What If Chat Overtakes Email in the Workplace?
To ring in 2021 (again), let’s explore how close Slack is coming to beating email. We’ll also unpack what experts across the company think the implications would be on IT if chat made email redundant.
9 Reasons Why BetterCloud Marketing is Better Than Best Practice
If you’re not sure why BetterCloud marketing is better than best practice, look no further. Here are nine reasons.
Taking Control: The Importance And Possibilities Of Automated User Lifecycle Management
BetterCloud Senior Product Manager Nate Collum discussed automated user lifecycle management with hundreds of IT professionals as part of Cloud IT Live.
3 Tips to Streamline IT Project Management
IT requires heavily specialized skills and knowledge, making IT project management feel like its own beast entirely. And because IT is the foundation of almost every organization, project management in the IT field can be exceptionally intimidating.
I Just Tried The New Chromebook Pixel And I Love It
I just got my hands on the newest Chromebook Pixel and it is a big step up from the original Pixel which was released in 2013. For those of you …
Webinar: Truths and Tips About Acceptance Test-Driven Development
Thursday, Jan 29, 10 AM EST Are your QA automation teams always a sprint behind? Did your dev team produce X when the product team expected Y? Acceptance Test-Driven Development …
Adapting to Cloud IT: My First 30 Days
At BetterCloud, we make it possible for companies to adapt cloud office solutions to their enterprise IT needs. As you’d expect, our own IT infrastructure is entirely cloud-based. I started …
Partner Spotlight: EIKON Technology
Company: EIKON Technology Location: Indonesia Founded: 2007 Website: www.eikontechnology.com This week we heard from Johannes Candra, a co-founder of EIKON Technology, an Indonesian Google for Work Partner, to find out …
Back to School with FlashPanel: Preparing Your Google Apps for Education Domain, Part II
Last week, we published part I of this post about preparing your Google Apps for Education domain for going back to school, including 4 valuable tools that can save Google …
Back to School with FlashPanel: Preparing Your Google Apps for Education Domain
With thousands of Google Apps enabled schools starting back soon, faculty and staff members are busy preparing for students’ return. Welcoming a new class means creating additional user accounts–sometimes hundreds …
Introducing FlashPanel’s Domain Health & Insight Center®
Today, we’re introducing Domain Health and Insight Center®–an intelligent dashboard designed to not only replace BetterCloud’s current homepage, but to offer prescriptive and proactive alerts each time you log into …
Partner Spotlight: Grove Group
Company: Grove Group Location: London, Cape Town, and Johannesburg Website: www.groveis.com This week we heard from Pip Witheridge, CEO and Founder of Grove Group, an English and South African-based reseller, …
Preventing Summer Stall: How to Prepare for Users’ Vacations
With many users taking time off during the summer months, it’s challenging to keep up with everyone’s schedule and who is still in the office to field emails and manage …
Google Apps Unlimited: Reaffirming Google’s Commitment to Building a True Enterprise Product
During yesterday’s keynote at Google I/O, Sundar Pichai, SVP of Android, Chrome, and Apps at Google, announced Google Apps Unlimited and other exciting updates to the Google Apps suite. Google …
3 Reasons Why Google Apps is the Only SSO Solution You’ll Ever Need
In his article appearing in Forbes this past Monday, Ben Kepes, a noted cloud evangelist, writes about the dangers of ever-expanding cloud application ecosystems. Kepes notes that while very specific …
Upcoming HoA: How to Optimize for Long Term Success on Google Apps
This Wednesday, June 11th, join us for a Hangout on Air discussing how to optimize for long term success on Google Apps. We are offering two separate sessions, one for …
Upcoming HoA: 5 Best Practices to Keep Your Google Apps Data Safe
Join us tomorrow, June 4th, at 11am EDT for a Hangout on Air, when we join forces with Spanning Backup to discuss user lifecycle management in Google Apps. Learn the …
Best Practices for Securing Mobile Devices in Google Apps
The cloud has given employees and organizations more choices than ever before. We can work from anywhere on any device at any time. While this mobility serves us well for …
Introducing Apps Explorer Policies, Apps Explorer Out of Beta
When we announced Apps Explorer late last year, the new feature gave admins the ability to audit third-party applications installed by users, view the permissions the app requested, and add …
Top Tips for Google Apps Admins
As of February 2015, FlashPanel is now BetterCloud for Google Apps. The items in this post reflect the product as it existed at the date of publication. Subscribe by submitting your email …
10 Ways to Empower Your Help Desk with FlashPanel and Zendesk
It’s no secret we’re huge Zendesk advocates–our support team relies on the platform to host our knowledge base and offer exceptional customer support to BetterCloud users. What you might not …
Why Forrester’s Latest Cloud Spending Predictions Will Be Outpaced Again
New data from Forrester, first published by Bloomberg Businessweek, finds spending on cloud-computing services, software and related resources will reach $191 billion by 2020, putting the market on track to …
