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AI, Business Workflows, and the Evolving Role of Technology Partners

Perspective from Philippe Lazzaroni. President of Direct Impact Solutions Over the last few weeks, I’ve been reading many reactions to Ryan McCann’s editorial around AI and the future of the Claris platform. Across the FileMaker ecosystem, much of the discussion has understandably focused on AI-assisted development and how quickly software can now be created. This evolution is real, and it is moving fast. What I find most interesting is not simply the acceleration of …

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AI Is Making Software Easy to Create. Business Software is Still Hard

Over the last year, something remarkable has happened in the software world. Tools like Claude, Cursor, and other AI-powered development environments have dramatically reduced the time required to create applications. Tasks that once required weeks of development can now be prototyped in hours or sometimes minutes.

AI+FM workshops: a European journey through local communities

For some time now, artificial intelligence has been part of everyday discussions among FileMaker developers. Not as a trend to comment on, but as a concrete set of questions: how to integrate AI into existing solutions, how to keep systems maintainable, and how to avoid fragile or opaque designs. The AI+FM workshop was created to …

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Restore Truth and Trust in Business Data

AI and Human Expertise Transform Information into Insight The following scenarios are all too common: These moments are subtle, familiar, and easy to underestimate, but this is exactly how trust in data begins to fade: not with a dramatic failure, but with small inconsistencies appearing often enough to make people doubt what they see. Once …

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Is Your Data Telling the Truth?

Recognize When Your Systems Are Lying If a customer orders a product and the production line delivers a slightly different version, for instance glossy white instead of pearl white, then this article deserves your attention. If unofficial spreadsheets circulate because teams need Excel to verify what the system says, then you’re exactly the kind of …

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Webinar: Restore Truth and Trust in Your Business Data

If you’ve ever wondered whether you can truly trust the data you use to make decisions, this session is for you. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with our team, understand your data more clearly, rebuild trust in the information you use every day, and support faster, more confident decision making. With recent advances in …

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FileMaker AI and Entity Matching – Pt. 2

A technical approach for leveraging Semantic Find to solve the difficult problem of fuzzy matching In part 1 of this article, I described how FileMaker’s Semantic Find differs from its regular find, what Entity Matching is (and why it’s important for FileMaker users), and how Semantic Find can make deduplication tasks easier. Here in part …

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Webinar: Using AI to Handle Duplicates in FileMaker

With the new version of Claris FileMaker, artificial intelligence is now built directly into the platform. This lets you perform smarter searches, improve the quality of your data and prevent errors before they happen. To give you a concrete preview, Direct Impact Solutions is offering an exclusive webinar. Through live practical examples, you’ll discover how …

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FileMaker AI and Entity Matching – Pt. 1

Solving the difficult problem of fuzzy matching using artificial intelligence Starting with the release of Claris FileMaker 21, FileMaker users have two types of search available to them. There’s the standard “exact match” find, and now we have a Semantic Find, powered by the use of Large Language Models and Artificial Intelligence. The standard find …

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