Case Study: Productive Computing achieves 24 years of growth and streamlined, paperless operations with the Claris Platform

Family-owned Productive Computing celebrates 24 years of growth and success with the Claris Platform.

Productive Computing is a family-owned San Diego firm founded by Marc Larochelle that has built 24 years of growth around the Claris FileMaker platform. The company faced recurring client challenges: disorganized mainframe or paper-based processes for large events, field operations, and marine rescue logging, plus a shortage of focused training for FileMaker developers.

Productive Computing delivered custom FileMaker solutions—most notably an end-to-end event management system and Vessel Service Solutions, a waterproof iPad app with offline capability—and launched Productive Computing University for developer training. The outcome: paperless, scalable workflows used by dozens of companies and hundreds of towboats, steady growth to a 20-person team, stronger client productivity and profitability, and industry recognition with the 2020 Claris Excellence Award for Education.

Productive Computing

Marc Larochelle

Chief Executive Officer