Overall Satisfaction with FileMaker Pro
FileMaker is our primary data store serving as our homebrewed student information system (SIS). We track demographic data, confident test reports, attendance, and so on. It's our primary source of data, that feeds many other systems.
- FileMaker is particularly easy to set up and configure.
- FileMaker deploys easily to Mac users.
- FileMaker makes rapid prototyping and proof of concept ideas pretty painless.
- FileMaker does not run on Android.
- FileMaker doesn't provide any analytical tools.
- FileMaker web access is limited and resource hungry.
- FileMaker Server cannot be hosted on Linux machines.
- It's affordable!
- We see good value in development costs and it's starting to integrate nicely with other players.
We were already using FileMaker. When we get to the point of needing to scale or rebuild, we are likely to move to AWS but keep FileMaker for prototyping.