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Agilebase platform blog: recent updates

  • 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…

  • Why Open Source?

    After four years of development GT portalBase is still a truly innovative product. However increasing interest from a variety of organisations means we have become aware that adopters will be looking to use the product in a variety of different ways. We have decided to make GTpB Open Source for two reasons. To allow organisations…

  • “See” your organisation – release 2.3

    Organisations invariably seek to improve their understanding of how they work and how effective past investment strategies have been. In service industries staffing costs are often an organisation’s biggest outgoings. Managers need simple quick ways to understand where this resource is  focussed. IT systems underpin performance. Before deciding whether to commit any further resources, IT…

  • Email marketing integration

    Spam is a big issue. Most organisations want to build their email lists but this aim has to be balanced against the need to ensure that the right emailshots go to the right people. Given the numerous ways addresses get into the organisation, this can be harder than it appears! GTpB can now help eMarketeers…

  • Open Source GTpB

    On its fourth anniversary, portalBase has been released under a GPL open source license. portalBase is a web based industrial strength platform for business application development. It’s used to rapidly prototype and develop data entry and reporting applications that work over the internet or a local network. Our vision was to create a product that…

  • iPhone and Google phone version

    We’ve polished the mobile version of portalBase – to try it out head straight to www.gtportalbase.com/mobile You can view reports, summaries and records. Editing may come in a future version, depending on whether users feel this would be useful functionality or not. Tip: If you use portalBase to store all of your company contacts, as…

  • Document version histories in 2.2.7

    Document version control is now available automatically to all files uploaded to portalBase. Whenever a new file is uploaded into a particular record, the file that was there (if any) is archived. Archived files are available to view and download in the ‘view’ tab. The edit tab only shows the current file, as archived files…

  • Interoperability

    All modern software needs to be able to act on shared data with third party applications. This is especially true in the situations in which portalBase is commonly used, for example where it is a rapid development environment for creating applications to supplement legacy or hard-to-alter core software. You rarely get full value out of data…

  • Learn how to filter

    The ability to filter data is one of the things that makes portalBase really powerful. Searching and filtering is quite easy but many users tend to stick with basic filters. This release of version 2.2 adds some more options so now’s a good time to write a quick tutorial by example. For those who want to…

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