

The file maker platform is really about bringing innovation to you and your team, to solve the problems that you see within your organization. If you're a business or an educational institution or even a non-profit, you want to save money by building great custom applications for your team and the FileMaker platform is a great tool to help you improve business efficiency. In fact we frequently have conversations about return on investment because that's really important in the modern world that we live in. Really when you simplify it, it's all about saving big wads of cash. The FileMaker platform is all about saving time and money. My goal is to answer your questions about the FileMaker platform and to make you as successful as possible in building and deploying custom applications using this fantastic software. I have a great team of engineers and video editors that's dedicated to bringing you the best FileMaker Training available. I've been developing training for over seven years and this year is my 30th year of working in the FileMaker platform. We have come to the great place for some fantastic training. Now you may be an experienced developer who's been using FileMaker for a long time or maybe you're brand new and just taking your first steps with this great platform.

So I'm just proactively calling my training for this year the 2020 release. In fact over the course of this year we do expect the versioning and the naming of the product to change a little bit. What does this signify to you is a FileMaker developer, well this signifies a continuing emphasis on modernizing the FileMaker platform to make it meaningful and relevant in terms of the latest technologies and frankly the latest expectations that users have for delivering and building great custom applications. In fact they now go by the name of Claris International.

In fact, a lot of you are probably wondering why we're not calling it FileMaker Incorporated or over the last 12 months, FileMaker Incorporated which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple, has reverted its name back to Claris Corporation. The FileMaker platform released in 2020 is the latest version of this fantastic software released by Claris corporation. My name is Richard Carlton and I'm going to be the instructor for this course. Hi everyone! Welcome to FileMaker training for 2020.
