Customer stories


Crabby Bill's Seafood Restaurants

A family-owned chain of restaurants on the Tampa/St. Petersburg coast of Florida uses the new External SQL Data Source feature of FileMaker Pro 9 to access inventory, accounting and sales data in two legacy SQL databases.

"Jimmy Neutron:Boy Genius", The Movie

Producing a cartoon isn't child's play: every scene is composed of many individual shots, and every shot is a collaboration of a team of artists and technicians. When the production team of the animated film Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, The Movie needed a system to track production, they made the intelligent choice: FileMaker.

Knitting Factory

When The Knitting Factory -- both a jazz nightclub and a record label -- needed a system to manage their business and their Web site, they turned to FileMaker Pro. The Knitting Factory uses FileMaker Pro for everything from tracking employee timecards to publishing schedules of upcoming events on the Web.

Wizards of the Coast

For Wizards of the Coast, leading producer of adventure, fantasy, and trading card games, FileMaker Pro 6 is a magical step forward.

B Productions

"FileMaker Pro saved us a lot of time, made us more efficient, and we're really very happy with that!" -- Andy Biskin, Production Manager, B Productions

Comedy Central

FileMaker Pro is hard at work behind the scenes of "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut". The film's production department uses FileMaker Pro to track every shot in the movie -- from layout to final animation. The FileMaker Pro solution was built in-house by Production Manager Rasey Ann Naito, who had no programming background at all.

AccuWeather, Inc.

"Without FileMaker, we would just be imagining how we would do it all in real time. With FileMaker, it happens 24/7." -- Elliot Abrams, Senior Vice President/Chief Forecaster, AccuWeather Inc.

Henry O'Donnell-Boatman Music

Every scene of 'Passions', NBC-TV's popular daytime drama, requires the right music to set the right mood. Henry O'Donnell-Boatman Music organizes that music using Cue Manager, a FileMaker Pro-based solution. Cue Manager stores over 5,000 musical "cues", which can be easily selected for each scene.

Major TV News Organization

A major TV news operation, who cannot be named due to competitive advantage concerns, relies on FileMaker to support functions include ticketing, purchase requests and program management.

Rhino Records

What do Ray Charles, Burt Bacharach and Merle Haggard have in common? Their recordings — and some 32,000 others — are stored in Rhino Records' FileMaker Pro-based Web search engine (www.rhinorecords.com). Rhino traded its aging SQL-based solution for the FileMaker Pro solution which delivers significantly faster performance.

Gemini Music Productions

"We need to keep records of personal information, employment history, schedules, government records, and a payroll system. FileMaker has helped us enormously in terms of efficiency and accuracy in this regard. Keeping it straight and being able to integrate information from one corner to another was essential to us." -- Neil Balm, Co-Owner, Gemini Music Productions

WGBH Boston

Filling vital behind-the-scenes roles at one of America's leading public television station, FileMaker Pro keeps data well organized at WGBH Boston.

Pro Sound

Thorough, personalized service -- the foundation of any successful business. And at Pro Sound in San Diego, California, clients depend on service built on the foundation of FileMaker Pro.

Rainbow Network Communications

Rainbow Networks is hard at work behind the scenes at cable channels such as American Movie Classics and Bravo, gathering programming materials -- from features to commercials -- and putting them in order for delivery via satellite to your local cable company. And FileMaker Pro is hard at work behind the scenes at Rainbow Network, organizing that programming material.

Dave Matthews Band

The Dave Matthews Band's electrifying live performances may appear effortless to their fans. But backstage, FileMaker Pro is hard at work, harmonizing countless elements -- including set list, lighting, audio effects and equipment.

The Larry Little Company

The Larry Little Company, a leading publisher of musical instructional materials, used FileMaker Pro for over five years to manage dealers, handle invoices, and ensure fast, reliable service. Then, early in 2000, Larry Little switched to Microsoft Access -- with disastrous results. (There's the happy ending to this story, since Larry Little switched back to FileMaker Pro after only 3 months.)

Liberman/Patton Agency

It's up to Liberman/Patton Agency, the largest independent casting company in the country, to find the right actor for the right show, including shows such as Seinfeld and Third Rock from the Sun. To simplify the casting process, every actor that comes through the doors at Liberman/Patton is logged, tracked, and screened for future roles using FileMaker Pro.

High-Frequency Music Marketing

When record labels such as Capitol, Arista and Virgin need marketing expertise for leading-edge acts like LimpBizkit and Buckcherry, they turn to Hi Frequency Marketing. To stay at the forefront of the pop music scene, Hi Frequency relies on FileMaker Pro for tasks as diverse as project management, invoicing, client tracking, inventory management -- and a FileMaker Pro-driven Web site.

TV Guide

TV Guide's Affiliate Marketing Department needed a solution that could manage art specs, deadlines, printer estimates, vendor information and purchase orders, as well as all the other information needed to serve cable operator clients. By building a FileMaker Pro solution in-house, Affiliate Marketing Manager Cara Hathaway estimates she's saved TV Guide close to $20,000 in developer fees.

Aggressive Skaters Association

They aren't just in-line skaters -- they're Aggressive skaters. Skaters who compete for points and prestige on a professional scale. Needing a fast, flexible database program to keep track of these skaters, California-based Aggressive Skaters Association chose FileMaker Pro.

Hearts of Space

Hearts of Space has grown from a weekly late-night radio program, to a multifaceted production and marketing organization encompassing radio broadcasting, CD mastering, music publishing -- and HOS.com, a dynamic website powered by FileMaker Pro. Hearts of Space had considered Microsoft Access, as well as Oracle and Microsoft SQL, but they chose FileMaker Pro for ease of use, web publishing capapbility and ODBC connectivity.

E! Entertainment

At E! Entertainment, FileMaker Pro is a star performer, streamlining the production process of shows like Talk Soup and the Golden Globe Awards. Every element of each show -- from interviews to film clips -- is placed into a FileMaker Pro record, along with critical production information such as exact running time. FileMaker Pro also keeps tabs on the production equipment in use at E! Entertainment.

Industrial Light & Magic

World-renowned motion picture and commercial visual effects production house

Showtime Networks

Ad agency Red Group uses FileMaker Pro to manage all of Showtime Network's advertisements for print, TV and radio. At Red Group, FileMaker Pro records every advertisement developed for Showtime, and manages every element of every ad campaign. Thanks to FileMaker Pro's ease of use, it took Red Group less than a month to train staff and get their solutions up and running on both Mac OS and Windows computers.

Walter Murch and Sean Cullen, Film Editors

Award-winning film editor Walter Murch and his associate Sean Cullen take full advantage of FileMaker Pro's flexibility in tracking and documenting individual shots. FileMaker Pro coordinates closely with the Mac-based Final Cut Pro editing suite to ensure that vital information on each stage of the editing process is always close at hand.