Features Include:

• 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.
• 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 organise, 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 organisation 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.

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

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

Minimum System Requirements:

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
  
  

Mac OS X 10.4.8

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

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

Compatibility

FileMaker Pro 9 databases use the same file format (.fp7) as FileMaker Pro 8 and FileMaker Pro 7, therefore databases can easily be shared between these three versions. Features specific to the newer versions, are only supported in the newer versions (e.g. The new External SQL Data Source feature, introduced with FileMaker Pro 9, is only supported by FileMaker Pro 9.)

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.

Educational Boxed Pricing:

The box program is available for customers wishing to buy fewer than 10 licenses. Licenses are perpetual and no upgrade paths are available. A server is required when 9 or more licenses are used concurrently. Maintenance is not included and is not available for this program.

FileMaker Volume License Agreement (VLA):

License pricing is per user, media £10.00. Please call sales for Maintenanace renewals.

Please state Windows or Mac on order.

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