Did you know that 73% of businesses plan to launch SaaS products and make all their systems SaaS by 2020? Swiftly and Smartly, our World is shifting towards ‘Software as a Service’ era. Some of the saas companies are already there, while most others are likely to follow. Vendors and businesses are either building new SaaS products or acquiring the existing ones. Wait for a couple of more years and your workplace will never be the same again.

According to figures from Dimension Data, 84% of organizations that work to improve their customer service offering report an increase in revenue. Looking to invest in customer service, in order to put together a stronger team and boost your business? Here’s the exact way to hire a customer service representative in 2020.

What does it mean to be a great project manager? It’s not about qualifications or degrees (but those are good too, of course). It’s not even about simply delivering on the classic duties and responsibilities of a project manager (although obviously that’s a pretty big part of it). Those things are important. But being a really great project manager isn’t just about tasks, timings, and technical prowess.

There are many things to look forward to this year at Asana. So we talked to a few Asanas from our global offices recently to find out what they’re most excited for in 2020. From customers, to culture, to growth and mentorship, here’s what they had to say.

We’re really excited to announce we are changing our name to HaloITSM. We have had many (over 25!) years of exciting growth as NetHelpDesk, however our product has evolved and our team has expanded. We have grown far beyond a help desk, we now provide a system with serious power and functionality. As a result, we knew it was time to express this growth with a new name and product identity.

2019 was quite the year! For Scoro, it was all about making sure we’re offering the best quality service possible. That’s why we put all our effort into rolling out many great features and tons of updates to further improve the overall Scoro experience. Our team would like to thank you for choosing Scoro and being with us on this remarkable journey. We’re grateful to have you on board!

You’re a manager. You’re not one to pat yourself on the back, but you’ve got to admit: your team is doing pretty darn well. At least, that’s how it seems to you. Big projects are being checked off the list, deadlines are being met. You haven’t had to referee any heated conflicts, your inbox has no complaints. You’re good! But is that the whole story? Our research suggests your direct reports might describe the situation a wee bit differently.

Optimize your sales workflow and make your team more efficient with the enhanced Teamwork CRM and Teamwork Projects integration. We’re constantly looking for ways to improve the integration between Teamwork CRM and the other products in the Teamwork suite. Our aim is to help you to streamline how you work so you can spend less time switching between tabs and getting lost in general admin and more time on delivering the work that matters.

Many companies use Excel as their sales tracker tool. It’s one of the most popular database organization tools, so sales teams assume it’s the best software for tracking their activity. The reality is Excel isn’t an ideal sales tracker. It’s a complex software that can be a bottleneck for reps without Excel skills. More dangerously, Excel leaves room for error as a manual tool and limits analysis to hard-to-learn formulas and formatting.

Mattermost is starting a new open source campaign, this time around increasing the unit test coverage for the mmctl tool. The mmctl tool is a CLI application that mimics the commands and features of the current Mattermost CLI tool and uses the Mattermost REST API to communicate with the server. Using the tool, you can control and manage several Mattermost servers without having to access the specific machine on which the server is running.