Software for operating?

April 21, 2021

by a searcher from University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business in Oakland, CA, USA

Hi all,

I'd love to find out more about the software and services that folks are using as operators. In particular, tech/SaaS solutions that are used to automate/streamline older vendors. Here are a few that I'm aware of. Would greatly appreciate any suggestions on 1) other categories, 2) players within each category, 3) your experiences with the players, and 4) if you shopped multiple players within a category, why you chose the company you ultimately went with over the others.

Payroll & benefits:
Gusto
Zenefits
Rippling

401K:
Guideline

Job scheduling / routing:
Jobber

Building / warehouse security & alarm:
SimpliSafe
Ring

CRM:
Pipedrive
Hubspot
Zoho
+any solutions from any other threads on searcher CRMs

Device management:
Drivestrike
Prey

E-mail & productivity:
G-Suite
Office 365

Chat/IM:
Slack
Google Chat / Hangouts
Teams (have heard a lot of bad things from current users)

Reply by a searcher
from Georgetown University in Chicago, IL, USA

Depending on the level of complexity/simplicity, the enterprise Microsoft 365 license (presumably would be in place if you're looking to add 365 at a company anyways) gives you access to Power apps as well which is a very simple CRM solution if you're looking for the basics.

Reply by a searcher
from Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz (FH) in Leipzig, Deutschland

I think you have a good stack of Tools to work with. Monday or Asana might be also an idea to think of

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