Building micro tools

Micro tools are at the heart of Deventral platform. They are purposeful internal tools, custom software built for a specific purpose to improve operations.

These micro tools are,

🤖 generated with AI,

🤝 connected to your data,

⬆️ extended to your systems,

💻 embedded into your workflow.

Focusing on decision making, micro tools can be used for many different reasons. Business users can build and use them to manage their work better by making better decisions.

You can see how you can build micro tools easily below.

Creating a tool

Home Page

In the Home page, you can click on the 'Create a tool' on the top-right corner.

Chat page

In the chat page, you can use Deventral bot for specific actions, one of which is creating a tool. To be able to do that, you can use 'create' command and click on the button sent by the bot.

Configuring a tool

There are three steps to configure a tool.

1. Define

At this step, you can first connect your data sources through connectors. To do that, you can either create a new connection or use a connection you already have as follows.

Creating a new connection

You can click on "Create a new connection".

Then, you can choose which data source you want to use (see all connectors) and give this connection a name of your choice.

As the last step, you can configure your connection by providing the required information as below.

Using a connection

If you already configured a connection before, you select this connection from the list. For testing purposes, you can also use the sample connection utilising Adventure Works dataset. Please see all sample datasets here.

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After setting your connection, it's time to define what you want to build. The only thing you need to do is explaining your requirements in natural language as detailed as possible.

You can use the following tool description for testing purposes in connection with the sample database.

💡 Sample description: "By looking at the sales made, I want to see the most sold products, which category these products belong to and the customers who buy these products the most."

2. Extend

At this step, you can extend your micro tool to your systems or add other functionalites by plugins. You can do that by adding any plugin as below.

3. Create

At this step, you can style your micro tool by giving its a name, a color and an icon. If you do not set up any name, it will be generated by AI.

Using a tool

Congratulations🎉 You created your first micro tool. Now it is time to use this tool and start making better decisions. You will see your micro tools in your Home page and you can use your tool by just clicking on them!

Editing a tool

Sometimes you may want to improve the tool you easily built. Editing a tool is even easier! Deventral keeps using AI to help users to edit their tools.