What Is Shadow IT and How Can You Manage It?

What is Shadow IT

For all the benefits cloud computing has brought, it’s also spurred a whole new set of challenges for IT teams. One of the biggest challenges is the rise of shadow IT, which is the result of employees and departments purchasing software without involving IT. According to a McAfee report, an estimated 40% of all IT…

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What Apps Should You Be Worried About? Actual Usage Stats on Top Apps

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Raise your hand if you’re concerned about your employees using the apps with the highest licensing fees too much. What if we were to tell you that app usage for those applications wasn’t as problematic as you thought? In fact, what if those apps were actually provisioned properly, while other apps weren’t? In this post,…

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What 4 Million Slack Messages Tell Us About Collaboration

What value is your company getting out of Slack? We’ve got the data. Using engagement analytics from Productiv’s SaaS Management platform, we looked at over 4,000,000 Slack messages across approximately 40,000 users. We compared this data to a similar number of messages from companies using other messaging tools. From this data we pulled concrete observations around how enterprises…

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Introducing Productiv

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Productiv is launching today. This platform can give CIOs real-time insights about how their employees us many of their SaaS applications.

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