14. Importing and Exporting Bento and FileMaker Data

Bento and FileMaker Pro along with many other software products let you import and export data using common formats. This reflects the reality that, in today’s world, you often need to deal with data in a variety of formats that is stored in a variety of products. If your data is locked in a proprietary fortress to which you do not have access, it is not really your data; it is more like a hostage.

With the advent of mobile devices, many people thought of them as extensions of databases that resided on servers; the mobile devices were just new ways of getting into the corporate database. Over ...

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