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Dev/Prod switcher

We’re excited to announce a new feature that gives you more control over your development and production environments. The Dev/Prod switcher within the data section allows you to switch seamlessly between your development and production data. Key Updates: Switching Environments: Easily toggle between “Dev” and “Prod” modes to view and work with the corresponding data. External Tables: The switcher is fully compatible with external tables that use environment variables , making managing your different data sources easier.

Joe Johnston

Aug 18, 2025

6 Formstack Alternatives for 2025

Formstack is a popular form-building platform, offering extensive capabilities for creating custom data collection tools, as well as functionality for generating documents, handling signatures, automating workflows, and more. However, the market for form builder tools is relatively diverse, with a range of vendors targeting distinct segments, end users, and use cases. So, it can often be difficult to determine which platform is right for your specific needs. Today, we’re taking one angle on this question, by checking out some of the most prominent FormStack alternatives that are available on the market today.

Ronan McQuillan

Aug 1, 2025

6 Google Forms Alternatives for 2025

Google Forms is probably the most ubiquitous form builder tool available today, offering an intuitive, flexible platform for creating custom data collection UIs. However, this is a fairly crowded market, with a range of different vendors targeting distinct segments, including in terms of their primary users, use cases, and other aspects of their market positioning. Therefore, in order to make an informed decision about the right form builder for your needs, we need to have a clear picture of what our options are, as well as their respective strengths and weaknesses.

Ronan McQuillan

Aug 1, 2025

AI in IT Asset Management | Use Cases and Examples

AI is rapidly transforming almost all kinds of workflows and processes across businesses in every industry. However, some teams and functions are moving faster than others. In many organizations, internal services such as ITSM are quickly becoming the biggest innovators when it comes to AI adoption. Today, we’re exploring some of the forms this can take in the case of one key ITSM process, asset management. Along the way, we’ll cover everything you need to know about implementing AI in IT asset management workflows, as well as checking out some of the key use cases that Budibase can handle.

Ronan McQuillan

Jul 25, 2025

Building LLM-Powered Applications

AI is forming a key part of more and more development projects. While this obviously offers massive benefits, it also introduces some important challenges, including securing the required skills and resources to create internal solutions. Today, we’re diving deep into how to build LLM-powered applications, including practical examples of how Budibase empowers you to utilize AI within our low-code platform. Specifically, we’ll be covering: What is an LLM-powered application? Key use cases and examples Benefits and challenges AI capabilities in Budibase AI across the builder AI columns AI in Budibase automation Let’s start with the basics.

Ronan McQuillan

Jul 24, 2025

10 Self-Hosted AI Tools

AI is becoming central to all kinds of business processes. This offers almost unprecedented potential for efficiency and improvements within workflows. At the same time, though, businesses are constrained by several considerations that can affect their choice of solutions. For large organizations, one of the most prominent examples of this is self-hosting. That is, many enterprises and other security-focused organizations place a high level of emphasis on solutions that can be hosted on their own infrastructure, especially where these relate to mission-critical data or processes.

Ronan McQuillan

Jul 22, 2025

What are Enterprise AI Agents?

Interest in agentic AI has exploded over the past few years. In particular, businesses of all kinds are adopting AI agents to build efficiency, reliability, and scalability into their internal processes and workflows. However, as with all kinds of software tools, what an effective solution looks like can vary from one organization to the next. Indeed, a range of platforms have come to market in recent years for building and managing AI agents, but these often target very different segments and user personas.

Ronan McQuillan

Jul 18, 2025

AI Agent Security | In-Depth Guide

AI agents are almost certainly the most talked-about new technology in the world of enterprise IT. This should be no surprise, as they offer almost unprecedented potential for efficiency gains and workflow improvements. It’s very reasonable to have concerns around this, given that AI agents may be connected to mission-critical systems and data, and are enabled to act autonomously. Of course, each of these things has serious security implications. So, today, we’re diving deep into AI agent security.

Ronan McQuillan

Jul 17, 2025