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How to Build a GitHub Metrics Dashboard

Managing a GitHub repository is hard. Your developers are too valuable to waste their time on simple admin tasks, like pulling stats. A quick way to overcome this is with a GitHub metrics dashboard. With a dashboard, you can instantly see everything you need to know. You can use a dedicated app to find out what is working well or to discover and fix issues. However, due to the unique nature of GitHub projects, it’s hard to find a pre-made dashboard that suits your needs.

Ronan McQuillan

Jun 13, 2022

Enterprise Workflow Automation

For large, international organizations, efficiency is everything. However, this can’t come at the expense of accuracy, compliance, and security. Enterprise workflow automation is the key to balancing these concerns. Of course, enterprises know this. The real question is how you can implement automation. Or, more specifically, how can enterprises most cost-effectively create automated workflows? That’s exactly what we’re going to cover in this guide. These days, automation can be the difference between remaining competitive or losing your edge, especially for massive, internationally trading organizations.

Ronan McQuillan

Jun 9, 2022

What is IT Process Automation?

IT process automation is the cornerstone of any effective technical team. The goal is to boost efficiency and reduce costs, by eliminating the need for repetitive manual tasks, within your IT department. Automation offers huge benefits across all organizations, but IT departments in particular stand to gain perhaps more than any other. Not least of all because IT professionals are amongst the most highly skilled, with labor costs to match.

Ronan McQuillan

Jun 9, 2022

What is Workflow Analysis? 5-Step Guide

Workflow analysis is an essential element of any transformation, improvement, or optimization project. A thorough understanding of how your workflows function and the value they provide is the first step to all kinds of operational improvements. As such, it’s crucial to get this step right. Despite this, it’s all too common for businesses to jump straight into playing with shiny new automation tools, without a proper understanding of what they’d like to achieve.

Ronan McQuillan

Jun 9, 2022

Workflow Automation | Ultimate Guide

Workflow automation is a critical part of any modern business. With ever-increasing competition, your automation strategy is crucial, no matter your industry. Despite this, many organizations fail to fully reap the benefits. Today, we’re going to cover everything you need to know about automating business workflows. We’ll start by covering the theory behind automation, including what it is, how it works, and the benefits it brings. We’ll then move on to the specific strategies you can use to automate workflows, before taking a look at how Budibase is on a mission to make this easier than ever.

Ronan McQuillan

Jun 9, 2022

Role-Based Access Control | Ultimate Guide

Granting users the right level of access to your systems and data is essential for security and UX alike. Today we’re going to dive deep into the most prominent way to achieve this - role-based access control (RBAC). More specifically, we’re going to cover everything you need to know about implementing RBAC for your application. We’ll start by exploring what RBAC is, and the situations where it’s most effective. Then, we’ll move on to how you can implement a successful RBAC system, including concrete steps you can follow, best practices, and how Budibase makes it a breeze to assign and control user access.

Ronan McQuillan

May 23, 2022

Rule-Based vs Role-Based Access Control

How you control user access to your app has a huge impact on its performance, security, and usability. Today, we’re going to explore the differences between rule-based and role-based access control, the two predominant systems for modern applications. Despite their similar names, rule-based and role-based systems differ greatly, in terms of both technical implementation and business-level considerations. However, both offer high levels of security and usability. As such, the key decision points are often largely operational, relating to how the systems are maintained and administered.

Ronan McQuillan

May 23, 2022

What is Data Access Control | In-Depth Guide

Data access control is a crucial element of any information security strategy. Companies today face a more complex regulatory environment than ever when it comes to protecting personal data. However, this must be balanced with the need for efficient, data-driven decision-making. As such, how users are assigned access to data across your organization has enormous implications. Today, we’re going to cover everything your need to know about data access controls, including the theory, the specific methods available to you, and how to create the right framework for your needs.

Ronan McQuillan

May 23, 2022