Before turning up at the FileMaker DevCon, Kris decided he'd fit in a bit of worldly travel that's seen him end up covered in mud at Glastonbury then enjoying a "summer" tour with Contiki around the UK in the middle of political and sporting crisis... how much fun could it all be?

Time flies doesn't it? In February 1996 I took the plunge and left a perfectly good salaried job to go and ‘do my own thing’...

A few weeks back Apple announced the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil which is both big in size but also processing power. At the point of this writing, we're still a few weeks away from seeing these in in-store but we've been thinking about just how good these super-sized iPads might be for business applications...

Xero remains the number one piece of software our clients want their FileMaker solution integrated with.

This has been the case for nearly five years now, but what we are finding is that clients are keen to integrate FileMaker and Xero in different ways, and for different business reasons.

Okay I’m an account manager so please don’t hold your breathe for any technical wonderments in this article. What you will read is what we have experienced in terms of developing FileMaker WebDirect solutions.

We have been lucky to work with two clients over the last few months where we have developed WebDirect solutions (we also have another three WD projects on the go).

Bringing together our love of FileMaker and Xero was always going to be a natural fit for Digital Fusion. We use Xero ourselves and when we come across clients using FileMaker and Xero we get excited, its a brilliant combination of running a business.

Over the past twelve months we have been approached by a number of clients to develop a solution as a proof of concept. What a client deems a proof of concept can sometimes vary but in essence it’s to develop a solution as a ‘minimum viable product’