In an era where data security is paramount, Vivantio, a leading B2B SaaS Service Management Platform, proudly announces the successful completion of its SOC 2® assessment. This achievement underlines our unwavering commitment to providing secure and reliable service management solutions to our customers.

Working from home is not just a trend anymore – it’s a way of life that needs us to be flexible and ready for change. In this time of being able to work flexibly, having the right tools can change your home office into a super-productive space. Steve Jobs once said, ‘Being innovative separates a leader from a follower.’ That’s why we’re exploring some essential apps made for people who work remotely.

Exoprise supports monitoring from inside the firewall and outside the firewall. Every day, we have prospects spin up Synthetic Transaction Monitoring (STM) as part of their free trial to test tenant access and performance from one of the Exoprise public points of presence, which we refer to as public sites.

Think you can skip a holiday party with your distributed team? Think again. Remote workers reportedly admit that they feel less connected to their colleagues. That’s why festive get-togethers — which offer people a chance to forge deeper bonds and build camaraderie — are even more important. Your holiday celebration doesn’t need to suffer just because you’re apart.

The unfortunate legacy of employee monitoring has less to do with employee monitoring per se and more to do with management philosophies rooted in compliance and hierarchy. Early employee monitoring methods evolved from top-down, compliance-first management styles. As a result, the approaches relied on methods that weren’t exactly employee-friendly: Collaboration isn’t built in. Employees aren’t given agency. Well-being takes a backseat to hours worked.

As we slide into the fourth industrial revolution and the lines between physical and digital experiences fuzz, distributed work isn’t going away. Managers and employees need to trust each other, or we risk backsliding into the bad old days of panopticon monitoring. Ethical monitoring practices create an atmosphere of trust and psychological safety among team members. Employees who feel their privacy is respected are more likely to speak up, share ideas, and collaborate effectively.