The FileMaker Conference 2025 in Hamburg is over - and it was a special milestone in many respects. Not only because this year's conference focused on many topics related to artificial intelligence, performance and modern workflows - but also because the personal exchange and the „family atmosphere“ of the FileMaker community once again came into its own. For me personally, it was an intensive, inspiring and all-round enriching time - right from the very first evening.
Databases
Articles about databases in business. Topics include structure, organization, administration and the use of databases for efficient business processes.
Integration of MLX in FileMaker 2025: Local AI as the new standard
While MLX originally started as an experimental framework from Apple Research, a quiet but significant development has taken place in recent months: With the release of FileMaker 2025, Claris has firmly integrated MLX into the server as a native AI infrastructure for Apple Silicon. This means that anyone working with a Mac and relying on Apple Silicon can not only run MLX models locally, but also use them directly in FileMaker - with native functions, without any intermediate layers.
Why ERP software alone is not enough - and how to really understand processes
In many companies, it always follows the same pattern: at some point, management realizes that „something is no longer running smoothly“. Perhaps processes have become too slow, errors are accumulating, or the company is increasingly losing track of figures, customers or internal processes. The call for a new software solution becomes loud - preferably a modern, powerful ERP software that „can do everything“. But this is often where a fatal fallacy begins.
RAG with Ollama and Qdrant as a universal search engine for own data
In an increasingly confusing world of information, it is becoming more and more important to make your own databases searchable in a targeted manner - not via classic full-text searches, but through semantically relevant answers. This is exactly where the principle of the RAG database comes into play - an AI-supported search solution consisting of two central components:
"The Unconventional Database Book" introduces the process way of thinking.
What do cell phone contacts, to-do lists, calendars and even your own closet have in common? That's right: they can be displayed as tables - and that's no coincidence. Data has long since become a basic building block of our everyday lives. If you understand it, you understand the world a little better. This is exactly where „The database book with a difference“ comes in.
Because anyone who can understand processes and backgrounds in everyday life is automatically able to design software processes quickly and intuitively and implement them in practice.
In-depth books on medicine, personality and technology from M. Schall Verlag
It is with great pleasure that I am introducing my own publishing house to you today: Schall-Verlag. After many years as an entrepreneur, developer and author, it was time for me to open a new chapter - in the truest sense of the word. Schall-Verlag is not an anonymous publishing platform, but a personal project with a clear, independent approach and high quality standards. Books are published here that get to the heart of the matter without pandering to the zeitgeist. Books that inform, inspire - and sometimes even irritate.
FileMaker Database development: How does a project like this work?
FileMaker is a database system that can be adapted extremely well to individual company requirements thanks to its flexible interfaces. Data can be imported from almost any other database and from Office applications such as Microsoft Excel, Word or Apple Numbers. FileMaker databases can be run on Windows or Mac OS X computers, the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, making them ideal for mobile data collection. This article explains how a new project for the development of a FileMaker database works, which requirements should be met and what you can do yourself to prepare a development project.