Top 10 apps workers use, whether boss knows it or not
- Cromwell Schubarth
- Senior Technology Reporter- Silicon Valley Business Journal
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Workers are using thousands of
cloud-based apps to help do their jobs that IT has had little control over,
according to a report from a Mountain View startup that emerged from stealth on
Thursday with
$21 million in funding.
Netskope CEO Sanjay Beri compiled a ranking
of 2,600 of these apps that he says his company's technology can find and help
to manage.
The rankings are based on how secure an app is, how easy it is to audit, how
it is being used and recoverability in case of a disaster.Beri said the categories at the bottom of the ranking are apps that workers use to develop software, do marketing or are aimed at productivity.
"These categories fall short because the lack such features as app compliance certifications, encryption of data at rest and enforcement of complex passwords," the report said.
The top-scoring categories are apps used for enterprise resource planning, document management and security.
"The top-scoring apps tend to address audit logging, granular role-based policies and separation of customers' data in the cloud much better than the bottom-scoring apps," Beri said.
Here are the top 10 cloud apps in Netskope's report:
1. Salesforce.com: The San Francisco-based company's apps are used for customer relations managment and sales force automation.
2. Box: The Los Altos company's apps are used for cloud storage and collaboration.
3. Crashplan: This app from Minneapolis-based Code42 provides cloud-based backup.
4. Amazon Web Services: This is the infrastructure offering from the Seattle online retail giant that many startups build their apps on top of.
5. EasyVista: The New York-based company's software is used for IT and application management.
Cromwell Schubarth is the Senior Technology Reporter at the Business Journal. His phone number is 408.299.1823.
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