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Top 15 IT Newsletters for 2025
The IT department is probably the team under the greatest pressure to stay informed. The problem is finding the time. IT teams already have some of the busiest, most varied workloads across the organization. How do you carve an hour to get to grips with the latest AI fads when you’ve got a full backlog of tickets to work through? To try and alleviate this pressure, countless brands run IT newsletters, claiming to give you the key facts in your mailbox.
Ronan McQuillan
Feb 5, 2025
How to Build a Compliance Management System in 6 Step
Businesses today face a hugely complex, varied regulatory environment. Between national, international, local, and internal policies, managing compliance can be a massive undertaking. Adopting an appropriate compliance management system is critical. Specifically, we need a singular, centralized solution for handling key data related to our compliance efforts. The trouble is every business faces unique compliance challenges. We’re all constrained by different internal policies, with distinct processes that must adhere to them.
Ronan McQuillan
Feb 4, 2025
Jira Service Management vs ServiceNow
ServiceNow and Jira Service Management are the two dominant platforms in the ITSM software space, together holding well over half of the market. But, despite sharing a core use case, each platform is aimed at a distinct type of organization. To pick the right one for your specific needs, we’ll need to take account of a range of factors, including the scale of your service portfolio, your available resources, the size of your IT team, and any technical requirements you have.
Ronan McQuillan
Jan 29, 2025
6 IT Risk Management Tools for 2025
Risk management is one of the key challenges for IT teams of all sizes. This comprises all kinds of operational, technical, financial, security, compliance, and other risk factors. Recording, assessing, and acting on these can be an enormous undertaking. These days, there’s a huge market for software tools to help IT teams stay on top of risks within their organizations. These range from relatively straightforward solutions for gathering and managing data to more complex platforms that offer advanced capabilities for specific types of risks - like regulatory change monitoring or network threat detection.
Ronan McQuillan
Jan 28, 2025
8 Jira Service Management Alternatives for 2025
Atlassian’s Jira Service Management (JSM) is one of the biggest players in the ISTM space. With extensive customization and configuration on offer, Atlassian have managed to corner a huge portion of the market for IT service management software. However, JSM isn’t necessarily the right choice for every IT department. Rather, there are a few key areas where it shines. For instance, it’s highly integrated with the wider Atlassian ecosystem. Naturally, if you already have their project management, release management, or documentation tools embedded, this can be a real boon.
Ronan McQuillan
Jan 23, 2025
Budibase 3.0
After months of development, over 3,500 commits, a full documentation overhaul, and three new templates, Budibase 3.0 is finally here. Why Budibase 3.0? This release was inspired by a key insight: Budibase engineers are most productive when configuring data and logic versus designing interfaces. With the 3.0 release, we aimed to create an exceptional data-first experience for building secure workflow applications. We’ve reimagined the process of setting up your data structures, configuring security, and effortlessly generating interfaces.
Jamie Birss, Joe Johnston
Nov 14, 2024
Day 5 - The Future
It’s the final day of our first launch week, and today, we’re going to look into the future of Budibase. It’s been two years since we launched Budibase 2.0. In that time, we’ve launched several game-changing features, including multi-player mode, global bindings, screen templates, and lots more. Now, with the 3.0 launch, we firmly believe our new data-first experience positions Budibase as the best, and most secure platform for building workflow apps.
Michael Shanks, Joe Johnston
Nov 8, 2024
Day 4 - AI
Today, we’re excited to release several new AI features. These latest enhancements will enable you to power your workflows securely with AI. In total, we have four new AI features to demo: AI Configs Budibase AI AI CRON generator AI Column AI Configs With AI Configs, you can connect your LLM to Budibase. Once connected, you can use your LLM to power multiple AI workflows within Budibase and the apps you build.
Martin McKeaveney, Joe Johnston
Nov 7, 2024