Agilebase platform blog: recent updates

In keeping with our philosophy of making database building tasks so easy for administrators that editing a database is a no-cost operation, we’ve made *all* table joins into simple one-click links. In plain English, what does this mean? Well say you’ve got two tables – contacts and sales enquiries. A contact can have a number…

I’m pleased to announce the new agileBase version 3.0, comprising a major set of updates. This is an exciting release, taking as inspiration innovative ideas and requests by clients recent work by companies such as Apple and Google input from user experience experts and the journey of development has taken us much further than originally…

Want to keep up to date with current activities, events, opportunities or issues being entered into agileBase by staff ?  This month’s new ‘RSS’ feature means you no longer have to log in to agileBase you can get data sent directly to your mobile. Want to know what is coming in from other outside sources (forms on…

We will be releasing the next major upgrade for agileBase – version 3.0 very shortly! The major benefits of which will be: Super fast data entry, even when dealing with complex tasks, such as entering a new organisation with three contacts, a project and an attached document. Reduced need for custom built complex data entry wizards, saving time,…

Memory boost: photo thumbnails in reports – useful if you have a better memory for faces than names for example!

The ‘word cloud’ has become very popular, used increasingly by national newspapers and described as ‘the gateway drug to textual analysis‘ by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Word clouds are now available in agileBase. Analysing numerical data is fairly well understood. There are all sorts of charts and statistics you can use, many of which have been…

New calendar integration means data can now be entered directly into agileBase from the calendar interface using our real-time bi-directional links. In previous posts we talked about the integration of agileBase with Google calendars, an option which is still available. However this month we’re launching a new vastly improved integrated calendar which not only allows you to…

agileBase is now six years old and development is really ramping up. This month’s new elements have all come from experienced clients and include the ability to force text to UPPERCASE, lowercase or Title Case charting improvements: pareto analysis and 3 month averages added the ability to pull in extra read-only data into a data…

You can now sychronise any report that contains date-based data into your favourite calendar application, for example Google Calendar, a phone or the iPad calendar. Here’s an example screenshot. Next on the horizon is better dashboard KPI charts You’ll soon be able to narrow down to show only recent data, expand out to the long…

We thought we’d highlight the most recent company to adopt agileBase because they’re a great demonstration of the decision-making that goes into choosing a lean and agile platform to run IT systems on. Here’s a video of the owner Tom Collins describing the background to his business and requirements. When he heard about agileBase, Tom…