Admin App: Agile, flexible and secure cloud data management

back4app
4 min readMar 21, 2019

Back4App allows enterprises to rapidly build and scale applications by developing their backend infrastructure plus inimitable APIs for them and also offering advanced functionalities and cloud-based productivity tools like a cloud database with API, cloud functions, third-party integrations, push notifications, and more.

Given that you are building an enterprise application and storing data in a database, you will probably have to manage this data using a proprietary database management system. Though there’s no problem using a proprietary database management interface for performing queries, filtering content, and executing CRUD operations (i.e., creating, reading, updating and deleting objects), it may become a problem when someone with no technical expertise and no familiarity needs to carry out these tasks. The reason being, the advanced database management tools are specifically designed for developers, which can be challenging and sometimes dicey for non-tech users to use, depending on the query performed.

For instance, Back4App’s cloud database management tool is pragmatically intended to make the developer’s life easier to build and manage a scalable database. But exploiting the capabilities and versatility of the said tool can be too intricate for anyone with no prior technical background. That’s why we decided to go beyond the usual and developed a straightforward interface called “Admin App” that is simple and highly productive for users, even the non-techies, to leverage its prowess recurrently.

By adding the feature “Admin App” together in the company of previous ones, Back4App is serving the purpose of proffering an excellent user experience to administrations who control different aspects of the application: product managers, salespersons, marketing staff, operations staff, financial departments.

What is an Admin App?

The Admin App is a web browser-based tool designed to manage the app data using a non-tech user interface. Using Back4App’s Admin App you can choose what data you want to allow the end user to manage and how this user will see this data. The end-admin-user will have a custom experience to manage only the data he is supposed to manipulate.

Use cases for Admin App for Enterprises

1) Optimize Internal Processes

By creating a spreadsheet-like interface over your database model, the admin app gives you complete control over your data, so you can execute various control functions — from viewing, accessing, and manipulating data to keeping track of any information. Back4app automatically generates admin access of your application database model, letting you perform CRUD operations on the content of the eloquent model directly.

This intuitive and user-friendly UI is thoroughly optimized for data entry, manage workflows, make validations, and other processes, so exercising it continually in the course of high call volume won’t affect your performance and productivity in any way. Through this web-based admin portal, operators can view and manipulate clients’ data, app/site metrics, and various tasks of your enterprise, thus supercharging your internal processes and ensuring you maximum productivity.

2) Manage your Product

Since this feature has an impressive and simple user-interface, your project can also be used by people who are not technical wizards, by all means. With the help of admin app, however, they can easily interact with the platform and data resources, run queries using tools like search, filter and sort by, and display the results without digging into the giant sets of database client assets. It also has simplified the arrangements for the creation and deletion of data and accounts, changing user configurations, updating existing content and settings based on your business needs.

3) Build Real-time Custom Reports

Sometimes it’s critical for decision-making process to access real-time data from the application database. At any time you can access the Admin app and build reports using real-time production data. Even If the report is using a large data set or resulted in a very complex query using many tables the admin app run its algorithms, optimize those queries, and quickly build your report.

Schedule your demo

Admin App has features enterprises expect in an admin panel. It has a simple yet excellent UI for CRUD operations, permissions & user authentication, and functions to filter, browse, and sort your content. This process requires no knowledge of coding or backend development, and the feature can be enabled with the slightest effort. If you are interested in to grab more details and better understand the admin app please schedule your demo here.

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