Countries, people and economies have taken a hit with a pandemic on the loose. As the situation is continually escalating around the world, social distancing has become the new normal. Businesses are encouraging employees to work from home and taking all precautionary measures. Health and safety have taken precedence (as it always should have) but this has also made global recession inevitable. As it has come down to the survival of the fittest, your business needs the best tools to survive in the diminishing economy.
TechTime has 3 awesome apps that can help you cut costs, make you productive and ensure secure login to your tools from anywhere in the world.
Cut cost with UserManagement
Do you have a lot of inactive users that are pushing your license limit? If yes, UserManagement is the answer. The main use case for the app is automatic disabling of inactive users i.e. keeping your user levels from breaching the license limit due to users who haven't logged in for a while or never at all. UserManagement gives you the ability to:
- Perform bulk user operations - add/remove groups, deactivate, change directory
- Use filters to query and manage users on group membership and inactivity period
- Schedule user operations - easily maintain inactive users
- Test out scheduled actions with the test mode before making any changes.
Here's an example of the cost comparison between Jira Server license tier upgrade and buying the UserManagement app.
Users | 251-500 | 501-2000 | 2001-10000 | 10000+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jira next tier upgrade price | $26,800 | $40,000 | $90,000 | $140,000 |
| UserManagement for Jira | $1500 | $2000 | $3000 | $4000 |
| Cost as % of the upgrade price | 5.59% | 5% | 3.33% | 2.857% |
Cut loose of the inactive users and not your valued employees. Avoid dramatically increasing your licensing fee, and try the app for
Increase productivity with EasyTime
Time tracking promotes autonomy and accountability. It gives your employees the much-needed reality-check on where and how they spent their time. Getting your employees to track time in the office is a tough task, but how about when they're home? The distractions are different, but still, play the same devastating role. As a manager sending reminders and chasing people to track time amongst a hundred other things you have to communicate is overwhelming.
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4 Ways Team Leads can improve time tracking for software teams
At TechTime, we have an elegant solution for you, EasyTime — an automated time tracking app for Jira Server and Data Center. The app:
Automatically tracks time in real-time as soon as you view, comment or resolve an issue. No more worrying about starting or stopping a timer, assumptions based on the time an issue has spent in a particular status or trawling through browser history to fill gaps in your timesheet
- Creates work logs in pre-defined increments
- Resolves conflicts, performs merging and recognises the relative priority of events so that the timesheets accurately reflect the user's day
EasyTime is an effortless time tracking app to produce timesheets that require minimal review and manual editing - simplifying the timesheeting process. We recently partnered up with Tempo Timesheets, where you can review and manually edit the automated work logs. The automated work logs are highlighted so that it's easy to find. See how we work with Tempo Timesheets. Don't have a timesheet app? Don't worry, EasyTime works with or without a timesheet app. Focus on value-added work and reduce the time spent on internal work. Perfect for planning and forecasting, project management and tracking billable hours. You can try the app here:
Secure Access to Atlassian tools with EasySSO
Cyberattacks are targeting remote workers, making it more important than ever to make sure your employees are accessing Atlassian tools securely. Opening up your internal applications like Jira, Confluence or Bitbucket to the world, merely protected by password-based credentials is not secure enough.
To prevent any security breach you could:
- Add two-factor authentications capability — our partners at Syracom provide SecureLogin apps for Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)
- Hide the applications behind secure appliances like F5, Web Application Firewalls or Application Proxies like Azure Application Proxy
We serve these needs by providing SAML, X.509 and HTTP Headers SSO. Customers who have already enjoyed the benefits of one of these authenticators inside the office networks will be able to continue with these in the remote situation.
However, with the need to enable remote capability fast, companies often choose to just make all newly remote users access the internal services via a VPN. Besides encrypting all traffic, VPN solutions often enforce anti-virus checks and cut all traffic to un-approved destinations thus protecting from the risks associated with the use of personal desktops/laptops and systems.
With most VPN solutions, if the customer used Kerberos authenticator in the office, it will stop working as there is no direct connection to Domain Controllers. This is where EasySSO's unique combination of Kerberos and NTLM authenticators shines - with EasySSO everything will continue to work as before, absolutely transparently to the users.
We have EasySSO available of Server and Data Center for:
Jira Confluence Bitbucket Bamboo Fisheye
All the TechTime apps embody the sentiments of 'Be Lazy. The Machine Does It Better — #everykeystrokematters' Our apps are designed to automate processes and work seamlessly, without hurting your budget. It's now more important than ever to focus on your core responsibilities to help your team in these unprecedented times. Keep safe, be healthy and leave the hard work to us! 