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Business Process Management | Ultimate Guide
Business process management is the cornerstone of any successful organization. From early-stage startups to massive enterprises, BPM is the key to efficient, robust, and consistent operations. However, process management is also widely misunderstood. Part of the problem here is that BPM is so ubiquitous. In fact, it touches on just about every aspect of your business, including ops, IT, HR, finances, marketing, sales, legal, and much, much more. Because of this, there’s a huge market for products that want to bill themselves as one-stop-shop BPM platforms.
Ronan McQuillan
Nov 29, 2022
Business Process Management Tools | 2024 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