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3 Qualities Shared by the Most Effective Google Apps Admins
Eli Winderbaum is the Director of Customer Success at BetterCloud where he interacts with dozens of Google Apps administrators daily. Follow Eli on Google+. Google Apps administrators play an integral role in any organization operating on Google Apps. They have the power to drive a company’s IT strategy, implement that…
Read moreGoogle Drive Sharing: Let's Meet in the Middle
Based on a question we asked in our recent customer survey, we discovered most admins take an all or nothing approach when it comes to Drive sharing. The question, “Which of the following most accurately describes your organization’s policy regarding Google Drive or Docs exposure and public sharing?” asked survey…
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8 Google Apps Admin Communities You Should Join
Any Google Apps admin knows that Google is regularly rolling out updates and adding new features to its existing suite of products, and though this evolution is welcomed and exciting, technical changes also mean changes to the way we work. By following and contributing to the forums profiled below, engage…
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6 Reasons BuzzFeed Uses BetterCloud to Manage Google Apps
To read the BuzzFeed case study, visit bettercloud.com/customers/buzzfeed. Here are six reasons BuzzFeed uses BetterCloud to manage and secure Google Apps: 1. To edit Google Group permissions in bulk – something you can’t do in the Google Admin Console. 2. To deprovision users. Saying goodbye is never easy, but a custom checklist…
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3 Reasons the New Chromebox for Meetings Should Be Your Next IT Investment
Last year, we predicted Google would launch a GoToMeeting competitor in 2014. The company delivered this month with Chromebox for Meetings and we couldn’t be happier! The system, which combines software and hardware to deliver one seamless web conferencing experience, takes the best of Google Hangouts and Chrome OS, and…
Read moreBulk Functions Added to Email Delegation Tool
BetterCloud’s email delegation tool is a widely popular one, allowing admins to delegate the inbox of one user to another so they can read and send messages on the user’s behalf. After hearing several requests from customers to add bulk delegation management tools, we did some research and were surprised…
Read moreQ&A with BetterCloud Support
The Google Apps community is a very collaborative one, with regular activity among Google product forums, Google+ communities, and Google Groups. Not surprisingly, we receive great questions from admins within BetterCloud’s own community forum, as well. We’ve gone through recent support tickets and forum posts in order to share Q&A’s…
Read moreTop 10 Timesavers in FlashPanel Enterprise
1. Templatize new user creation by following a guided walkthrough and imaging another user 2. Update user contact information in bulk using a templated spreadsheet 3. Prevent inappropriate Google+ posting by defining policies with content filters that search for certain words or proprietary information 4. Auto-correct document sharing across your…
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Building a Customer Success Team: Helping Our Customers Thrive
BetterCloud has focused intensely on serving the needs of our customers since day one. We don’t build a feature, add an enhancement or change our roadmap for FlashPanel without first getting input from our customers – precisely the reason we just sent out our 2014 Q1 customer survey. In fact,…
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Is Google Apps Backup Right for Your Organization?
As big supporters of living and working in the cloud, we often name the ability to work from anywhere as the greatest benefit of using Google Apps. But what happens when you can’t work from anywhere because your data has been lost or compromised? Data loss, a very real threat…
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Microsoft Cloud Sales Commission Cuts are Just One More Reason Why Google Apps Will Win
Last April BetterCloud’s CEO, David Politis, wrote an article titled Google Apps vs. Office 365: Why Google Will Win the Enterprise. The article detailed the reasons why David is confident Google will win: a generational shift, pricing, timing and differing business models. A year ago, David argued that differing business…
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Design Within Reach – A BetterCloud Case Study
BetterCloud is the “ultimate tool for Google Apps management” for Design Within Reach and their cloud IT environment.
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