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Smart SaaS budgeting: Refine your spend strategy for 2025
Feeling overwhelmed by software subscriptions? Learn how to create a smart SaaS budget and make your tech stack work for you. This guide covers budgeting steps, common mistakes to avoid, and how BetterCloud can simplify the process.
Raising 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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Google Ends Free Google Apps Accounts – Why It’s a Good Thing
Yesterday, Google discontinued the free version of Google Apps for businesses with ten or less users, however preexisting free accounts will not be impacted. The change in pricing structure should come as no surprise as Google has continually lowered user limits for these free accounts – first making Google Apps…
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My Top 5 Google Chrome Extensions
1. Pocket (formerly Read it Later) It’s almost impossible to read every article I’m interested throughout the day, work related or otherwise. With the Pocket Chrome extension, I’m able to save these articles in one place and read them later either on my computer, mobile or tablet device. After installing Pocket…
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BetterCloud’s Top 5 Google Chat Tips
At BetterCloud, we spend the majority of our workdays inside Gmail, so naturally we’ve developed some helpful tips that save us time each and everyday. These 5 tips will help you get the most out of Google Chat (sometimes called Talk), and will hopefully allow you to better communicate with…
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3 Ways FlashPanel Helps You Prepare Your Company for Thanksgiving
As an IT admin, covering all the bases when many employees are out of the office over holidays can be tricky. But if your company uses Google Apps, there are some crucial steps you can take in FlashPanel to ensure client interactions and inbound emails don’t fall through the cracks….
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Google Apps: The Numbers You Need to Know
When we started BetterCloud we made it company policy to stay in touch with our customers. As a part of this relationship, we recently surveyed our customers to find out more about their use of FlashPanel, our Google Apps security and management tool. Based on the data we collected, we’ve…
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BetterCloud’s Top 5 Gmail Hacks
At BetterCloud, we spend the majority of our workday inside Gmail, so over the months, we’ve developed some handy hacks that help save time each and everyday. Our top 5 Gmail hacks will shave minutes off your day and hopefully leave you with a more organized and easier to navigate…
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