Overview Airtable revolutionizes the boring concept of relational database by gifting business users the benefits of NoSQL database (e.g. MongoDB, Cassandra, Amazon’s DynamoDB). It expertly fills the void between Excel, Access, SQL and NoSQL databases, and even FileMaker Pro! Slide Deck https://www.slideshare.net/kennethlo/airtable-primer Likes Airtable offers ultimate flexibility and accessibility. Gone are the days when…

The desire of writing this article stems from my present circumstances during shelter-in-place. Few things I struggle with working remotely include: Running out of monitor real estate on a single monitor. Inability to print with a laser printer and company-supplied ink cartridges. Exhaustion from scrolling endlessly in Excel files that…

I recently won the honor of bringing a few dozen people up to speed with Atlassian Jira. The directive was to get a cross-functional 40+ team (from investment, finance, legal and PMO), which had never heard of Jira or bug tracking software before, to compose user stories and communicate as…

Clothes are not one size fits all. Neither should your Backstop instance be. The Backstop team has answered our prayers with the recent release of Client-Defined Entities (CDE). This functionality allows the use of terminology and lingo most familiar to us. Instead of creating generic Organizations, we create bespoke entities…

“Always be closing!”, I screamed. A handful of BUC 2018 attendees (who hadn’t fallen asleep yet) burst out laughing at my amateurish onstage attempt to impersonate Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross (1992). When running Backstop with Preqin integrated, you automate and offload the bulk of data collection efforts. …

Mergers and acquisitions happen. As do good and bad exits. More favorable exit ratio intuitively sparks more joy. When such events take place, how do you keep your Backstop data tidy? …

First of all, many congrats to Backstop who was recently awarded the 2018 Best Data and Technology Provider by CIO Magazine, while everybody was busy at holiday parties. We the customers will surely reap the benefits from all the exciting innovations in the pipeline. With that said, let’s jump straight…

It’s been only a few months since Backstop User Conference (BUC) 2018, the Backstop product team has been relentlessly enhancing the core platform by adding many features. When their marketing invited me to speak at Backstop Hong Kong Connect, I jumped out my chair out of excitement! Journey to Pearl of the Orient Slide Deck Resources Backstop/Horsley Bridge Partners Case Study LinkedIn Backstop User Forum