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Meet FileMaker 12!

Meet the new FileMaker 12 product line! Discover how the new themes, Starter Solutions, design tools, and charts in FileMaker Pro 12 can help you instantly create stunning databases. You’ll also learn how the new 64-bit version of FileMaker Server 12 improves the speed, stability, and performance of your FileMaker solutions. Plus, get up-to-speed on all the new enhancements in FileMaker Go 12 for iPad and iPhone – now available free on the App Store.

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Integrating FileMaker Go with External SQL Sources: (ESS)

Now more than ever, businesses are looking for ways to seamlessly integrate mobile data and business intelligence. FileMaker Go can provide access to corporate data stored in Oracle, mySQL and MS-SQL and make it available to your mobile teams on the iPhone and iPad. FileMaker Pro software's unique built-in ESS feature provides a rapid development environment for teams to deploy to iOS devices (iPhone/iPad).

This informative overview, led by Tim Brown, President of Antidote Solutions, will discuss implementation decisions, data synchronization and integration tips for using FileMaker Go with ESS.

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Porting For Performance: FileMaker Go Design Tips

FileMaker Go provides an exciting opportunity to port your current database solutions for mobile use. But what are some key tips you can employ that can keep your FileMaker Go solutions snappy…and your users happy?

This exciting session, led by David A. Knight, President of Angel City Data, will focus on both user interaction and system architecture, that can help make your systems quick and fun to use. You'll learn how screen design, lightweight schema and hybrid development techniques can all lead to higher productivity for your mobile users. Discover alternate methods for searches, sorts, value lists, and summarizing data. See how dashboards, color coding and other UI tips can improve efficiency, control and provide quick feedback to your mobile devices.

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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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