GlobiFlow Alternative: InfoLobby

GlobiFlow is the workflow engine for Podio. Although it has similarities with the InfoLobby workflow engine, they are quite different.

Workflow Automation Engine

Both are workflow automation engines. They allow automating processes in super flexible ways. Not just automate processes, but create workflows to police and massage data.

GlobiFlow was created by us here at Globi, and then acquired by Citrix. There do not appear to be a lot of feature releases since the acquisition. InfoLobby was also created by Globi, but is in active development, continually improving.

Bare-metal Speeds

GlobiFlow was created as an add-on service to Podio, and leverages the Podio API to achieve it’s functionality. This introduces some latency, and any network issue can cause errors. That's just how API's work.

InfoLobby’s automation engine is built-in. This means it has direct access to all data and API’s, making it much more performant and reliable.

External Service Integration

With InfoLobby, you can integrate any 3rd-party API at the account level. These integrations can then be called from any automation or flow, making flows more versatile than any other automation service.

The ability to integrate other API’s includes all oAuth2 compliant API’s, any service that uses HTTP Basic Authentication, and any service that uses Bearer Tokens (like Chat GPT).

Powerful Scripting

InfoLobby’s variable bricks allow you to write code to massage and calculate data. However the data is not limited to what’s available in the current context.

With InfoLobby’s scripting language, you can collect data from all your stored data, from iterating over related records, to searching and filtering tables in completely different spaces.

No Limits

Because InfoLobby’s automation engine is running on the same servers as the InfoLobby app, it can iterate all available data and doesn’t have to pre-fetch anything (which imposes limits).

That means you can loop over related records, or another table’s records, no matter how many there are, be it a thousand, or millions of records.

Summary

The above make InfoLobby a good GlobiFlow alternative.

Both are way more powerful than any 3rd-party solution because they’re purpose built for the platform they serve, and are not generic to work on all the platforms in the world.

To see some of the more interesting applications, see our Labs & Experiments.

For a more complete breakdown of differences between InfoLobby and Podio, see the table linked below:
https://infolobby.com/site/compare-podio/

* "Podio" is a registered trademark and used in this document purely to identify the product under Nominative Fair Use.