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FileMaker Go in Business: Austin Convention Center

Maximizing business efficiencies while effectively meeting customer's needs is a challenge for organizations of all sizes. Austin Convention Center, a high-tech convention facility spans six city blocks and hosts hundreds of events each year including the world renowned South by Southwest Festival. FileMaker Go helps meet the unique challenges of each event head-on and raises productivity throughout many of its departments.

FileMaker Go is the best-selling business database app for iPad and iPhone and is part of many custom solutions for businesses around the world. Join us for an informative real world look at how FileMaker Go helped Austin Convention Center save thousands of dollars and eliminate antiquated paper-based systems.

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FileMaker Go in Business: Lee Medical

While U.S. hospital-acquired infections are on the rise, the prognosis is good in one important area: bloodstream infections. These are often caused by mismanagement of IV catheters in patients' veins and by poor catheter insertion. Fortunately, contract vascular access specialists Lee Medical, along with help from FileMaker Go, now drive down the troubling frequency and cost of Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) through their highly successful VAST® solution. Lee Medical is also able to meet stringent healthcare security standards with the use of FileMaker Go on iPads.

FileMaker Go is the best-selling business database app for iPad and iPhone and is part of many custom solutions for businesses around the world. Join us for an informative real world look at how FileMaker Go helps Lee Medical save millions of healthcare dollars and improve patient outcomes by reducing blood stream infection rates through the use of real time surveillance.

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FileMaker Go Data Synchronization and Version Management Techniques

One of the many benefits of FileMaker Go is that it allows you to deploy databases to a distributed workforce that can run independently of network connections. You will need to have strategies for keeping local FileMaker Go databases synchronized with databases running FileMaker Server and providing each user with the latest version of a FileMaker Go database. This session, created by James Wesolowski, Managing Principal of Colibri Solutions, will explore real world data synchronization techniques and a method for one-click updates of FileMaker Go databases.

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Maximizing Mobility with FileMaker Go

iPhones and iPads have changed the way people work with information. When developing solutions using FileMaker Go, you'll want to design your workflows and user experience to fit the way people create and consume mobile data. This session, created by Chad Novotny, Principle and Vice President of Technology at The Support Group, will cover useful tips and techniques to optimize FileMaker for mobile use. Chad will explore FileMaker development with an eye to adapting workflow patterns and user interaction to the mobile paradigm, as well as the new opportunities mobile devices present, such as geolocation.

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Calculation Essentials for Powerful Database Solutions

Join us for this special DevCon 2011 session PREVIEW web seminar, "Calculation Essentials for Powerful Database Solutions" presented by Alexei Folger from FileMaker, Inc. Calculations are, along with scripting, the most essential part of most FileMaker solutions. It’s safe to say that all solutions contain calculation fields. But beyond this, calculations are used throughout FileMaker solutions for things such as field auto-entry and validation options, tooltips, filtered portals, conditional formatting and scripts, among others.

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FileMaker Free Resources

Free is good! Whether you're brand new to FileMaker or you've been using it for years, there will be something in this session for you. FileMaker is a powerful platform to easily build solutions to track contacts, manage projects or a myriad of other things. But did you know that there are free solutions available to you that would take months and thousands of dollars to develop from scratch? Attend this informative web seminar to learn about all of these free resources and how to best leverage them.

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Finding and Sorting Your Data

You have a FileMaker database that has a lot of valuable information. Now learn ways to access it faster and more accurately. FileMaker offers tons of powerful features and shortcuts that give you more efficient ways to locate records in your database. You can perform complex searches using multiple criteria, refine or extend your results, use operators such as =, >, <, *, ... and store your criteria to search your data again and again. Unlimited sorting options let you view your records in the order you want. Learn them all!

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Reusable Script Design

See how to design scripts that contain more than one process to reduce the overall number of scripts in a solution. The processes contained within the one script share an overall purpose such as navigation, add/edit/delete contact or send/receive email and are initiated using script parameters. Find out how a developer can take an existing solution and consolidate scripts, construct parameter arrays, and reduce the number of scripts in the overall solution.

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Get a Grip on Charting...How Difficult?...How Much?

Why put Charts in FileMaker Pro? To make piles of complex data understandable to decision makers and end users. Your boss will be happier and people will think you're a cool developer! A number of different technologies exist. This webinar will be at high speed - Low Drag exploration of the different charting technologies.

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DevCon 2011 Preview: Thriving as an In-House Developer

In-house FileMaker developers face similar issues as other developers, however different strategies are frequently necessary to overcome them. Join us for this special DevCon 2011 session PREVIEW web seminar, “Surviving as an In-House Developer" presented by Chad Adams of Skeleton Key. In this web seminar, we'll explore unique methods in-house developers can use to conquer common challenges they may face in their organizations.

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