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What is BetterCloud?

BetterCloud aims to eliminate up to 78% of SaaS management work by automating user lifecycle processes and day-to-day operations.

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BetterCloud aims to eliminate up to 78% of SaaS management work by automating user lifecycle processes and day-to-day operations.

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Product Demos

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Product Details

What is BetterCloud?

BetterCloud is a SaaS management platform, enabling IT teams to eliminate up to 78% of SaaS management work. BetterCloud automates onboarding, offboarding & mid-lifecycle changes, SaaS application access & entitlements, and security policies in a multi-SaaS environment. By streamlining and automating critical work like user lifecycle processes and day-to-day operations, BetterCloud aims to give customers greater operational efficiency and employee productivity.

BetterCloud Features

  • Supported: Advanced Alerting
  • Supported: No-Code Automation Workflows
  • Supported: Data Oversharing Monitoring and Mitigation
  • Supported: Zero Touch Automation
  • Supported: App Discovery
  • Supported: User Lifecycle Management
  • Supported: Sensitive Data Discovery
  • Supported: Least Privilege Access
  • Supported: Reporting

BetterCloud Screenshots

Screenshot of BetterCloud DashboardScreenshot of The Integration CenterScreenshot of Offboarding WorkflowScreenshot of Content Scanning Alert

BetterCloud Videos

BetterCloud automates onboarding, offboarding & mid-lifecycle changes, SaaS application access & entitlements, and security policies in a multi-SaaS environment.
BetterCloud is a SaaS Management Platform (SMP) that enables IT to discover, manage, and secure the growing stack of SaaS applications across the digital workplace.
Like many IT departments, Gainsight's small IT team was overextended, managing SaaS applications and the user lifecycle manually. Using BetterCloud's automated workflows, Gainsight eliminated a 1,300+ hours of ULM work in one year. This video shows how BetterCloud helped Gain...
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BetterCloud centralizes SaaS management and saves time on common IT activities using insights and automation.
BetterCloud SaaS management platform keeps sensitive company data safe by centrally and automatically enforcing security policies to preempt threats using.
BetterCloud offers a complete view of all SaaS applications in the IT environment to reduce security risk and manage SaaS spend.

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BetterCloud Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesUnited States
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

BetterCloud aims to eliminate up to 78% of SaaS management work by automating user lifecycle processes and day-to-day operations.

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The most common users of BetterCloud are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

BetterCloud Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)15%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)50%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)35%
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Reviews and Ratings

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TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Features: Many users have found BetterCloud's features helpful in managing tasks effectively. They appreciate the ease of use and integration with email clients, as well as the ability to create custom workflows and reports. The Google Drive file auditing, alert configuration, automation security reporting, and integration with GSuite tools are also highly valued by reviewers.

Automation: Reviewers have praised BetterCloud for its automation capabilities. Users appreciate the ability to automate actions and manage access through triggers, which helps streamline processes and save time. The data loss prevention feature is also highlighted as a valuable tool for maintaining security.

Customer Service: Several users have expressed satisfaction with BetterCloud's customer service. They report having a positive experience with the support team and appreciate their responsiveness and willingness to assist with any issues or questions that arise.

Confusing and cluttered user interface: Some users have found the user interface of g.bettercloud confusing and cluttered, making it difficult to navigate and find tools. They expressed frustration with the layout and organization of the interface.

Long configuration time and learning curve: Users mentioned that it takes a significant amount of time to fully configure BetterCloud for an organization. Additionally, new employees may face challenges in becoming familiar with the platform due to its complexity.

Lack of documentation: Multiple users expressed the need for better documentation. They found the written documentation for workflows and API difficult to follow, which made it harder for them to utilize these features effectively.

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  • Users suggest using the self-hosted version instead of the cloud version.
  • Some users recommend purchasing BeanFlumper, but they believe it's only worth the money for companies with over 500 employees.

Regarding BetterCloud, users commonly recommend the following:

  • BetterCloud is highly recommended to any organization using Google admin console.
  • Users believe admins can save a lot of time using BetterCloud.
  • It is advised to thoroughly trial the product before purchasing and to take the certification course for better training.

Overall, users praise BetterCloud for being a solid investment for IT departments and providing helpful customer support and training. They also recommend it for companies that extensively use SaaS apps. Users suggest improvements such as adding more integrations and improving existing ones, clearly defining licensing and terms of use, and utilizing vendor partners for implementation. Furthermore, users recommend paying annual dues on time to avoid workflow shutdowns.

When it comes to using BetterCloud effectively, users advise planning and evaluating workflows in advance, utilizing all provided tools and features, focusing on the order of steps in workflows, and creating and maintaining workflows with constant work. Additionally, users highly recommend BetterCloud as a better solution for automating SaaS applications, particularly for Google Workspace management. They appreciate the ease of integration with other platforms and emphasize the importance of understanding the total toolkit for automation.

Some users also suggest that BetterCloud makes life easier, is essential to managing SaaS platforms, and should be tried for at least one year to see improvements. They recommend tying all platforms to Google/Microsoft accounts and note that it is particularly beneficial for larger organizations. Lastly, users acknowledge competition but still believe that BetterCloud is worth considering as a solution for SAAS management. They advise having a good grip of SaaSOps structure before implementation and suggest doing a demo with higher management to showcase the value.

In terms of managing users in the native suite, users think that BetterCloud has been helpful. They consider BetterCloud a great product and appreciate its onboarding/offboarding workflows and support. They believe that BetterCloud is worth the investment.

