How Salesforce learned to lean into change during the pandemic

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What You Need To Know Today How Salesforce Overcame Its Pandemic ‘Paralysis’ and Learned to ‘Lean Into the Change’ Radically adapting a business with more than 50,000 employees during a pandemic isn’t easy, even for one built specifically for the cloud era. But after almost 9 months, Salesforce has almost completely transformed just about aspect of the way it operates. According to Salesforce president and COO Bret Taylor, that progress came after a slow start that resulted from the belief that any impact of COVID would be short-lived. via VentureBeat 13 Commonly Confused IT Terms As an IT professional, especially if you manage infrastructure or web-based technologies like SaaS applications, there are certain terms that are commonly confused. Often, they can be hard to clearly define or explain to your peers. Here are a few technologies and terminologies that are mostly incorrectly substituted. Some relatable examples have been included for easier understanding. via BetterCloud Monitor FBI Warns of Email Forwarding Rules Being Abused in Recent Hacks The US Federal Bureau of Investigation says that cyber-criminals are increasingly relying on email forwarding rules in order to disguise their presence inside hacked email accounts. In a PIN (Private Industry Notification) alert sent last week and made public today, the FBI says the technique has been seen and abused in recent BEC (Business Email Compromise) attacks reported over the summer. via ZDNet Google Chrome Will Soon Warn You When Using Weak Passwords ​Your online accounts' security is heavily dependent on how strong your passwords are, and if they are too easy, attackers could hack into your account by brute-forcing your password. When a user saves login credentials to the browser, the only way to detect weak credentials is to open the password manager in Chrome. Google is now working on a new feature that will automatically detect and highlight weak passwords when performing a Safety check. via BleepingComputer What’s Happening in the SaaSOps Community Has Anyone Found a SaaS Solution That Automates Documentation? Documentation is one of those things that *should* be easy, but is a true monolith to manage. Bert Smith asked the community if they've heard of any SaaS apps that automate documentation. Spoiler: There isn't a perfect solution—and some folks wonder if there should be one at all. Join the conversation by clicking the link above. via SaaSOps Community Tips & Tricks for the Digital Workplace How to Quickly Mute Annoying Notifications on Mac Sometimes you need to take a breather from an app’s notifications. Instead of turning off app notifications only to forget about them later, here’s how you can quickly mute or unmute annoying notifications on Mac using the Deliver Quietly feature. via How-To Geek How to Copy Formulas in Microsoft Excel One of the great things about working digitally is that it can cut down on a lot of unnecessarily repetitive work. For example, if you must fill the same content into multiple cells in a spreadsheet, you can just copy and paste the values to save time. Although, this can get a little tricky if you need to copy formulas. Luckily, Excel has several ways to copy and paste formulas. via MakeUseOf SaaSUPDATES Here are the latest product updates to the SaaS apps that power your digital workplace. Control Access to AppSheet With a New Admin Console Setting On December 14, 2020, Google Workspace admins will begin seeing a new control for AppSheet in the Additional Google services section of the Admin console. AppSheet is available to all Google Workspace customers; this new setting simply gives admins the ability to enable or disable user access to AppSheet at the domain, organizational unit (OU), group, or level. Google Workspace Updates Building a 486 DOS PC With an ISA Single Board Computer! 330 7th Ave, New York, NY 10001 Manage Preference | Unsubscribe | Forward | View on the Web