InBizness Real Estate Coming Soon

Occasionally, I get a client that is interested in my InBizness product but they don’t need an office database that is so large in scope. Just over a month ago, I had a real estate professional contact me about a FileMaker CRM need focused to his business needs. He liked the setup of InBizness but had no need for 60 % of the modules. Right out of the gate, he only needed the contacts, staff, events and correspondence modules. He also needed a new module to track property listings and have it linked operationally to the other modules.

Now it is possible to invest in a copy of InBizness and the remove the navigation to modules that you do not need. The code for those modules is still there, ready to be used if necessary but users are not distracted with buttons that take them to modules unneeded to accomplish defined company objectives.


Instead of selling this customer a copy InBizness 2.8, I offered them a quote of a new database designed from scratch but using selected parts of the latest unreleased version of InBizness. Yes, there is always an unreleased copy of InBizness and I have no idea when this latest version will come to market. Instead, you will probably see mini modules of the overall product released this year. InBizness Money was the first mini module that was pulled from the code of its larger InBizness brother and now InBizness Real Estate is the second smaller scope release.

ABOUT FILEMAKER 10
InBizness Real Estate will require each FileMaker user to use FileMaker 10, the latest release of the product by FileMaker Inc. At this time, we have not built in a web or mobile feature set for InBizness Real Estate but will embrace the opportunity to do so (if or when a client requests these features). For more information about FileMaker 10 and upgrade options to this cutting edge product release, please visit http://www.filemaker.com/ or contact us at info@dwaynewright.com.

Simply put, the recent addition of script triggers within FileMaker 10 has the potential to propel our products to heights that cannot be gained otherwise. Although there are other great features in FileMaker 10 as well, script triggers are too important of a feature to invest time and effort in designing backwards compatibility. For this reason, InBizness 2.8 and InBizness Money 1.2 will stay on the market for quite some time for FileMaker 9 users. All new product releases will require an investment in FileMaker 10.

MOVIE TIME
I’m a big fan of creating computer tutorial movies for presentation and for illumination. Here is a collection of the movies I produced to cover the initial release of this product.

The Main Menu
The New User Interface
The Contacts Module Explored
The Property Listing Module Explored
The Staff Module Explored
The Activities Module Explored
The Correspondence Module Explored