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OceanX is a nonprofit organization that was
set up to develop a community around the ocean itself.

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It's an organization that runs an enormous research
vessel to explore the world's oceans, and we combine

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scientific discovery and exploration with media.

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I first became familiar with FileMaker years ago, in
an academic environment. I found that there were

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lots of things we needed to do, in terms of documenting,
in terms of databasing, that simply weren't available anywhere.

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And, I'm a sort of mid-level programming guy, I'm
not, like, high-end like my colleagues. And so,

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I got introduced to it, and we started building very
simple applications that work with it, but those

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things immediately grew into these very elaborate applications,
and I'm still programming in it for the past ten years. I'm still

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writing code for it, so I came to OceanX and I looked around
and there were all these sort of high-end, enterprise,

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cloud-based things that people kept trying--honestly,
trying and then putting down. And I said, "You know,

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I know this may be sort of different, but in
our world, we work with this package."

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Uh, Vincent Pieribone had developed a system in FileMaker.
Um, it's with--it had a lot of really great tools, when we saw it

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we said "Boy, this is a really interesting application he's
building," and it was trying to work on the logistics for

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planning where the Athena would be, uh, traveling
and how the...season would plan out.

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What makes Claris FileMaker so powerful is that it's at
the very high end of the low-code experience, so

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low code means you can do things rapidly, a lot of things are figured
out, you're not fussing with nasty details to get things applied,

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but at the same time, there's an extremely high level of power.

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Claris FileMaker has been, um, sort of the--our platform of choice
because it gives you the ability to, um, not only have a really solid

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database infrastructure, but then, also the
ability to customize that to our needs.

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This application really manages all of the data for the ship,
especially in the planning-to-execution phase of the agenda.

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What we do is such a unique thing, OceanX. We combine
operations on a vessel, we combine operations on shore.

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A problem that I really had not perceived that FileMaker
so beautifully solved was the fact that, on the vessel,

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we have limited satellite communication, so all of the
cloud-based programs are simply not gonna work on the ship.

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So what we did is, we developed a package on land
that contains the information and a package that's on the

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ship--and when we do get good satellite communication,
the guys at Kyo Logic created this amazing syncing platform between

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the FileMaker implementation on the vessel and the
FileMaker implementation on land, and it rapidly

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syncs these two things together, and everybody's
essentially working on the same set of data

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so FileMaker suddenly was a hero, because they were able to do
all kinds of fantastic things. As soon as we get in satellite range,

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the two sync and that gives us the ability to go in
and focus on actually doing what we want to do

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and orchestrating these missions rather than, you know,
um, spending all of our time thinking about ways that

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would be to pop in information because it's too much
to hold in your head, so you need somewhere

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for it all to live, and that's what FileMaker does for us.