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Top 5 Open-Source Digital Asset Management Tools
Digital asset management tools are critical to teams that need to store, share, and collaborate on large volumes of media, like images, videos, and other files. However, choosing the right platform can be difficult. For example, requirements can vary greatly from one team to the next, depending on the scale of our processes, our user volumes, security needs, and specific workflows. Today, we’re exploring the market for open-source digital asset management tools.
Ronan McQuillan
May 24, 2024
Top 5 Open-Source Help Desk Software Tools
Help desk software is one of the most critical parts of your ITSM tool stack. Enabling employees and other users to access service quickly and easily has an enormous impact on your wider operational efficiency. Today, we’re checking out some of the best options out there for open-source help desk software. This can be a particularly tricky market to navigate. Many businesses prioritize open-source solutions for their help desk for security reasons.
Ronan McQuillan
May 22, 2024
Top 5 Free Field Service Management Software Tools
Field service management can be a mission-critical process for a wide range of businesses, from large enterprises to small contractors. Therefore, the tools that we use to handle this are central to our bottom line. Today, we’re looking at a range of options for free field service management software. However, this is a slightly tricky question. As we’ll see, there are a few approaches to handling field services without incurring big licensing costs for a COTS solution.
Ronan McQuillan
May 21, 2024
Throwaway Prototyping | In-Depth Guide
Throwaway prototyping is an alternative way of thinking about building applications. Prototypes play several vital roles in the development process. For instance, providing proof of concept, fleshing out NFRs, experimenting with ideas, or simply gathering feedback. There’s an innate tension here though. On the one hand, prototyping obviously drains resources. Namely, development hours and the labor costs that come along with them. On the flip side, this expenditure can be hugely beneficial, or even completely central to a project.
Ronan McQuillan
Mar 19, 2024
What are the Components of an API?
Knowing the components of an API is obviously important for setting them up to do what you want. Otherwise, how can you ever expect to use them correctly? Today, we’re covering everything you need to know. We’re going to take each of the constituent parts of an API in turn and explain exactly what they are, what they do, and how you can use them. Along the way, we’ll think about real-world examples of why each one is important, and the specific scenarios where they’re useful.
Ronan McQuillan
Mar 14, 2024
Top 7 Rapid Application Development Tools for 2025
Choosing the right rapid application development tools for your team is a tricky prospect. Most software procurement decisions come down to finding the most cost-effective way to perform a specific task. RAD is a little bit different. It’s not so much concerned with what you do, as how you do it. So, yes, RAD tools enable your development team to build software solutions, but more importantly, they allow them to do it quickly.
Ronan McQuillan
Feb 19, 2024
What is PoC Software?
Building PoC for software development projects is an effective way to validate our ideas without going to the effort and expense of building the real thing. Not only does this enable us to prove that our approach to the problem at hand is viable - it also gives us a valuable opportunity to gather real-world input from potential users, developers, target audiences, and other business stakeholders. But, achieving this can be more challenging than you might think.
Ronan McQuillan
Sep 29, 2023
What is a Containerization?
Containerization is one of the decades’ biggest shifts in the way businesses manage their internal IT - with huge implications for how we develop software, manage existing tools, handle business data, and much more. So much so, that containerization has become a top priority for IT leaders in all industries. Today, we’re checking out everything you need to know about working with containers - from what they are and what they achieve - to the challenges you might encounter and the specific tools you can use for successful implementation.
Ronan McQuillan
Jul 28, 2023