I’ve spent countless hours comparing features in the various map visuals available for Microsoft Power BI. Each has their strengths and weaknesses and there is not a single option that… Read more »
Zapier is in a great position to get the pulse of which cloud software has traction in the small business world (and in departments of larger organizations, to a lesser… Read more »
These past couple of years I’ve worked extensively with Microsoft Power BI, which in many ways is “the next Excel”, but because it is much more recent, it still has… Read more »
Note: entry originally published in November 2014, maintained regularly since then. By definition Software as a Service is easier to roll out than on-premises software because you don’t have to install… Read more »
The explosion in the quantity and quality of both commercial APIs and open source projects is a huge enabler for digital start-ups and small businesses. Instead of painfully rolling your… Read more »
This 2004 entry was updated from the 2016-18 vantage point. If there’s an area where the shift from client-server to the cloud is most dramatic, this is it! Keep reading… Read more »
Kudos to SurveyMonkey for their very clear, user-friendly sign up form (pictured above) that lets you sign up with your existing Google, Facebook,or Microsoft credentials. They’re far from the only SaaS… Read more »
Smart move by Airtable to use their own product to list their updates, not just as an embed in this page, but also as a fully usable database that people… Read more »
The screenshot above looks pretty harmless, doesn’t it? It’s just a list of tags, and it’s just plain text at the bottom of a support page. Now, not quite anyone’s support site,… Read more »
Similar to how googling for “jazz albums 1965” returns a stripe of album covers – along with similar queries for books, movies, or video games – the simple “minute” search query reveals how… Read more »