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Claris FileMaker 2026 has been released – the latest incarnation in the platform’s development. This is our view of what’s important, relevant and interesting here, and what it tells us about the future.
The big takeaway is that the new release is more resilient and smarter. In other words, FileMaker is built to last – now more than ever. Claris, an Apple company, continues to invest in the platform’s future, making it better than ever and, even more pertinently, more capable of competing in a fast-changing world.
We’ve picked out three key developments.
FileMaker 2026 offers new optional add-on services that make your server more stable. If some disaster occurs to your system – your server hardware fails, your network goes down, a team member makes a major mistake in the system – you could have a serious problem on your hands. Systems offline, lost work, lost data, potentially an entire business paralysed. With the standby server tool, your system switches to a backup server within minutes, and seamlessly you’re back up and running.
Claris are also introducing a backup service which saves a copy of your files every 20 minutes. You pay a little extra for these services, but this kind of data security is an essential for every business that relies on data. Everyone needs up-to-date disaster recovery systems, which have been part of the Decent Group service for many years.
Claris tell us that they have fixed numerous bugs. They’ve listened to users and developers, responded, and put real effort into clearing out a load of minor niggles and issues. You’re probably unaware of all or nearly all these bugs, but they may have been invisibly impacting your system’s performance in minor ways. And now they’re longer there.
It’s good to know that Claris are going to the effort of improving the platform in these quiet, unspectacular ways. Strengthening stability, improving performance, enhancing reliability.
Claris continue to take AI very seriously, and FileMaker’s AI capabilities continue to improve. This release provides more AI tools that can be used within your FileMaker system, in particular making it easier for AI to understand your data – powering more effective natural language searches, for example.
Importantly, you can apply AI tools to your data without sending that data out to external servers: spotting patterns, identifying trends, finding lost images, files or references.
These ongoing developments build on what Claris have focused on in recent years. They continue to treat FileMaker as a highly effective contemporary tool, and give it the ongoing iterative improvements it needs to maintain its position.
In Claris CEO Ryan McCann’s words, FileMaker is ‘one unified platform with data, logic, interface, security, and cross-platform delivery, built together from the start’. Still the best-in-class platform for running SME business systems, and now that much more resilient and reliable. FileMaker’s momentum continues – and accelerates.
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