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Top 5 SaaS governance best practices
Drowning in SaaS subscriptions? Learn about SaaS governance best practices to control costs, enhance security, and ensure your software investments drive business value.
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.
Read moreIntroducing Third Party Apps Auditing
Note: Apps Explorer is in private beta. If you’d like to gain early access, please email beta@bettercloud.com. Currently, end users are able to install applications and extensions of their choosing–from the Chrome store, Google Apps Marketplace, iTunes, and other sources–directly to their Google Apps account, without requesting permission from an…
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Partner Spotlight: Cloudbakers
Company: Cloudbakers Location: Chicago, IL Market Served: SMB Website: www.cloudbakers.com This week we heard from Mitch Greenwald, Founder at Cloudbakers, a North American reseller, to find out more about his organization. BetterCloud: When was your organization founded? Cloudbakers: On July 1, 2010 Cloudbakers became a reality. In the first few…
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5 Predictions for Google Apps in 2014
2013 was an eventful year for Google Apps. A number of notable organizations moved to Google, including Whirlpool, the U.S. Army and the City of Boston, Google Hangouts were revamped and reintroduced as a unified communications system and, most recently, Google Sheets was rebuilt from the ground up. Google Apps…
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Introducing Google+ Management
With more and more organizations rolling out Google+ and adding a social component to the Google Apps suite, understanding what users are posting and sharing is a growing need. Following suit with the auditing capability that FlashPanel offers around Drive, Sites, and Calendars, Google+ tools enable an admin to view,…
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The Changing Value Proposition of the Modern Cloud
The following is a summary of a contributed article, which originally appeared on VentureBeat. Read the full article here. The cloud offers many benefits, but since 2000 there have been three predominant value propositions. In the early to mid 2000s, companies moved to the cloud for cost savings. Cloud software…
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Partner Spotlight: Maven Wave Partners
Company: Maven Wave Partners Location: Chicago, IL Market Served: Enterprise Website: mavenwave.com This week we heard from Jason Lee, Partner at Maven Wave Partners, a leading North American reseller, to find out more about his organization. BetterCloud: When and why was your organization founded? Maven Wave Partners: Maven Wave was…
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CEBP is Huge, So Why Isn’t Anyone Delivering On It?
The following is a guest post from Lee Ho, Vice President of Marketing at Esna. In a world full of technological innovations and exciting new ventures, it’s baffling that a revolutionary concept like communication-enabled business process (CEBP) gets so little attention from the business community at large. CEBP seeks to…
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Frequently Asked Google Apps Admin Questions
We’ve wholeheartedly embraced Google+ at BetterCloud. From actively posting on our BetterCloud page to communicating with team members in our very own internal Google+ Community, the social network provides a great way to share information, stay in touch and learn from one another. As expected, the Google Apps administrator community…
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