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Kinetic Lighting provides theatrical stage
lighting for corporate events, concerts, festivals,

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tv/film projects. We sell equipment, we
rent equipment, and we're also hired

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for turnkey production services for
the live event and tv/film market.

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I started out on my own in the '90s. My
parents bought me FileMaker as a gift,

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and I believe in those days, I recall it
came as either a CD or a DVD in a box.

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I remember installing it, saw this blank canvas,
read through the Help section, and figured out how to,

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how to build a program that could track my gigs
and my equipment. As the company grew, our needs

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from a software standpoint grew exponentially.
Now, all of a sudden, we went from a few pieces

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of equipment in the apartment to thousands upon
thousands of SKUs in a larger warehouse. We had

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more employees who all needed to use the program,
many more clients, many more orders and gigs.

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The low-code platform has allowed someone like
me, who's got no coding experience at all, to build

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a program that our business can actually run on.

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And, it has this drag-and-drop functionality
that allows us to use all of the information

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that we have, whenever we want it. I can pull
anything into any record at any time.

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I needed FileMaker to track my equipment, to 
track my customers, to track my orders.

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To generate a quote, a contract, an invoice and
then as well, the equipment that comes with it.

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One of the things I love about FileMaker is how fast
it is to find the information we're looking for.

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Oftentimes, people are astounded how
fast we can get reports generated

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and get answers to, to questions because
FileMaker is so fast and so easy.

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We can find any asset, where it is at any given moment in
time, we can find all of its transaction history,

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including when we purchased it, who we purchased
it from, how much we paid for it when we bought it,

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all the way through the product lifecycle
to when we ultimately dispose of it or sell it.

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Claris FileMaker is the most rapid, uh, development
platform I've ever seen or worked on.

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When we're talking, you have one process that
you know is a bunch of paper. We can digitalize

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that in a month or two. You know, that is something
that you cannot do with web apps, with C++, with, uh,

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the more old school, larger, robust languages.

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I don't think I could have developed the software
that we're running on FileMaker on any other platform.

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There's lots of moving parts that we constantly have to
keep our eye on. We have built FileMaker to help us

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track all of these moving parts, because
in the entertainment industry, where we

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have to keep our eye on that, so focused,
FileMaker has helped us do that.