Platform Updates

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  • Top agileBase tips

    The latest agileBase version out this week includes some great little ideas from inside and outside the company so I thought I’d compile them into a tips newsletter along with a few other useful general tips – the kinds of things that are really useful if you know about them. So, new stuff first… 1.…

  • Continuous improvement in agileBase

    agileBase is a platform to allow continuous iterative improvements to back-office business systems. We are so convinced of this iterative approach that we also follow the same logic in developing the product itself. Basically if we come across a problem that a client has, rather than trying to solve it in a one-off fashion, we…

  • Analysis: The link between operations and strategy

    Why analyze? And why now? The IT press is currently full of stories about a recent trend; the increasing using of data analysis to built competitive advantage.  Analysis is coming into its own as service sector organisations realise that they can get real time answers to fundamental questions such as, what efficiency improvements are possible…

  • New for April/May

    Despite certain staff being incapacitated abroad during this month’s volcano ash flights shutdown, we’ve still managed to get out some major feature releases and updates requested by clients. First is our executive dashboard, available as an addon – it’s now ready for initial users to play with. The second is the ability to set any…

  • v2.6 charting video demo

    Release 2.6 of agileBase introduces some new ways to chart data. Here’s a five minute video that shows how to make the most of the new features for tactical analysis, creating, filtering and manipulating data charts.

  • agileBase

    What’s new? GT portalBase has a new name, agileBase. The working title ‘GT portalBase’ was overdue for replacement and the new name simply reflects the nature and purpose of the product, an agile development platform – development with agileBase allowing back office software to be just in time (that is, this week and $ rather…

  • 2.4.1 – Sparkline Dashboards

    To go with the recent work on visualisation of utilisation data involving treemaps, we’ve added another tool to the portalBase manager/admin’s arsenal – ‘sparkline’ graphs that use log statistics to highlight particular types of usage in three areas – operational, tactical and strategic. To see the full picture, check out http://gtwebmarque.com/wikis/gtwm/index.php/Usage_analysis

  • GTpB 2.4 – build custom templates

    Simplifying the building of custom templates has been the main focus for the newest release of GT portalBase this week, version 2.4. Template plugins in portalBase are used when you need to display data in your own custom formats. For example, one template may be needed to print an invoice, another to generate the text…

  • Strategy in IT

    With the whirlwind of development and recent announcements about portalBase, it’s time to take a step back and think about why we’ve been making these improvements and what it all adds up to as a whole. Lets think about how IT can work in various strategy scenarios: Best of suite: your organisation attempts to buy…

  • YouTube integration

    Why, you might ask, make youtube integration a priority for a business tool such as portalBase? Recently we came across an interesting radio broadcast of the BBC’s ‘In Business’ programme which focussed on how 21st century organisations are becoming ‘learning’ organisations – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lszhn It described how even very large scale organisations are looking to speed up…