

SEE: How to build a successful developer career (free PDF) Together with FileMaker Go for iOS and FileMaker WebDirect for running web apps, these components make up the FileMaker Platform.įileMaker includes both starter and sample apps, which can be extended in different ways.įileMaker has always come with starter apps, but as the platform became more powerful, these apps got a little too complicated to provide a good learning experience. The previous FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Advanced are now combined in a single version, FileMaker Pro Advanced (a rather unwieldy name that hopefully will be simplified in a future version).įileMaker Server is the on-premises version for multi-user databases and FileMaker Cloud is an AWS-hosted SaaS version for hosting custom apps in the cloud (now getting new features as theyre added to the platform rather than lagging behind), with FileMaker Pro Advanced the vehicle for building the shared databases. Part of that simplification is reducing the number of different versions of FileMaker.
