Cloud based Filemaker solution

[d|b]

I am hoping someone can help. I am looking for a database solution similar to filemaker. Basically it has to be allow me to:

1) Create a database that stores a fully customisable set of fields
2) Create an attractive looking input page that links to the database and is served to the user over the web
3) Export predefined parts of the data to excel
4) Generate reports based on predefined templates
5) Hosted in the cloud


Filemaker offers some of these solutions buts it's quite expensive and it seems that you have to host the database yourself. Coding something from scratch is also beyond the scope of the this project I think.

Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[tntcoder]

That's pretty custom and relatively complex tasks for a project to be honest, you will most likely have to either pay a lot or go bespoke and create it yourself.

Maybe you could use MS Access to do the database, front-end and excel conversions etc, but you would have to make the cloud interaction yourself.

Ideally though for a worthwhile solution you would want a web server running MySQL or similar and make a set of back-end scripts for processing the data and presenting it on web pages.

I'm afraid you are unlikely to find a cheap/free/perfect solution without going custom.

 

[d|b]

Filemaker would have been perfect (I think) if was hosted online somewhere. Is something like salesforce customisable?

Failing that would it be sensible to find someone who can host the filemaker server? This solution is for a company so it has to be reasonably secure with good availability.