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Does this app still spark joy? A minimalist’s guide to SaaS governance
Declutter your SaaS stack with governance, automation & spend controls. Cut sprawl, secure data, and streamline IT with BetterCloud.
What It’s Like to Scale a Startup, Get Laid Off, and Then Re-Hired During COVID-19
This is my candid story about working in IT at a fast-growing startup. It’s about the challenges of scaling (and how BetterCloud helped set us up for success). But it’s also a tale of personal growth, self-reflection, ironic twists, and unexpected turns.
The tough conversation: How to furlough users (and re-onboard them later)
Offboarding is a tough conversation to have right now. We know. No one wants to talk about it. But it’s IT’s responsibility to do it completely and securely for every user across every SaaS application, with an audit trail to prove it. In this post, we’ll focus specifically on how BetterCloud can create a streamlined offboarding workflow for furloughed employees.
The Secret to How Our Most Successful Customers Automate SaaSOps
What do our most successful customers have in common? What kind of value are they getting from automating SaaSOps, and how are they getting value? Here’s the secret to how they do it.
The SaaSOps Mini-Checklist: Managing and Securing Your Enterprise SaaS Applications
To get a handle on your SaaS operations, or SaaSOps for short, read our mini-checklist, the crib notes version of our IT Leader’s Guide to SaaSOps. They’ll help your organization get the most out of your SaaS applications—all without bulldozing your IT team.
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.
The IT handbook to choosing the right SaaS app
Choosing a new SaaS tool means combing through lists of dozens (dozens!) of similar apps, and it can be hard to tell which is the right one for the job. So how do we do this? And more importantly, how do we make this a sustainable, scalable process?
IT Community Discussion Recap: IT Leaders Share How They’re Successfully Enabling Remote Workforces
How do you empower end users to be productive (and secure)? How do you keep everybody updated? And logistically, how do you provide physical laptop inventory to remote workers? We recently pulled the IT community together to discuss all of this—and more.
2020 SaaSOps Buyer’s Guide: How to Choose the Right SaaSOps Solution for Your Organization
Learn about the value a SaaSOps solution adds to your current technology stack, plus what to consider when purchasing a SaaSOps solution.
Enabling Remote Work? BetterCloud Can Help
Here are a few easy ways BetterCloud can help IT enable remote work, so you can keep your employees productive and secure. We hope these tips can help you build a successful, secure remote work culture that withstands crises and beyond.
Announcing Content Scanning: File Security Your Users Will Love
BetterCloud’s Content Scanning bolsters your data protection strategy and gives IT teams the power to secure files and sensitive information across SaaS applications, without inhibiting employee productivity.
Transforming Teams to Lead with SaaS: Insights from Gartner
Gartner analysts released a report describing how Infrastructure and Operations leaders must transform the roles and skills of IT teams as they shift to SaaS. We found that Gartner’s insights validate many of the components of BetterCloud’s SaaSOps framework.
Product Tip Tuesday: Automatically Expire Public Links in Dropbox by Using BetterCloud Workflows
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.