New! Connect to Your SQL Data – Now you can connect to your organization’s SQL Server, Oracle and mySQL databases from one place and use the information without having to do any programming.

New! Connect to Your Creativity – Super script organizing – You’ll appreciate how easy FileMaker Pro 9 makes it to group and edit your scripts with the new Script Grouping and Editing Tools Creativity at your fingertips – Now you can design better and more creative layouts with intuitive new layout object tools. Add a status bar or display HTML content stored in your database with the new FileMaker Web Viewer options. One size fits all – Layout objects, such as portals, tab controls, and the FileMaker Web Viewer, will scale to fit the screen or printer being used.


Get started quickly
The award-winning ease of use that is built into every aspect of FileMaker Pro continues to be praised by millions of customers and industry experts around the world. With its easy installation and setup, you’ll be up and running in a matter of minutes — not hours or days.

Gather your information in one place
Information comes in many forms, from business cards to Microsoft® Excel files, images to SQL Server data – FileMaker Pro helps you bring it all together with a few clicks. Convert Excel spreadsheets and other files to FileMaker Pro databases for easier searching, sorting, reporting, and sharing. Or use powerful productivity features designed to make data entry much faster and more accurate.

Instant access to the information you need
Use FileMaker Pro to organize, sort through, and find information from individual contacts to large data sets. When someone calls, you will have the contact history, the project state, or the shipment status right at hand. Bring up records by date, location, or content. Create formulas and calculations and summaries. You will be amazed how easy it is to be informed.

Report and communicate all your information
Transform data into useful information by creating reports and layouts that work the way you do. FileMaker Pro comes complete with step-by-step tools that help you create reports and then email them to your colleagues as Adobe® PDF or Excel files. Or choose from hundreds of pre-defined templates for labels and envelopes to help get the word out with ease.

Power to take you further
Build powerful yet flexible custom applications using the FileMaker Pro relational database management system. Design complete scalable solutions for your organization and automate repetitive tasks with the powerful scripting language, all without the help of a programmer.

Built-in network sharing and security
Securely sharing databases is easy with FileMaker Pro. Windows and Mac OS FileMaker Pro users on the same network can access the same database file simultaneously. And with the advanced security model in FileMaker Pro, you can determine what your users can do and see.

Connect with the Web
Publishing basic web forms or web-based status updates and lists is simple with the Instant Web Publishing feature built into FileMaker Pro. You can create web forms for event sign-ups, customer feedback and service requests. Or setup security privileges for your clients so they can login through their web browser to get a status update. And you can harness the information that is available on the Web by using the FileMaker Web Viewer to get real-time information from the Web that is associated with your data without having to open a Web browser.

The Top 10 Things You Can Do Faster and Easier with FileMaker Pro 9:

1. Manage customers, clients, and vendors
2. Track inventory, products, and assets
3. Organize pictures, video and other multimedia files
4. Access project details and associated tasks
5. Print invoices, letters and mailing labels
6. Produce reports in PDF or Excel formats
7. Create customized electronic forms that look just like your paper forms
8. Design a custom application that works the way you do
9. View live Web information associated with your data from within FileMaker
10. Share databases with Windows and Mac users simultaneously over the network or across the Web.

Specifications

System Requirements

• Mac OS X 10.4.8, PowerPC G3, G4, G5 or Intel-based Mac, 256 MB of RAM, CD-ROM drive
• Mac OS X 10.5, PowerPC G4 (867MHz+), Power PC G5, or Intel-based Mac, 512 MB of RAM CD-ROM drive
• Windows XP Professional, Home Edition (Service Pack 2), Pentium III 500MHz or higher, 256MB of RAM, CD-ROM drive, SVGA (800×600) or higher resolution video adapter and display
• Windows Vista Ultimate, Business, Home, 800 MHz 32-bit (x86) or higher 512 MB of RAM, SVGA (800×600) or higher resolution video adapter and display CD-ROM drive
• Citrix and Terminal Server,
  - Mac OS X Clients, Citrix ICA Client version 7.00.407, Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client 1.0.3 for Mac OS X
  - Windows Clients, Citrix ICA Client version 9.200, Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Servers, Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 for Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
  
  Compatibility
  
  FileMaker Pro 9 databases use the same file format (.fp7) as FileMaker Pro 8.x and FileMaker Pro 7, therefore databases can easily be shared between these three versions. Features specific to the newer versions, are only supported in the newer versions (e.g. The new External SQL Data Source feature, introduced with FileMaker Pro 9, is only supported by FileMaker Pro 9. )
  
  Additional requirements (all platforms)
  
  
• Networking: TCP/IP: limited to nine simultaneous FileMaker client connections; each client requires a licensed copy of the software; See FileMaker Server 9 for increased capacity.
  - Any computer accessing FileMaker Pro files over a network will need to have a licensed installation of versions 7, 8.x or 9 of FileMaker Pro or FileMaker Pro Advanced.
  
• Instant Web Publishing: A host computer with continuous access to the Internet or intranet via TCP/IP (FileMaker Pro 9 can manage up to five simultaneous Instant Web Publishing sessions. See FileMaker Server 9 Advanced for increased capacity.)
• Web browser requirements: To use a database shared with Instant Web Publishing, Windows web users need Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.x or Firefox 1.x on Windows. On the Mac OS, web users need Safari 1.2.x (Mac OS X 10.3), Safari 2.0.x (Mac OS X 10.4) or Firefox 1.x only. On both platforms, some earlier versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Safari are blocked. Other Mozilla family browsers are not blocked but are unsupported and users will receive a dialog encouraging them to upgrade to a supported browser. JavaScript must be enabled in the web browser.
  
  Languages:
  
  World Wide English, French, Italian, German, Swedish, Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese