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Business Process Management Tools | 2025 Guide + 5 Picks

Choosing business process management tools can be a bit of a minefield. There are a lot of vendors and SaaS tools out there promising the world. Then, we have a corresponding number of companies struggling to achieve the results they expect. If this sounds familiar, you’re in the right place. Today, we’re going to be clearing up some misconceptions around business process management tools. And there’s a lot of ground to cover too.

Ronan McQuillan

Nov 29, 2022

Business Process Analysis | 6-Step Guide

Business process analysis is a critical part of any transformation, improvement, or optimization project. No matter the specific process you’re targeting, thorough analysis is the key to setting effective goals and developing the right strategies to meet them. Despite this, process analysis is something that countless businesses get wrong. In minor cases, this will lead to your efforts falling short of your expected results. In more extreme cases, you might fail to achieve anything at all - or even suffer unintended consequences like avoidable costs, disruption, and wasted time.

Ronan McQuillan

Nov 28, 2022

What is Business Process Optimization? + 5 Tips

Business process optimization is a hot topic these days. In the age of remote workforces, ever-expanding digitalization, and difficult economic pressures, efficiency, transparency, and consistency have never been more important. Today, we’re diving deep into everything you need to know about achieving this across your entire business. The trouble is that, as a term, process optimization is typically used pretty loosely. So, if we want to be successful, we need to start with a clear definition and framework for BPO.

Ronan McQuillan

Nov 28, 2022

How to Build a Firebase GUI

A Firestore Firebase GUI is the easiest way to interact with your database without coding. Firebase is a versatile tool for app developers. It can completely replace the back end of your app, so you can focus on its front end and features. But all this versatility comes with a cost. Firestore Firebase is widely used by developers, but interacting with it can be quite hard - in particular, if you need to perform admin actions.

Ronan McQuillan

Nov 21, 2022

What is In-House Software Development?

In-house software development is a huge part of every industry. They say that, nowadays, every company is a software company. Today we’re taking a deep dive into everything you need to know about building software in-house. And there are a lot of misconceptions to deal with too. You could be forgiven for thinking that internal development teams are a luxury reserved for massive enterprises. While building an effective team is certainly a big investment, this needn’t stop smaller companies from reaping the benefits of in-house dev.

Ronan McQuillan

Nov 10, 2022

What’s new in Budibase: October 2022

Today, we are launching the Budibase October release 🎉. This release introduces a new drag-and-drop experience, Blocks ejection, and a new QR/Barcode scanner. Features & Improvements ✨ New drag-and-drop experience When designing apps, you can now drag-and-drop components and blocks from the components and blocks side panel onto your design screen. Blocks ejection Blocks are an important and popular part of the design flow within Budibase. They simplify and speed up the design process.

Joe Johnston

Nov 9, 2022

Budibase raises $7M to help every company on the planet build their own tools

At our old jobs, we got sick of reinventing the wheel every time we needed an internal tool. That’s why we built Budibase to empower IT teams to build beautiful internal tools faster. In the past year, we have come a long way, and we are excited to share the latest milestones in our journey. Today, we’re announcing that we’ve raised $7M in Seed II funding led by SignalFire and a bundle of new product updates that make Budibase exceedingly more extensible.

Joe Johnston

Nov 4, 2022

How to Build a FREE Elasticsearch GUI in 4 Steps

If you want to manage or retrieve data without coding, an Elasticsearch GUI might just be the tool for you. Elasticsearch is used to perform fast searches, no matter how big your database is. It uses a series of ingenious solutions to preprocess data, allowing you to scale your database as much as you need, without sacrificing efficiency. It has so many tools that it’s hard to make sure that you are getting the most out of it.

Ronan McQuillan

Nov 2, 2022