"FileMaker Go is an app for the iPhone and iPad that allows you to access FileMaker-based software on the go on those devices," said TimeHarvest managing director Geoff Stephens.

Andrew Edmondson, managing director of Purely Digital in Derby, who has become the first Time-Harvest Customer to deploy FileMaker Go on an iPad, said: "It's brilliant. Nothing beats having the iPad and being able to scroll all the way through the lists in real time."

Edmondson said the iPad would work out cheaper for staff than laptops with the necessary software licences.

For more, see executive editor Barney Cox's Technology Report.