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We surveyed 300+ teams that work on internal tools, and 50% of them say their biggest problem is that they don’t have enough time or resources to get the job done. Results thread from our State of Internal Tools survey 
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More than 80% of teams said that internal tools are critical to their company& #39;s success. They& #39;re not always flashy, but they get the work of the business done.
It& #39;s not just resourcing that makes building these tools a challenge. Internal tools are built on data, and 40% of respondents identified data quality issues and schema changes as a significant problem.
Bigger companies spend more time on internal tools, and the amount of time spent on those tools scales faster than company size. By the time a company has 5K+ employees, engineers can end up spending 40% of their time just on internal tooling.
Internal tooling is becoming a discipline in of itself. More than 40% of respondents indicated that they have a full time position at their company dedicated to internal tools.
Dashboards and admin panels are the most popular types of tools that teams are building.
@PostgreSQL is the most commonly used database for building internal tools, followed by @MySQL and @MongoDB.
Respondents in technical roles most commonly use @reactjs / @vuejs / @angular to build their tools, followed by Google Sheets and admin frameworks like django-admin or activeadmin.
You can read the full report here: https://retool.com/blog/state-of-internal-tools-2020/
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