Have you heard of Claris FileMaker 2023? No, not FileMaker Pro 20, but a whole new name and logo that begins a new path.
Remember the company changing its name back to Claris in August 2020? Significant changes have been going on since then. So FileMaker 2023 is an update of FileMaker 19, but it’s also one of three Claris apps that together embrace web technology.
Claris Changes
For more than 20 years, the FileMaker company built a large use-base of organizations (business, government, education, non-profit), some of them with thousands of users. But software moved to the web, and when the company name changed to Claris, it signaled a new focus on becoming a complete web solution with three products working together. The result announced last August is:
Claris FileMaker 2023
Claris Connect
Claris Studio
FileMaker solutions can continue to be used as they have been for years. But the three apps together make for a completely online approach. FileMaker data can be integrated with other online apps (Claris Connect) and web-based custom forms, dashboards, and other cloud-native, no-code Views (Claris Studio). Until August, we had worked with FileMaker Pro 19 for over three years. The version on your computer was 19.0.1 or higher. Over time, it went to 19.1.x and up to 19.6.x. The yearly number of changes was left behind. Claris FileMaker 2023 may have a new logo with the new name, but the version number counts. It is now 20. x.x. The latest version is 20.2.1. FileMaker 2023 is not compatible with versions older than 19. It’s only compatible back to 19.4.2 when connecting to older versions. We have been busy upgrading users to FileMaker 19 or FileMaker 2023 in recent months. Claris no longer supports versions earlier than 19, but upgrading older users is not a problem. We recommend that all FileMaker users upgrade soon.
-Randy Seba
