BetterCloud: leveling up your SaaS Administration.
June 18, 2019

BetterCloud: leveling up your SaaS Administration.

Rose Layton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with BetterCloud

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.
  • Customer service: from answering questions about how it works to supporting when things go wrong, and more, the Bettercloud team is among the best vendors in this area.
  • Forward-thinking: new services, new actions, new capability. Bettercloud thinks ahead and doesn’t hesitate to anticipate the needs of businesses today and tomorrow
  • Comprehensive: from simple admin tasks to granular roles and privileges, to deep data scanning, Bettercloud does pretty much everything you’ve thought of and only a few things you haven’t.
  • Pricing: Bettercloud is often positioned in the market against SIEM, CASBs, and other enterprise software. Pricing has recently started to reflect that, which means it’s practically inaccessible at list price for organizations who need it most - schools, nonprofits, etc.
  • Useability: as a service with so much depth, it can take weeks to get an organization fully configured, and similar amounts of time for new employees to get familiar with it.
  • Data monitoring: previously unavailable insight into our organization’s file-sharing habits and documents.
  • Granular roles: ability to set least-access permissions. And really, truly granular unlike some other applications.
  • Automation: we’ve already saved dozens of man hours using workflows. Gives us time to focus on things that matter without compromising common tasks.
There are very services that actually do what Bettercloud does, and we haven’t evaluated any because they usually fall under a group of enterprise software that I like to stay far away from. There are applications with similar goals, but there’s a lot of unnecessary complications to most of the services I’ve attempted to research.
Well suited for organizations with a deep SaaS structure, those who are looking to automate menial admin tasks and those looking for more capability and visibility into their environment. Personally, I feel it’s better suited to managing G Suite than Microsoft, but that’s because that’s my environment. I would say it’s also good for complicated environments, like multiple instances of applications or lesser known apps that have APIs capabilities but limited integrations. Not good for organizations that don’t have the time or ability to negotiate pricing or those with high levels of bureaucracy and not a lot of already set policies—decisions will have to be made and not being able to make them during implementation will slow things down considerably.

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