Category: Community

Beezwax Software Engineering Apprenticeship – Celebrating 9+ years

by Lyazzat Z
Posted in AI with FM, All, Beezwax News, Business, Claris Development, Community, FileMaker, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker 2025, News, Organization Development, Tableau

Since 2017, Beezwax has sponsored software engineering apprenticeships. We wanted to share a little more history and info about this program.

We designed our apprenticeships to provide opportunity for graduates of college engineering programs and coding schools like Qwasar.io, 42 The Network or Apple Developer Academy to enhance their professional training in software development plus gain real-world consulting experience working on projects for our clients.

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See FileMaker analysis tools in action, including InspectorPro 9 — 2025 Claris Community Live

by Beezwax Team
Posted in AI with FM, All, Business, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2025, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, FileMaker UX Design, FM Products, InspectorPro, Integration, News, Performance, Security, Tools & Add-ons

Special event featuring Beezwax’s Vincenzo Menanno and other Claris Partners

Gain deeper insight into how your Claris FileMaker solutions are structured and maintained. With the right developer tools, you can make changes confidently and have full visibility into the impact.

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Beezwax at Build Grow Learn 2025 – Claris Community Conference

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Beezwax News, Business, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2025, FileMaker UX Design, News, Project Management

Allison Bell Presents Transforming Time: Five Leadership Strategies to Maximize Impact and Model Sustainable Success

This month, September 8–10, we’re in Greenville, SC for Build.Grow.Learn 2025, a business leadership and growth conference designed for founders, entrepreneurs, and emerging executives. Beezwax is proud to support the event and share strategic insights that help businesses scale sustainably.

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Transforming Time: Strategic Framework for Leaders, Consultants, and Individuals

by Allison Bell
Posted in All, Beezwax News, Business, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2025, FileMaker UX Design, News, Organization Development, Project Management

Time isn’t just a constraint—it’s a system. How we engage with time influences how we lead, how we deliver value to clients, and how we build lives that are sustainable and fulfilling.

This article outlines five time transformation strategies that help individuals, consultants, and leaders shift from reactive task management to intentional, purpose-driven action. Grounded in proven operational frameworks and shaped by real-world experience across personal and professional domains, these tools support better focus, sustainable execution, and long-term alignment.

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New power for your everyday tools in FileMaker 2025 – Claris Community Live

by Beezwax Team
Posted in AI with FM, All, Business, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker & OData, FileMaker 2025, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, FileMaker UX Design, FM Products, Integration, News, Performance, Security

Special event featuring Vincenzo Menanno from Beezwax, with Claris product team

Watch this Claris Community Live event where Vincenzo Menanno from Beezwax will join the Claris product team to discuss the enhancements available with FileMaker 2025 (v22). Learn about streamlined app upgrades, secure server integrations, and a modernized UI, prioritizing user feedback for improved functionality, enabling powerful new features for implementing AI with FileMaker.

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Beezwax Sponsors Vienna Calling 2025 – FileMaker Developer Conference

by Beezwax Team
Posted in AI with FM, All, Beezwax News, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Cloud, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, FileMaker UX Design, InspectorPro, News, Performance, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Vincenzo Menanno Presents “Till Technical Debt do us Part!”

This week, June 5-7, we’re in Austria, at Vienna Calling 2025. The Claris® FileMaker® Developer conference feature open discussions, interactive workshops and collaborative break-out sessions. Beezwax is proud to be a conference sponsor.

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Beezwax Presents at Elevate FM 2025 – Toronto FileMaker Developer Conference

by Beezwax Team
Posted in AI with FM, All, Beezwax News, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Cloud, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, FileMaker UX Design, InspectorPro, News, Performance, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Vincenzo Menanno Presents “Modernizing Code – Maintaining Your Investment”

This week, May 26th, we’re at Elevate FM 2025, a brand new conference taking place in downtown Toronto, Canada. The Claris® FileMaker® Developer conference features sessions by industry experts, training workshops and interactive discussions.

