Companies That Use FileMaker Pro

Plenty of companies use FileMaker Pro, and most of them never mention it. FileMaker tends to run the unglamorous systems a business cannot do without: registrations, bookings, customer records and money that has to be accounted for. Here are three organizations whose FileMaker systems Keene Systems looks after.

An online service: CitizenPath

CitizenPath helps individuals and families prepare USCIS immigration forms online. A customer answers plain questions, and the service produces a completed form, ready to sign, with filing instructions.

The website is PHP at the front and FileMaker Pro behind it. Keene Systems took over all development of the system and was instrumental in putting the immigration forms on the site. It shows something people often doubt: FileMaker can sit behind a public website that customers use every day.

What these FileMaker systems have in common

• Each one runs a process that is specific to that organization.
• Each one holds records the organization could not operate without.
• Each one was built some time ago and needed a team to take responsibility for it.
• Each one is still being improved, not just kept alive.

A family business: Augustus Funeral Home

Augustus Funeral Home has served families in Bermuda since 1948. It used FileMaker for a process that has to be right: managing money held in escrow for cemetery plots.

We took over all development, upgraded the system and moved it to new hosting. This is FileMaker doing what it does best, handling a process particular to one business that no packaged product covers.

A school: Professional Culinary Academy

Professional Culinary Academy in Buffalo, New York trains people for careers in the restaurant industry. Its student registration and class scheduling run on a FileMaker system that Keene Systems maintains.

What kinds of organizations use FileMaker

These three are typical. In our experience FileMaker is most often found in:

• Schools and training providers, for registration, scheduling and student records.
• Professional and service firms, for clients, jobs, time and billing.
• Manufacturers and distributors, for inventory, orders and job tracking.
• Online services, with FileMaker as the database behind a website.
• Departments inside large organizations, for the specialized work that central systems do not cover.

What they share is a process of their own and a need to change the system as that process changes.

Is FileMaker still a safe choice?

Yes. FileMaker is made by Claris, a subsidiary of Apple, and new versions are released regularly. The current release is FileMaker 2026, and recent versions have added AI features, a modern Data API and better tools for the web.

The risk is rarely the product. It is a system left on an old version, or one that depends on a single person. Both can be fixed: see FileMaker upgrades and FileMaker support for inherited systems, or start with our FileMaker Pro developers.

If your company runs on FileMaker too

1. Tell us about the system. What it does, how old it is and who looks after it now.
2. Let us review it. A certified FileMaker developer examines a copy and reports on its condition.
3. Decide what it needs. Fixes, an upgrade, a connection to another system, or simply a team on call.
4. Keep it moving. The same developers stay available, with no minimums or monthly commitments.

The next step is a short, no-pressure conversation. Schedule a FileMaker exploration call or use the form on this page.