Atlassian Launches Stride, Its Slack Competitor

Atlassian Launches Stride, Its Slack Competitor

TechCrunch | The Atlassian team decided to go back to the drawing board and see what its take on a Slack-like team workplace communication service would look like. The result is Stride, which launched yesterday.

Amazon Is Planning a Second Headquarters With 50,000 Jobs

The New York Times | Jeff Bezos: “Amazon HQ2 will bring billions of dollars in upfront and ongoing investments, and tens of thousands of high-paying jobs. We’re excited to find a second home.” Any guesses as to where it will land? My guess is Atlanta but I'm biased!

Chief Digital Officers Emerge in Business Transformation Efforts

ZDNet | Chief information and technology officers still lead the pack in Constellation Research's Business Transformation 150 list, but digital and innovation specialists have gained footing.

Need a Creativity Boost? Try Listening to Happy Background Music

New Scientist | I suggest the soundtrack to Guardians of the Galaxy. Quality tunes filled with fan favorites.

ICYMI: How to Turn On Audit Log Recording for User and Admin Activities in Office 365

BetterCloud Monitor | Administrators can take advantage of services available in the Compliance Center, like activity reports that show granular file and folder actions taken by users in a given date range.

Control Mobile App Settings at the Organizational Unit and Group Levels

G Suite | Google is giving G Suite Business and Enterprise admins more granular control over mobile app management, allowing them to assign different settings for different organizational units (OUs) and groups.

How to Decommission an Exchange Server After Office 365 Migration

Office 365 | While not a SaaS update, I thought it was worth sharing given the lack of Office 365 updates lately. The uncommon scenario addressed in this article is the safe decommissioning of on-premises Exchange Server when directory sync is not being used.

Check out Stride, Atlassian's New Slack Competitor

Stride | Stride is a new way for teams to talk, meet, decide and do. It's a product from the Atlassian team who also created HipChat, another chat application. This will bring up questions about HipChat's future.

Apple Updates Apple TV Events App Ahead of Next Week's Keynote