Product Tip Tuesday: Auditing Workflows to Maintain SaaSOps Efficiency
See how BetterCloud’s Workflow Activity Feed gives you increased visibility over the workflows that your entire organization relies on.
Product Tip Tuesday: Centralizing Your SaaSOps
Centralized SaaSOps management empowers IT teams to reduce manual tasks and automate important processes. Learn how BetterCloud makes it even easier.
Product Tip Tuesday: OAuth Discovery and Beyond
App and file discovery is a great first step, but how IT teams remediate what they find is even more important.
Product Tip Tuesday: Mid-Lifecycle Management for Existing Employees
What happens when an employee moves to a different department within your organization or relocates to a new city? This is where mid-lifecycle management workflows can streamline a lot of manual work for IT teams.
Product Tip Tuesday (Remote Work Edition): Detect Email Forwarding to Personal Email Addresses
The lines between home and work life are blurring these days. As more and more people are working from home, we had a theory that employees might be taking actions to streamline their work life—actions that don’t necessarily take your company’s security into account. Turns out, we were right. See our product tip to learn how to mitigate that risk.
Product Tip Tuesday: Automatically Expire Public Links in Dropbox by Using BetterCloud Workflows
SaaS apps are known for making the workplace more collaborative; file sharing is one of the SaaS features that makes this seamless collaboration, both internally and externally, possible. But what happens when you share a link with a person that you don’t want to have indefinite access to the information? BetterCloud gives you the ability to build a backstop to this problem using a simple workflow.
Product Tip Tuesday: Run a File Audit to Find Exposed Sensitive Information
At the end of January, BetterCloud released File Audits for G Suite, Box, Dropbox, and Slack. This new feature will help you mitigate risks by scanning for sensitive content in existing files that live in your SaaS environment. Check out our article to learn about how you can use File Audits to improve your SaaS environment.
Product Tip Tuesday: Level Up Your Onboarding Workflow with These New Salesforce Actions
Last week, BetterCloud released 19 new Salesforce actions to help you automate the tasks that Salesforce administrators are concerned about. In this product tip, we show you how to create an onboarding workflow that incorporates some of these new actions.
Product Tip Tuesday: Automatically Assign an Archived User License
For this week’s Product Tip, we want to highlight an action that you can take in BetterCloud during your offboarding workflow. This action is the archive user action and adding it to your offboarding workflow will make your life a little easier.
Product Tip Tuesday: Level Up Your G Suite Onboarding With This Workflow Trick
This week we have an onboarding trick for you that allows you to create a G Suite user, edit that user, and assign the user to an OU—all in one automated workflow. Merging these actions into one workflow makes them more powerful. Now when you create a user, Google can be fed a ton of information from the start, which will make ULM easier later.
Product Tip Tuesday: Do You Know Who’s Forwarding Company Emails to Personal Email Accounts?
Forwarding work emails to a personal email account might seem innocuous, but it can introduce security risks. Here’s how BetterCloud can automatically detect and remediate this behavior.
Product Tip Tuesday: Discover Who Your Files Are Shared With
For most people, sharing business documents with a personal email address is done for the sake of convenience, without thinking twice. However, this practice is a headache for IT and security teams who need to know where all their company’s data is and who has access to it. BetterCloud gives you visibility into what G Suite, Dropbox, and Box files are shared with personal emails and allows you to put an end to it. Let our Product Tip show you how.
5 Ways to Spice Up Your Workflows with Wait for Approval
While BetterCloud has been many IT admins’ go-to solution for automating onboarding and offboarding, what happens when a process-as-written requires some input from an end user, a manager, HR, or another internal stakeholder? With BetterCloud’s Wait for Approval action, you can now request approval or rejection from a user within your directory to run the remainder of your workflow.
Reduce Waste: How to Automatically Reclaim Unused SaaS Licenses
Many organizations are unaware of how much money they waste on unused SaaS licenses—until they start manually reviewing the last time a user was active on a given platform. That’s why we announced BetterCloud’s new automated license management functionality at Altitude last month.
Product Tip Tuesday: 3 Ways You Can Extend BetterCloud’s Power to New Applications
Earlier this year we released the ability to extend BetterCloud to any SaaS application. Since that release, our customers have created some brilliant use cases in order to solve their unique business challenges. We want to share the three most popular ways customers have extended BetterCloud to solve common use cases in other SaaS applications.
6 Things You Can Do with BetterCloud’s OneDrive and SharePoint Online Integration
BetterCloud’s integration with OneDrive and SharePoint Online aims to unify, simplify, and control the management and security of Office 365. Here are six things you can do with SharePoint Online and OneDrive in BetterCloud.
Product Tip Tuesday: Schedule Employee Offboarding Through BetterCloud & G Suite
A recent post in our BetterIT community got us thinking here at BetterCloud: How could we get our users scheduled offboarding without the use of Okta or Zapier, sticking only with Google and BetterCloud? In today’s Product Tip Tuesday, we’re providing instructions on how you can set up offboarding via a Google Sheet, an Apps Script, and BetterCloud. This allows IT admins to set an employee’s last day as their offboard day, specifying down to the hour when offboarding should occur.