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
BetterCloud allows us to automate tasks that would otherwise take three fulltime employees to execute each month. The SaaSOPS management platform allows to save on Google Licensing costs as we delegate administrative access thru the platform rather than using additional privileged accounts. BetterCloud also allows us to integrate different Saas Platforms to facilitate actions within each of the Apps, simplifying and correlating actions related to user access.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In the retail industry, turnover is high. By using Bettercloud's ability to create custom workflows, we have realized the time-savings equivalent to two or more full time positions by automating offboarding and rehire steps.

The robust ability of Bettercloud to audit, investigate, and modify Google Drive files has been absolutely invaluable and unrivaled, as we have analyzed and tested many products of the same nature.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Bettercloud currently and have used it for years to facilitate offboarding and deprovisioning of G-Suite user accounts. We use it to setup auto-replies, and inheritance of the off-boarded user's Google products (Drive, Groups, Calendars) to another user. We do not use it for onboarding: we use an on-prem app to create users and sync that information to G-Suite, Azure, and local AD. That information appears in Bettercloud automatically as it syncs with our domain.<br><br>We are trying to use Bettercloud to automate on/offboarding of new hires/terminations, but Betterclouds integration with Workday does not include the ability to create a username/email address in the very common first initial, lastname @ domain.com. This is a very frustrating situation because we want HR to be able to dictate who is and isn't an active user based on their employment status. This means Workday would be the source of truth in terms of "should a user have access to company services/data," while not necessarily being the source of truth for "what does this specific user have access to?" We can handle that with titles from Workday and security groups from Azure. It's kind of ridiculous that the Workday integration can't create a user based on the first initial when the first name string exists. This seems like a simple engineering change to the integration that Bettercloud has little interest in doing. It's also surprising that other clients have no asked for this because it means the clients are doing more work to stick to years-long and firmly established naming convention for hires.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We primarily use BetterCloud to automate our onboarding and offboarding processes. Our normal offboarding process would take 15-30 minutes (per person) if we didn't have BetterCloud workflows in place. The product itself saves our team a ton of time with its ability to automate day-to-day tasks. The overall UI is incredibly easy to use in comparison to other similar products. There are a number of integrations that BetterCloud offers and they are continuously adding more applications in their integration center. Whatever app your business is using, BetterCloud likely already built the integration so that you can create workflows for that app.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We integrate Bettercloud with Google for use in onboarding and offboarding accounts. It is utilized for group movement in Google via work flow mmanagement. We have used it to automate and save thousands of hours of manual user processing. Within education both staff and studnets move schools and change not only their location but also email groups, calendar shares, document shares, etc. THe workflows allow us to automate this function.
Nathan Yang | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use BetterCloud for both Google Workspace automation and reporting/auditing specific Google Apps. There are many features missing from Google Workspace that only BetterCloud can do (or using Google API directly) can do. Reinstead of reinventing the wheel and building in-house solutions, it's much cheaper and more efficient to use BetterCloud and their massive databases for Google Workspace. And it doesn't require any Google API coding experience, so a non-dev team can use Domain-Wide Delegation tools.

We use it for many things, including:
  • Assigning delegates
  • Bulk assigning email signatures and forward
  • Automated offboarding of Google accounts
  • Auditing Google Group licenses
  • Auditing Google Drive files and taking ownership of specific files
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Bettercloud is great for folks who need more management features for their cloud tools. It has a ton of great GSuite tools that are typically only available via the api (Delegation is the big one).
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently, BetterCloud is being used by our IT teams to automate onboarding and offboarding procedures and to kick off other one-off automation that makes things easier for the team. Using the built-in integrations for Slack, Salesforce, Google Workspace, Zoom, DUO, Offce 365, our IT team is able to seamlessly onboard classes of 30+ new hires. Using those same integrations, they are able to securely offboard terminated employees and send notifications to all relevant stakeholders that the process has been completed.
It is also being utilized by our security team to implement DLP security policies in place for Drive, Slack, Microsoft Office, and to set up alerting around a particular security events.
Tristan Dobbs | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
BetterCloud is many things to our organisation. It started as a G Suite management tool that allowed us to perform bulk actions and easily carry out complicated management tasks. Then, it added data protection features like content scanning and automated reporting. Then, it became a SaaS management platform that allowed us to connect other systems to G Suite and automate management tasks based on key triggers.
Rose Layton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our IT department uses BetterCloud to manage G Suite administration and security better than is possible using the G Suite Admin console. We also have integrated other apps using their “connectors” and most recently have used their Platform API to connect additional SaaS applications. Our everyday use case is for onboarding, offboarding, and real-time alerts. Bettercloud saves anywhere from 5-35 hours of labor per month using workflows and also enables us to “level-up in our work to secure a fully SaaS infrastructure.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The entire organization is able to use the software, but only a few of us hold administrative functions. While there on many tools associated with BetterCloud, we mostly use the software to complement the features offered on Gmail. This includes email signatures and graphics, vacation away messages and settings, etc. While the software does make these tedious tasks easier, it's all not that necessary as the email suite itself is fully capable of handling these actions.
Jon Shurtliff | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
BetterCloud is used in our IT organization to manage our G-Suite application. At first, I was skeptical about paying for a product instead of just using the Google Admin Panel that is free, but we've found BetterCloud to be so valuable that, although I have looked into saving money, we've always recognized that BetterCloud is well worth the investment!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our corporate business technology group uses BetterCloud to manage our Google apps for our business domain. We have varying permission levels within the tool and that really allows us to be granular with proper rights distribution. It is a far simpler tool that the Google Admin Panel. The entire organization has access to make location and signature changes for themselves which frees up our technicians to do real work.
Jamie Dear | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our organization uses BetterCloud to manage our Google domain. We use it across the entire organization to manage user account provisioning, email signature creation, application administration, directory management, and dynamic reporting. BetterCloud provides an easy to use interface that allows me to me to be much more efficient with my time. It helps provide automation for the simple, routine tasks.
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