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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.
Top 5 Ways SMBs Can Leverage FlashPanel Enterprise
Though BetterCloud is an enterprise-level management and security tool, there is plenty of valuable functionality scalable for small and medium-sized businesses, too. Smaller businesses may not (yet) need the bulk tools and automations that BetterCloud provides, but putting processes in place early saves time and can help ease growing pains…
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Third-Party Apps: 5 Steps to Empowering Your Users While Minimizing Risk
A major draw of Google Apps is its ability to integrate with other SaaS applications. Whether there’s a specific feature from a legacy system that isn’t available in Google Apps out of the box, or a user is just looking for a tool to solve a specific problem, chances are…“there’s…
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Life after Heartbleed: What Google Apps Customers Need to Know
This week, a major security flaw was discovered in OpenSSL, the open-source implementation of cryptographic protocols SSL and TLS. This flaw, now referred to as Heartbleed, poses a fundamental risk to the security of data transmitted between servers. In other words, the bug allows malevolent parties to request data from…
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Partner Spotlight: G-Asiapacific
Company: G-Asiapacific Location: Selangor, Malaysia and Auckland, New Zealand Market Served: Enterprise, SMB Website: www.g-asiapac.com This week I heard from Mark Goh, CEO at G-Asiapacific, a Southeast Asian reseller, to find out more about his organization. BetterCloud: When was your organization founded? G-Asiapacific: Our company was founded in 2008. We’re…
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Periodic Table of the Google Apps Ecosystem
The Google Apps ecosystem is composed of many different parts, from Google Apps to the Marketplace, enterprise partners, Chromebooks and more. To help digest and better organize this vast amount of information, we’ve created a Periodic Table of the Google Apps Ecosystem. Click the image to get a closer look.
Read moreTop 10 Most Popular Features in FlashPanel Enterprise
1. Streamline new user provisioning and never miss a step by following the guided workflow, making sure to add new users to the appropriate Org. Unit and groups. 2. Update users’ profiles in bulk using a spreadsheet to fill in missing information and save time. 3. Apply an email signature…
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FlashPanel Enterprise Feature Update: Scheduled Reports
Today, we’re very pleased to announce powerful new reporting functionality in FlashPanel Enterprise*. Scheduled Reports, the application’s latest feature addition, gives Google Apps administrators and those with delegated access the ability to build and (you guessed it) schedule reports to run at desired times. Scheduled reports joins FlashPanel Enterprise’s other…
Read moreIntroducing Scheduled Reporting
Expanding on the existing canned report database and customizable reporting engine within BetterCloud, we’re excited to announce our third iteration of reporting functionality: scheduled reports. With all of your Google Apps data centralized in one console, BetterCloud is able to reveal trends, risks, and stats about all of the activities…
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5 Most Important Group Settings to Check
Allowing a user to send a message to a single email address and reach an entire group of people, Google Groups provide a way for users, teams, and communities to engage in discussion and collaborate online. Whether discussing a project with a team internally, sending announcements to a listserv, or…
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These 40 Stats Will Change the Way You Think About Google Apps
This past October, we published a post rounding up 47 of the most vital stats about the state of the Google Apps ecosystem. The post was one of our most shared ever and it’s clear that people operating in this space are looking for more information about the success, growth…
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Recapping the Global Enterprise Partner Summit: Partners are the Cornerstone of the Ecosystem’s Success
Nick Freund is the Director of Business Development at BetterCloud where he oversees all partner relationships and business development initiatives. Last week was Google’s second annual Global Enterprise Partner Summit. The event, which brought more than 700 partners to San Francisco, was a showcase of sorts for Google’s current partners…
Read moreGoogle Introduces Add-ons, Monitor with Apps Explorer
Yesterday, Google announced add-ons, a valuable new update to Drive and a power play to win over even more Microsoft Office users. Available now within Docs and Sheets, add-ons offer advanced functionality, such as citation formatting, mail merge, and graphs, not natively available in Drive. Bringing features that users were…
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