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Shadow IT is the latest buzzword for when employees buy their own apps and use them at 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 theyve 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. Its been in beta with a handful of Fortune 2,000 companies like Cisco and General Electric. Based on the scans its done with its beta customers, Skyhigh came up with a list of the top 50 shadow IT apps that employees use at work. Most of these weve heard of, but a few surprised us. Here they are, in order of how many people use them. Facebook Dropbox Google Mail Apple iCloud LinkedIn Disqus (an app for leaving comments on Web sites) Salesforce Amazon Web Services (Amazons cloud that hosts files and apps) Hotmail Box Amazon S3 (Amazons storage cloud) Google Apps Evernote (note taking app) Twitter Microsoft Office 365 (Microsofts 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) More From Business Insider Heres Why Your IT Department Hates Dropbox And Evernote The Skills And Equipment You Need To Get A Piece Of Apples $7.5 Billion Apps Market After A Brouhaha in West Virginia, Cisco Promises To Refund Millions Of Dollars Worth Of Routers View comments
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