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by meredydd 3000 days ago
Thanks! Is there a particular example you'd like to see?

Annoyingly, we can't really talk about the details of most of our internal-enterprise-app-type deployments. We do have an anonymised example here: https://anvil.works/case-studies/building-secure-download-po... - but even that is more detail than most want to share!

So if you have a suggestion for an enterprised-focused example you'd like to see - especially for your company - drop me a line and let's make it happen! (Email is in my profile.)

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Similar to what jimnotgym said, workflow apps are a huge timesavers but trying to get IT to make or host one is a headache.

A big one I saw while consulting for big enterprises was document processing (esp Excel/CSV). The lowest person on totem pole goes through 100 documents replacing or reformatting some value. Python is great for this!

Is there a way to upload documents into Anvil?

> Is there a way to upload documents into Anvil?

Absolutely! Check out this fifteen-minute demo, building a document storage/tracking system: https://anvil.works/blog/document-tracking

For more advanced processing we have have pandas, python-xslx, and all that good stuff ready to use :)

I would love to see more workflow apps, so we don't have to do this in Sharepoint. Things like expense approval.

fill out expenses > attach scan > send to approver > approver ticks (auditable) > send api call to ERP

similar things are price/quote approval, invoice approval, that kind of thing

A lot of huge non-tech companies use Sharepoint for internal sites. Sharepoint sucks major ass. If you can demonstrate how Anvil can replace Sharepoint both better and cheaper (and if you can offer their level of support), then you might be able to get some customers.