What is the Claris Platform?


The Claris Platform is unified toolkit for building custom apps which can be used on desktop or web and can integrate with leading cloud services, produced by Claris International Inc. (a subsidiary of Apple – previously known as FileMaker Inc).  The Claris Platform is ideal for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) looking to deploy workgroup scale solutions. It is flexible and adaptable enough to meet changing business requirements over long periods and is highly suitable for organisations that want the freedom of a system that can be amended either in-house or in partnership with professional developers.


Claris FileMaker

A low code development environment for building native apps for Windows, macOS, iOS and iPadOS.  Claris FileMaker offers flexible deployment options allowing you to run on-premises, AWS cloud, hybrid, mobile or off-line.  It offers a powerful, but intuitive graphical interface builder and scripting engine.  In addition, the current release has now added support for integrating and leverage LLM/AI models such as OpenAi's ChatGTP and Cohere to support semantic searches on private data.  The focus of FileMaker is primarily on delivering custom in-house Apps, inc contrast to Claris Studios which is aimed at public facing data capture.


Claris Connect

A cloud-based workflow integration tool that includes out of the box support for integrating FileMaker with over 40 of the most popular online Apps such as Slack, QuickBooks, Google Apps and Office 365.


Claris Studio

A cloud-native toolset for quickly building public facing custom web forms and data visualisation.  Data collected from Claris Studio can be directly embedded within Claris FileMaker Apps or quickly passed to other Cloud Apps using Claris Connect.


How do DataTherapy use the Claris Platform?

DataTherapy offer licensing, hosting, training, help desk support and development services for the Claris Platform our team of Claris Certified Developers.


We have built a wide range of solutions leveraging and integrating the Claris Platform over the years, including:

  • Custom B2C e-commerce web portals.
  • Extranet B2B web portals. 
  • Job management & workflow tracking solutions.
  • Time & multi-currency expense tracking and billing solutions.
  • Recruitment application tracking portals and processing solutions.
  • Custom CRM solutions.
  • Laboratory information management systems (LIMS).
  • HR and appraisal tracking.
  • Financial services order ticket logging and authorisation.
  • Reporting dashboards for KPIs, orders, revenues and profitability analysis.
  • Integrations with 3rd party web services or internal systems.


If you don't know where to start with the Claris Platform, then why not contact our Team for a free initial consultation. We're here to help you achieve your business goals.


Claris Platform Blog

Planning your upgrade to Claris FileMaker 2026 platform

by Ben Fletcher • 10 June 2026
Upgrade to Claris FileMaker 2026 with confidence. Learn key migration considerations, AI features, compatibility issues and best practices.

FileMaker 2026: Developer Productivity Enhancements

by Ben Fletcher • 10 June 2026
As well as the customer facing UI enhancements, FileMaker 26 has a number of 'under the hood' tool enhancements for long standing developers: Enhanced Inspector - layout controls dynamically adjust based on the object type, reading the cognitive load of navigating the Layout Mode tools for new and veteran developers alike. Control Field Entry by Calculation - field level editablity is now controlled by a boolean calculation that evaluates at runtime based on any developer defined logic. This makes building role based editing or workflow based record locking much easier to implement. Sort Custom Functions with Folders - this now is applied at an independent folder level, making it much easier to work with distributing a shared function library that needs to display in a specific order. Set Layout Zoom by Calculation - the UI zoom can now be scripted to any decimal percentage, making it easier to make layouts which adapt to a specific user or device screen size requirements. Draco Catalog - FileMaker 2026 now includes a persistent catalog which is independent from the application data which can be used for storing JavaScript modules and persistent solution-level settings (app versions, feature flags and environment identifiers). PDF Script Workspace - dedicated script steps have been added for PDF manipulation which makes the generation of multi-page reports assembled from different layouts both using FileMaker Pro client and via FileMaker Server. Need help to upgrade to FileMaker 26? At DataTherapy, we specialise in supporting and upgrading legacy FileMaker apps as well as building new custom apps to leverage the latest features of the Claris FileMaker 26 platform. Whether you need training, support, cloud hosting or are ready to go all-in on developing a new app from scratch—we can help. ✅ Certified Claris FileMaker Developers ✅ UK-based team of full-time professionals ✅ Platinum Claris Partner ✅ Experts in secure, on-premise and private cloud deployment of FileMaker 📞 Contact us today for a free consultation and discover how local FileMaker can help your team move faster, work smarter, and stay fully in control of your data.

FileMaker 2026: AI Architecture Enhancements

by Ben Fletcher • 10 June 2026
FileMaker 2025 already added significant enhancements to leverage AI and FileMaker 26 continues to double down on this: Field Annotation A new AI tab is available within the Field Options to define a JSON calculation as the field's annotation which is used in Export dialogs, sort dialogs and most essential in Data Definition Language (DDL) for use in AI. Save as XML & Solution Upgrade Tool FileMaker Pro 26 can now save a copy of your solution as a .xml formatted text file and the enhanced Solution Upgrade Tool can now read XML input and create brand new .fmp12 files or patch existing ones. This is a huge boon for Claris FileMaker developers - it means that Claris FileMaker developers can now use AI tools to generate XML which can then be used to create real production ready FileMaker solutions. Additionally, traditional version controlling scheme and using diff tools to compare XML outputs between production and development releases can be compared. Google Gemini Support Gemini is now supported as a native option in FileMaker script steps making it substantially easier to integrate with Google Cloud and Gemini if that is your preferred AI backend provider. PDF Text Extraction The native ExtractTextfromPDF() function introduced in FileMaker 2025, can now be used to process OCR (scanned) PDFs and not just text-layer PDFs. This again reduces the reliance and cost of using additional 3rd party plugins, APIs or AI tools for text extraction. Need help to upgrade to FileMaker 26? At DataTherapy, we specialise in supporting and upgrading legacy FileMaker apps as well as building new custom apps to leverage the latest AI features of the Claris FileMaker 26 platform. Whether you need training, support, cloud hosting or are ready to go all-in on developing a new app from scratch—we can help. ✅ Certified Claris FileMaker Developers ✅ UK-based team of full-time professionals ✅ Platinum Claris Partner ✅ Experts in secure, on-premise and private cloud deployment of FileMaker 📞 Contact us today for a free consultation and discover how local FileMaker can help your team move faster, work smarter, and stay fully in control of your data.
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