The 'Work from home' toolkit for the IT-er COVID-19 season, deployed in a snap

In addition to the many implications of the COVID-19 epidemic on businesses, there is a new emerging trend: the way COVID-19 has completely changed the traditional working culture.

Ensuring employee safety is paramount at this stage. Ensuring business continuity in order not to adversely affect service delivery is equally important.

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To do this, companies are forced to rely on a system of tools for working, collaborating, managing, and online conferencing when many employees are at home, many areas are blocked.

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Summary of effective remote working tools used by many businesses

Of all the elements that support remote work, communication should be a top priority. Seamless communication helps members keep up and not miss directions, or important information. Owning the advantages: multi-platform, split channels to create discussion groups, integrate multiple storage applications (Github, Gitlab, Jira, Jenkin .), send alerts and report on channels ., Mattermost received many positive reviews.

Obviously, for the team to work together smoothly and in the right direction, meetings and conferences are needed. So online video conferencing will be essential. Among the open source tools, Jitsi is highly appreciated for its convenient screen sharing feature, support for presentations in online meetings or when it is necessary to view documents together.

With an online source code repository accessible anytime, anywhere, developers will also easily deploy work from home. However, there are many cases where an organization's source code needs to be kept confidential. Unlike Github - configuring private repo will cost extra, Gitlab supports this feature for free.

With the characteristics in the field of technology, the division of tasks, managing tasks when working from home will be quite difficult. A management tool that allows real-time progress tracking like Redmine will help members and managers ensure they keep up with their goals. Redmine uses calendar charts and bar charts to manage tasks, bugs and facilitate scientific support and convenience.

Some notes when using remote working tools for businesses

The above tools are also commonly applied by many companies in the working environment. The difference is that the level of application in this time is raised to a wider range, more urgent needs. However, this is a problem many businesses need to note.

By most applications are developed abroad. The fact that a large number of domestic and foreign businesses rely on these applications at the same time can cause problems such as: international network congestion, unstable connection, . leading to disruptions. communication, work interruption. Besides, public applications often do not have a high level of information security. The risks of leaking important information, sensitive data, being attacked by hackers . will most likely threaten the enterprise, making the situation more difficult to control.

Meanwhile, using applications on the network connection in Vietnam will usually be faster and more stable. However, building a remote toolkit to meet the needs will take time and effort when businesses need to deploy quickly without using external tools, as well as not feasible. with companies that do not have the financial and technological potential.

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To solve these problems, businesses can consider a tool to help set up all communication, collaboration and management applications on their systems in Vietnam. Pre-built App is an application that helps fully deploy online tools such as Mattermost, Jitsi, Gitlab, Redmine . right on the enterprise system with just a few simple clicks. In addition, there are many other popular utility tools such as Owncloud, Nextcloud, Lamp Stack, Lemp Stack, cPanel . for businesses to choose.

All users need to do is access the Pre-built App and select the applications to deploy. Another big advantage is that setup applications will run on BizFly Cloud servers located in Vietnam and owned by the business. All data, information will be backed up, encrypted, maximum security. Using this tool will allow businesses to take full advantage of the remote working model during this period.

Currently, the Pre-built App is a solution developed by BizFly Cloud, supporting the installation of more than 100 utility work applications after just a few taps on a single application, allowing starting work at home. anywhere, anytime. Instant implementation, without effort, time and resources. To experience the FREE service and RECEIVE NOW 3 months of usage fee, interested readers can access at: https://bizflycloud.vn/prebuilt-app/.

The BizFly Cloud ecosystem is operated by VCCorp - a leading company in the field of technology and communications, having many years of experience in cooperation with major partners such as Topica, VTV, Vingroup, Fahasa, 7-eleven, Ahamove, vntrip .

Update 31 March 2020
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