How to Sync and Dial International Phone Numbers from the GAL
When setting up your company to sync the GAL to Outlook Contacts and smartphones, it’s easy. Insert a USA 10 digit phone number in a phone field in the GAL and it syncs exactly as needed on both iPhone and Android. BUT, if you have employees overseas, they will be... Mail app on iOS 14.2 now Reverses Display Name
Unexpected Change to Mail App in iOS 14.2 Apple pushed out an iOS Update to millions of phones starting in November that is likely to generate some calls to the help desk. It’s ideal if your team knows about the change before anyone calls. Let me explain a bit. Let’s...
Construction Company Case Studies eBook
IT at Construction Companies Save 1,000s in Valuable Time Construction company employees need to connect with the right co-workers, subcontractors, or customers via smartphones at any time. Delivering high-quality projects on time means accessing accurate schedules,...
California Wildfires & Emergency Contact Management
California has historically had a difficult relationship with wildfires. The majority of northern California is covered in dense forests, and, as such, fires are both a natural aspect of the forest life cycle while being a constant threat to humans who reside in the...
Interview with Vernon Weitzman, ideamensch
Sometimes success comes from planning. Sometimes it’s a fluke. Always keep experimenting. October 21st, 2019. Our CTO and Founder, Vernon Weitzman, sat down recently with ideamensch to give a detailed breakdown on his history within the software field, his thoughts...
How Cira Apps went from Zero to 1,000 Enterprise Customers in 3 years
Today, CiraSync has surpassed 1,000 enterprise customers in just 3 years, while syncing business contacts and calendars for over 130,000+ smartphone users. San Jose’s Cira Apps Ltd. surpassed 1,000 enterprise customers last week, an impressive feat for any B2B SaaS...
Business Continuity Best Practices Infographic
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5 Tips to Automate Your Contact Synchronization
Once upon a time, businesses relied on paper address books. Those clunky things contained the information of every business contact, arranged according to names or department, or by another characteristic. Now, though, technology has transformed the concept and made...
Viewing versus Syncing Public Folders to Smartphones
In this blog, so far we’ve discussed in detail the pros and cons of Public Folders, why users love Public Folders, how to get the most out of public folders, and finally, why smartphones hate Public Folders, but what we haven’t spent a lot of time on is why you should...
Testimonial—Adam, Director of Operations
In this video: We sit down with Adam D., Director of Operations at a telecommunications company. Employees (full-time and temporary) at the company use a variety of smart devices for work and faced a number of contact syncing problems including manually adding and...
Testimonial—Jonah, Senior IT Engineer
In this video: Jonah, a Senior IT Engineer at a medium-sized construction company shares his contact management struggles, and how he came to find the CiraSync solution. The company has been using CiraSync for three years and they have not had a single time when the...
Testimonial—Joseph, Director of IT
In this video: We meet Joseph, IT Director. His company, struggled with an effective Office 365 contact sync solution—he discusses how CiraSync saved his company untold amounts of time, along with the ease with which it could be installed, thanks to the expertise of...
How to Sync the Office 365 Global Address List to Smartphones
Employees need to access the latest Office 365 Global Address List (GAL) on their smartphones to get business done. Without the latest GAL, they waste time answering spam calls or missing business-critical calls from co-workers, prospects, and customers. This video...
Testimonial—Swati, IT Consultant
In this video: We sit down with Swati, an Information Technology Adviser and Consultant; she tells us a little bit about how CiraSync exceeded her expectations and how their team found it useful. She particularly likes the clean interface to sync contacts to groups or...
Why Companies Love Public Folders
Public Folders have been around forever. In fact, if they were a person, they’d be old enough to drink, and anyone who has tried to clean up or re-vamp a legacy folder would tell you, you could use a stiff one by the time you’re done. Despite the headache, years of...
Business Advantages of Automatically Syncing HubSpot CRM to Smartphones
The CRM system at your company is used by multiple departments including sales, marketing, customer service, support, and even by accounting to manage and improve customer relationships. Indeed, it’s a business requirement that every customer-facing employee be able...
