GlobiFlow is the workflow engine for Podio. Although it has similarities with the InfoLobby workflow engine, they are quite different.
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 Globi, and then acquired by Citrix. After the acquisition, little seems to have changed. InfoLobby was also created by Globi, but is in active development, continually improving.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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, imposing 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.