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From Concept to Code: How Our Design Thinking Powers Your Product
Turning an idea into a market-ready product is notoriously difficult. Even strong concepts fail when they overlook real user needs, misinterpret business priorities, or move into development without alignment across teams. Design Thinking solves that problem. It creates a structured way to connect people, processes, and technology so ideas become solutions that are not just […]
The Codence Discovery Phase: Understanding Your Business First
Clear priorities reduce risk, optimize processes, and drive business value from day one. Starting a project without understanding your business processes and user needs increases the risk of delays and costly mistakes. That’s why the Discovery Phase exists: to map priorities, uncover opportunities for ROI, and define the right path before any development begins. Through […]
Improving Software Performance
Practical strategies to identify, analyze, and enhance software efficiency for scalable, robust applications Slow or inefficient systems frustrate users, create technical debt, and eat up resources. It becomes a silent tax on your resources: they frustrate users, increase churn, and are the definition of non-strategic technical debt. In this article, we break down practical ways […]
Why Proactive Data Security is Non-Negotiable
Strategies, tools, and best practices to protect critical data, ensure compliance, and maintain development speed without compromising functionality Protecting data in custom software is essential for companies in every industry. Security breaches can cause severe financial losses, damage your brand reputation, and erode client and partner trust. Technology leaders face a constant balancing act: moving […]
API design best practices
Why Fragile Integrations Are Your Next Big Operational Risk. At Codence, we recently partnered with a client facing this exact challenge, an integration built elsewhere had begun to fail under real-world load, disrupting operations and exposing deeper architectural issues. It’s a scenario we see often. APIs are the backbone of today’s connected software ecosystem. For […]
How to Choose the Best FileMaker Hosting Option and Ensure Your Data Security in 2025
A Comprehensive Guide to Protecting Your Data and Optimizing FileMaker Workflows Across Hosting Environments Selecting the right FileMaker hosting environment is critical for safeguarding your company’s data, maximizing performance, and ensuring scalability. With FileMaker 2025 introducing new features, it’s more important than ever to compare hosting options and identify the setup that aligns with your […]
Claris FileMaker and AI: When Proven Low-Code Meets Intelligent Automation
Build Smarter Workflows with AI-Driven Custom Solutions and Automation for Modern Businesses The business world is evolving fast, driven by automation and AI. Leaders today need tools that help them move just as quickly, platforms that are innovative yet practical, easy to build on, and able to grow with the business. For more than 40 […]
Legacy Tax: Converting Technical Debt into Measurable ROI
Your Legacy Systems Are Limiting Growth. Here’s How Strategic Modernization Unlocks Efficiency and Reduces Risk Every IT Director knows the pain: The hidden cost of legacy is the innovation that never happens. Outdated systems don’t just slow down processing; they consume key engineering talent and force your business to choose between maintaining the past and […]
From Concept to Code: How Our Design Thinking Powers Your Product
Turning an idea into a market-ready product is notoriously difficult. Even strong concepts fail when they overlook real user needs, misinterpret business priorities, or move into development without alignment across teams. Design Thinking solves that problem. It creates a structured way to connect people, processes, and technology so ideas become solutions that are not just […]
The Codence Discovery Phase: Understanding Your Business First
Clear priorities reduce risk, optimize processes, and drive business value from day one. Starting a project without understanding your business processes and user needs increases the risk of delays and costly mistakes. That’s why the Discovery Phase exists: to map priorities, uncover opportunities for ROI, and define the right path before any development begins. Through […]
Improving Software Performance
Practical strategies to identify, analyze, and enhance software efficiency for scalable, robust applications Slow or inefficient systems frustrate users, create technical debt, and eat up resources. It becomes a silent tax on your resources: they frustrate users, increase churn, and are the definition of non-strategic technical debt. In this article, we break down practical ways […]
Why Proactive Data Security is Non-Negotiable
Strategies, tools, and best practices to protect critical data, ensure compliance, and maintain development speed without compromising functionality Protecting data in custom software is essential for companies in every industry. Security breaches can cause severe financial losses, damage your brand reputation, and erode client and partner trust. Technology leaders face a constant balancing act: moving […]
API design best practices
Why Fragile Integrations Are Your Next Big Operational Risk. At Codence, we recently partnered with a client facing this exact challenge, an integration built elsewhere had begun to fail under real-world load, disrupting operations and exposing deeper architectural issues. It’s a scenario we see often. APIs are the backbone of today’s connected software ecosystem. For […]
How to Choose the Best FileMaker Hosting Option and Ensure Your Data Security in 2025
A Comprehensive Guide to Protecting Your Data and Optimizing FileMaker Workflows Across Hosting Environments Selecting the right FileMaker hosting environment is critical for safeguarding your company’s data, maximizing performance, and ensuring scalability. With FileMaker 2025 introducing new features, it’s more important than ever to compare hosting options and identify the setup that aligns with your […]
Claris FileMaker and AI: When Proven Low-Code Meets Intelligent Automation
Build Smarter Workflows with AI-Driven Custom Solutions and Automation for Modern Businesses The business world is evolving fast, driven by automation and AI. Leaders today need tools that help them move just as quickly, platforms that are innovative yet practical, easy to build on, and able to grow with the business. For more than 40 […]
Legacy Tax: Converting Technical Debt into Measurable ROI
