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How to ‘Make’ your no-code backend reliable, secure and maintainable

Introduction Make (formerly ‘Integromat’) is a highly functional low-code tool that can help you complete complex tasks, quickly. Low-code, and Make in particular, are incredible tools for rapidly creating a proof-of-concept (PoC) of new processes and iterating on existing ones. It can increase your organization’s product velocity by an unbelievable factor, especially when starting from a base of zero automation. It is the not-quite-so-secret sauce of how we at FINN managed to get to $100 million ARR in just 3....

May 11, 2023 · 18 min · 3634 words · Cornelius Schramm, Chris Meyns
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How to use Retool to build an internal tooling platform [video]

Recently FINN business automation engineer Cornelius Schramm and software engineer Leander Peter got together with engineer Julie Chen and growth marketing manager Vasundhara Singh, both from Retool, to talk about their collaboration in building the internal tooling platform that is FINN’s operational hub. You can watch the webinar right here: Any thoughts or feedback? Let us know 😀 The webinar was given by Cornelius Schramm and Leander Peter, and this article was posted by Chris Meyns....

December 9, 2022 · 1 min · 76 words · Cornelius Schramm, Leander Peter, Chris Meyns
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Automating IT support for a global organization

Anyone who had to deal either directly or tangentially with IT administration activities, has most likely tried multiple strategies to minimize the amount of time that the IT Administration team spends on recurring support requests. The number of strategies narrows down substantially, since it’s especially challenging for the IT Administration team to reduce the overhead generated by these requests without compromising on the end-user experience. As much as we try to prevent these recurring support requests from being generated in the first place, we have to accept in the end that they will keep coming, and there are few options to reduce them after a certain point....

December 7, 2022 · 6 min · 1219 words · Andrei Grigore
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Insights from the NoCode World

In late September, my FINN colleague Cornelius Schramm and I gave a keynote presentation at the Nocode Summit 2022, the largest no-code event in Europe. We had been invited to speak at the event by Benoît de Montecler, co-founder of ncScale, the no-code software development lifecycle management tool. The plan was to share FINN’s story of raising $900M (debt and equity) with no-code on the main stage at this major gathering in Paris of over a thousand no-code and low-code professionals and international speakers....

November 24, 2022 · 7 min · 1406 words · Maximilian Gebhard
Workflow with Rossum for automating incoming invoice processing

Using Rossum.ai to superpower OCR with machine learning

At FINN, we strongly believe in the principle of do it, do it, automate it. If you find yourself doing something manually twice, you should find a way to automate the process. This holds just as true when it comes to the precious details of invoices and financial document processing. Within the FINN Finance team, we’ve recently started using a platform called Rossum that helps us improve the automatic optical character recognition (OCR) of documents....

November 18, 2022 · 7 min · 1438 words · Gazala Muhamed, Chris Meyns
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What does a Business Automation Manager do?

When I joined FINN in April 2022, I was welcomed with incredible enthusiasm and was constantly reminded by many people what an exciting role I have. Admittedly, all sounded a bit strange at the beginning but now that I am three months into this job, I can comfortably say they were right! I am the first person officially joining FINN as a Business Automation Manager (BAM), a new role at FINN and a new role in the industry....

July 25, 2022 · 5 min · 1007 words · Lucia Bachl
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Automating HR processes with no-code at FINN

About FINN FINN is a start-up founded in 2019 in the German automotive hub of Munich, that aims to make mobility fun and sustainable through our car subscription service. Like many other start-ups, we have BIG goals – to be the most popular car subscription company in Europe and the US. Having a great product is one thing, another thing that is imperative to a company’s growth is the people. A promising company attracts promising talents....

July 6, 2022 · 7 min · 1306 words · Greta Etheldra