A CRM is a CRM is a CRM…right? Wrong. With due apologies to Gertrude Stein and William Shakespeare, a Customer Relationship Management software bought from just about any vendor wouldn’t “smell as sweet.” At our just-concluded Refresh 2020 virtual global conference, we took great pains and absolute delight to explain why not.

Curious about time management styles? It’s no secret that everyone is interested in managing their time better. And while there are general tips and techniques to help you manage your time better, like organizing your workplace, they aren’t enough to help you be more productive. You have to figure out the time management style and productivity technique that works best for you.

In this article, we’ll show you the best customer service tools you can use to improve your service. We’ll discuss the following: …and more! By the end of the article, you’ll know exactly which tools are the best for each step of your customer service process. Let’s get started.

In a sense, IT project management is simple to understand. As the more intuitive folk out there may already have deduced, it means the use of project management to help accomplish IT goals. But don’t put down your pipe just yet, Sherlock. IT project management requires a special approach, as the IT context brings with it a unique set of requirements. In this guide, we’ll take you through the details that set IT project management apart as a specialist practice.

Oftentimes, it starts like a dream—fleeting, chaotic, unsolicited, and without structure. The idea is a strange thing, isn’t it? The way it begins and evolves is like life itself—literally out of nowhere, and then, in a hard act to follow, it branches out and sprouts arms and legs, and lands firmly upon the ground of reason to sustain itself through the years.

A little over 2 months ago, we announced Mattermost Omnibus (beta). Mattermost Omnibus is a new, time-saving approach to installing Mattermost. Since then, we’ve done a massive amount of testing, listened to your feedback, and added new features and options. Today, I’m excited to share some big news. The project is officially graduating from Beta status and is ready for any single-server deployments for use as test, dev and/or production Mattermost servers.

Given how ransomware attacks continue to hit the headlines, many businesses and cybersecurity experts are placing bets on air-gapped networks. Advanced technology that offers tough defense against cyberattacks is the need-of-the-hour since data theft is becoming one of the major business issues. Once an intruder finds a way into your organization's sensitive data, your businesses can weeks or even months to recover because all networked data is infected and encrypted, making it useless.