One of the best things about FileMaker Pro is it's relative simplicity.
Businesses can deploy secure, web-enabled, multi-user applications without
ASP, COM, CSS, HTML, IIS, ODBC, PHP, SQL, VB, VBA, or XML complexities.
This approach can significantly reduce the time and effort required to build information storage and processing utilities, particularly those required to supplement legacy systems.
Using a single, relatively simple application instead of a patchwork of complex technologies, developers can quickly design, build, and deploy customized automated processes for...
  • importing, relating, optimizing, indexing, and cataloging information
  • manipulating, parsing, repairing, validating, merging, and routing data
  • applying custom business rules, calculations, or conditional updates
  • performing relational look-ups, verifications, replacements, or comparisons
  • aggregating information from different data sources for report generation
  • reformatting or packaging information for export into other systems
  • programmatically generating and executing scripted processes
You can also take advantage of FileMaker's flexible inter-application communications capabilities, leveraging more complex technologies if advantageous.