Your Legacy Systems Are Limiting Growth. Here’s How Strategic Modernization Unlocks Efficiency and Reduces Risk Every IT Director knows the pain: The hidden cost of legacy is the innovation that never happens. Outdated systems don’t just slow down processing; they consume key engineering talent and force your business to choose between maintaining the past and […]
Genesis Accounting as a Strategic Tool for Financial Services
Genesis Accounting enables strategic finance, automates reporting, streamlines workflows, improves forecasting, and drives business growth. Effective financial management goes beyond recording transactions. Many growing financial services companies still rely on spreadsheets, siloed systems, or outdated software. These tools can slow decision-making, increase errors, and limit strategic growth. This article explores how Genesis Accounting, a customizable […]
KPI in Manufacturing Plants with Genesis BI
Genesis BI lets manufacturers track performance, monitor production, and spot bottlenecks early to prevent costly issues. Running a plant efficiently isn’t just about producing faster. It’s about understanding exactly what’s happening at every stage of operations and acting before small issues turn into costly disruptions. Many factories still rely on outdated data, fragmented spreadsheets, and […]
Why Financial Companies Trust Codence for Custom Systems
Custom financial solutions streamline processes, unify data, and boost control, accuracy, and support for strategic decisions. Financial firms operate in a high-stakes environment where accuracy, speed, and compliance are essential. Off-the-shelf software often cannot keep up with complex workflows, multi-entity reporting, or constantly evolving regulations. In this context, Claris FileMaker custom solutions for finance streamline […]
Manufacturers: Time to Move Beyond Spreadsheets
FileMaker delivers a secure, scalable, and automated solution designed to handle the complexity of growing manufacturing operations. If you work in operations, IT, or finance in manufacturing, you probably rely on spreadsheets to track orders, inventory, and costs. But as your business expands, those spreadsheets can slow you down and introduce errors. This is the […]
How Genesis BI Dashboard Improves Manufacturing Analytics
Manufacturing analytics are evolving fast. Genesis BI Dashboard centralizes data from production, inventory, and operations into one clear, actionable view. This makes it easier for manufacturers to make faster, smarter decisions. Whether you manage a plant floor, run finance reports, or oversee IT systems, Genesis BI simplifies monitoring by providing real-time insights into key metrics […]
Transforming Your Law Firm’s Accounting with Codence
Managing law firm finances is complex, but the right system can change everything. Codence, with Genesis Accounting, delivers software built for legal teams so you can simplify trust accounting, stay compliant, and focus on your clients. Law firm accounting comes with unique rules, risks, and compliance needs, especially around trust funds and client billing. Many […]
How Codence Can Help Your Law Firm Eliminate Manual Processing
Still buried in paperwork and repeated tasks? Codence helps law firms take the manual work off their plate with custom FileMaker apps. The result? Less time chasing files, fewer errors, and more focus on what matters: your cases. Manual processes can slow down even the most efficient legal team. Whether you’re tracking deadlines, managing case […]
Genesis BI: Transforming Business Insights
Revolutionizing Business Intelligence Data fuels decision-making, but turning raw numbers into meaningful insights is no easy feat. Many businesses struggle with fragmented systems, complicated reports, or data that are simply too overwhelming to act on. Genesis BI changes that by giving organizations the ability to transform their data into a strategic resource—faster, simpler, and smarter. […]
What’s New in Claris FileMaker 2023?
The latest iteration of the Claris FileMaker Platform, was released in late April, 2023. This new version, dubbed “2023”, is an incremental update to the existing Claris FileMaker 19.6 platform. The new version numbering scheme, which will undoubtedly mirror the progress of the years to come, is representative of the Claris commitment to continual updates […]
Scale Faster w/ Stripe and Claris FileMaker
Stripe is a very popular payment processing system that combines the features of a merchant account, a payment processor, and a payment gateway in a single unified payment platform that (by design) is very developer friendly. The Stripe API is well documented and very easy to understand. This means that as a Claris developer, the […]
Moving Forward Virtually with DocuSign
DocuSign is an industry standard application platform for collecting digital signatures on important documents. If you’re using a custom Claris FileMaker solution to help run your business, and DocuSign for collecting digital signatures, you should consider integrating the two systems. By using FileMaker’s Insert from URL script step, and the very robust DocuSign REST API, […]
Lightning Fast Picker
Who needs a record picker? I do! When designing a custom Claris FileMaker application, we are often faced with the task of finding a specific record, and doing something with it. We might accomplish this task with a simple find: enter find mode, enter your find criteria, and hit enter. This technique works great if […]
Build Your Budget Tool in FileMaker
Claris FileMaker is an excellent tool for building budgets that make sense for operations while seamlessly integrating into QuickBooks.
Navigating the Claris FileMaker 19.5 Release
This article intends to share the highlights of new features, deep dive into a couple of examples and share some important news regarding bug fixes across the various platforms (FileMaker Pro, Server, and WebDirect).
Apprenticeship Program
Codence works with its clients to launch careers and better support their use of technology. We engage students, but often non-traditional candidates as well, as apprentices to learn Claris and other technologies, software development, and consulting practices.
FileMaker + Slack: Putting It All Together
Send Arbitrary Messages to any Channel or User in Slack from Claris FileMaker via the Slack API This post is part of a multi-part series that focuses on specific examples of how to connect Claris FileMaker to Slack. This article will make more sense if you have read our introduction, and we invite you to […]
API design best practices
Why Fragile Integrations Are Your Next Big Operational Risk. At Codence, we recently partnered with a client facing this exact challenge, an integration built elsewhere had begun to fail under real-world load, disrupting operations and exposing deeper architectural issues. It’s a scenario we see often. APIs are the backbone of today’s connected software ecosystem. For […]
