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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

Enterprise Software Development | Ultimate Guide

Enterprise software development is uniquely challenging. After all, balancing complex security, systems design, and process mapping with the need to provide efficient, intuitive user experiences is quite an ask. As such, building enterprise software solutions is really a specialism in itself. Whether this means relying on your in-house team or engaging with external contractors and development houses, enterprises are often faced with difficult, complex software lifecycles and expensive, lengthy, builds.

Ronan McQuillan

Oct 23, 2022

How to Build a Redis GUI

With a Redis GUI, you can make the most out of your database, without memorizing any commands. Databases are incredible business tools. They allow you to store and manipulate large sets of data. That way, you can make better-informed decisions. They provide you with insights that just wouldn’t be possible with manual data storage. But they can be quite complex. Redis is a NoSQL database. It allows you to store data in key/value pairs.

Ronan McQuillan

Oct 17, 2022