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Know the hidden risks of shadow IT and its impact on your SaaS stack
Shadow IT in the SaaS stack is dangerous. Learn how hidden risks of shadow IT impact finance, operations, security, and compliance, as well as how to limit them.
How to Increase User Adoption of Google Apps
When organizations make the move to Google Apps, they often overlook the importance of user training and change management. Failing to help users transition from a legacy system to Google Apps can be detrimental to your company’s long term success on the Apps platform and can leave employees confused, discouraged…
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Five Unconventional Uses for Google+ Hangouts
While some people are still unsure about Google+, there’s no denying that Google Hangouts have become a major selling point for using the social network. Hangouts are not only an easy and free way to communicate with anyone anywhere in the world, but they’re heavily integrated into Google Chat and…
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How Far Have You Gone with Google?
In honor of Valentine’s Day (and our CEO’s upcoming weekend nuptials), we created our own version of a ‘love quiz.’ Take the test to find out how far you’ve gone with Google and don’t forget to share your score on Google+!
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Google Apps User Profiles: Providing a Better Experience
When it comes to creating, editing and browsing user profiles in Google Apps, the Control Panel leaves a lot to be desired. Administrators lack the ability to add custom fields to user profiles like ‘Manager’ or even ‘Title,’ add and remove users to and from groups in bulk, bulk edit…
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The Path to Google Drive Enlightenment
Google Drive provides incredible tools for collaboration in the cloud, but as with any new technology, there are new challenges. To understand these new challenges, we’ve talked to hundreds of FlashPanel customers around the world. We’ve listened to the issues they’ve run into and learned about the kind of visibility…
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A Guide to Onboarding New Employees with Managed Chromebooks
It’s no secret that BetterCloud loves Google Apps and we make a point to use only Google Apps and Google products where we can – we even build our product, FlashPanel, on Google App Engine, Google’s own platform-as-a-service. So when it came time to order computers for our two newest…
Read moreRaising a Series A: What I Learned
You may have heard we just announced a $5 million Series A round of financing. We started raising this round and talking to investors in late fall of last year. As you can probably imagine, going through this process involves taking a step back from the day-to-day work and looking…
Read moreHappy Holidays
As 2012, our first year, draws to a close, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank our customers around the globe. Since launching FlashPanel this July, we’ve seen huge product adoption with over 5 million end users and 13,000 organizations using the product to manage and secure their Google…
Read moreIICD – A BetterCloud Case Study
IICD is our 28th customer. The organization has not only been using FlashPanel since its Alpha launch, but their Community Relations Services Officer, Andrei Barburas, who manages IICD’s Google Apps domain, has provided invaluable feedback and support since installing the product. For more on how IICD and Andrei make use…
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FlashPanel Wins the 4th Annual API Mashup Contest
Yesterday BetterCloud’s cloud management tool, FlashPanel, was declared the winner of the 4th annual API Mashup Contest. This award is not only a huge honor for the entire BetterCloud team, but is a testament to the hard work our developers put in day in and day out to bring such…
Read moreFlashPanel Gains Google Drive Compliance
We are pleased to announce the release of FlashPanel Version 1.8, which includes granular updates to security features as well as a new user provisioning workflow. This latest release significantly bolsters FlashPanel’s existing set of security tools by providing Google Drive sharing black and whitelists and auto compliance. We’re confident…
Read moreFig & Olive – A BetterCloud Case Study
Since they first installed FlashPanel this summer, Fig & Olive has been one of our most involved customers – providing product feedback, participating in UX calls and helping out whenever we needed a customer’s opinion. We’re extremely proud to be working with Fig & Olive and the restaurant’s IT Director,…
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