Thoughts on Design, FileMaker, DevCon, Pause on Error, ROI (Return on Investment), and anything else related to what The Alchemy Group does on a daily basis. We care, so we share whatever we can with you. We are a full-featured FileMaker Pro development shop, with years of experience building systems for businesses, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations exactly like yours. Your unique processes will be exactly mirrored by the custom software we write for you, whether it’s for mobile or desktop.
The Promise of Custom Software
Once upon a time, not so long ago, you would walk into a software retailer and gaze in confusion at the shelves of boxes, an image in your mind of the perfect software. You might spend an hour just reading the backs of various boxes, the text promising to solve all...
Alchemy’s New Digs
Alchemy Consulting Group is excited to announce that we have moved into our new, expanded office near Brackett Airport in La Verne, CA. This new office gives us more room to spread our wings and help even more businesses be more productive, cost-efficient, and...
Why You Should Upgrade To FileMaker 15
You will most probably have heard about the release of Filemaker 15 and could be contemplating whether to upgrade to it or not. As with any new release of any software, Filemaker 15 comes with so many exciting features that will make your experience using it for your...
New: FileMaker 15!
FileMaker, Inc., a subsidiary of Apple, has released its latest version of the powerful FileMaker platform. With FileMaker 15, lots of new possibilities arise, from managing inventory more efficiently with iBeacon and making it easier to log in using TouchID, to...
Alchemy Promoted to FBA Platinum
SAN DIMAS, California — October 1, 2015 — Alchemy Consulting Group LLC, a leading FileMaker Platform developer, today announced that it has been designated as a Platinum Level FileMaker Business Alliance (FBA) member. Partners who reach the FBA Platinum level are...
FileMaker Security: Be Afraid
We in the FileMaker community have enjoyed a period of relative calm when it comes to data breaches; our platform is not widely noticed among professional hackers (but also not completely unnoticed). This is called, by some, "security by obscurity," and it's a really,...
FileMaker: 20 & 30 – Wow!
FileMaker has reached two important milestones: The platform is now 30 years old, and still going strong. No longer a mom and pop database product, but a well-positioned, immensely powerful development platform to help anyone solve a host of difficult problems....
14 Points for Glyphindor!
FileMaker Pro 14 offers us an exciting new database design feature: the ability to use SVG glyphs. As described below, this is a great advancement, equal in weight to the new Script Workspace and mobile browser support, IMO. But with a measly 147 default glyphs in the...
Upward Mobility
Mobile Computing has become a commonly used term among software developers and consumers, business owners and their customers. But what, exactly, does it mean for you? If you have a business to run, chances are it does not all happen inside the walls of your office....
Bug Logic: we all have issues
Whenever we roll out a new system to a client, there are two kinds of training we need to perform to get them up to speed. The first is what you would expect, the basics of how to operate their brand new software; but the second kind might not seem so obvious: how to...