Hello,

Not sure if this is the right place to ask.  I am a novice here and using FileMaker Pro 16 Advanced at work, mostly entering customer / product infos at a consumer product co.

• I am wondering if there is a way to visualize important data, such as:
• Viewing a graph of individual product's sales performance over time. This will help decide whether a product needs to be discontinued or produced in greater qty.
• Statistics on geographic locations of buyers, so that we can target our ads more precisely
• Statistics on buyer gender etc

Is this something that can be added via modules / plug-ins? 

 

Thanks!

 

Filemaker has a built-in basic chart tool you can use to visualize your data:
https://help.claris.com/en/pro-help/FMP_Help/creating-charts.html#

For more advanced visualizations you can use a web viewer with one of the established Javascript charting libraries.

 

or you use one of the many tools out there that do BI and data analysis; FM has excellent industry-standards APIs that allow those tools to connect: ODBC, JDBC, an XML API, a REST API,...

Thank you, looking into it now.

As I am not an IT guy, I have really no clue about tech acronyms, ha.