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Webinar recap: Turning SaaS sprawl into strategic savings
Learn how to combat rising software costs and tame SaaS sprawl in this IT Brew webinar recap. Discover how the experts identify and eliminate redundant tools.
White Paper: Key Link Between Satisfaction with Google Apps and Use of Third-party Google Apps Marketplace Solutions
Today, the Cloud Alliance for Google Apps, of which BetterCloud is a founding member, released a white paper in conjunction with research firm Frost & Sullivan. The paper, which adds supporting evidence to a report published by Frost and the Cloud Alliance earlier this year, points to the positive impact…
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Third-Party Apps Auditing & Compliance Out of Beta, Suggested Policies
The Problem Using their Google credentials, users are able to install and authenticate third-party applications–from scheduling aids to productivity tools to games–granting access to your domain’s data. Though users can choose from thousands of apps to install, IT lacks the tools to review them. The Solution Since it’s ultimately up…
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Must Read Articles for Every IT Professional in the Google Apps Ecosystem [eBook]
Access the free eBook here → Moving to Google Apps can change the way your entire organization operates, whether you’re a large enterprise or small school district. Unfortunately, once the decision to go Google has been made, many IT professionals find a dearth of information and resources around how to…
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Partner Spotlight: EIKON Technology
Company: EIKON Technology Location: Indonesia Founded: 2007 Website: www.eikontechnology.com This week we heard from Johannes Candra, a co-founder of EIKON Technology, an Indonesian Google for Work Partner, to find out more about his organization. BetterCloud: What led to the founding of your company? EIKON Technology: I’ve always had a passion…
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Back to School with FlashPanel: Preparing Your Google Apps for Education Domain, Part II
Last week, we published part I of this post about preparing your Google Apps for Education domain for going back to school, including 4 valuable tools that can save Google Apps admins time at the start of a new year. For most schools, classes are back in session this week,…
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Google for Work: An Important Change for the Ecosystem
Today Google announced a huge change for the entire Google Apps ecosystem – Google Enterprise is now Google for Work. Since Google launched its enterprise efforts with Google Search Appliance in 2002, the company has sought to do things differently. As Google Enterprise has grown and matured, Google’s mission has…
Read moreBack to School with FlashPanel: Preparing Your Google Apps for Education Domain
With thousands of Google Apps enabled schools starting back soon, faculty and staff members are busy preparing for students’ return. Welcoming a new class means creating additional user accounts–sometimes hundreds or thousands–cleaning up old accounts, documents and files, and much more. In order to assist IT during this often tedious…
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Top 10 Google Drive Updates of All Time
On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Google launched Google Drive, the long-awaited storage and collaboration platform. To compete with the likes of Dropbox and Box, Drive in its earliest iteration allowed Apps users to create, share, collaborate and store in the cloud at no additional cost. At launch, Drive gave users…
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How Google is Disrupting the Enterprise (Again) with Hangouts
When Google launched Talk in 2005, the company changed the way many of us communicate. The downloadable application allowed users to instant message quickly and easily. Definitely not revolutionary technology (long before Talk I was an early adopter of AOL’s AIM service), but still the application introduced millions to another…
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Picking the Perfect Team: Using Apps in Combination
Emily is a Marketing Specialist at Lucid Software. She loves discovering new ways to work smarter. The best way to complete a complicated task with diverse needs? Give it to a stellar team. A well-assembled team of people, whether it’s the Guardians of the Galaxy or the 1980 USA Hockey…
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These 9 Cloud Applications Help BetterCloud Deliver Unmatched Customer Service
Two years ago we launched FlashPanel in the Google Apps Marketplace and just eight months prior, we founded BetterCloud. Over the past two-and-a-half years, we’ve grown to a team of 75 and have built a customer base of more than 40,000 organizations spread across the globe. Throughout this rapid growth,…
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Recapping Google Atmosphere Sydney & Tokyo: What We Learned
Taylor Gould is BetterCloud’s VP of Marketing. Follow Taylor on Google+ here. This year, BetterCloud was invited to sponsor both Google Atmosphere Sydney and Tokyo, two events in a global series that aim to transform the way people work by helping organizations take advantage of technological advancements and cultural changes…
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