Office 365 is a cloud-based suite of apps for productivity, collaboration, and communication, hosted on the cloud and accessible anywhere. Essentially it’s a web-based version of the classic Microsoft desktop office setup: productivity apps like PowerPoint, Word and Excel, Outlook for email, and an increasing number of add-ons for more expensive packages that help you… (more) What Is Office 365 and Should You Get It?

Slack isn’t just the fastest-growing SaaS startup in history. It also accomplished the seemingly impossible in just five short years: Slack made work fun. Slack’s tagline is “Be Less Busy,” but for the first two years of Slack’s development, the company was very busy. What began as an internal tool hacked together out of necessity… (more) How Slack Became an $16 Billion Business by Making Work Less Boring

The myth of the college student who drops out to create the world’s next technological innovation in their garage is one of Silicon Valley’s most well-worn tropes. Yet every few years, a visionary young entrepreneur emerges who genuinely does change the world with their startup. Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box, is one such… (more) How Box Conquered the Enterprise and Became a $1.7 Billion Company in a Decade

When Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett got together in 2008 to collaborate on a project, the three friends fully intended for their side hustle to be just that—a weekend project, and nothing more. But it didn’t take long for them to realize that their idea was potentially much bigger than they’d realized. Their… (more) How GitHub Democratized Coding, Built a $2 Billion Business, and Found a New Home at Microsoft

With the possible exception of the earliest pioneers of Silicon Valley, such as IBM, Xerox, and Bell Labs, it’s hard to think of a company that has had a more profound, lasting impact on the world of technology than Microsoft. However, despite its role in fundamentally shaping the landscape of modern computing, Microsoft has an… (more) The Most Important Turning Points in Microsoft’s History

Some types of organization can get access to G Suite for free. This includes educational institutions that get access to the free G Suite for Education plan. What is G Suite for Education? G Suite for Education gives you access to all the standard apps from G Suite in addition to some specialized tools for… (more) Everything You Need To Know About G Suite for Education

What are G Suite Organizations? G Suite Organizations is an administrator’s tool in G Suite that allows you to place different users in separate groups, depending on the apps they need access to in order to do their job. Organizations give you the ability to: Turn services on and off for different groups of users… (more) How to Set Up Organizational Units in G Suite Correctly

G Suite provides a ton of benefits on its own. That’s probably why upward of 3 million businesses are using it. Yet, its third-party apps marketplace can help fill the gaps, give you more functionality that you didn’t even know you needed, and even replace some of the functions of Google’s core apps with something… (more) The 5 Best G Suite Marketplace Apps in 2020

Our company has been growing and we realized that someone on our team needed to become our dedicated G Suite admin. Hiten, my co-founder, turned to me and asked, “Why don’t you do it?” What? I’ve never managed G Suite before. What will I be responsible for? I said yes without even realizing what I… (more) The 7 Best Practices of a World-class G Suite Admin