FileMaker Inc. on Wednesday introduced a new version of its flagship database software for OS X and Windows, FileMaker 12. The new version is accompanied by a new release of the mobile version for iPhone and iPad, which is now free.
Taking a page from its Bento personal database cousin, FileMaker Pro 12 was designed to make it easier to get started with complex projects by including forty new themes that let you change the color and look of your databases quickly, and sixteen “Starter Solutions” to help you create databases for everything from project management to inventory control to customer relationship management.
Quick Charts can help you create graphs with five new chart styles, including bubble, scatter, positive/negative, stacked bar and stacked column charts. “Container fields” in FileMaker Pro 12 now support drag-and-drop to store a multitude of different file types – PDFs, photos, video, audio and documents made in other applications. The documents can either be stored directly in the FileMaker Pro 12 database or linked to another location. File linking has been enhanced with automatic file organization and optional encrypt
Prices for FileMaker Pro start at $299 (upgrades from previous releases are available).
Making the mobile version of the app free sounds kind of brilliant on Filemaker’s part.
Too bad that the new version for iPhone/iPad seems to require FMP 12. I know, it makes sense, but would have been nice. 🙂
Now maybe they can get to work on making the iOS versions of Bento not suck so bad.
All those improvments are nullified to all who are using list and table view, they’re 3 to 5 times slower. Which makes every solution using list view / table view unusable (yes even with fully flat indexed data). The new drawing engine is terribly slow.
Please voice your concern here :
http://forums.filemaker.com/posts/715ef37320
To me that render 12 useless, and cast doubts on the future of Filemaker at my place,this speed issue seems deeply entrenched in new rendering engine.
So please don’t be quiet, voice your concern.