Product Tip Tuesday: How to Find & Protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in G Suite, Box & Slack
This week, we’re back with Product Tip Tuesday to talk about Content Scanning for personally identifiable information (PII). End users have the ability to create content with sensitive data, but it’s difficult for IT admins to get visibility into where that data lives—or worse, if it’s being shared publicly or externally. Learn how BetterCloud’s Content Scanning helps admins get insight into what documents their end users are sharing and if they contain any sensitive PII.
Product Tip Tuesday: 4 Ways BetterCloud Can Help IT Manage M&A Post-Closing Processes
Mergers and acquisitions are notoriously difficult. Here are four ways BetterCloud can help IT manage M&A post-closing processes.
Product Tip Tuesday: Time’s Up—Ensuring Admins Have the Proper Access at the Proper Times
BetterCloud is committed to helping you implement a least privilege model—a security best practice—in your SaaS environment. Time-based roles allow you to delegate admin access to BetterCloud for a set amount of time, ensuring that users won’t retain elevated access any longer than they need.
Product Tip Tuesday: 5 Things You’re Not Doing with BetterCloud (That You Should Be)
When BetterCloud first arrived onto the scene in late 2011, we were a free product to help IT admins manage various aspects of their G Suite environment. Fast forward to 2019, and we’ve evolved into a powerhouse platform that can manage and secure any SaaS application. In fact, you might be surprised by our recent functionalities. Here are five things you may not be doing with BetterCloud now (but should be).
Product Tip Tuesday: Automatically Secure Lost or Stolen Devices
Lost or stolen devices are a headache. But by leveraging BetterCloud’s native connectors and the Platform API, you can automatically secure lost devices and safeguard sensitive data.
Product Tip Tuesday: Automate Offboarding for Office 365
Recently, we’ve expanded our offboarding capabilities to better serve organizations that use Office 365. For this week’s product tip, we’ll share a common template we’ve seen customers use to automate offboarding in Office 365.
Product Tip Tuesday: Profile Cleanup
This week’s product tip covers one of our most popular on-demand workflows: profile cleanup. You can finally solve an age-old IT challenge: keeping user profile information consistent across applications.
Product Tip Tuesday: Beware of Too Many Super Admins
This week’s product tip is one of our favorites—reducing unnecessary super admin privileges. Because super admins can access and manipulate every part of your organization’s SaaS applications, it’s important to keep the number of super admins in your environment to a minimum. BetterCloud gives you the tools to make this possible.
Product Tip Tuesday: Automatically Pause Your Workflows When You Need with Wait for Duration
This week we’ll show you a simple step you can add to your workflows that makes them more flexible and eliminates the need to remember manual steps later. Wait for Duration allows you to automatically pause a BetterCloud Workflow at specific times, and for a specific duration, before continuing on to subsequent actions. This action gives you the flexibility to build in natural breaks to your automation, whether that’s a few hours, days, weeks, or months.
Product Tip Tuesday: Why Using the Default Password Settings in BetterCloud Is a Must During Onboarding
BetterCloud’s default password settings provide several advantages for security and incident management. Here’s why you should use them.
Product Tip Tuesday: Multi-Factor Authentication
It’s Tuesday, so you know what that means—a new product tip! Up this week: multi-factor authentication (MFA), a feature that will help protect sensitive company information and your employees’ personal data.
Product Tip Tuesday: How to Automatically Detect & Remediate Misconfigured Box Settings
In light of yesterday’s news that dozens of companies inadvertently leaked sensitive data due to misconfigured Box accounts, we have a special Product Tip Tuesday: Box Edition. Many users share Box files and folders publicly without realizing the security implications. Fortunately, BetterCloud has a solution to help manage and secure your Box files and folders at scale.
Product Tip Tuesday: Secure File Sharing in Dropbox
Welcome back to another Product Tip Tuesday! We have yet another customer favorite for you: secure file sharing in Dropbox. This feature allows for greater visibility into your data; you can set up alerts so you know exactly when a file is shared publicly, externally, or even internally and take steps to remediate if necessary.
Product Tip Tuesday: Dropbox Account Capture
Welcome back to Product Tip Tuesday. This week, we have a new alert and actions that we developed in conjunction with our partner Dropbox.
Product Tip Tuesday: How to Make Your Workflows Intelligent With Dynamic Fields
This week, we take a look at Dynamic Fields, a BetterCloud feature that helps make your automated workflows more personalized and scalable.
Product Tip Tuesday: How to Cut Costs by Freeing Up Underutilized SaaS Licenses
Welcome back for another Product Tip Tuesday. This week we’re back with everyone’s favorite: a money saving tip. Here’s how to save hundreds, even thousands of dollars, by uncovering underutilized and suspended SaaS licenses with BetterCloud.
Product Tip Tuesday: How to Automatically Clean Up Empty Slack Channels
Welcome to a new series called Product Tip Tuesday, where we’ll give you a quick use case that you can apply in BetterCloud. We’ll kick things off with a customer favorite: how to automatically clean up empty public Slack channels using BetterCloud.