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FileMaker is still right
Solid schema, happy users, a workload it handles well. We support, extend and host it — Claris Platinum standard, every version from 7 through FileMaker 2025. No one should move a system that's working.
Claris Platinum Partner · FileMaker since 2006
Move your FileMaker system
to the web — whole.
Your FileMaker solution isn't a liability — it's a hard-won, working specification of exactly how your business runs. When it starts to strain against its ceiling — users, data, web and mobile reach — the answer isn't to throw that knowledge away and rebuild blind. We migrate the whole solution to a modern web application, using your FileMaker as the blueprint, in one rehearsed cut-over. Not pieces. Not a strangler. The whole thing, moved once, moved right.
//. is it time?
Keep it, or
Keep it, or
move it whole.
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It's hitting the ceiling
More concurrent users than it likes. Data it strains under. A web and mobile reach it can't give you. Integrations that fight the platform. When the tool starts limiting the business, it's time.
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Migrate the whole solution
A modern web app your team reaches anywhere, your data moved whole, your logic carried across — because your FileMaker was the blueprint. One rehearsed cut-over, old system kept warm.
//. how a migration runs
Your system
Your system
is the spec.
Most rebuilds fail because they start from a blank page and a guess at requirements. A FileMaker migration doesn't have to — the requirements already exist, live and proven, in the system you run every day. That's the whole advantage, and we build the migration around it.
Step 01 / 04
Read the blueprint.
We document what your FileMaker solution actually does — the schema, the calculations, the workflow, the edge cases years of real use have baked in. This is the spec no rebuild-from-scratch ever gets.
$ lm read --source=filemaker
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Architect the move.
One diagram, one plan, scoped and quoted up front. What becomes a web app, what data migrates, which integrations carry across, where a FileMaker layer still earns its place. No surprises later.
$ lm plan --whole-solution
Step 03 / 04
Build & migrate.
Senior engineers build the new system and migrate your data whole — tested against the real thing, not a sample. You watch it come together in tight loops, not at the end.
$ lm migrate --data=all --verify
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Cut over once.
A rehearsed switch, the old FileMaker system kept warm as the fallback until the new one has earned its trust. Then the same senior team on call for the decade after.
$ lm cutover --rehearsed --fallback=warm
//. twenty years of it
FileMaker since
FileMaker since
version 7.
A Claris Platinum Partner, not a tourist.
Continuous FileMaker development since 2006 — every release from version 7 through Claris FileMaker 2025. We know exactly what the platform does brilliantly — and how to tell when a business is ready for its next step — which is what makes us honest about when to stay and when to move. See the FileMaker practice →
Whole-solution, because pieces get stranded.
We don't do the piece-by-piece "strangler" migration that leaves you running two half-systems for years. We move the whole solution in one rehearsed cut-over, with the old system kept warm as the fallback — the same way we've taken over and moved systems that others left behind. See rescue & take-over →
//. straight answers
Migration,
Migration,
asked and answered.
Do we have to leave FileMaker?
No — and we'll tell you honestly when you shouldn't. We're a Claris Platinum Partner and we support and extend FileMaker every day. Migration is for when the system has genuinely outgrown the platform: too many users, too much data, mobile and web reach it can't give you. If FileMaker is still the right tool, we keep it healthy.
Will we lose our business logic?
No. Your FileMaker solution is the blueprint — decades of rules, calculations and workflow captured in one place. We migrate the whole solution, logic included, rather than guessing at requirements from scratch. That's the advantage of moving an existing system instead of rebuilding blind.
What does it migrate to?
A modern web application (React / Next), reachable on any browser and device, with your data migrated whole and your integrations preserved. Where it makes sense we keep a FileMaker layer in the mix — the goal is the right architecture, not a religious rewrite.
How do you cut over without downtime?
One rehearsed cut-over. We migrate and test against real data, rehearse the switch, and keep the old FileMaker system warm as the fallback until the new one has proven itself. The business keeps trading throughout.
Can you host the new system and the FileMaker server?
Yes. We run managed hosting — VPS, databases, applications and dedicated Australian FileMaker servers, with off-site backups. One team builds it, hosts it and stays on call.