SaaS Updates Summary: November 14–18

Here’s what happened this past week in the world of SaaS. Google rolled out a handful of G Suite updates, including custom templates in Docs, Sheets, and Forms, and the ability to download Google Slides presentations in the ODP file format (good news for organizations that use open-source office suites like LibreOffice and OpenOffice). Microsoft also made a few announcements, including a new file experience for groups in Outlook on the web, a new Office 365 service called Outlook Customer Manager, and a limited-time offer of migration services from on-premises SharePoint 2013 to Office 365. Plus, there were exciting updates from Asana, BambooHR, Box, Dropbox, HipChat, Insightly, JIRA Service Desk, Slack, SugarCRM, and Zendesk. Check out the links below for more information.

• G Suite | [Pre-announcement] Drive sharing notification improvements to support Gmail smart hosting
• G Suite | Export presentations in OpenDocument Presentation (ODP) format from Google Slides
• G Suite | Save time with new custom templates in Docs, Sheets, Slides and Forms
• Google | Now your photos look better than ever – even those dusty old prints
• Google | Introducing the new Google Play Music
• Office 365 | Introducing a new file experience for groups in Outlook on the web
• Office 365 | Introducing Outlook Customer Manager—relationships made easy for small businesses
• Office 365 | New FastTrack offer to migrate SharePoint 2013 customers to Office 365
• Asana | Collaboration is beautiful: Introducing Boards in Asana
• BambooHR | The New Help Center: It’s Alive!
• BambooHR | Welcome, Home!
• Box | Streamline Product Management in the Cloud with Box and Aha!
• Box | Announcing General Availability of Web Annotations for Box Platform
• Box | Announcing the New Box View and the EOL of Crocodoc and the Box View API
• Box | Now Storing Data Securely Down Under
• Dropbox | Introducing enhancements to AdminX, Paper, and our infrastructure
• HipChat | New iOS app features get you to & through chats faster
• Insightly | Update your records in bulk using Insightly’s improved Import Wizard
• JIRA Service Desk | JIRA Service Desk is ITIL certified
• Slack | In case you missed it: music, movies, and more in Slack
• SugarCRM | Check out our new podcast series: CRM Secrets Revealed
• Zendesk | Be in the right place, at the right time with Zendesk Connect

For yesterday’s Saas updates (and beyond), click here for our archive.