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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.
3 Ways FlashPanel Helps You Prepare Your Company for Thanksgiving
As an IT admin, covering all the bases when many employees are out of the office over holidays can be tricky. But if your company uses Google Apps, there are some crucial steps you can take in FlashPanel to ensure client interactions and inbound emails don’t fall through the cracks….
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Google Apps: The Numbers You Need to Know
When we started BetterCloud we made it company policy to stay in touch with our customers. As a part of this relationship, we recently surveyed our customers to find out more about their use of FlashPanel, our Google Apps security and management tool. Based on the data we collected, we’ve…
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BetterCloud’s Top 5 Gmail Hacks
At BetterCloud, we spend the majority of our workday inside Gmail, so over the months, we’ve developed some handy hacks that help save time each and everyday. Our top 5 Gmail hacks will shave minutes off your day and hopefully leave you with a more organized and easier to navigate…
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Why Half of Our Company is Using Chromebooks, Full-time
Being a Gmail and Google Apps fanatic, I’ve always been intrigued by the concept of Chromebooks and Chrome OS in general. And with every 3 minute reboot of my aging Windows laptop this past spring, I became more tempted to take the plunge and go 100% web with a Chromebook, at least for…
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Our Take on the New Compose Gmail Experience
Yesterday, Google announced a new update to the compose email feature in Gmail. This update is designed to save users time and screen space when composing emails. The new compose feature, which opens what looks like a larger Google Talk window at the bottom of your inbox, allows you to…
Read moreAnnouncing the First Ever FlashPanel Feature Contest
Since we launched FlashPanel this July, we’ve been interacting with our growing customer base on a regular basis. Through these interactions, we’ve gained invaluable input and feedback through product wireframe reviews, customer feedback calls and the Feature Request page in the BetterCloud Knowledge Base. We’ve truly taken these suggestion to…
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Top 5 Google Apps Updates Released in the Last 5 Months
If you’re a Google Apps user or administrator, you know by now that Google rolls out new features and product updates on a constant basis. Keeping up with these updates can be overwhelming, and you might be missing out on new tools and features that could add efficiency to your…
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Ask the Gooru Luncheon Learn with General Assembly
This week, we highlighted our site Ask the Gooru, which has brought thousands of new and experienced Google Apps users daily video tutorials, ensuring they’re getting the most out of the platform. To educate Google Apps and Gmail users further, Ask the Gooru will be hosting a luncheon learn with…
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Have a question? Ask the Gooru!
For almost a year, Ask the Gooru has been providing thousands of Google Apps end-users and administrators with helpful tricks, tips and tools to make the most of the Google products they rely on everyday. To many, the Gooru has remained a mystery – a nameless benevolent resource guiding his…
Read moreAnnouncing Major Milestones for FlashPanel
Today marks a milestone for BetterCloud and our product FlashPanel and I wanted to share three major announcements: 1. We introduced Google Drive management and visibility features to add security and oversight to your Google Apps domain. You’re now able to extract and review important Drive and Docs usage statistics…
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Here’s My Email, So Call Me Maybe?
When Google Talk went down this July, it seemed to some that the world was ending. There were countless articles and hundreds of comments from affected users claiming that the outage was greatly interrupting their everyday interactions with dev teams, coworkers and even their customers and suppliers. Clearly life without…
Read moreSchedule a Password Policy for Google Apps with FlashPanel
Google Apps has created a secure way to work and collaborate in the Cloud. However, the cloud has given rise to mobile computing, meaning your users are likely logged into corporate accounts on personal mobile devices and tablets, putting your company at unnecessary risk in case of employee negligence or…
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