Top 6 Biggest SaaS Challenges and How to Address Them

Software-as-a-service are among the most valuable assets in today’s business environment. The right tools can be the gateway to faster innovation, increased productivity, and maintaining a competitive edge. Crafting your SaaS stack, however, isn’t as simple as it might seem. If there’s a problem that needs solving, there’s like an app that can help. This…

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What Can IT Do to Improve Employee Experience?

Does IT play a role in crafting the employee experience? It sounds like a job for HR, but truth be told, today’s IT-driven workplace means technology can make or break your employee’s productivity, effectiveness, and happiness. For clarity’s sake, employee experience is defined as everything an employee sees, hears, uses, and does over the course of…

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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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How to Measure And Boost Employee Productivity in the Workplace

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Employees are a company’s most valuable asset – studies show that companies spend anywhere from 40-80% of their revenue on their employees. Yet, few truly understand the underpinnings of boosting employee productivity, let alone how to measure it. In this post, we’ll examine what employee productivity is, how to measure it, and how to improve…

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We’re just getting started: Productiv raises $45M Series C, led by IVP

Today we’re excited to announce a Series C investment of $45M led by IVP with additional investment from new investor Atlassian Ventures and existing investors Accel, Norwest Venture Partners, and Okta Ventures. We’re thrilled to announce IVP’s bet on us alongside customers like Dolby, Square, Equifax, Unity, Zoom, GlobalLogic, and Uber who have chosen Productiv…

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Analyzing over 800,000 Zoom meetings: How COVID has changed collaboration

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If 2020 had a single technology buzzword to define it, “Zoom meeting” was probably it. When the pandemic sent millions of people home to work remotely, the video conferencing platform served as a critical tool to keep teams united and communications flowing.  IT leaders needed to be able to show the impact of remote work…

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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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Collaboration Software ROI: What’s the Value of Your Messaging Applications?

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Collaboration software allows your employees to easily share, access, and modify information so they can be more productive. In today’s highly-remote work environment, it enables employees to connect to one another and get work done quickly and effectively. Yet, just because you have a collaboration suite in place, how do you know what kind of…

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