Getting started
To start automating flows in Parabola, we recommend you complete three key steps:
Step 1: Account setup
- ✅ Invite your team members to collaborate across departments.
- 🗂️ Create folders in your team’s flow section to organize by use case or team.
Step 2: Complete Parabola University ⭐️
Parabola University's Building fundamentals course is our #1 learning resource, highly-recommended for all new users.
The <1 hour course gives you hands-on experience building flows and understanding key concepts like joining data, filtering, logic building, and outputting results.
Step 3: Build your first use case with templates
Next, we'll leverage our template library to build our first flow (and on the next page, you'll learn about the three we recommend building first).
Before choosing your first use case, it's helpful to understand what makes a good Parabola use case:
- Varied, unstructured, and dynamic data: Data coming in multiple formats, often from multiple sources. That data might be difficult to access or parse like emails, PDFs, internal systems, WMS, TMS, ERP or data warehouses.
- Recurring processes at scale: Processes occurring multiple times per day/week - often involving multiple people. The work is repetitive and susceptible to errors.
- SOPs and logic-based systems: Often where teams are breaking into spreadsheets that could contain errors or outdated data.
- Collaboration across teams and 3rd parties: Instances where you are waiting on or sending data to other parties inside or outside your organization.
- Drive quantifiable business outcomes: Help with cost avoidance, revenue acceleration, and alignment with strategic, company wide initiatives.
Next, we’ll cover three use cases that often meet this criteria and make for great initial Parabola use cases.