FileMaker, Inc. today announced FileMaker Go for iPhone and iPod touch and FileMaker Go for iPad. The new Apps now available from the iTunes App Store let users work remotely with FileMaker Pro databases on iPhone or iPad. With FileMaker Go – available as two separate apps for iPhone or iPad – users can easily view, edit and search for information in FileMaker databases on their iPhone or iPad.
Ideal for mobile teams, FileMaker Go provides access to databases created with FileMaker Pro and hosted on FileMaker Server or FileMaker Pro. FileMaker Go can access databases residing on a Mac or PC using a local wireless network or over the Internet via Wi-Fi or 3G. All changes are instantly updated in the hosted file.
FileMaker Go users can also copy databases between their desktop or laptop computers and FileMaker Go via File Sharing in iTunes, perfect for single user databases. Databases may also be downloaded by email, popular file sharing sites, or the web.
“Imagine being able to check inventory levels, update the status of a project or add a new customer contact and share it with your remote sales team – just a few of the many workgroup tasks made easy with FileMaker Go for iPhone or iPad,” said Steve McManus, Regional Manager, FileMaker, Inc., Asia Pacific, in the press release. “We are genuinely excited about the ways FileMaker Go caters to mobile users who need remote interaction with their data.”
FileMaker Go makes it easy to add, modify, or delete data; find, sort and navigate through records; open new windows; and switch between layouts. Many popular FileMaker Pro features are supported on FileMaker Go, including Tab controls, Quick Find, Web Viewers, External SQL Data Sources, containers, portals and even most scripts.
The new Apps work in both portrait and landscape views, automatically switching as necessary. FileMaker Go also allows users to search, modify and sort records using touch gestures – simply pinch, swipe, rotate and zoom to manage data. Existing FileMaker Pro layouts look amazing on the large iPad display screen – no modification is necessary for most solutions.
FileMaker Go is available now from the App Store. FileMaker Go for iPhone and iPod touch (running IOS 4) is US$19.99 and FileMaker Go for iPad (running IOS 3.2) is $39.99. Compatibility information for both FileMaker Go for iPhone and FileMaker Go for iPad can be found on the iTunes store.
FileMaker is the leader in easy-to-use database software. Millions of people, from individuals to some of the world’s largest companies, rely on FileMaker software to manage, analyze and share essential information. The company’s products are the FileMaker Pro line – versatile database software for teams and organizations, for Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and the web – and Bento, the personal database for Mac, iPhone and iPad. FileMaker, Inc. is a subsidiary of Apple.
Source: FileMaker, Inc.
So they heard of FMtouch and decided to run it to the ground with this at a way smaller price tag
This is huge
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Guy from Finland is right – this is going to be HUGE.
MDN magic word: step – as in a huge step forward
But why is the iPad version twice as expensive as the iPhone version?
No printing or pdf creation in this version…. Must be included in future. Very easy to port my companies fm db to ipad…. Graphic layouts are a little slow to render…. Great start but PDF forms are a must for this to be truly useful.
This is as big as Visa Calc for the IIe.
Its already top grosser in the App Store.
Sorry FM Touch. I’m sure your people can find other jobs.
@TommyBoy Because the iPad app is three times more useful.
I just tried this and it is lightyears beyond FMTouch. No stupid converting databases. I just downloaded the iPad version, connected to client VPN via WiFi, input our FileMaker 9 server IP address, and BANG, I was accessing FileMaker databases with layouts created for Mac.
I could open and examine, change, or delete records. I could exeute pretty much any script. The only issue I could see was that some databases reference external documents on another server.
Other than that they’ve done exactly what I wanted them to do, give me a viable means to provide iPad (even iPhone) access to FMServer hosted databases.
Knowing how they’ve been in the past, I expected that they would only support FileMaker 11 Server, but I think you can view databases on servers all the way back to version 7, or 6.
And, it was Fast.
This is the best surprise I could have gotten this morning.
This is BEYOND huge.
I’m going to do some 3G testing later this morning.
OMG this is great. In terms of accessing corporate data on the iPad without having to rebuild everything in MySQL this is great.
Amazing. Well done FileMaker.
The only thing the company that made FMtouch has going for itself is a plugin for dreamweaver. So you can insanely easily work with filemaker fields and make your own web solution with filemaker. Other than that… they definitely lost the FM touch iphone app especially when the thing is $100. Adios!
Dude, keep your trousers on. Why blame Filemaker for the inability to print? It’s more than an application – iOS will need to have the hooks and drivers built in, likely to include Bonjour. And the makers of printers and networks need to accommodate this too in order for printing to work. And it will happen.
As another poster here so insightfully stated, this will be the catalyst, much Luke Visicalc was to the Apple II, for bringing the iPad and iPhone into corporations in large numbers. As it is, there is already a version of salesforce.com for the iPhone and iPad, and more enterprise apps will come soon.
The next few years will be amazing.
At Last….
I’d almost given up. This is the last piece of the puzzle I’ve been waiting for, after Documents To Go.
I will literally have all my main desktop programs on my iphone – Word, Excel, FM databases, and everything else covered by all my other apps, having transitioned from an old Palm, on which I had the old FM Mobile.
Have checked FM Go on FM website, but it seems you can’t synchronise yet, only through iTunes, remotely, wi-fi or 3G, hope they will add this soon.
This will be the killer app for the iPad. Now I can make my databases iPhone & iPad native rather than just Mac/Win/Linux/browser. As a Mac developer I have been waiting for this for ages…
Pdf creation is a must add for the next update
yay
Now I can sell my solutions on the App Store!
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!