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We try and help our clients avoid disasters and try
and get ahead of things and alert them of

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"Hey, let's think about this, or let's review this."

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Marx Okubo is a leading, full-service, architectural,
engineering, construction consulting firm.

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We look at the, the fabric of buildings to
determine the structural integrity of them.

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Claris FileMaker is, is the best platform to be able to
explore these solutions, because, in terms of

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research and development, it can, it can
happen really rapidly and you can test out

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whether something's going to work or not.
I had built things in other platforms, with, um

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other consultants, and there can be
considerable cost implications in doing that.

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ASAP is an acronym for "automated structure alert program."

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It's something we developed in-house,
with some outside consultants.

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It really started with a client asking us a question:
"Hey, with all these earthquakes...is there something, ah

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...we could do to help them understand
their risks when an event happens?"

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What the ASAP application does is really provide
near-immediate information to the, to the customer

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regarding their properties during a seismic event.

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When that information is available from the U.S.G.S,
the customer can have the--uh, a report regarding their

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properties within five or ten minutes of that event occurring.

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As a structural engineer, I'm typically involved with looking at
the condition of the structure itself, coming up with costs

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related for repair, or seismic retrofit if it's a risky property.
I also specialize in looking at structures to gauge the

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risk of potential damage during an earthquake.
What differentiates our system from others

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that are emerging in the marketplace is really
that hands-on approach of doing the, the de facto

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structural engineering assessment and getting it into
the system, whereas other providers are only

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putting local sensors, or using algorithms
to develop the predicted amount of damage.

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I love that Claris FileMaker has actually given me
the ability to be able to integrate with cloud platforms

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via APIs. APIs are like, my, my love and it allows me to
extend the platform out by, by using other cloud services.

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It became very clear that FileMaker--and Alan's knowledge 
of it--was going to be a better use of our resources.