Posts in Category ‘Google Apps Marketplace’

Complete Guide to the New Google Apps Admin Console

Today, Google began rolling out a completely redesigned Google Apps Admin Console (existing customers will see it in mid-May), which aims to provide IT administrators with an improved interface for managing their Google Apps domains.

This post details what the new Admin Console means for Google Enterprise and includes our take on the new design as well as an in-depth look at the new Admin Console. To navigate this post, use the following links:

The New Admin Console What This Means for Google Enterprise What We’ve Learned from these Changes Exploring the New Admin Console The New Admin Console

Since Google Apps’ launch in 2006, the Admin Console has been a point of both contention and necessity, offering tools to manage a Google Apps domain, but hiding that functionality beneath layers of unnavigable interface. While Google notes that the new Admin Console does not add any new functionality, it does give Google Apps administrators an easier way to manage their domains thanks to a revamped … Read more →

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 already implemented the top two requested features and have plans to make a number of additional improvements.The remaining survey data, which follows below, revealed some valuable information about Google Apps and the cloud ecosystem as a whole. It’s amazing what you can learn from your customers if you just take the time to ask.

Two weeks ago, we sent out a survey to our entire customer base of more than 10,000 Google Apps domains. With customers ranging from small nonprofits to large organizations with over 100,000 seats, the 1,300 responses we received covered the entire spectrum of the Google Apps customer base. In the process we gained valuable insight into Google Apps adoption and the overall outlook … Read more →

Cloud Alliance for Google Apps: Webinar Series

YeswareAs the founding member of the Cloud Alliance for Google Apps, BetterCloud is pleased to announce tomorrow’s upcoming webinar “Close Deals Faster by Optimizing Email Prospecting” featuring Yesware Co-Founder and CEO, Matthew Bellows.

Please join us tomorrow at 2:00 PM ET where Matthew will lead a demo of Yesware, used by over 50,000 sales people worldwide, review use cases from top customers like Hubspot, Groupon and Adroll, discuss upcoming product features and answer any questions you may have.

October 10, 2012 at 2:00 PM EDT Close Deals Faster by Optimizing Email Prospecting Register here

About Cloud Alliance for Google Apps Founded in 2011, the Cloud Alliance for Google Apps is a trusted network of independent cloud software providers that build and deploy applications heavily integrated with the Google Apps platform. Members include AwayFind, BetterCloud, Expensify, Harvest, Insightly, Lucidchart, Okta, RunMyProcess, ShuttleCloud, Smartsheet, Spanning Backup and … Read more →

Schedule a Password Policy for Google Apps with FlashPanel

Google Apps has created a secure way to work and collaborate in the Cloud. However, the cloud has given rise to mobile computing, meaning your users are likely logged into corporate accounts on personal mobile devices and tablets, putting your company at unnecessary risk in case of employee negligence or theft. To protect against lost or stolen devices and ensure unauthorized users are not gaining access to your Google Apps environment, you should regularly reset user account passwords.

Our Google Apps management and security tool, FlashPanel, allows super administrators to create, schedule and enforce regular password resets to protect your domain.

To schedule a password policy, select Enforce Reset Passwords under Security Tools on your FlashPanel homepage.

FlashPanel Security Tools

Once you’ve entered the Password Reset home screen, select Set Up to proceed with the policy creation.

Set Up Password Policy

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Delegating Access Control for Google Apps Mangement

At BetterCloud, FlashPanel helps us manage our Google Apps domain in dozens of ways. Just last week we used FlashPanel to rename and repurpose the accounts of our summer interns and the Apps Butler’s broadcast feature helped us inform the team of an upcoming building fire drill.

We’re certain there’s an endless number of management tasks that can be quickly and easily accomplished with FlashPanel, so each week we’ll share one example of how FlashPanel is making the lives of our users easier one task at a time.

How are you using FlashPanel? Let us know if the comments section below or send an email to info@bettercloud.com.

Access Control and Group Management

FlashPanel’s Access Control feature allows super administrators to grant certain permissions to other non-super admin users. One specific use case would be allowing a receptionist or administrative assistant to manage group memberships.

To enable Access Control for Group Management, visit the Settings tab at the top right corner of FlashPanel.

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Cloud Alliance for Google Apps: Webinar Series

The Cloud Alliance for Google Apps, a group of independent software vendors whose products integrate with the Google Apps platform, aims to educate Google Apps end-users and administrators and create a sense of community within the ecosystem. ShuttleCloud

In  an effort to bolster the strength of its educational content, the Cloud Alliance added five new members to its prestigious roster this summer and this Monday, September 10, marks the beginning of our new member webinars.

Please join the Cloud Alliance and  ShuttleCloud for an hour-long webinar detailing the application’s cloud to cloud migration service and focusing on  best practices for migrating and managing employee data.

September 10, 2012 at 2:00 PM EDT Migrating to Google and Managing Employee Data Register here

About Cloud Alliance for Google Apps Founded in 2011, the Cloud Alliance for Google Apps is a trusted network of independent … Read more →

Supercharging Google Talk for Google Apps

This post is part of Google Apps Admin Awareness Month, our month-long series where we spotlight a different tip for Google Apps administrators every day in July. Have a tip to share with your peers or have you always wondered how to do something in Google Apps? Let us know on Twitter @bettercloud.

Google Talk for Google Apps Google Talk is arguably the best communication tool for Gmail and Google Apps. Located on the left-hand side of the user interface, Talk allows users to interact quickly and easily with any of their Google contacts. Talk has become the default communication tool for Google Apps users both internally, externally, personally and professionally. How can I get more functionality out of Google Talk? Google Talk is a great tool for user to user communication and goes far beyond text, with both voice and video calling. However, with third-party applications like our Google Apps management tool, Read more →

Why Launching a Product is Like Training for the Olympics

Last Friday marked the beginning of the Olympics, two and a half weeks of the the greatest competition known to man and my hands down favorite sporting event. For many athletes, the 2012 London Olympic Games are the culmination of years of training and sacrifice and in many ways, the weeks and months leading up to the Olympics mirror the preparations of a company gearing up for a product launch.

Training

Leading up to the Olympics, an athlete will train obsessively and almost incessantly. He alters his diet, refines his technique and trains harder than ever. He develops relationships with his future teammates and scopes out the competition.

Over the last six months my team and I went to painstaking lengths to develop and produce the first version of our newest product. We put in extra hours, sacrificed our weekends…I even went on a special juice diet, all in the hopes of putting out the best product possible.

Trials

An athlete won’t make it … Read more →

Configuring Email Settings for Google Apps

This post is part of Google Apps Admin Awareness Month, our month-long series where we spotlight a different tip for Google Apps administrators every day in July. Have a tip to share with your peers or have you always wondered how to do something in Google Apps? Let us know on Twitter @bettercloud.

Email Settings for Google Apps In Google Apps, email settings can be applied and altered by individual users from within their Gmail inboxes. Users can customize a number of features like labels, filters, IMAP/POP, vacation responder and more by clicking on the gear on the top-right corner of their inbox and selecting Settings.

Gmail Settings

For example, if a user wanted to create a send-as alias within Settings, they could click on the Accounts tab, scroll down to ‘Send mail as,’ and designate another account to respond from. Users with a strong command of the features inside Gmail can significantly make their lives … Read more →