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The hidden costs of insecure file sharing: A horror story
IT horror stories happen year-round. Protect your organization from data breaches with smart file sharing security.
How SaaS Management Platforms Save Time and Money
With constrained IT budgets in 2021, how do you improve resource use? Here’s where a SaaS management platform (SMP) shines. Learn how SMPs deliver time and money savings.
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Why You Need a SaaS Management Platform for Your SaaS Operations
As your organization adopts more SaaS applications, how can IT manage and secure a growing portfolio of applications, while also ensuring that a best-in-class experience for end users? For many companies, a SaaS management platform (SMP) is the obvious solution. Let’s explore why an SMP is no longer a luxury for your organization, but a business-critical necessity.
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Gartner Market Guide for SaaS Management Platforms 2021: Discover, Manage & Secure Your SaaS Apps
Last week, Gartner published the 2021 edition of its Market Guide for SaaS Management Platforms (SMPs). Here’s our full analysis and key takeaways from the report.
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What Is a SaaS Management Platform?
What is a SaaS management platform (SMP), and what exactly does it do? Why do you need one? We cover everything you need to know about SMPs.
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Want to Validate Your BetterCloud Expertise? There’s a Certification For That
Looking for a way to showcase your proficiency with BetterCloud? We got you. Here’s how to become a Certified BetterCloud Administrator.
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How to Think About Integrations in SaaS Management Platforms
As IT and security teams look to add to their SaaS operations (SaaSOps) stack, it’s important to understand the key role of integrations in SaaS Management Platforms (SMPs), particularly pre-built ones. Here’s what you need to know.
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What If Chat Overtakes Email in the Workplace?
To ring in 2021 (again), let’s explore how close Slack is coming to beating email. We’ll also unpack what experts across the company think the implications would be on IT if chat made email redundant.
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The Hidden Risks of SaaS
Your SaaS environment grows as each well-meaning employee adds another perfect, productivity-boosting SaaS application. But all too often, that new app ends up introducing enormous and unnecessary risks to your company’s SaaS environment. Here are the hidden risks of SaaS that can impact every IT organization.
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The Fundamentals of Role-Based Access Control
Statista reports that there were a whopping 540 data breaches in 2020. The solution for many IT teams? A slightly more nuanced approach known as role-based access control (RBAC). This is not exactly a new approach, but it enables you to grant access based on the specific needs of each user’s role and business unit. Let’s take a closer look.
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The 2021 SaaS Sprawl Management Checklist
It’s good practice for every organization that relies on SaaS to take inventory periodically. Without knowing and monitoring for potential SaaS app account creep, your SaaS environment becomes a risky, expensive and unmanageable clutter. Without actively managing them, the dangers mount. But what can you do?
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SaaS Operations and the Road Ahead for Enterprise IT
As part its latest market report, Forrester interviewed enterprise IT leaders to understand the current challenges and best practices for mastering SaaS at scale. Last week, BetterCloud’s Chief Strategy Officer Shreyas Sadalgi explored the findings of this report further with its author, Bill Martorelli, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. Missed the live event? Let’s recap some of the key takeaways from their chat.
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The Ongoing Challenge and Opportunity of SaaS License Spend Management
If you’re like many IT professionals, ensuring that your organization is properly resourced (without wasting money) is always a top priority. But take heart, SaaS license spend management is an ongoing challenge for enterprises everywhere.
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