Business
Development
Application Integration — Why Is It Rising in Popularity and How to Approach It
Maybe you have a business centered around an application (operational-wise or business-wise), or you’re one of the app’s creators. Regardless of how you’re connected with the app, there always comes a time when you have...
Błażej Cepil
• October 19, 2020
Business
How the Restaurant Industry Changes due to the COVID-19 Pandemic? Trends, Predictions, and Success Stories
The COVID-19 pandemic has redefined many businesses and how they conduct operations. This change often calls for a complete overhaul of business processes so companies can stay on the market.
Maja Nowak
• September 8, 2020
Business
AI
HRtech
8 Human Resource Tech Trends That Will Influence Your Business in 2021
By design, Human Resources is all about people. But does it mean that we should keep it away from technology? Quite the contrary.
Karolina Kurcwald
• August 12, 2020
Business
Conference
Networking Challenges and Opportunities at Digital Conferences and Virtual Events
The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed many constraints on our lives. Most widely affected are any activities involving multiple people gathering in one place. We’re seeing schools, offices, movie theaters, restaurants, and...
Peter Curac-Dahl
• August 7, 2020
Project Management
Business
Development
10+ Ways to Optimize Your App Development Cost
Everyone who has ever built an application knows this too well: software development can be pretty costly and time consuming. Especially now, in a world affected by the pandemic, finding ways to cut excessive costs is...
Eliza Neumann
• July 29, 2020
Open Source
Business
Development
Jitsi, a Video Conferencing Alternative to Zoom and Google Hangouts
With remote working becoming more popular, video conferencing has become a daily part of our lives. Everything from daily standups, to creative brainstorms, even office social events have moved online.
Peter Curac-Dahl
• July 16, 2020
Business
Budgeting Tailored to Your Software Project Needs—Target Price
10 years of experience in delivering software have shown us that there is no one-size-fits-all budgeting solution for every business and type of project. Our role as a partner requires finding the budgeting model that...
Eliza Neumann
• July 15, 2020
Open Source
Business
Development
Ecommerce
Open Source Ecommerce Platforms Comparison Part 2 — Performance and Extensibility [Summer 2020]
Our previous blog post gave you an overview of the most popular ecommerce platforms based on Ruby, Node.js, and Python. We’ve evaluated them in terms of how quickly you can set up an online shop and what possibilities...
Błażej Cepil
• June 30, 2020
Open Source
Business
Development
Ecommerce
Open Source Ecommerce Platforms Comparison Part 1 — The Best Ruby, Node, and Python Ones [Summer 2020]
There are tons of free or inexpensive ecommerce platforms available. The likes of Shopify or WooCommerce seemingly have it all and don’t require any development effort to be set up. But open source ecommerce platforms...
Błażej Cepil
• June 25, 2020
Project Management
Business
Has Software Development Adapted in the Age of Masks and Remote Work?
The COVID-19 pandemic has strained governments, industries, and people alike. We’re still trying to assess the damages, analyze strengths and weaknesses, and grasp the situation in its entirety. If anything is clear,...
Peter Curac-Dahl
• June 16, 2020
Business
How Switching to Pipedrive Helped us Boost Sales Conversions
The Monterail Growth team has been working with a CRM system for many years now, and to great success. But as the team began expanding, growing along with the company, certain strategic changes had to be made.
Eliza Neumann
• May 8, 2020
Business
Development
Mobile Development
What’s the Best Way to Upgrade an Outdated Codebase?
I have an app in Ruby on Rails dating back to 2011 that hasn’t gotten any new features in the past five years. It’s slow and barely able to serve our growing user base. Can you help us deal with it?
Project Management
Business
Culture
What You Can Expect From an Account Manager in a Software Development Company
The roles and responsibilities of a developer and project manager are pretty well established and rather straightforward—one builds software, the other ensures that project work goes as planned.
Maja Nowak
• April 23, 2020
Business
Agile
How Businesses and VCs Deal with Covid-19—Growth Strategies for Startups, SMBs, and Enterprises
Marta Klimowicz is the Head of Growth at Monterail. Operating at the intersection of sales, technology, data, and marketing, she is responsible for creating and executing growth strategies.
Marta Klimowicz
• April 1, 2020