FileMaker Excellence Award for Outstanding Contribution to the FileMaker Community

Jesse Barnum of 360Works

Jesse Barnum of 360Works is being honored for his contribution this year to the FileMaker community. This year he traveled to 9 cities to talk with customers about how they can extend the power of FileMaker Pro to manage images, administer their solutions remotely, and a variety of other great features. Jesse is a leader in his vision for his FileMaker products, a great resource for developers and collaborative member of the community.

FileMaker Excellence Award Evangelist of the Year

Paul de Halle of Linear Blue

Paul de Halle is being honored for working tirelessly to promote FileMaker in the wider community. His personal commitment and continued excitement in the FileMaker platform is well known to anyone who has spent any time with him. He is also very generous with his expertise and time in helping other developers and users.

FileMaker Excellence Award for Solution of the Year

FMTouch by FMWebschool

FMWebSchool is being honored for FMTouch, a software application that enables you to work locally or remotely with FileMaker Pro on your Apple iPhone or iPod Touch.

FBA Newcomer of the Year

Uzair Kharawala of SF Digital

Uzair Kharawala of SF Digital has been awarded the Newcomer of the Year for making a noticeable impact to the business with his FileMaker photography solution, SF Foto.

FBA Business Partner of the Year for Japan

Juppo Works Co., Ltd

Juppo Works Co., Ltd is being honored for their efforts in helping drive business by selling the most FileMaker licenses in Japan.

FBA Business Partner of the Year in the Americas

Angel City Data

Angel City Data is being honored for their expertise, professionalism, and collaborative efforts with the FileMaker sales team to advance the FileMaker platform.

We congratulate this year's FileMaker Excellence Award winners and express our gratitude for their hard work helping support our customers, and for providing superior solutions. With the growing adoption of the FileMaker platform, the FileMaker Business Alliance is one of the most valuable and strategic ways to help our solutions reach more businesses around the world. These awards honor our partners who have gone above and beyond our expectations and stand out among all our valued FBA members for 2009.

The 2009 FileMaker Mad Dog Public Relations Winners

FileMaker Public Relations awarded the coveted Mad Dog PR Award to 5 FileMaker Developers at DevCon. The winners, representing the U.S., the United Kingdom and Australia, were acknowledged for their contributions in assisting with advancing awareness of FileMaker in the media and within Social Media outlets.

Winners included:

U.S.:

• Audrey Akhavan, FileMaker Magic
• Rob Getlan, Getlan Datapoint
• Jonathan Stark, Jonathan Stark Consulting

United Kingdom:

• Clive D'Urban, Dubbs Database

Australia:

• Craig Saunders, Digital Fusion