Blueprint Creator for Confluence – blueprints for spaces now available

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As the superordinate organizational unit in Confluence, spaces are a useful and versatile way for organizations to structure their content. Thanks to form-based tools and dialogs, it is easy to create new spaces, even for new users. However, this can lead to a lack of standardization when it comes to structure and content. Blueprint Creator now allows organizations to create templates for new spaces without the need for programming. Here we look at some of the features and benefits of this new app.

Five free or low-cost alternatives to Microsoft Office

Maximilian Boos

Over the years, Microsoft Office has established itself as an industry leader. However, these days you can find serious alternatives that, depending on the application, are quite sufficient and, in some cases, they perform even better. In this article we’re bringing you a brief overview of a few of the most interesting office alternatives out there today. We’ll also recommend what type of user these Office alternatives benefit most; in other words, one might be a better fit for an individual user, while another might be a good fit for a company seeking an office alternative.

Microsoft Excel Online vs. Google Sheets: Comparing Twelve Features

Maximilian Boos

The vast majority of organizations use some sort of browser-based spreadsheet app, and Microsoft Excel Online and Google Sheets are industry leaders in this area of professional software. Both are also part of larger collections of business software organized into office suites: Excel Online is a Microsoft Office 365 module and Google Sheets is a G Suite application. In many ways Excel Online and Google Sheets are quite similar, especially functionally. I’ve chosen to focus on reviewing twelve functions where I could really see differences between the two pieces of software. These twelve areas are especially relevant for more advanced users; those who have extensive experience working with spreadsheets software.

Templates and blueprints in Confluence

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You can use templates and blueprints to create pages, saving time and making sure that you establish a uniform structure to your pages. What are Templates and Blueprints? Basically, templates are pages but with predefined content. This means that your area administrator can create templates using the standard Confluence editor, and then they can make those templates available to your team. Blueprints are even more powerful than templates. As a result, they greatly simplify the page creation process.

Exclaimer: professional email signatures for G Suite and Gmail

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Many companies stress the importance of maintaining a certain degree of uniform formality in how they use email to communicate with the outside world. It’s impossible to establish such universal standards across hundreds or even thousands of employees in an organization if they don’t have any options to control outgoing emails centrally.

Thankfully there are solutions such as Exclaimer, which offers professional, centrally controlled email signatures for G Suite with Gmail as well as other platforms. At a Google Cloud breakfast in Wiesbaden, representatives from Exclaimer gave us a tutorial presentation.

Linchpin Suite 1.2: Customization, flexibility, and optimized mobile use for Confluence-based intranets

Matthias Rauer

Over the past several months, our teams have been developing the Confluence-based social intranet suite Linchpin. However, this development cycle hasn’t only focused on individual marketplace apps: we’re continuing to develop Linchpin Suite, a comprehensive solution that coordinates all of Linchpin’s wide range of functions. You can check out the brand new version 1.2, which includes several new features and optimizations. Let’s take a closer look at what Linchpin Suite 1.2 has to offer.

Five to 50 things that employees can do for an agile organization

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The dynamics of the modern-day business world mean that even large corporations cannot shy away from the changes that need to be made in organizational structures to keep up. Here we look at what organizations and employees can do to make their companies and corporations more agile and robust to the complexity and dynamics of today’s markets.

Five important things that change for leaders in an agile company

mseibert

The process of transitioning into a modern agile company has come with occasional growing pains. We had to take many of our traditional ways of thinking and throw them out of the window. Several of our classic methods and tools ended up being mothballed. Power had to be redistributed. See how Martin explains his approach as a leader in an agile company in this keynote presentation at Audi AG in Ingolstadt.

Custom software development: Workflows, branches and continuous delivery

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Overview of included pull requests in a release

Of course, software development for large customer projects does not run like “On your marks. Get set. Hack!” Rather, it is a complex process which is subject to high quality and security requirements, yet must also offer a lot of flexibility. See how a //SEIBERT/MEDIA development team develops a new feature for a custom software project.