All posts by Vinay Patankar

Our Best Workflow Software List

Operations manager guiding work through a modular conveyor sorting station, a metaphor for workflow management software moving tasks through connected stages from intake to done.

It has become commonplace for companies to look to workflow software to trim the fat and boost their productivity metrics. Savvy business owners are constantly searching for solutions to automate their workflows and push their business to that extra percentile of efficiency.

Multiple names get used for this kind of tool: business process management software, process management software, workflow management software, to name a few. Whatever you choose to call it, the proposition remains the same. Workflow software offers a centralized hub for overseeing and optimizing all of the moving parts that make up your workflow.

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Bitbucket vs. GitHub: The Best Version Control Software for Business?

Black-and-white illustration of an engineer standing beside a rack of code-hosting servers, representing the choice between Bitbucket and GitHub for version control software at a business.

If you want a large team of enterprise developers to collaborate effectively, you need to find a suitable place to host your code. Choosing a version control and repository hosting service might not seem like a big deal. But the repo host you choose can have serious consequences for your developers’ productivity and ability to build great products.

Both GitHub and Atlassian’s Bitbucket offer paying customers an unlimited amount of private and public repositories. What distinguishes them isn’t their core hosting function. It’s how they affect your project in different ways.

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Automate Your Exception Reports: It’s Easy, Here’s How

Operations inspector reading an inspection gauge whose needle has crossed into the marked warning band, illustrating a caught process exception

Part of the reality of managing operations at any scale is understanding that sometimes things go wrong. A step gets skipped, a number lands outside the expected range, a handoff stalls. An exception report is how you catch that moment, record exactly what happened, and act on it before a small deviation turns into a real problem. It is the first step in a critical culture where people can identify when and why a process has had a problem, so you can track problems, investigate them, and improve processes to stop those problems occurring.

The hard part is making that first step happen each and every time, with the right amount of detail, and in a way that is quick and painless to take. Done well, this is the art of an exception report: it illuminates your problems and becomes a crucial linchpin in a broader effort to improve processes and, in turn, outcomes. This Process Street guide shows you how to make that capture automatic.

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Automattic’s Remote Work Framework: How to Reach Autonomous & Asynchronous Nirvana

Team operations lead presenting a row of world clocks set to different time zones, illustrating an autonomous asynchronous remote work framework

What if the company powering more than 40% of the internet’s websites had no office at all? Automattic runs a fully remote workforce spread across 75 countries, and it still ships the software behind a huge share of the web. 

Remote work is far bigger than working from home, when you set it up right. At Process Street, we’ve been fully remote from the start, so we know the difference firsthand. This guide breaks down Automattic’s remote work framework and shows how your team can reach autonomous asynchronous nirvana. 

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Best Process Documentation Software Compared: Microsoft 365 vs Process Street

Compliance operations manager comparing process documentation tools with a workflow multitool

Best process documentation software compared: Microsoft 365 vs Process Street. The right toolkit should help people understand a process, keep the approved version current, and prove what happened when the process runs.

Use Microsoft Word for formal documents, Excel for calculation-heavy data, PowerPoint for presentations, and Process Street when repeatable work needs owners, approvals, automation, evidence, and an audit trail.

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Best Video Conferencing App: Skype vs Hangouts vs GoToMeeting vs Zoom vs Join.me vs Appear.in

Person holding a smart conference room video camera for a business video conferencing app comparison

Businesses around the world were already spending billions of dollars on video conferencing apps back in 2016, and that market has grown enormously since.

After years of waiting for video calls to take off, we’re finally living in the sci-fi future of face to face calls.

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An Introduction to Automated and Interactive Processes

Operations manager adjusting a conveyor handoff between automated and interactive processes

Every manager faces the same question: How do I improve the way my business works? A well-designed process turns that question into repeatable action. An automated process lets software complete predictable steps with little or no human intervention. An interactive process combines that automation with human decisions, approvals, conversations, or exception handling.

The difference is not simply people versus software. It is about assigning each part of the work to the right operator. Rules-based, repetitive work is a strong candidate for automation. Work that depends on judgment, context, creativity, or trust should remain human-led. Most important business processes sit somewhere between those two ends.

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BPMN Tutorial: Quick-Start Guide to Business Process Model and Notation

Operations manager mapping a business process across swim-lane rows on a BPMN process-mapping board

Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is like a flow chart on steroids. It is the standardized, globally recognized way to map how work actually moves through your business, and it is knowledge any team that wants reliable, repeatable process maps needs.

This BPMN tutorial quick-start guide gets you from a blank canvas to a process map anyone on your team can read. You will learn the core symbols, how pools and lanes organize who does what, and how gateways handle every decision and branch in a flow.

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Are Your Useless Tools to Blame for Bad Project Management?

Project lead inspecting a warped Kanban board that represents bad project management tools

Is bad project management causing you to abandon important projects? Are useless tools to blame, or does the problem go deeper?

Bad tools can create friction, but projects usually fail through a combination of unclear goals, weak ownership, poor planning, communication gaps, unmanaged risk, and disconnected systems. Software can amplify those problems. It cannot repair a process nobody follows.

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All The Tools You Need To Set Up An Effective Link Building Campaign

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This is a guest post from Nikola Banicek, an internet marketing specialist at Point Visible, a marketing agency providing custom outreach and link building services. He’s a laid-back guy with experience in PPC, copywriting, and project planning. When he’s not working, he’s either gaming, watching football or anime.

The best link building tools help you find credible prospects, understand why competitors earn links, manage personalized outreach, and keep every follow-up accountable. A strong link building campaign usually combines backlink research, content discovery, outreach software, communication, and a repeatable operating workflow.

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