Filemaker Inc. FileMaker Pro 9 Upgrade

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Connect to the world of data in so many new ways!

FileMaker Pro is the #1-selling easy-to-use database software for Windows and Mac OS that helps you manage people, projects, assets and more - the easy way.

Get started quickly. The award-winning ease of use that is built into every aspect of FileMaker Pro continues to be praised by millions of customers and industry experts around the world. With its easy installation and setup, you’ll be up and running in a matter of minutes - not hours or days.

Whether you need to manage client information, track project details, or produce inventory reports, FileMaker Pro 9 helps you get your important information organized in one place so it is instantly accessible.  Combining both power and simplicity, FileMaker Pro 9 gives you the tools you need to connect to your data in more ways than ever before.




The Top 10 Things You Can Do Faster and Easier with FileMaker Pro 9:

1. Manage customers, clients, and vendors
2. Track inventory, products, and assets
3. Organize pictures, video and other multimedia files
4. Access project details and associated tasks
5. Print invoices, letters and mailing labels
6. Produce reports in PDF or Excel formats
7. Create customized electronic forms that look just like your paper forms
8. Design a custom application that works the way you do
9. View live Web information associated with your data from within FileMaker
10. Share databases with Windows and Mac users simultaneously over the network or across the Web.

Gather your information in one place
Information comes in many forms, from business cards to Microsoft Excel files, images to SQL Server data – FileMaker Pro helps you bring it all together with a few clicks. Convert Excel spreadsheets and other files to FileMaker Pro databases for easier searching, sorting, reporting, and sharing. Or use powerful productivity features designed to make data entry much faster and more accurate.

Instant access to the information you need
Use FileMaker Pro to organize, sort through, and find information from individual contacts to large data sets. When someone calls, you will have the contact history, the project state, or the shipment status right at hand. Bring up records by date, location, or content. Create formulas and calculations and summaries. You will be amazed how easy it is to be informed.

Report and communicate all your information
Transform data into useful information by creating reports and layouts that work the way you do. FileMaker Pro comes complete with step-by-step tools that help you create reports and then email them to your colleagues as Adobe PDF or Excel files. Or choose from hundreds of pre-defined templates for labels and envelopes to help get the word out with ease.

Power to take you further
Build powerful yet flexible custom applications using the FileMaker Pro relational database management system. Design complete scalable solutions for your organization and automate repetitive tasks with the powerful scripting language, all without the help of a programmer.

Built-in network sharing and security
Securely sharing databases is easy with FileMaker Pro. Windows and Mac OS FileMaker Pro users on the same network can access the same database file simultaneously. And with the advanced security model in FileMaker Pro, you can determine what your users can do and see.

Connect with the Web
Publishing basic web forms or web-based status updates and lists is simple with the Instant Web Publishing feature built into FileMaker Pro. You can create web forms for event sign-ups, customer feedback and service requests. Or setup security privileges for your clients so they can login through their web browser to get a status update. And you can harness the information that is available on the Web by using the FileMaker Web Viewer to get real-time information from the Web that is associated with your data without having to open a Web browser.

FileMaker Pro 9 also includes these new and exciting features:

• Field Level Spell Checking so you can turn on or off visual spell-checking for individual fields.
• Multiple Undos and Redos so you can undo and redo more than once when editing text within a field.
• Enhanced Toolbars, including the new Align Toolbar for faster layout design and an updated Standard Toolbar that includes buttons for PDF Maker and Excel Maker.
• 10 additional Avery labels layouts including Shipping Labels ideal for packaging and printing postage.

New!  Connect to Your FileMaker Data

On your mark, get set, connect!
Connect directly to the information you need every time you launch FileMaker Pro 9 with the new FileMaker Quick Start Screen. Whether you want to create a new database, open an existing database or learn more about using FileMaker Pro 9, you’ll get to where you need to go faster than ever.

At-a-glance indicators
Connect to changes in your FileMaker Pro 9 data by visually formatting fields and objects based on parameters that you decide! New Conditional Formatting can be applied to fields, FileMaker Web Viewer objects, text objects, or text based buttons. Choose from a list of pre-defined conditions or create your own with a calculation for enhanced reporting. For example, you can now set future due dates to green and past due dates to red and bold.

