FileMaker New Bento Business Organizer
FileMaker announced the new Bento Business Organizer, a free set of customized database templates that make it easy to manage businesses run by sole proprietors. The Bento Business Organizer from FileMaker, available free with a 30-day trial of Bento 4, offers a set of powerful templates tailor-made for business owners that sell handcrafted goods such as furniture, clothing, paintings, baked goods and jewelry at farmer’s markets, festivals or from their own studios, workshops, and web sites, such as Etsy.com.
Bento is the most-popular line of personal database products for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Bento 4 for Mac recently received an Editor’s Choice from PC Magazine. The magazine also recently named Bento for iPad among the top 10 business apps for iPad.
“When you run your own business, you have enough to deal with just making and selling your products,” says Ryan Rosenberg, vice president, marketing and services, FileMaker, Inc. “We built the Bento Business Organizer to help the solo business owner with all the other details, including organizing contacts and clients, tracking products and projects, managing orders and inventory, coordinating events and tasks, and even printing ‘quick response’ or QR code labels.” Read more
FileMaker Delivers FileMaker Go Training
Self-paced training helps users build iPhone and iPad database applications
FileMaker announced FileMaker Go training, now available in the updated FileMaker Technical Resource Kit. The free downloadable kit’s four self-paced training modules include the new FileMaker Go module, which teaches users how to quickly optimize and deploy FileMaker Pro databases on iPad and iPhone. It also provides recommendations for using calculations and scripts in FileMaker Go, and covers passing data between FileMaker Go and other mobile applications.
The FileMaker Go training module and three modules covering some of the hottest FileMaker topics (Working with Layouts, Reporting and Security) are sold as part of the $99 FileMaker Training Series, but are available free, along with a 30-day trial of FileMaker Pro, in this kit.
“We’ve had numerous requests for more information about building iPad and iPhone solutions with FileMaker Go,” said Ryan Rosenberg, vice president of marketing and services for FileMaker, Inc. “With the free FileMaker Technical Resource Kit, developers can jumpstart their creation of innovative, productive solutions for iPhone and iPad.” Read more
Buy One FileMaker Pro 11, Give One Free
Buy FileMaker Pro 11 and give a free copy to a friend, colleague, client or charity
FileMaker announced a new Buy One FileMaker, Give One Free special holiday offer that allows those purchasing a downloadable version of FileMaker Pro 11 from the online FileMaker Web Store to receive a second downloadable copy for free – a US$299 value. Participants can use the second free copy within their organizations or give it away to a friend, colleague, client or charity. The limited-time offer is available until December 22, 2010.
“FileMaker lets people manage their information the easy way,” said Ryan Rosenberg, vice president of marketing and services for FileMaker, Inc. “Now, in the spirit of value and sharing this holiday season, we are making it simple to pass along the productivity by giving friends, colleagues, clients or charities a gift that can help them improve the way they organize their data and activities. There has never been a better time to purchase FileMaker Pro 11 and take advantage of all its new features.”
FileMaker Pro 11 garnered PC Magazine’s Editors Choice with a 4.5 out of 5 rating. Mac Daily News ranked FileMaker Pro 11 the 12th most important Mac application of all time.
The offer is limited to one gift request per person, per household, and per company. The promotion is valid only for the downloadable version of FileMaker Pro 11 and applies only to new versions of FileMaker Pro 11 – not for software upgrades, updates, volume licenses and/or site licenses. The free version is a fully working, not-for-resale version of FileMaker Pro 11 for Windows or Mac. The offer is not valid in connection with any other rebates, discounts, or promotions.
FileMaker Bento 3 Event Planner
FileMaker announced the Bento 3 Event Planner, a customized set of six new templates that make it easy and fun for Mac users to organize event details all in one place.
The Bento 3 Event Planner includes a free 30-day trial of the popular Bento 3 for Mac personal database, plus six professionally designed, ready-to-use templates including Events, Tasks, Expenses & Invoices, Locations & Venues, Contacts, and Vendors. The Bento 3 Event Planner is available today by free download from the Bento Template Exchange.
All six templates in the Bento 3 Event Planner are linked together, allowing information to flow from one template to the next, without the need for repetitive data entry. To organize events on the go, the new Bento 3 Event Planner lets customers synchronize information between their Mac and Apple iPad or iPhone devices running either Bento for iPhone or Bento for iPad, both sold separately. Read more
New FileMaker Go for iPhone and iPad Update Now Available in Five New Languages
Now available in French, Italian, German, Spanish and Japanese
FileMaker delivered its popular FileMaker Go 1.1 for iPhone and FileMaker Go 1.1 for iPad apps in five new languages in addition to English – French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Japanese.
Millions of customers in business, government and education worldwide use FileMaker Pro to effortlessly manage all their tasks. With FileMaker Go, users can view, edit and search FileMaker Pro records on an iPhone and iPad. Databases can be accessed directly from files hosted on FileMaker Pro or FileMaker Server, or database files can be copied locally onto FileMaker Go via File Sharing in iTunes. Users can check inventory in the warehouse, manage event registration on-site, or update project status while traveling.
Many businesses, from small ones such as Orca Books to large enterprises like Johnson Controls, are adopting FileMaker Go to provide mobile access to FileMaker Pro data on iPhone and iPad. Read more

