FileMaker Inc.

FileMaker

Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Computer software
Predecessor	Claris
Founded	1998
Headquarters	Santa Clara, California
Key people	Dominique Goupil, President
Products	FileMaker
Number of employees	300
Parent	Apple Inc.
Website	www.filemaker.com

FileMaker Inc. is a computer software company formed in 1998 from the vestiges of Claris as a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple Inc.

FileMaker develops, supports and markets the relational database program FileMaker. FileMaker is available for both Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems and is aimed towards business use, or home users with high-end needs. The Bento database product aimed at the home user or basic small business user has been discontinued.

The company has been profitable for every quarter since its formation and currently employs 300 people in eight offices worldwide.

Products

FileMaker Inc. produces several database applications, mostly under the FileMaker name and generally split between server and stand alone, non-server, variations intended for different markets. On July 20, 2010, the company released FileMaker Go which provides access using the iPad and iPhone to databases created with Filemaker Pro.

Current and recent past products are listed below:

FileMaker Pro

• FileMaker Pro 15 Server
• FileMaker Pro 15 Advanced
• FileMaker Pro 15
• FileMaker Pro 14
• FileMaker Pro 14 Advanced
• FileMaker Pro 14 Server

FileMaker Go

• FileMaker Go 15
• FileMaker Go 14
• FileMaker Go 13

Bento (Discontinued as of September 30, 2013)

• Bento 4 (version 4.0.1)
• Bento app for the iPhone and iPod touch (version 1.1)
• Bento app for the iPad (version 1.1)

See also

• List of Macintosh software

External links

• FileMaker Inc. — official website.
• FileMaker Inc. – Corporate Fact Sheet (pdf).