Partner Spotlight: Avalon
Company: Avalon Location: Sweden, Denmark, Norway Markets Served: Enterprise, Mid-Market, Poland and Singapore Website: www.avaloncloud.com This week we heard from Ronald Haagensen, Sales Manager at Avalon, a European reseller, to …
Top 5 Ways SMBs Can Leverage FlashPanel Enterprise
Though BetterCloud is an enterprise-level management and security tool, there is plenty of valuable functionality scalable for small and medium-sized businesses, too. Smaller businesses may not (yet) need the bulk …
Third-Party Apps: 5 Steps to Empowering Your Users While Minimizing Risk
A major draw of Google Apps is its ability to integrate with other SaaS applications. Whether there’s a specific feature from a legacy system that isn’t available in Google Apps …
Partner Spotlight: G-Asiapacific
Company: G-Asiapacific Location: Selangor, Malaysia and Auckland, New Zealand Market Served: Enterprise, SMB Website: www.g-asiapac.com This week I heard from Mark Goh, CEO at G-Asiapacific, a Southeast Asian reseller, to …
Top 10 Most Popular Features in FlashPanel Enterprise
1. Streamline new user provisioning and never miss a step by following the guided workflow, making sure to add new users to the appropriate Org. Unit and groups. 2. Update …
FlashPanel Enterprise Feature Update: Scheduled Reports
Today, we’re very pleased to announce powerful new reporting functionality in FlashPanel Enterprise*. Scheduled Reports, the application’s latest feature addition, gives Google Apps administrators and those with delegated access the …
Recapping the Global Enterprise Partner Summit: Partners are the Cornerstone of the Ecosystem’s Success
Nick Freund is the Director of Business Development at BetterCloud where he oversees all partner relationships and business development initiatives. Last week was Google’s second annual Global Enterprise Partner Summit. …
Google Drive Sharing: Let’s Meet in the Middle
Based on a question we asked in our recent customer survey, we discovered most admins take an all or nothing approach when it comes to Drive sharing. The question, “Which …
8 Google Apps Admin Communities You Should Join
Any Google Apps admin knows that Google is regularly rolling out updates and adding new features to its existing suite of products, and though this evolution is welcomed and exciting, …
Q&A with BetterCloud Support
The Google Apps community is a very collaborative one, with regular activity among Google product forums, Google+ communities, and Google Groups. Not surprisingly, we receive great questions from admins within …
Top 10 Timesavers in FlashPanel Enterprise
1. Templatize new user creation by following a guided walkthrough and imaging another user 2. Update user contact information in bulk using a templated spreadsheet 3. Prevent inappropriate Google+ posting …
Microsoft Cloud Sales Commission Cuts are Just One More Reason Why Google Apps Will Win
Last April BetterCloud’s CEO, David Politis, wrote an article titled Google Apps vs. Office 365: Why Google Will Win the Enterprise. The article detailed the reasons why David is confident …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Finding 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 …
Partner Spotlight: Avanxo
Company: Avanxo Location: Latin America Market Served: Enterprise, SMB Website: www.avanxo.com This week we heard from Patricia Sema, Infrastructure Solutions Manager at Avanxo, a leading Latin American reseller, to find …
Partner Spotlight: Cloud Sherpas
Company: Cloud Sherpas Location: Atlanta, Georgia Market Served: Enterprise, SMB Website: www.cloudsherpas.com This week we heard from David Hoff, CTO at Cloud Sherpas, a leading North American reseller, to find out …
Partner Spotlight: DoIT
Company: DoIT Location: Tel Aviv and Athens Market Served: Israel and Greece Website: www.doit-intl.com This week we heard from Vadim Solovey, CEO of DoIT, a leading Israeli reseller, to find out …
Partner Spotlight: Master Concept
Company: Master Concept Location: Hong Kong, Macau, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan Market Served: Enterprise, SMB Website: www.hkmci.com This week I heard from Derek Chan, Co-Founder and Director of Master Concept, …
Partner Spotlight: Cumulus Global
Company: Cumulus Global Location: Headquartered in Westborough, MA Market Served: North American SMB Website: www.cumulusglobal.com This week we heard from Allen Falcon, the Founder and CEO of Cumulus Global, a …
Partner Spotlight: Agosto
Company: Agosto Location: Headquartered in Minneapolis with offices in Toronto, Austin, and Houston Market Served: All Website: www.agosto.com This week we heard from Irfan Khan, the Co-Founder and CTO of …
Partner Spotlight: LTech
Company: LTech Location: New Jersey, USA Market Served: Enterprise, SMB Website: www.ltech.com We spoke with Russ Young, Executive Vice President at LTech, a leading North American reseller, to find out more …
Partner Spotlight: CloudWare360
Company: CloudWare360 Location: Latin America Market Served: SMB, Enterprise Website: www.cloudware360.com We sat down with Saul Chrem, the CEO of CloudWare360, a leading reseller in Latin America, to find out more …
Partner Spotlight: Dito
Company: Dito Location: Manassas, VA Market Served: SMB, Enterprise Website: www.ditoweb.com Last week we sat down with Jim McNelis, the CEO of Dito, a leading North American reseller, to find …