Database sharing made even easier
In just a few minutes, you can be sharing your database with others ¹. Just click on Send Link and FileMaker Pro will create an email with a simple hyperlink that when clicked on, will open your database. You can edit the email in your email client to add any additional instructions or information about your database for your users making it easier than ever for your users to connect to your database.

Effortless reporting
Whether you want to create an invoice to send to a customer or publish a report to your team, FileMaker Pro 9 makes it easy to create an Adobe PDF from your FileMaker data directly within FileMaker using PDF Maker, a feature introduced in FileMaker Pro 8. Now, with the new Append to PDF feature, you can combine multiple reports into one PDF and email the PDF to the recipients you specify, connecting them to the latest information.

Latest Updates
Stay current with the latest software with new Software Update Notification. FileMaker Pro 9 automatically checks for software updates weekly. All it takes is an Internet connection.

¹ User must have FileMaker Pro installed on their computer and must have access to the host computer.

New!  Connect to Your SQL Data

Easy SQL reporting
Imagine that you could connect to your organization’s SQL Server, Oracle and MySQL databases from one place and use the information without having to do any programming. Now you can! FileMaker Pro 9 creates secure easy one-way or two-way connections to External SQL Data Sources. The coolest thing about it? The SQL data acts just like FileMaker data. Create custom reports, add calculations and other fields, build relationships with existing FileMaker data – just using the easy-to-use tools of FileMaker Pro.

New!  Connect to Your Creativity

Super script organizing
The more scripts you add to automate your solution, the more important it is to stay organized. That’s why you’ll appreciate how easy FileMaker Pro 9 makes it to group and edit your scripts with the new Script Grouping and Editing Tools.

Creativity at your fingertips
Connect to your creativity! Now you can design better and more creative layouts with intuitive new layout object tools. Modify the tab sizes with the new Tab Control options. Add a status bar or display HTML content stored in your database with the new FileMaker Web Viewer options.

One size fits all
Design it once. Use it anywhere. Layout objects, such as portals, tab controls, and the FileMaker Web Viewer, will scale to fit the screen or printer being used. With the new Auto-Resize feature, layout objects that you choose will resize or move in order to maintain a constant distance to the sides of the window or container that they have been anchored to.

• Mac OS X 10.4.8 *
• PowerPC G3, G4, G5 or Intel-based Mac
• 256 MB of RAM
• CD-ROM drive

• Windows XP Professional, Home Edition (Service Pack 2) *
• Pentium III 500MHz or higher
• 256MB of RAM
• CD-ROM drive
• SVGA (800 x 600) or higher resolution video adapter and display
• Windows Vista Ultimate, Business, Home *
• 800 MHz 32-bit (x86) or higher
• 512 MB of RAM
• SVGA (800x600) or higher resolution video adapter and display
• CD-ROM drive

 * Version stated is the minimum requirement. The software may also work with later versions certified by FileMaker, Inc.

 
Additional requirements (all platforms)

• Networking: TCP/IP: limited to nine simultaneous FileMaker client connections; each client requires a licensed copy of the software; See FileMaker Server 9 for increased capacity.
• Any computer accessing FileMaker Pro files over a network will need to have a licensed installation of versions 7, 8 or 9 of FileMaker Pro or FileMaker Pro Advanced.
• Instant Web Publishing: A host computer with continuous access to the Internet or intranet via TCP/IP (FileMaker Pro 9 can manage up to five simultaneous Instant Web Publishing sessions. See FileMaker Server 9 Advanced for increased capacity.)
• Web browser requirements: To use a database shared with Instant Web Publishing, Windows web users need Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.x or Firefox 1.x on Windows. On the Mac OS, web users need Safari 1.2.x (Mac OS X 10.3), Safari 2.0.x (Mac OS X 10.4) or Firefox 1.x only. On both platforms, some earlier versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Safari are blocked. Other Mozilla family browsers are not blocked but are unsupported and users will receive a dialog encouraging them to upgrade to a supported browser. JavaScript must be enabled in the web browser.