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How to Build Project Cost Management Software
In the fast-paced world of project management, having real-time insights into your financial situation is not just a luxury, it’s a necessity. Therefore, effective project cost management software is too. Every penny counts, and understanding where it’s been spent can be the difference between a project’s success and failure. But beyond just tracking project costs, what if you could effortlessly add new cost data? How do you seamlessly integrate this financial tracking into a database you may already use?
Ronan McQuillan
Nov 2, 2023
How to Build a Warehouse Dashboard
If you carry physical products - your warehousing solutions are right at the center of your business. Warehouse dashboards provide much-needed visibility into your performance across a huge range of KPIs. Situations can change quickly - so it’s critical that decision-makers have fast, reliable access to important insights. Dashboards are the perfect solution for furnishing teams with repeatable reporting - while also eliminating the need for manual analytical work. Today, we’re going to see how Budibase can be used to build custom dashboards around existing data sources - saving your team hours of development work at the same time.
Ronan McQuillan
Oct 30, 2023
How to Build a Vendor Request Form
Vendor request forms are a key part of managing inventories, supply chains, and procurement processes - specifically when it comes to registering new suppliers. However, this can also create a huge amount of administrative work for logistics and finance teams alike. In particular, handling vendor requests manually or with pen and paper can lead to excessive data entry, validation, and other admin tasks. Today, we’re checking out how you can use Budibase to digitalize your vendor request forms with minimal custom coding skills.
Ronan McQuillan
Oct 27, 2023
How to Build an Inventory Dashboard in 7 Steps
An effective inventory dashboard is critical for any business that deals with physical products. This applies within manufacturing, ecommerce, traditional retail, logistics, or any other industry. See, in any inventory management context, it’s vital that decision-makers can quickly and easily access key insights about stock levels, locations, values, supply chain data, and other key performance indicators. That way, they can make informed decisions in real-time - without the need for manual reporting.
Ronan McQuillan
Oct 27, 2023
The Future of Databases | 8 Data Management Trends
Databases are not new. Having ways to be able to store data, query it, and serve it back to our users has been a key focus of web application development for decades. But, that doesn’t mean things have stood still. Today, we’re checking out the future of databases - with 8 data management trends and 11 real-world examples. Relational databases that were developed in the 70s still provide the backbone of most modern IT.
Ronan McQuillan
Oct 17, 2023
How to Build a Fleet Management Dashboard
An effective fleet management dashboard is one of the most fundamental tools in any logistics team’s arsenal. The idea is to give us a clear, up-to-date snapshot of our vehicles across our entire distribution network. Today, we’re exploring how we can use Budibase to build professional dashboards that leverage existing data. As we’ll see, Budibase is the ideal tool for extracting insights from all kinds of data sources and turning them into clear, actionable insights - so we can make better-informed decisions.
Ronan McQuillan
Oct 13, 2023
How to Build a Logistics Dashboard
We all know that time is money, but this is especially true in the world of logistics. So, we need easy access to clear insights about what’s going on within our supply chains. Today, we’re exploring how to build custom logistics dashboards in Budibase. Like with any dashboard tool, the challenge here isn’t so much a lack of data. It’s making sense of the data we do have. This is critical in situations where we have information about different aspects of our logistics processes coming from different locations - or where the insights we need require more complex querying from our raw data.
Ronan McQuillan
Oct 13, 2023
What is a Serverless Database? + 8 Picks for 2024
The rise of serverless databases has been one of the major shifts in how we build software over the past few years. In fact, they’re increasingly becoming a core part of all sorts of application projects. See, when we build any kind of solution, a big portion of the cost is the infrastructure we use to store and host relevant data. This also has an outsized impact on the quality and success of whatever we’re building.
Ronan McQuillan
Oct 13, 2023