FileMaker is actually a very capable system, but there are some major drawbacks: - I absolutely hate their approach to layout / styling / frontend - I wish the

FileMaker is actually a very capable system, but there are some major drawbacks: - I absolutely hate their approach to layout / styling / frontend - I wish they'd embrace web technologies like plain css amd html, which they do under the hood but don't really expose to the user / developer. - there are countless performance issues, like their record-centric approach to showing data. Try displaying a list view that features an attribute from a related table - a very common requirement, yet you can't really scroll that list any more since FileMaker tries to lazily load related data on demand. - FileMaker has a hard time talking to other services. You can export in multiple formats like csv and excel, however I had to come up with a very complicated approach in order to talk to and sync data with web APIs. Native JSON support in FileMaker would help a lot to make it easier but it's only possible with custom functions.