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Beezwax Sponsors EngageU FileMaker Developer Conference

by Jay Gonzales
Posted in AI with FM, All, Beezwax News, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Server, InspectorPro, News, Performance, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Vincenzo Menanno Presents “InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate”

This week, November 17-19, we’re in Malmö, at EngageU. It’s the largest Claris® / FileMaker® Developer conference in Europe this year, and Beezwax is proud to be a sponsor.

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Rome FileMaker® Week 2024: iOS Widgets & Local File Technique

by Beezwax Team
Posted in All, Beezwax News, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Server, FM Products, InspectorPro, Integration, JavaScript, Local File, Performance, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

A Claris Community event with presentations from Vincenzo Menanno and Fabio Bosisio, plus Beezwax as a Sponsor

This week it’s Italy for one of our favorite annual events in the developer community… formazione, condivisione e di nuovo divertimento [training, sharing and fun yet again] …covering the past, present and future of Claris® FileMaker platform development…

For Rome FileMaker Week (October 10-11, 2024), Vince Menanno and Fabio Bosisio from Beezwax have created presentations on:

  • iOS widgets using Javascript and FileMaker Data API
  • The ‘Local File’ technique… A force to be reckoned with!
  • plus a sponsored session: Analyze your solution with Inspector Pro 8

Beezwax is also proud to be a sponsor once again this year, for Rome FileMaker Week 2024.

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Python with FileMaker®: Get Started with Analytics, Automation and AI + ML

by Beezwax Team
Posted in AI, AI with FM, All, Claris Connect, Claris Development, Community, Data Analytics, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Cloud, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Server, Integration, Machine Learning, News, Python, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Christos Savva from Beezwax presents at Bay Area FileMaker Developer Meetup.

Join us for an informative and interactive meetup that explores the benefits of integrating Python with FileMaker. Learn how Python can enhance your Claris FileMaker solutions by enabling data and visual analytics, IT automation, and AI + Machine Learning integration.

We’ll cover “Getting Started” with Python (using FileMaker 2024 on macOS for the demo) and briefly review various integration methods, such as web viewers, plugins and serverless options. We’ll demo an example FileMaker solution, bzPython-FM.

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Dreamforce 2024 Recap

by Russ Catanach
Posted in AI, All, Beezwax News, Business, Community, Data Analytics, Events, Machine Learning, Marketing, Slack, Tableau

Dreamforce was often a bit of a disruption for me as a San Franciscan—traffic, closed roads, did I mention traffic? This year, instead of sitting in my car waiting to inch forward, I shared a Waymo to get around The City, and experienced Dreamforce firsthand. As a marketer and technologist, I was eager to see how Salesforce presented itself. As a company, Beezwax paid close attention to this conference, especially innovation happening with Tableau and Slack.

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Reconnect.Brisbane – AI with FileMaker 2024 and The Collaborative Journey

by Beezwax Team
Posted in AI, AI with FM, All, Beezwax News, Business, Claris Connect, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Cloud, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, InspectorPro, Integration, News, Performance, Security, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Katherine Russell and Vince Menanno from Beezwax present at Reconnect in Brisbane, Australia.

Beezwax is proud to sponsor and present at Reconnect.Brisbane, one of the biggest Claris FileMaker Developer conferences in the Asia-Pacific region this year. We’re excited to gather with our peers in the Claris community, and for the chance to engage in presentations and discussions on the latest development trends, especially AI with FileMaker.

At Reconnect 2024, Katherine Russell and Vince Menanno from Beezwax will kick off developer presentations with two sessions:

  • AI with FileMaker 2024: Get More Out of Your Data and Apps
  • The Collaborative Journey: Evolving Through Code, Teams, and Technology
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Make the impossible easy with AI and FileMaker 2024 – Claris Community Live

by Beezwax Team
Posted in AI, AI with FM, All, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Server, InspectorPro, Integration, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Special event featuring Vincenzo Menanno from Beezwax, with Claris product team and Partners

Sharing development examples of using AI with FileMaker, Vincenzo Menanno from Beezwax will join the Claris product team and Partners in a Claris Community Live discussion about building modern solutions, making the impossible easy.

