Today's business are facing many financial challenges, especially when it comes to developing IT applications. New technologies has arrived on the scene that reduces those financial burdens, while speeding the application development process. "According to a report by Strait Time Singapore, nearly 50% of IT project in Asia Pacific failed. This was according to research carried out by Dynamic Markets on behalf of IT services , business solutions ad outsourcing organization Tata Consultancy Services. The research surveyed 800 middle and senior IT managers in large companies across eight countries worldwide , including South East Asia countries. More alarming, despite the poor performance, such results do not evoke a sharp reaction from the management, the survey noted. In fact, close to 70 % of the respondents said their managers and the board continued to provide the necessary financial support for these projects." RAD such as Filemaker, replaces the tedious hand-design and coding processed with automated design and coding. The automation delivers a multitude of benefits from expediting application development to improving the agility of change management. it offers certain advantages over tools such as Oracle, Miscrosoft SQL Server and MySQL that use more traditional application development methodologies. In a nutshell, Filemaker has the lowest Total Cost of Ownership in application development and maintenance. Filemaker has published a white paper, detailing how Filemaker fares against the traditional development tools like Oracle, Microsoft SQL and MySQL. Please contact us if you interested to read this paper. Evopac is proud to be associated with Filemaker as one of the leading Filemaker Developer and Business Associate in Asia Pacific.