BetterCloud - Google Workspace Marketplace

SaaS Operations Management Platform for Google Workspace™

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Listing updated:September 29, 2023

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Overview

BetterCloud is the first SaaS Operations Management Platform, empowering IT to define, remediate, and enforce management and security policies for SaaS applications. Now, IT can take control of their environment with continuous event monitoring, individual and bulk remediation actions, and fully automated policy enforcement. 

BetterCloud’s deep API connections enable IT to monitor user behavior, system configurations, and data activity across SaaS applications. IT can create advanced automation sequences to enforce custom policies in their applications, including user onboarding/offboarding, data exposure, user and group settings, least-privilege admin access, and more.

Over 2,500 customers in 60+ countries rely on BetterCloud to enforce custom policies in their SaaS applications.

BetterCloud is headquartered in New York City with an engineering office in Atlanta, GA

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BetterCloud will need access to your Google account

This will allow BetterCloud to :

See, edit, create, and delete all of your Google Drive files

See, edit, create, and delete all your Google Sheets spreadsheets

See, edit, create, and delete all of your Google Drive files

See, edit, create, and delete all your Google Sheets spreadsheets

See all your Google Sheets spreadsheets

Read, compose, send, and permanently delete all your email from Gmail

See and edit your email labels

Read, compose, and send emails from your Gmail account

See, edit, create, or change your email settings and filters in Gmail

Manage your sensitive mail settings, including who can manage your mail

See, edit, share, and permanently delete all the calendars you can access using Google Calendar

See, edit, download, and permanently delete your contacts

Manage the calendar settings of users on your domain

Audit emails of users on your domain

Manage your domain settings

Manage the email settings of users on your domain

View and manage data transfers between users in your organization

View and manage your mobile devices' metadata

View and manage the provisioning of domains for your customers

View and manage the provisioning of groups on your domain

View and manage group subscriptions on your domain

View groups on your domain

View and manage organization units on your domain

View organization units on your domain

View and manage the provisioning of users on your domain

View and manage user aliases on your domain

See info about users on your domain

Manage data access permissions for users on your domain

View and manage the provisioning of user schemas on your domain

View audit reports for your G Suite domain

View usage reports for your G Suite domain

View and manage the settings of a G Suite group

View and manage G Suite licenses for your domain

See your primary Google Account email address

See your personal info, including any personal info you've made publicly available

Manage your sites

View the activity history of your Google apps

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A User of BetterCloud

July 2, 2013

I manage 4 GApps domains (2 companies & 2 volunteer fire departments) & don't know how I could manage without FlashPanel. FP simplifies user & shared contacts administration. More importantly, BetterCloud listens. Whenever I've asked them to simplify an action (e.g. reducing the number of clicks to add a shared contact), my suggestion finds its way into a future release. BRAVO!!

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A User of BetterCloud

September 4, 2015

I've been using BetterCloud for over two years as the sole admin to manage an org of about 130 users. I use it almost daily and it is a very valuable tool to help manage our Google Apps account. It isn't just a different interface than the Google Admin console - but has so many more features and shortcuts. Examples: quickly adding a user to multiple groups (or multiple users to one group); one button setup of email forwarding for a user; one button migration of one users Docs to another user; awesome user provision/deprovision/disable/delete workflow tool; auditing Google Drive Docs. If you are managing your Google Apps account more than once a month, you should definitely give this tool a try.

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A User of BetterCloud

April 16, 2013

I am so glad I discovered FlashPanel. I had been trying to make multiple changes in Google Apps for Education, but there was no way to make global changes. FlashPanel enabled me to make those changes globally and so much more. As long as it's free (we are a public school) I will use it!

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A User of BetterCloud

September 4, 2015

I can give you many reasons why I chose BetterCloud to be a part of our company support suite. However, I will give you my most recent case. Two days ago CryptoWall 3.0 (Ransomware) was brought into one of our networks by an end user. CryptoWall eventually worked its way onto a File Server. It also affected files shared by the end user via Google Drive Sync. Google did a great job by blocking the sync of all local encrypted files. However, allowed some residual files to be synced (HELP_ENCRYPT). I used BetterCloud to my advantage to isolate the threat by using the Drive Audit to conduct several thorough searches for all users in the OU. Without BetterCloud this would have potentially become a huge nightmare. However, I was able to eliminate the threat in a timely fashion with the help of BetterCloud.

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A User of BetterCloud

July 30, 2012

We had a need for better management of our google apps account -- with users coming in and out every few months we did not know how to migrate documents, calendars, emails etc. in a consistent and transparent fashion. FlashPanel makes this process so easy and we finally feel like we have some visibility into and control over the process. A really excellent product - highly recommended. Thank you Flashpanel!

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A User of BetterCloud

September 4, 2015

A solid product but can be unreliable and slow at times (especially when dealing with anything to do with Drive). The recent price hike for enterprise is also a bit difficult to accept given the fact there is no real added functionality. For certain elements of Google Apps (such as Groups) I find the Google admin console more robust than BetterCloud. It was once an obvious element of our tech suite (largely due to its affordability) but with this new hike I find myself questioning just how necessary it really is.

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A User of BetterCloud

February 19, 2015

I cannot fathom why I need such an application to manage a user directory. This is a feature that should be provided by Google if they want to service Enterprise. That said, we have been using FlashPanel for more than 2 years. We have always had Authorization Token Problems which were reported to support, yet never resolved. The auto-signature tool was flaky as was their bulk updating tool. Maybe we were a beta customer. $1/user per month was ludicrous. We were unable to justify renewing this year as we didn't see that much value in the product. With today's switch from FlashPanel to BetterCloud, I have found myself finally writing this review. Gone are all of the free features, which means the product has now become entirely useless.

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A User of BetterCloud

September 8, 2015

First the bad: The recent UI interface helped, but it still feels kludgy in some areas. Most days, if you ask me about the price of BetterCloud I would say "it's kinda pricey." Then… Then the good: Every now and then we need to do something that would take forever or be impossible in the regular Google Apps admin panel, we discover we can do it efficiently in BetterCloud, and I think "money well spent." Bulk permission changes on groups, automated periodic reports, and the deprovision workflow are some of the things that made it easy to say yes to renewing this year. That and their support team, who are very good and highly responsive.

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A User of BetterCloud

September 4, 2013

It's not a substitute for Google Apps administration panel, but an enhancement to all the options and management possibilities. You have a completely different look and feel, on which I feel much more comfortable than with Google's, and also a variety of bulk operations which are messed actually. On the other hand, I tend to come back to Google admin console for different operations such as domain management and other types of statistics. Both, Google's and FlasPanel are very good tools with different uses. Just get used to select the proper one for each of your day to day needs. Don't miss this one!

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A User of BetterCloud

January 11, 2013

4.5 stars We've been using Google Apps for about 4 months now, and FlashPanel has been very effective in managing user accounts, adding/deleting, and the new feature allowing for bulk uploads to add/change user accounts... AWESOME! I dinged FlashPanel .5 star because of the Group Management interface. I had to make changes to all our Groups re: Posting access and had to revert to the Google Control Panel because FlashPanel didn't have hooks for all the settings. This is probably a Google restriction, but FlashPanel made it look like I could make those changes here. Otherwise, every way that I use FlashPanel is easy and a great help!

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