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Semantic Search with FileMaker 2024 – Claris Community Live

by Beezwax Team
Posted in AI, AI with FM, All, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Server, Integration, Techniques

Special event featuring Will Miro from Beezwax, with Claris product team and Partners

Sharing research and demo examples of using AI with FileMaker, Will Miro from Beezwax will join the Claris product team and Partners in a Claris Community Live discussion about the new semantic search features in Claris FileMaker 2024.

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FileMaker Semantic Search – Part 3: Advanced Fun

by Will Miro
Posted in AI, AI with FM, All, Beezwax News, Business, Claris Development, Community, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, Integration, News, Techniques

Semantic search is a bit like LiDAR: it penetrates the data’s lexical canopy to reveal underlying meaning. In “Part 1: Fundamental Power” and “Part 2: Key Details” we covered the basics of FileMaker semantic search. Now let’s consider some more exotic ways this new feature can put a spotlight on our data.

We’ll show an example of “unified search” across multiple tables, using natural language to construct a semantic search. Then we’ll extend this to a second example, showing “unified search + actions”. A downloadable demo/tutorial file is provided for each of these two examples.

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FileMaker Semantic Search – Part 2: Key Details

by Will Miro
Posted in AI with FM, All, Beezwax News, Business, Claris Development, Community, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, Integration, News, Techniques

In “FileMaker Semantic Search – Part 1: Fundamental Power” we discussed how to configure your Claris FileMaker 2024 app to support semantic search. Here in Part 2 of this three-part blog series we’ll dig deeper into the details of this awesome new functionality, including embeddings and cosine similarity, with a demo tutorial file for exploring AI Call Logging.

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dotFMP 2024 – Chatbot, AI with FileMaker, Technical Debt

by Beezwax Team
Posted in AI with FM, All, Claris Connect, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Cloud, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, InspectorPro, Integration, News, Performance, Python, Security, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons, UX

Fabio Bosisio and Vince Menanno from Beezwax present at dotfmp Berlin, 2024.

If it’s June, we must be in Berlin for dotFMP …gathering with the developer community, and celebrating the launch of Claris FileMaker 2024, especially AI with FileMaker functionality.

As conference presenters, Fabio Bosisio and Vince Menanno from Beezwax will lead two sessions:

  • Chatbot in FileMaker 2024 {From Amazon Lex to the new GenAI}
  • ‘Til Technical Debt Do Us Part
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FileMaker Semantic Search – Part 1: Fundamental Power

by Will Miro
Posted in AI, AI with FM, All, Beezwax News, Business, Claris Development, Community, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Go, FileMaker Server, Integration, News, Techniques

FileMaker 2024 delivers native semantic search, and it’s awesome. Now you can search records whose text is similar to the semantic meaning of your search term, even if those records don’t include your exact search term. Using natural language, users can be freed from trying to recall exactly how data was input. Let’s dive in to see just how powerful FileMaker’s semantic search is.

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Rendez-Vous 2024 – Claris FileMaker Conférence, Nantes, France

by Jay Gonzales
Posted in All, Claris Connect, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Data API, FileMaker Server, InspectorPro, Integration, Performance, Techniques

À la conférence Rendez-Vous::FM 2024, 31 mai et 1er juin 2024 à Nantes, France, Vincenzo Menanno de Beezwax (sponsor or de la conférence), présente “Utilisations créatives et gains de performance grâce au fichier local, avec Claris FileMaker“, et “Enquêter, accélérer et collaborer avec InspectorPro 8“.

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InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate

by Beezwax Team
Posted in AI with FM, All, Claris Development, Community, Events, FileMaker, FileMaker 2023, FileMaker 2024, FileMaker Server, InspectorPro, Integration, News, Performance, Security, Techniques, Tools & Add-ons

Beezwax’s Vincenzo Menanno is presenting to audiences of FileMaker development colleagues, on the topic of “InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate”. Vince shares the latest research, development best practices and product offerings to Claris / FileMaker conferences attendees as well as several developer meetups.

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