Worst Case: Disaster Planning and Recovery
Thinking about the UnthinkableMost humans don’t like to think about worst-case scenarios. It’s stressful and, usually, unproductive to dwell on the bad things that might happen. Yet every business small owner, every CEO, every IT department head, knows that at least...
Claris Connects You To Everything
A good craftsman keeps a good set of tools at hand. The toolset available to us here at Alchemy Consulting Group just got a whole lot better, with the release this week of Claris Connect. This exciting new addition to the Claris Family of products creates workflows...
Iowa
The big news today is about the SNAFU in the 2020 Iowa Caucus, involving problems that are being blamed on an app that was developed to compile and report the candidates’ results. With 21 years of providing software to our clients, I can say that software is...
How Healthy is Your Data?
Key Takeaways Data blindness is one of the most common and costly problems businesses overlook: Organizations become habituated to disorganized, duplicate, or outdated records, allowing data quality issues to quietly erode search accuracy, reporting reliability, and...
MegaToDo Tops 100 at ShockeyUX
ShockeyUX, an Alchemy Consulting Group company, is proud to announce that MegaToDo has topped over 100 downloads. MegaToDo, better to-do management for FileMaker’s Workplace Innovation Platform, gives developers advanced features for managing To Do lists for any...
End Deployment Headaches
Developing an app for a client, especially an enterprise system that runs a small company, can be a huge undertaking. It’s not surprising that most of us don’t really think very far past the development stage. The thing we forget is that for many users, this may be...
Multi-Chamber Mixer at Alchemy
Just a quick thank-you to Leah from La Verne Chamber and Autumn from San Dimas Chamber for helping us host the September 2019 mixer! You two are the best! Everyone seemed to enjoy our digs, and we estimate we had 40-50 people in attendance. Bob gave a talk about how...
Marketplace from Claris
Exciting news from Claris: the new Marketplace, where you can explore more ways to use FileMaker’s Workplace Innovation Platform. You can find links to many free and for-purchase products, including templates (like Alchemy’s own MegaToDo), extensions, apps, and...
Building the Future with FileMaker
When it comes to managing your business’s data, there are a lot of competitors who think they have the answer to your problems. Many live in the cloud as pre-build software, where someone else’s imagination holds sway over how you get things done. But what if you want to do things your own way? What if you think about your business differently from the way others do? That’s where a Workplace Innovation Platform comes in.
Cloudy with Clarity
Key Takeaways Claris rebranding signals a shift toward enterprise-grade orchestration: FileMaker, Inc.'s evolution into Claris International marks a deliberate move away from low-code categorization toward a Workplace Innovation Platform designed for sophisticated,...