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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
How to Build an Employee Onboarding App in 7 Steps
Finding and hiring quality talent can be a lengthy, expensive process. So, once they’ve signed on the dotted line, we want to get our new colleagues up and running as quickly as possible. Today, we’re showing you how to build an effective employee onboarding app. The tricky thing is that onboarding new hires brings along a whole swathe of administrative work - like introducing them to their new coworkers, getting them set up on our internal IT systems, and ensuring that they’ve read all of the relevant documentation for their role.
Ronan McQuillan
Oct 10, 2023
Budibase is ISO 27001 certified
Today, we’re excited to announce we are officially ISO 27001:2022 (ISO 27001) certified. This further strengthens our commitments to security in Budibase’s low-code platform. We’re committed to keeping your data safe: ISO 27001 provides a framework for establishing, implementing, operating, monitoring, reviewing, and maintaining information security controls. We’re committed to ongoing compliance: As part of our adherence to ISO 27001, we’ll continue with ongoing surveillance audits. What is ISO 27001? To obtain the certification, we underwent rigorous audits performed by an independent third-party auditor, NQA , who evaluated the effectiveness of our Information Security Management System (ISMS) implementation across various domains.
Joe Johnston
Oct 4, 2023
September 2023 Product Update
The September release is here and it comes with a number of crowd-pleasing, community-driven changes that will improve the app building and access experience: Retain user & table data when overriding applications We’ve been asked time and time again for the ability to update an application without impacting the user or data tables. From today, you can import applications, while retaining these artifacts. User columns now available (and updates to the user table) The user table as you know today will still exist, but in a read-only format.
Joe Johnston
Oct 1, 2023
10 Strategies for Simplified Data Management
Businesses today deal with larger, more complex data sets than at any point in history. Obviously, this brings huge benefits. At the same time, it introduces swathes of new challenges. These include inefficiencies, unnecessary risks, poor oversight, and a whole host of other problems. One approach to solving this problem is simplifying data management. See, the problem isn’t so much the data itself, it’s how we build processes and operations around it.
Ronan McQuillan
Sep 29, 2023