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Introducing 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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Your Guide to the Best Google Apps Events
Tomorrow is BetterCloud’s two-year anniversary and over the last two years we’ve established close relationships with many of our customers, some of whom have taken on very active and outspoken roles in the Google Apps administrator community. While it’s encouraging to see some admins willing to share (and in some…
Read moreIntroducing Contacts v2 (formerly Shared Contacts)
After months of gathering feedback, determining feasibility, and writing requirements, we are excited to release BetterCloud’s improved Contacts feature–formerly called Shared Contacts–with more granularity around managing a database of external contacts for your domain. What’s new: → Select which users, groups, or OUs–or a combination of the three–to share contacts…
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47 Stats You Need to Know About the G Suite Ecosystem
Since Google launched G Suite in 2006, there’s been considerable growth and adoption of the suite. The last reported numbers state that there are over 5 million organizations on G Suite with 50 million users and it seems like more organizations go Google everyday – in fact the US Army went…
Read moreFinding a Better Way to Manage Today’s Cloud
The following is a guest post from Jeff Kaplan. Kaplan is an expert on cloud computing, the Managing Director of THINKstrategies and founder of the Cloud Computing Showplace. He can be reached at jkaplan@thinkstrategies.com Everywhere you look there are more indications that the corporate world is migrating to a new…
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