Enterprise

The 24 most popular cloud apps used at work

Julie Bort
2015-08-26T15:37:39Z
Read in app
Office 365 at the office
Office 365 at the office Microsoft

There's no question about. The cloud has come to work.

Advertisement

Companies today use on average 16 cloud apps at work, according to a recent report published by cloud security company, Okta. And size doesn't matter. Both big companies and small companies tend to offer their employees about 16 cloud apps.

Okta determined this by analyzing the data from its 2,500 enterprise customers in 185 countries. They use use Okta to manage passwords and security for 4,000 cloud applications amounting to millions of logins daily by employees.

From that data, Okta discovered the 24 most popular apps used at work as well as the 10 fastest growing apps.

Advertisement

No. 24: Google Analytics, a freemium service that tracks and reports website and mobile website traffic.

Google Analytics
Google Analytics Google

No. 23: Yammer, a social network for employees where work groups can chat, post images/videos/documents and work on documents together.

Yammer
Yammer Microsoft
Advertisement

No. 22: NetSuite, a suite of business apps for tracking financials, sales management (known as customer relationship management or CRM) and ecommerce.

NetSuite
NetSuite

No. 21: ADP Portal, the self-service app for using ADP's payroll administration and benefits management tool.

ADP Portal
ADP
Advertisement

No. 20: Google Apps Admin, the administration page for a company's Google Apps account. It does things like set up or delete user accounts and select security policies.

Google Apps admin
Google

No. 19: FedEx US, the cloud service that manages FedEx shipments.

FedEx
FedEx
Advertisement

No 18: Atlassian Jira, project management and issue-tracking software for software development teams.

Atlassian Jira
Atlassian Jira Atlassian

No 17: Adobe Creative, the cloud suite version of Adobe's popular apps Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.

Adobe Creative Cloud
Adobe
Advertisement

No. 16: Cisco's WebEx, a service that hosts online meetings and web conferences, complete with slide decks.

WebEx
Cisco WebEx

No 15: GoToMeeting, another cloud service that hosts online meetings.

Citrix GoToMeeting
Citrix GoToMeeting Citrix
Advertisement

No. 14: Twitter, a social media site where people can share thoughts in 140-character bites and companies can talk to and support their customers.

Twitter
Twitter/Business Insider

No. 13: Outlook Web Access - 2010, allows employees to access their email via a browser. It's like the cloud version of Outlook.

Outlook Web Access
Microsoft
Advertisement

No. 12: DocuSign, a digital signature application that helps companies replace paper forms with electronic ones.

Docusign signature
Docusign

No. 11: Workday, a suite of online human resources and financial apps.

Workday
Workday
Advertisement

No. 10: GoDaddy, while famous for its web hosting services (and Super Bowl commercials), it also offers other business apps like email marketing tools and cloud computing hosting for developers.

GoDaddy
GoDaddy

No. 9: LinkedIn, a social network for professionals, as well as a job-hunting/job-recruiting tool.

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
Advertisement

No. 8: Dropbox, a cloud storage, file sharing, syncing and collaboration app.

Dropbox homepage
Hollis Johnson / Business Insider

No. 7: Zendesk, a customer support, technical support service.

Zendesk
Zendesk
Advertisement

No. 6: Amazon Web Services, the granddaddy of cloud services. It's a site that hosts applications, everything from the apps a company built themselves to commercial versions of just about every enterprise app you can think of.

Amazon Web Services
Amazon

No. 5: SAP's Concur, a travel and expense report app.

Concur
SAP Concur
Advertisement

No. 4: Google Apps, a suite of office apps best known for letting people collaborate on documents together. It includes email, a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software, cloud storage, calendar, etc.

Google Apps for Work
Google Apps for Work Google

No. 3: Box, a secure cloud storage, file sharing and collaboration tool.

Box on iPad
Box on an iPad Box
Advertisement

No. 2: Salesforce, a suite of tools used by sales and marketing people to track their customers, leads and contracts (a product category known as customer relationship management or CRM) and to create marketing campaigns and support customers.

Salesforce
Salesforce

No. 1: Microsoft Office 365, the online version of Microsoft Office with email, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. It's been zooming in popularity among enterprises lately.

Office 365
Microsoft

Read next

Cloud Computing
Advertisement
Close icon Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.