Kinetic Lighting provides theatrical stage lighting for corporate events, concerts, festivals,
tv/film projects. We sell equipment, we rent equipment, and we're also hired
for turnkey production services for the live event and tv/film market.
I started out on my own in the '90s. My parents bought me FileMaker as a gift,
and I believe in those days, I recall it came as either a CD or a DVD in a box.
I remember installing it, saw this blank canvas, read through the Help section, and figured out how to,
how to build a program that could track my gigs and my equipment. As the company grew, our needs
from a software standpoint grew exponentially. Now, all of a sudden, we went from a few pieces
of equipment in the apartment to thousands upon thousands of SKUs in a larger warehouse. We had
more employees who all needed to use the program, many more clients, many more orders and gigs.
The low-code platform has allowed someone like me, who's got no coding experience at all, to build
a program that our business can actually run on.
And, it has this drag-and-drop functionality that allows us to use all of the information
that we have, whenever we want it. I can pull anything into any record at any time.
I needed FileMaker to track my equipment, to track my customers, to track my orders.
To generate a quote, a contract, an invoice and then as well, the equipment that comes with it.
One of the things I love about FileMaker is how fast it is to find the information we're looking for.
Oftentimes, people are astounded how fast we can get reports generated
and get answers to, to questions because FileMaker is so fast and so easy.
We can find any asset, where it is at any given moment in time, we can find all of its transaction history,
including when we purchased it, who we purchased it from, how much we paid for it when we bought it,
all the way through the product lifecycle to when we ultimately dispose of it or sell it.
Claris FileMaker is the most rapid, uh, development platform I've ever seen or worked on.
When we're talking, you have one process that you know is a bunch of paper. We can digitalize
that in a month or two. You know, that is something that you cannot do with web apps, with C++, with, uh,
the more old school, larger, robust languages.
I don't think I could have developed the software that we're running on FileMaker on any other platform.
There's lots of moving parts that we constantly have to keep our eye on. We have built FileMaker to help us
track all of these moving parts, because in the entertainment industry, where we
have to keep our eye on that, so focused, FileMaker has helped us do that.