Weekly Monitor Digest: Last Week's Top Stories (10/31 - 11/4)

The Long, Slow Death of the Private Cloud Continues

CIO | The article highlights some of the common incorrect assumptions that have kept private clouds alive longer than they should have been in most cases. (Hint: IT cost tracking).

Slack, Microsoft Teams, & What Real-Time Messaging’s Battle for the Enterprise Means for IT

BetterCloud Monitor | Microsoft dropped it's real-time messaging bomb yesterday with Microsoft Teams. These are our thoughts. We'd love to hear yours in the comments or in the BetterIT Community.

Messaging and Collaboration Tools are Most Valuable Enterprise Apps

CIO | Messaging and collaboration applications are the most mission-critical mobile apps in enterprise today, according to a new survey of executives. More than half of the professionals surveyed said mobile apps for messaging and collaboration are critical to their organizations' success, and a similar number of respondents said such apps will continue to be critical in 2019.

The Art of Awkward 1:1

Medium | Everyone knows they could get more out of their 1:1 meetings with direct reports, superiors, and teammates. This post outlines a few simple rules for doing so, in the most awkward way possible.

3 Strange Things You Can Do With Google Docs That Are Actually Super Useful

BetterCloud Monitor | Some of Google Doc's best features are also some of its strangest. From allowing you to create pre-made templates to transcribing images right into text for you, there are definitely some functions you probably aren’t using in Google Docs.

Google Forms Can Now Predict Question Types and Suggest Answers

BetterCloud Monitor | Thanks to a recent update, Google can now intelligently predict what kind of question you’re asking in Forms, and also suggest potential responses. This is a fantastic time-saver.

Toby: A Better Way to Manage & Organize Your Chrome Tabs

BetterCloud Monitor | "I love having 40 Chrome tabs open," said no one ever. Try Toby, a Chrome extension that lets you drag and drop your tabs and organize them into neat visual lists. Toby’s interface is remarkably clean, simple, and easy to use.

SaaS Updates Summary: October 31–November 4

This past week, the launch of Microsoft Teams (their Slack competitor) dominated the news as well as SaaS updates. Zendesk and Asana were launch partners and announced integrations as part of the launch, while Slack welcomed Microsoft with a full page ad in the NYTimes.

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