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What is IT Process Automation?
IT process automation is the cornerstone of any effective technical team. The goal is to boost efficiency and reduce costs, by eliminating the need for repetitive manual tasks, within your IT department. Automation offers huge benefits across all organizations, but IT departments in particular stand to gain perhaps more than any other. Not least of all because IT professionals are amongst the most highly skilled, with labor costs to match.
Ronan McQuillan
Jun 9, 2022
What is Workflow Analysis? 5-Step Guide
Workflow analysis is an essential element of any transformation, improvement, or optimization project. A thorough understanding of how your workflows function and the value they provide is the first step to all kinds of operational improvements. As such, it’s crucial to get this step right. Despite this, it’s all too common for businesses to jump straight into playing with shiny new automation tools, without a proper understanding of what they’d like to achieve.
Ronan McQuillan
Jun 9, 2022
Workflow Automation | Ultimate Guide
Workflow automation is a critical part of any modern business. With ever-increasing competition, your automation strategy is crucial, no matter your industry. Despite this, many organizations fail to fully reap the benefits. Today, we’re going to cover everything you need to know about automating business workflows. We’ll start by covering the theory behind automation, including what it is, how it works, and the benefits it brings. We’ll then move on to the specific strategies you can use to automate workflows, before taking a look at how Budibase is on a mission to make this easier than ever.
Ronan McQuillan
Jun 9, 2022
How to Implement RBAC in 8 Steps
Knowing how to implement RBAC is a crucial skill for building modern web applications. With an ever-increasing need to maximize security, efficiency, and usability, RBAC is an essential tool for successful app projects. In short, role-based access control (RBAC), is a framework built around defined roles, each with associate permissions. Users are then assigned to one of these roles, to determine which actions they can take within your app. For a more in-depth explanation, check out our ultimate guide to role-based access control .
Ronan McQuillan
May 23, 2022
Role-Based Access Control | Ultimate Guide
Granting users the right level of access to your systems and data is essential for security and UX alike. Today we’re going to dive deep into the most prominent way to achieve this - role-based access control (RBAC). More specifically, we’re going to cover everything you need to know about implementing RBAC for your application. We’ll start by exploring what RBAC is, and the situations where it’s most effective. Then, we’ll move on to how you can implement a successful RBAC system, including concrete steps you can follow, best practices, and how Budibase makes it a breeze to assign and control user access.
Ronan McQuillan
May 23, 2022
Rule-Based vs Role-Based Access Control
How you control user access to your app has a huge impact on its performance, security, and usability. Today, we’re going to explore the differences between rule-based and role-based access control, the two predominant systems for modern applications. Despite their similar names, rule-based and role-based systems differ greatly, in terms of both technical implementation and business-level considerations. However, both offer high levels of security and usability. As such, the key decision points are often largely operational, relating to how the systems are maintained and administered.
Ronan McQuillan
May 23, 2022
What is Data Access Control | In-Depth Guide
Data access control is a crucial element of any information security strategy. Companies today face a more complex regulatory environment than ever when it comes to protecting personal data. However, this must be balanced with the need for efficient, data-driven decision-making. As such, how users are assigned access to data across your organization has enormous implications. Today, we’re going to cover everything your need to know about data access controls, including the theory, the specific methods available to you, and how to create the right framework for your needs.
Ronan McQuillan
May 23, 2022
Data Sources for App Projects | Ultimate Guide
When building a web app, your choice of data source is critical. Deciding how and where to store, access, and manipulate data is fundamental to every successful app project. Today, we’ll be looking at everything you need to know to get this decision right. We’ll start with the basics, including what a data source is, the different ways web apps access data, and how this fits into your wider app architecture.
Ronan McQuillan
May 22, 2022