The customer faced issues with slow evaluation of audiovisual equipment availability in their specialized FileMaker-based software. When checking device availability for a specific period, the system's calculation times ranged from minutes to tens of minutes, significantly slowing down operations.
We designed and implemented a custom FileMaker plug-in to optimize the critical part of the availability calculation. Instead of using FileMaker’s standard methods, we offloaded the resource-intensive process to our plug-in, which was specifically developed and optimized for this type of computation.
This resulted in real-time availability results, significantly improving performance. Over the years, we further expanded the plug-in with new features and enhancements, achieving even greater speed improvements. Overall, the process was accelerated by a factor of 1,000 compared to the original version.
Beyond the technical speed-up, this solution enhanced the user experience, making the software more intuitive and flexible when handling large data volumes.
