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Reduce Waste: How to Automatically Reclaim Unused SaaS Licenses
Many organizations are unaware of how much money they waste on unused SaaS licenses—until they start manually reviewing the last time a user was active on a given platform. That’s why we announced BetterCloud’s new automated license management functionality at Altitude last month.
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Altitude 2019 Recap: SaaSOps Is a Thing
Altitude 2019 was our biggest and best customer conference yet. But it was pretty unique this year—there were a lot of firsts. If you missed it, here are nine key highlights and takeaways.
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Announcing the SaaSOps Stars of 2019
As part of its support for the growing SaaSOps movement, BetterCloud last week hosted the SaaSOps Stars Awards, the first awards ceremony to recognize outstanding SaaSOps practitioners. Winners included ten individuals and teams who, through their SaaSOps practice, helped their companies scale, increased productivity, decreased friction, strengthened security, achieved greater compliance, protected users and data, or otherwise took initiative and significantly improved the lives of users.
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New in BetterCloud: 5 Features Announced at Altitude 2019
Last week at our annual Altitude conference, Chief Product Officer Jim Brennan made some exciting announcements during his product keynote. He was joined on stage by members of his team and customers alike to deliver some huge wins for the BetterCloud community. Here’s a rundown of the new features launched at Altitude.
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Meet BetterCloud’s New Integration Center (with 32 New Integrations)
Today, we are excited to announce the release of our new BetterCloud Integration Center. We’re unveiling 32 new integrations, including Zoom, Atlassian, Smartsheet, DocuSign, GitHub, VMware Workspace ONE, OneLogin, PagerDuty, Intercom, AWS, Tableau, Duo, Splunk, and Datadog, as well as a community for customers to build and share their own custom integrations.
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The Future of Work: Announcing a New Strategic Partnership with Dropbox
We’re thrilled to announce today that BetterCloud and Dropbox have formed a strategic partnership in the name of enabling a best-of-breed world and a better way to work. As part of this partnership, Dropbox has made a $5 million investment in BetterCloud.
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The top IT habits of successful unicorns (panel recap)
BetterCloud founder and CEO David Politis recently hosted an online panel discussion with IT leaders from three unicorn companies: Vicky Couturier, IT systems director at InVision; Anthony Ancheta, IT manager at Lime; and Matt Kauffman, IT help desk manager at Toast. The panelists shared their IT philosophies, how they solve their biggest IT challenges, and their top habits for scaling IT operations.
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Product Tip Tuesday: 3 Ways You Can Extend BetterCloud's Power to New Applications
Earlier this year we released the ability to extend BetterCloud to any SaaS application. Since that release, our customers have created some brilliant use cases in order to solve their unique business challenges. We want to share the three most popular ways customers have extended BetterCloud to solve common use cases in other SaaS applications.
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6 Things You Can Do with BetterCloud’s OneDrive and SharePoint Online Integration
BetterCloud’s integration with OneDrive and SharePoint Online aims to unify, simplify, and control the management and security of Office 365. Here are six things you can do with SharePoint Online and OneDrive in BetterCloud.
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Securing SaaS Apps in the Modern Workplace
SaaS gives end users endless ability to collaborate with others, share data, and access files from anywhere at anytime. However, these features have created a swath of new security threats that IT and security teams are still learning how to navigate. Principal Analyst for 451 Research Garrett Bekker and BetterCloud’s Chief Product Officer Jim Brennan discussed the unique security challenges that cloud adoption presents and SaaS Operations Management, the emerging category that is filling a gap in cloud security.
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Introducing OneDrive & SharePoint Integrations: Secure Your O365 Data with BetterCloud
Let’s talk Office 365! We are excited to announce that BetterCloud now supports OneDrive and SharePoint Online use cases. Connecting Office 365 to BetterCloud centralizes all Office 365 users, groups, files, and settings to automate user orchestration and data protection.
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Product Tip Tuesday: Schedule Employee Offboarding Through BetterCloud & G Suite
A recent post in our BetterIT community got us thinking here at BetterCloud: How could we get our users scheduled offboarding without the use of Okta or Zapier, sticking only with Google and BetterCloud? In today’s Product Tip Tuesday, we’re providing instructions on how you can set up offboarding via a Google Sheet, an Apps Script, and BetterCloud. This allows IT admins to set an employee’s last day as their offboard day, specifying down to the hour when offboarding should occur.
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