The Top 50 Apps Employees Sneak Into Work
In a 2012 survey, PricewaterhouseCoopers found that as much as one-third of the money companies spent on technology was for these "shadow IT" apps.
Sometimes employees buy apps to get their work done faster. Sometimes the apps are really for fun, but they've loaded them on their PCs, smartphone, or tablets connected to corporate networks.
A startup that launched last week, Skyhigh Networks, helps IT departments discover these shadow apps so IT departments can stop or control them. It's been in beta with a handful of Fortune 2,000 companies like Cisco and General Electric.
Based on the scans it's done with its beta customers,
Here they are, in order of how many people use them.
- Dropbox
- Google Mail
- Apple iCloud
- Disqus (an app for leaving comments on Web sites)
- Salesforce
- Amazon Web Services (Amazon's cloud that hosts files and apps)
- Hotmail
- Box
- Amazon S3 (Amazon's storage cloud)
- Google Apps
- Evernote (note taking app)
- Microsoft Office 365 (Microsoft's cloud version of MS Office)
- 4shared (file sharing)
- RightNow (Customer support app bought by Oracle in 2011)
- Mozy (Online backup and storage)
- AOL
- Sourceforge (a site that stores and shares open-sourced apps)
- Netsuite (cloud ERP app)
- Marketo (manages marketing campaigns)
- Flickr
- VeriSign Geotrust (
security app that ensures a Web site is safe) - Google Analytics
- YouSendIt (file sharing)
- New Relic (troubleshoots problems with Web apps)
- Taleo (HR cloud app bought by Oracle in 2012)
- Slideshare (Powerpoint presentations online)
- Workday (HR app)
- Carbonite (automatic, secure backup and storage)
- Docusign (electronic signatures for legal, business documents)
- Prezi (online presentations)
- Typekit (adds fancy fonts to a website)
- Skype
- Sliderocket (online presentation tools)
- Github (open-source projects and job site for developers)
- Cloudfiles (file sharing)
- SugarSync (file sharing)
- PagerDuty (texting app for IT emergencies)
- Bitbucket (stores open source projects)
- Intuit Quickbase (creates custom business apps)
- Constant Contact (email marketing)
- Xobni (connects your Inbox to your social networks)
- Snapfish (web photo printing)
- Spiceworks (social network for IT professionals)
- Olark (adds chat to your website)
- Symantec Brightmail (email spam/security)
- Addthis (adds social features/buttons to Websites)
- Screencast (cloud storage)
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