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Continue reading “See FileMaker analysis tools in action, including InspectorPro 9 — 2025 Claris Community Live”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.
Continue reading “Beezwax at Build Grow Learn 2025 – Claris Community Conference”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.
Continue reading “Transforming Time: Strategic Framework for Leaders, Consultants, and Individuals”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.
Continue reading “New power for your everyday tools in FileMaker 2025 – Claris Community Live”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.
Continue reading “Beezwax Sponsors Vienna Calling 2025 – FileMaker Developer Conference”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.
Continue reading “Beezwax Presents at Elevate FM 2025 – Toronto FileMaker Developer Conference”FileMaker Pro 21.1, the newest update to Claris FileMaker 2024, introduces powerful new AI capabilities and significant quality-of-life enhancements for developers. The Beezwax team gathered to dive into these exciting updates, including Chief Innovation Officer Vincenzo Menanno, Director of Engineering Andrew “Red” Witschonke, Developer & Systems Engineer Simon Brown, and Senior Developer Fabio Bosisio. Here are the highlights from their discussion.
Continue reading “What’s New in FileMaker Pro 21.1? Exploring AI-Powered Semantic Search, Developer Productivity Boosts, Security and More”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.
Continue reading “Beezwax Sponsors EngageU FileMaker Developer Conference”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.
Continue reading “Python with FileMaker®: Get Started with Analytics, Automation and AI + ML”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:
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.
Continue reading “FileMaker Semantic Search – Part 3: Advanced Fun”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.
Continue reading “FileMaker Semantic Search – Part 2: Key Details”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:
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.
Continue reading “FileMaker Semantic Search – Part 1: Fundamental Power”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.
Continue reading “InspectorPro 8 for FileMaker: Investigate, Accelerate, Collaborate”Throughout the new A24 indie film from Julio Torres, there is an ongoing dialog and deep drama about … Claris FileMaker Pro. Yes, FileMaker Pro is featured in a movie. Good news?! Well, based on initial press coverage and a clip on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, we thought perhaps not. In those brief seconds of national television coverage, our beloved software was called a “harder-to-use, not free” version of Google Sheets.
So, is this big screen debut a major problemista for all of us who love FileMaker?!
Continue reading “The Art of Code: FileMaker’s Integration into ‘Problemista’s’ Plot”February, 2024 – AUSTIN, Tex. – Claris International Inc., an Apple company, named Vincenzo (Vince) Menanno of Beezwax as winner of the Claris Excellence Award for Lifetime Achievement. The award was presented during Claris Engage 2024, February 6th-8th at the Apple Austin Campus.
This award highlights Vince Menanno‘s 30+ year career as a consultant, technical innovator, developer advocate and community leader. Claris honored Vince with the Lifetime Achievement Award which “salutes a Claris Partner or community member who is a long-time pillar of the Claris Community and recognized as a leader whose voice is respected.”
Continue reading “Beezwax’s Vincenzo Menanno Wins Claris Excellence Award for Lifetime Achievement”I collected some thoughts and observations from EngageU 2023, the European Claris / FileMaker Developer Conference held Nov 12-14 in Antwerp. Beezwax was proud to be a sponsor. There were plenty of technical discussions, a few described here, and even moreso, plenty of things that should make us all inspired heading toward 2024. If last year’s conference were the “Biggest Claris FileMaker Conference of 2022“, this year’s EngageU was the Most Inspiring, as well as the Biggest of 2023.
Continue reading “EngageU 2023 – Most Inspiring Claris FileMaker Development Conference”This week, November 12-14, we’re in Antwerp, at EngageU. It’s one of the biggest Claris® / FileMaker® Developer community events worldwide this year, and Beezwax is proud to be a sponsor.
Continue reading “Beezwax Sponsors EngageU Claris FileMaker Developer Conference”FileMaker® developers and users now have a clearer picture of their platform’s future thanks to Claris’s unified and simplified platform strategy. This latest news, announced August 29, rolls back the idea of a dual-platform strategy announced a year ago, and highlights the continued support for FileMaker as central to ongoing Claris® product plans.
Continue reading “Claris Product Roadmap 2023 – Streamlining FileMaker Solutions”
