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This is absolutely amazing! Looking forward to seeing more case studies, especially around internal enterprise apps because I suspect that trying to convince de

This is absolutely amazing! Looking forward to seeing more case studies, especially around internal enterprise apps because I suspect that trying to convince departments from a big company of an idea might be as hard as convincing the general public (as is the case with b2c founders)

meredydd 8y ago
Thanks! Is there a particular example you'd like to see? Annoyingly, we can't really talk about the details of most of our internal-enterprise-app-type deployments. We do have an anonymised example here: https://anvil.works/case-studies/building-secure-download-portal https://anvil.works/case-studies/building-secure-download-po... - but even that is more detail than most want to share! So if you have a suggestion for an enterprised-focused example you'd like to see - especially for your company - drop me a line and let's make it happen! (Email is in my profile.)
- jimnotgym 8y ago
  I would love to see more workflow apps, so we don't have to do this in Sharepoint. Things like expense approval. fill out expenses > attach scan > send to approver > approver ticks (auditable) > send api call to ERP similar things are price/quote approval, invoice approval, that kind of thing
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- phmagic 8y ago
  Similar to what jimnotgym said, workflow apps are a huge timesavers but trying to get IT to make or host one is a headache. A big one I saw while consulting for big enterprises was document processing (esp Excel/CSV). The lowest person on totem pole goes through 100 documents replacing or reformatting some value. Python is great for this! Is there a way to upload documents into Anvil?
  - meredydd 8y ago
    > Is there a way to upload documents into Anvil? Absolutely! Check out this fifteen-minute demo, building a document storage/tracking system: https://anvil.works/blog/document-tracking https://anvil.works/blog/document-tracking For more advanced processing we have have pandas, python-xslx, and all that good stuff ready to use :)
- eat_veggies 8y ago
  A lot of huge non-tech companies use Sharepoint for internal sites. Sharepoint sucks major ass. If you can demonstrate how Anvil can replace Sharepoint both better and cheaper (and if you can offer their level of support), then you might be able to get some customers.
jimnotgym 8y ago
I am really excited about using this for internal enterprise apps, but I (and I guess most) would not be able to share them. I guess tipping the Anvil guys off about a generic version of an app similar to yours might allow them to blog about it. Two weeks ago I was waiting for someone who was late for a meeting, and in that 30 minutes I wrote and deployed a little system monitor for an invisible API/EDI broker service! In another hour the next day I added some more features so the app started to become a control panel for the app. It would take me longer than that to set up the hosting normally.

meredydd 8y ago

Thanks! Is there a particular example you'd like to see? Annoyingly, we can't really talk about the details of most of our internal-enterprise-app-type deployments. We do have an anonymised example here: https://anvil.works/case-studies/building-secure-download-portal https://anvil.works/case-studies/building-secure-download-po... - but even that is more detail than most want to share! So if you have a suggestion for an enterprised-focused example you'd like to see - especially for your company - drop me a line and let's make it happen! (Email is in my profile.)

jimnotgym 8y ago
I would love to see more workflow apps, so we don't have to do this in Sharepoint. Things like expense approval. fill out expenses > attach scan > send to approver > approver ticks (auditable) > send api call to ERP similar things are price/quote approval, invoice approval, that kind of thing
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phmagic 8y ago
Similar to what jimnotgym said, workflow apps are a huge timesavers but trying to get IT to make or host one is a headache. A big one I saw while consulting for big enterprises was document processing (esp Excel/CSV). The lowest person on totem pole goes through 100 documents replacing or reformatting some value. Python is great for this! Is there a way to upload documents into Anvil?
- meredydd 8y ago
  > Is there a way to upload documents into Anvil? Absolutely! Check out this fifteen-minute demo, building a document storage/tracking system: https://anvil.works/blog/document-tracking https://anvil.works/blog/document-tracking For more advanced processing we have have pandas, python-xslx, and all that good stuff ready to use :)
eat_veggies 8y ago
A lot of huge non-tech companies use Sharepoint for internal sites. Sharepoint sucks major ass. If you can demonstrate how Anvil can replace Sharepoint both better and cheaper (and if you can offer their level of support), then you might be able to get some customers.

jimnotgym 8y ago

I am really excited about using this for internal enterprise apps, but I (and I guess most) would not be able to share them. I guess tipping the Anvil guys off about a generic version of an app similar to yours might allow them to blog about it. Two weeks ago I was waiting for someone who was late for a meeting, and in that 30 minutes I wrote and deployed a little system monitor for an invisible API/EDI broker service! In another hour the next day I added some more features so the app started to become a control panel for the app. It would take me longer than that to set up the hosting normally.