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4 Avoidable Stresses of Working with Business Documents

This year has become the year of virtual meetings — where we all convene together to discuss business. An hour here, half an hour there. Sounds familiar, right? These meetings are a source of the occasional funny moment… “Oh wait, my microphone was still muted.” “I’m having connection problems.” (Sounding like a garbled, drive-through speaker.) “Please excuse my 5-year-old’s temper tantrum.”

The Gantt Chart: What is It and Why Does It Matter?

The Gantt chart has become one of the most widely used project management tools today. Incredibly versatile and easy-to-use, it can be used throughout the whole project for planning, time management, task management, scope management and much more besides. In this guide, we explain why the Gantt chart is so useful, as well as exploring its origins, features and benefits.

NEW Single Sign-On (SSO) Feature from Time Doctor

If you are part of an enterprise company you know how exhausting it can be to log into the same applications multiple times a day with multiple passwords. With more organizations moving to cloud based software there is an expectation from users for fast and seamless access to applications from anywhere at any time. To help meet expectations, Time Doctor is excited to announce that we have added the Single Sign-On (SSO) feature to our already powerful tool.

Part 2: Increase Revenue Using Automated Customer Support Alerts

In Part 1 of this series, we introduced ways that customer support can identify sales opportunities using ticket automation triggers in your TeamSupport B2B customer support solution. Ticket automation triggers allow you to set up multiple search parameters, identify certain keywords, and automatically take action, or multiple actions on a ticket, including sending alerts to specific team members when appropriate.

How a MSP Firm Uses OneDesk for Their Use Cases

Infrastructure and IT are basic requirements for nearly all companies as we live in an increasingly distributed world. For companies that are trying to grow quickly, it can be difficult trying to hire for so many other key roles as well as build out their own IT department. This is where turning to a managed service provider can be a game-changer. By offloading infrastructure and IT strategies to another company, this frees a company up to focus on driving forward in their business goals.

Four Asana activities to boost connection during the holidays

This year, due to remote work and COVID-19, work holiday celebrations might look a little different than usual. Most companies can’t plan their traditional holiday party or organize holiday-themed in-person events. But just because you can’t connect in person doesn’t mean you can’t close the year with some team connection. For tips, we turned to our Professional Services and Customer Success teams.

Tuning MySQL and the Ghost of Index Merge Intersection

Optimizing SQL queries is always fun—except when it isn’t. If you’re a MySQL veteran and have read the title, you already know where this is heading 😉. In that case, allow me to regale the uninitiated reader. This is the story of an (apparently) smart optimization to a SQL query that backfired spectacularly—and how we finally fixed it. It started off with a customer noticing that a SQL query was running slowly in their environment.

Kronos vs Replicon vs Time Doctor: 2021 Comparison

Are you looking for a detailed Kronos vs Replicon vs Time Doctor comparison? Kronos, Replicon, and Time Doctor are three popular time and attendance software available today. But which tool fits your needs best? To help you out, we’ll compare Kronos vs Replicon vs Time Doctor in this article. We’ll highlight their key features and pricing details so you can make an informed decision when choosing your time and attendance software.

Use Google Sheets' ImportXML function to scrape and visualize data

Google Sheets has a built-in function called ImportXML which can be used to scrape publicly available structured data from webpages. ImportXML imports data from any of various structured data types including XML, HTML, CSV, TSV, and RSS and ATOM XML feeds. In this post we’ll show you how to use the ImportXML function to aggregate Pinterest followers from different Pinterest accounts into a Google Sheet, and then visualize that information using Geckoboard’s Spreadsheets data source.