JohnnyZ Posted November 4, 2003 Share Posted November 4, 2003 The company I work for has spent the last year and over $2 million on an ineffective ORACLE impementation. My interest with FileMaker prompted me to create some solutions to demonstrate 1)the capabilities of FileMaker and 2)how FileMaker allows the final users to participate in the database design process. The demonstration was successful. I now need to make a proposal to the company executives selling a FileMaker solution to compensate for the ORACLE shortcomings. This solution will have to interface with ORACLE, nevertheless. Please give me any information that will help sell the effectiveness and validity of FileMker solutions! TIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveB Posted November 4, 2003 Share Posted November 4, 2003 Check the Filemaker web site...they have a long list of corporate clients using FM. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenneth2k1 Posted November 4, 2003 Share Posted November 4, 2003 Wow. Oracle is pretty good. If its implementation was not successful, I would want my 2 milli back. Was it developed in-house? The filemaker site also has some comparisons with other DBMS. But they seem to like picking on Access (easy target. But hey, that's Apple) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anatoli Posted November 5, 2003 Share Posted November 5, 2003 RE: Wow. Oracle is pretty good. If its implementation was not successful, I would want my 2 milli back. Was it developed in-house? Absolutely! RE: The filemaker site also has some comparisons with other DBMS. But they seem to like picking on Access (easy target. But hey, that's Apple) The two -- FM and Access are close. To compare FM and Oracle is a bit out of question. Still comparing just on the price... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CobaltSky Posted November 5, 2003 Share Posted November 5, 2003 Hi Johnny, FileMaker has good import and export capabilities and also some SQL compliance. However in order to more fully integrate it with the enterprise level rdbms, you might wish to look at some of the third party tools that offer extended SQL data transfer implementations. One such is the PDM plug-in: http://www.profdata.nl/pdm/generic.jsp?taxonomy_id=5 which is widely used and is available as a cross-platform tool for integrating FileMaker with ODBC compliant databases - of which Oracle is one. If you get into the rhythm of using FileMaker with a fast data transfer tool, you will find that it can become a versatile front end and reporting tool for the larger system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyZ Posted November 5, 2003 Author Share Posted November 5, 2003 Thanks, Ray.I'll try that plugin. Are there any specific examples of FileMaker and ORACLE interacting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leb i Sol Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 Hey Johnny! Quick side notes: user deifined access over ODBC is pretty Good into ORACLE...I have barelly touched on it and used it with some ASP pages! perhaps this link will lead to some more insides: http://www.orafaq.com/faqodbc.htm Good Luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyZ Posted February 19, 2004 Author Share Posted February 19, 2004 Another great tip! Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leb i Sol Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 also, if you like XML consider FM XML~ODBC ways here is a quick link to pretty good XML tool http://www.altova.com/features_convert.html and if you really want to examine your ODBC performance and grab some pre-production statistics: http://www.networkcomputing.com/605/605work1.html it is a big topic...I hope you find your ways to best solution! Take care! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyZ Posted March 13, 2004 Author Share Posted March 13, 2004 Wow. Thanks again. XML-Spy looks promising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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