Now what?

Slide 1Free Training Series

• So…
• You’ve inherited an old database
• Now what?

Slide 2About Matt

• Passionate FileMaker trainer
• Expert FileMaker developer
• Certified in FM versions 7 to present
• Founded 3 companies
• FBA Awards, conference sessions, Meetups
• ClarisTalk AI podcast with Cris Ippolite

Hey, nice suit ^

Slide 3Offerings

• Free training series
• Two hour classes for $149
• Champion Class coming January 7th
• Mentoring & Coaching

Slide 4Agenda

• A few more slides
• Live demo / discussion / Q&A

Slide 5The Decision

• Review the entire database
• Graph, Fields, layouts, themes, scripts
• Use of old/outdated features?
• Repeating fields, lookups, auto-enter BS, custom menus, dead plug-ins

Slide 6The Decision

• Do I stay or do I go?
• Opinion: If possible, edit current database, and add features starting with lowest hanging fruit
• Update and clean as you go
• Leave awful things alone if they are working

Slide 7Keep DB – Downsides

• It looks old
• Lots of time spent updating
• Multi-file hell
• Kind of endless

Slide 8Keep DB – Upsides

• Deliver value immediately
• Virtually no risk of losing client
• User acceptance
• Possibly more revenue over time?
• But also possibly more value delivered

Slide 9Start Over – Downsides

• Long delay before going live
• Hard to involve key players
• User acceptance / rejection
• Risky. Client has ‘no skin in the game’

Slide 10Start Over – Upsides

• Fresh, modern, beautiful
• Easier and cheaper to maintain
• Possibly less expensive
• Best practices

Slide 11To the demo