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The hidden costs of insecure file sharing: A horror story
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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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Introducing FlashPanel's Domain Health & Insight Center®
Today, we’re introducing Domain Health and Insight Center®–an intelligent dashboard designed to not only replace BetterCloud’s current homepage, but to offer prescriptive and proactive alerts each time you log into BetterCloud. Domain Health The Domain Health section evaluates your domain across several areas–Directory, Drive, Gmail, Google+, Apps, Sites and Calendars–and…
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Partner Spotlight: Grove Group
Company: Grove Group Location: London, Cape Town, and Johannesburg Website: www.groveis.com This week we heard from Pip Witheridge, CEO and Founder of Grove Group, an English and South African-based reseller, to find out more about his organization. BetterCloud: When was your organization founded? Grove Group: 2005 BetterCloud: What led to…
Read moreFlashPanel Helps Fig & Olive Control Google Apps in a Clear and Concise Way
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,…
Read morePreventing Summer Stall: How to Prepare for Users' Vacations
With many users taking time off during the summer months, it’s challenging to keep up with everyone’s schedule and who is still in the office to field emails and manage projects while others are away. Especially for customer-facing teams, it’s essential to let contacts know that you’re out and will…
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Building a World-class Customer Experience from the Ground Up
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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