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10 Employee Onboarding Software Tools for 2025
Employee onboarding is a far-reaching, complex process that just about every business needs to manage. This covers all aspects of how we transition a new hire from accepting an offer to becoming a fully productive member of the team. As such, onboarding requires extensive collaboration between stakeholders in diverse departments, including HR, finance, IT, and the onboardee’s new team. The key challenge here is that the tasks we assign to each of these colleagues need to be closely tracked and managed, especially in terms of handling dependencies and sequencing.
Ronan McQuillan
Sep 18, 2025
How to Design an Employee Onboarding Process | Ultimate Guide
Employee onboarding is an essential, wide-reaching process in every business. Successfully onboarding new hires means integrating them into the company culture and enabling them to become productive colleagues as quickly as possible. However, this is also a uniquely challenging process. There are a couple of reasons for this. Firstly, onboarding requires input from a range of colleagues across HR, IT, finance, and the hiree’s own department. Secondly, although many of the core tasks will be the same, the specific details of how we onboard employees will depend on their role.
Ronan McQuillan
Sep 18, 2025
6 TypeForm Alternatives for 2025
TypeForm is one of the most popular form builder tools on the market today, owing in large part to its intuitive, streamlined experiences for creating professional data collection UIs. However, this is a relatively crowded space, with several notable vendors targeting specific types of use cases and end users. Today, we’re checking out an important angle on form builders, by checking out some of the most prominent TypeForm alternatives on the market today.
Ronan McQuillan
Sep 3, 2025
8 JotForm Alternatives for 2025
JotForm is perhaps the best-known form builder tool on the market today. However, this is a more varied space than it might appear. On the one hand, most platforms offer wider capabilities beyond simply outputting form UIs. On the other hand, different vendors often have their own more granular target personas and use cases. Today, we’re shedding light on this by exploring the market for JotForm alternatives, including a range of solutions that are aimed at different kinds of users and applications.
Ronan McQuillan
Sep 1, 2025
Workspaces
Today, we’re excited to launch Workspaces: the first step in a major evolution for Budibase. A new architecture for better workflows Previously, Budibase centered everything around building a single app. Each app had its own automations and data sources. But as teams scaled, reusing automations or data across multiple apps became a challenge. With Workspaces, that changes. Now, you can group multiple apps, automations, and data sources together within a single workspace.
Joe Johnston
Aug 19, 2025
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