Our team’s back in the office after a whirlwind week at Claris Engage 2025, and we can’t wait to share what we shared, accomplished, and learned there. The conference set the stage for another transformative year in the Claris ecosystem. As Premier Sponsors, we’re thrilled to share not just what we learned but how our team’s contributions—from award-winning leadership to cutting-edge new offerings—are helping shape the future of custom development on the Claris platform. Join us as we recap an incredible week of growth, recognition, and collaboration.
Soliant Recognitions
At the keynote, Soliant Consulting was recognized as the Americas Growth Partner of the Year. It reflects our hard work to help Claris expand its ecosystem to new users and help those new to Claris make the most of the entire platform.
Equally as exciting — our own Wim Decorte earned a Lifetime Achievement Award from Claris! The award highlights his technical expertise and commitment to pushing the platform to new levels. See other award winners.
Soliant Sessions
Troubleshooting like a Pro: Using Claris FileMaker Server Logs for Performance and Stability
Wim Decorte, CTO and VP of the Claris Practice, shared how to identify key areas to focus on for performance and stability improvements. He also gave a practical walkthrough on using Claris FileMaker Server logs to map out a FileMaker solution’s behavior.
Turning Soup Into Structure: Using AI to Process Unorganized Data
Steve Lane, Outgoing President and CTO, explained how to leverage AI to extract structured data within Claris FileMaker. He led attendees through real-world examples, code reviews, and practical insights to simplify data management processes in FileMaker.
Solving real-world use cases with Claris Studio, Claris Connect, and FileMaker
Marcelo Piñeyro, Senior Technical Solutions Architect, shared how to address real-world use cases by leveraging the powerful combination of Claris Studio, Claris Connect, and Claris FileMaker.
How to build Well-architected Solutions in Claris FileMaker
Mislav Kos, Director of Engineering for our Claris Practice, led attendees through Soliant’s preferred tools for performing well-architected platform reviews explicitly designed for FileMaker. He demonstrated how they allow you to gather actionable data and develop improvement plans.
Training Day Sessions
Stay Current with Claris FileMaker
Bob Bowers, CEO, focused his training day session on several useful and newer tools in the FileMaker toolbox. He explored their uses and benefits with attendees through hands-on exercises, increasing their confidence in using the features in their solutions.
Claris FileMaker Server Workshop
Wim Decorte, CTO and VP of the Claris Practice, taught attendees how to make FileMaker Server stable, performant, and secure.
Claris FileMaker Essentials: Building a Strong Foundation
Sara Severson, Director of Client & Partner Relations, dove deeper into the powerful features and capabilities of Claris FileMaker with her trainees. She discussed scripting, calculations, relational data modeling, and layout design, sharing how to create more complex databases and applications that meet an organization’s specific needs.
New Soliant.Cloud Offerings
Our Soliant.cloud leadership team also attended to share new service and product offerings created and curated specifically for the Claris Community.
OmniBlaze
At Engage 2024, Karl Jreijiri Soliant, Soliant Application Architect, hinted at a new tool that helps FileMaker users load test their applications using actual clients and real-life scenarios. Since then, we’ve launched the product as OmniBlaze. Identify bottlenecks, improve your user experience, and increase the stability of your application with access to up to 2,000 desktop clients. Learn more.
Amazon Q in Quicksight
Our newest offering helps FileMaker users launch powerful Business Intelligence for FileMaker applications and transform insights into action. The tool provides effortless data visualization, automatic data intelligence, data-informed decisions, and easily-shared insights. Learn more.
Soliant.cloud Enhancements
And, of course, Soliant.cloud continues to evolve quickly, anticipating the Claris community’s needs and taking advantage of all AWS has to offer its users. Our team demonstrated its self-service portal, showing Engage attendees how easy it is to access backups, monitor server performance, and more. Explore Soliant.cloud.
Announcing New Soliant Leadership
The event was the first for our new President, Patrick O’Rourke, and new CTO, Wim Decorte, in their new roles. Steve Lane, who has served as CTO and President for 20-plus years at Soliant, is retiring, and our team gave him a farewell party following the closing reception.
Read a recap of Claris Engage 2025 directly from the Claris team here.
