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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…
Read moreTradition Meets Technology
Taco Mac and FlashPanel After making the move to Google Apps in 2008, one of Atlanta’s most beloved eateries was still searching for an effective user management solution. So when the FlashPanel private beta opened this Spring, Taco Mac’s New Technologies Director, Dan Kirk, jumped at the chance to try…
Read moreShedding Light on "The Cloud"
After reading Citrix’s summary of its recent Cloud Survey it became evident that a huge education gap exists around cloud computing, which lies at the core of BetterCloud, and thousands of businesses like it. Cloud computing is undoubtedly the future of IT and even for the 54% of American’s who…
Read moreFrom Hosted Exchange to Google Apps
Interactive E-Solutions and FlashPanel For 12 years, Interactive E-Solutions helped set up and migrate companies to hosted Exchange environments. But this year, seeking to modernize the company’s mission and its own IT infrastructure, E-Solutions’ CEO, Brandon Foreman, decided to move the company and their customers to Google Apps. Focusing on…
Read moreBetterCloud's Keys to Managing your Google Apps Domain: Asset Visibility
This August, we launched the very first version-now white paper, BetterCloud’s Keys to Managing your Google Apps Domain. We chose to house the white paper in a Google Doc rather than a stagnant PDF because doing so means we can easily update and add to the document. Plus, we’ve given…
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