Stirred, Not Shaken: New Tools to Defeat Robocallers
Recently, I wrote a post regarding the plague of robocalls that has gotten worse in recent years and how you can filter out robocalls on an iPhone using the CiraSync GAL sync feature. However, as anyone who has tried to fight the plague of robocalls knows, a single...
Mandatory Password Updates Hurts User Security: Microsoft Password Policy Change
Microsoft recently unveiled a new policy update that’s caught many users by surprise: They have decided to do away with the time-honored tradition of required, regular, password resets. Sometime during May, 2019, Microsoft revealed that it is eliminating the expiring...
6 Simple Steps to Get Rid of Robocalls with CiraSync
14 robocalls. Yesterday I had a record 14 robocalls in the few hours I was in the office. If you’re like millions of smartphone users, this nuisance has gone from a pain that interrupts work or personal time to a constant, near hourly annoyance—in November 2018 alone,...
Four Ways to Leverage Calendar Sync on Smartphones
One of the more exciting features that Office 365 offers is the ability to share calendars company wide on desktop machines but there is a challenge to access the same shared calendars from smartphones. This is because the default mail app on Android and iOS...
CiraSync Compliance with GDPR
There are certain specific requirements for companies, such as Cira Apps Ltd., which is classified as a Data Processor—an entity that stores or transforms data on your behalf. It processes data according to the synchronization rules that a customer specifies. For...
GDPR Poised to Send 20,000 Small Businesses to Extinction
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) was designed with good intentions . . . the result may leave you thinking otherwise. Due to an overzealous drive to encourage compliance, combined with little to no analysis on the financial impact the law could have,...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke to a crowd on Monday about the future of Microsoft
Microsoft CEO recently spoke about Office 365. Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella suggested earlier this month at the Morgan Stanley Technology Media and Telecom conference in San Francisco that “Office 365 could be the biggest source of growth for...
How to Sync and Merge Outlook Contacts
CiraSync is possibly the only contact synchronization service for Office 365 that lets you sync and merge contacts from several different source locations. You can sync contacts from the Global Address List, Public Folders and shared mailboxes all combined together...
The Repeal of Net Neutrality: What Smartphone Users can Expect in 2018
The Repeal of Net Neutrality will likely impact your companies smartphone usage. On December 14th, 2017, the FCC voted 3–2 in favor of changing Title 2 classifications with regard to internet service providers and the internet as a utility, aka The Repeal of Net...
Android App to View an Office 365 Public Folder?
CiraSync’s free Office 365 app to view shared calendars and Public Folder contacts is now live. We constantly tell our prospective customers that they don’t need an Android app to view Folders—our software syncs public folder contacts and public calendars to...
iPhone App to View a Public Folder?
CiraSync’s free app to view shared calendars and Public Folder contacts is now live. We constantly tell our prospective customers that they don’t need an iPhone app to view Folders—our software syncs public folder contacts and public calendars to Outlook via...
“Missing Sync” Solution, CiraSync Rides Coattails of Office 365 for Rapid Growth
WASHINGTON July 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/—When Microsoft launched Office 365, it signaled a revolutionary change in how businesses would handle messaging and collaboration. Office 365’s 100 million active users have easy access to shared company contacts and...
Microsoft inspire 2017—The Biggest Partner Conference of the Year
This year, Microsoft is holding its largest ever partner event from July 9th–13th in Washington DC. Microsoft partners will be in attendance, all looking to get a chance to mingle with vendors, other partners and experience hundreds of talks and workshops. This year,...
How to get Salesforce Integration through Outlook for Macs and Smartphone Users
Bridging the Gap between Salesforce and Mac OS X Users When a software company claims they’re number one in their field, 99 out of 100 times its total BS. When Salesforce claims that they’re the number one CRM product in the world…well, let’s just say they’re the...
SaaS Security: How CiraSync Keeps Subscriber Data Safe and Secure
One of the most frequently asked questions we receive is, “What are the technical aspects of CiraSync security, and what steps do you take to ensure the security of users information?” When a company decides to look externally for help with information management,...
One Million Reasons NOT to Use Free Contact Management Solutions
A million Gmail account holders agree: when you use a free account, someone else is eventually going to be using it too. Recently, over 1,000,000 Gmail accounts & contact lists were hacked through a unique phishing scam in which users were tricked into opening a...