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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

How to Build a FREE Elasticsearch GUI in 4 Steps

If you want to manage or retrieve data without coding, an Elasticsearch GUI might just be the tool for you. Elasticsearch is used to perform fast searches, no matter how big your database is. It uses a series of ingenious solutions to preprocess data, allowing you to scale your database as much as you need, without sacrificing efficiency. It has so many tools that it’s hard to make sure that you are getting the most out of it.

Ronan McQuillan

Nov 2, 2022

Enterprise Software Development | Ultimate Guide

Enterprise software development is uniquely challenging. After all, balancing complex security, systems design, and process mapping with the need to provide efficient, intuitive user experiences is quite an ask. As such, building enterprise software solutions is really a specialism in itself. Whether this means relying on your in-house team or engaging with external contractors and development houses, enterprises are often faced with difficult, complex software lifecycles and expensive, lengthy, builds.

Ronan McQuillan

Oct 23, 2022

How to Build a Redis GUI

With a Redis GUI, you can make the most out of your database, without memorizing any commands. Databases are incredible business tools. They allow you to store and manipulate large sets of data. That way, you can make better-informed decisions. They provide you with insights that just wouldn’t be possible with manual data storage. But they can be quite complex. Redis is a NoSQL database. It allows you to store data in key/value pairs.

Ronan McQuillan

Oct 17, 2022

In-House vs Outsourcing Software Development | Quick Guide

Weighing up whether to opt for in-house vs outsourcing software development can be a tough decision. The trouble is that the factors at play here cut across a whole range of issues, including technical, operational, and financial concerns. Our decision is also inevitably going to be influenced by more project-specific variables, like the kind of solution we’re building and the resources we can dedicate to it. At the same time, it’s vitally important that we make the right call here/

Ronan McQuillan

Oct 15, 2022

When to Build vs Buy Software: 2024 Guide

Deciding whether to build vs buy software solutions is one of the central challenges for IT procurement teams. Each time we encounter a need for a new tool, capability, or other software asset, we’re faced with this decision. The trouble is, there are a lot of moving parts at play here. You see, on one level, this simply comes down to maximizing return on investment. However, so many different factors influence cost-effectiveness that it can be hard to know where to start.

Ronan McQuillan

Oct 13, 2022

6 In-House Development Examples for 2024

Internal IT teams have never faced greater demand for custom solutions. This is well documented. However, there’s a lot of misunderstanding about the kinds of tools they actually build. Today, we’re putting this right with our roundup of in-house development examples. Of course, every business faces its own unique challenges. As such, we need to be conscious of the underlying issues that feed this ever-growing demand. That way, we can begin to understand not just the kinds of tools that internal devs build, but also the strategies that modern teams can use to output better solutions, for less.

Ronan McQuillan

Oct 8, 2022

Introducing Budibase 2.0

Today we’re launching Budibase 2.0 - and yes, you can build your own custom components! Budibase 2.0 brings it all together: extensibility, scalability, education, and community. We think you’ll love it! Features & Improvements 🎨 Custom plugins (components and datasources) By far our most requested feature - users can now add custom datasources and components, aka plugins, to Budibase. Plugins are stored at the global level allowing you to use them across your different apps.

Joe Johnston

Sep 25, 2022