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Welcome to this week's edition of the SaaS Hill ⛰🏔. Each week we publish one SaaS trend to keep an eye on.

This week we are covering Command Bar, Command Center and Unified Search Interfaces.

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⭐️ Intro

Have you ever been in a situation when you need some piece of information, but you have no idea where it is stored? For example, you bookmarked an interesting email template or company's vacation policy, but you forgot where to find it. Is it in Slack, or is it saved as a Google Doc or an internal wiki? So you start searching it everywhere. It can take 5-10 mins to scroll through hundreds of files and folders to find it.

That's where Command Bar and Unified Search interfaces come in.

Here is what we will cover today:1. Command Bar, Command Center and Unified Search Interfaces as a Spotlight search for all cloud and SaaS apps2. What company acquired 2 Command Bar apps in 3. An average number of SaaS apps used by organizations4. How many SaaS apps an employee uses on average5. How to keep using all your favourite to-do apps like ClickUp, Notion, Calendar, Todoist under one umbrella, and still be productive

🤔 Predictions

1. We will see more and more solutions that will try to resolve the issue of searching company’s information and knowledge across multiple SaaS tools, documents, notes etc. (Glean and Searchable.ai search across your company's collective knowledge, so there is no need to remember where things are or what they’re called).

2. We will see more SaaS products that will try to unify and consolidate all the to-do tools and apps you use into one easy-to-manage place. (Akiflow and Kairn integrate with ClickUp, Notion, Todoist, Google Calendar, and Asana, so you can take care of all your tasks in one place)

3. The same with notifications. We will see more apps that will unify notifications under one umbrella. For example, Acapela connects to your everyday tools and tackles all your work messages from one place, without checking multiple apps)

4. We will see more chat apps that integrate with major social media and messengers, so you can see all chats in one unified inbox. Check out Beeper or Texts

5. The same will happen with Calendars. More likely we will use super-calendar apps that integrate with 100s of SaaS apps, pull task information from different sources and help prioritize them. Thus, it should help increase productivity. For example, Reclaim.ai integrates with Google Calendar, Asana, Trello, ClickUp, Todoist, Jira and helps create the perfect schedule for your priorities.

6. Unified Command Bars will help search any information across company’s tech stack: Notion, Google Docs, Spreadsheets, Internal Wikis, Knowldgebases, Slack. Thus, employees will spend less time searching for needed information.

📈 Trend Charts

The average number of SaaS applications used by organizations worldwide keeps growing

📊 Statistics

1. According to a McKinsey report, employees spend 1.8 hours every day -- 9.3 hours per week, on average searching and gathering information

2. The stress and hassle of locating the right information impacts employee retention

3. Over 31% of those surveyed said the frustration of being unable to find information made them feel burned out and 16% said it made them want to leave their company

4. The average knowledge worker now receives notifications from 6 applications

5. The SaaS market is currently growing by 18% each year

6. BMC predicted that 99% of organizations will be using 1 or more SaaS solutions by the end of 2021

7. In 2021, the average organization used 110 SaaS apps, up 38% from an average of 80 apps in 2020 according to BetterCloud

8. According to Insivia, on average, companies spend $2,623 per employee per year on SaaS

9. On average, enterprises spend $4.16M on SaaS

10. On average, employees have 8.3 SaaS apps each

11. SaaS market is growing at 6.5x as fast as the world economy

🏢 Products

🔎 Unified Searchesslapdash > Slapdash brings all your apps together in one place to give you new superpowersCommand E > Instantly find everything you need to work faster, on your desktop and across your cloud appsglean > Search across all your company's apps to find exactly what you need and discover the things you should knowRaycast > Raycast is a blazingly fast, totally extendable launcher. It lets you complete tasks, calculate, share common links, and much moreSearchable.ai > Unify all your work data in one placeQatalog > One Work HubDashworks > Where intelligent search helps you find the right documents, messages, tickets, and other knowledge scattered across your company's apps and peopleWuha > The search assistant who connects to all your sources of information to facilitate eesel > Find any doc, create new ones, and follow your teammates' projectsMindmesh > Centralize work, notes, todos, and meetings. Jump back in an instantcuriosity.ai > Tired of searching in folders, emails and apps? Get Curiosity and find everything in one place

✅ Unified To-dosAkiflow > Akiflow lets you consolidate all the tools you use, so you can block time for your tasks and see everything you need to get done in your calendarKairn > Keep track of everything you need to do across tools with easeHeight > Keep tasks in sync with your existing toolstaskable > Manage your top priorities with a personal, unified to-do list and calendar. Get set up in minutes

📆 Unified CalendarsReclaim > Reclaim creates the perfect schedule for your priorities, saving you up to 40% of your workweekSunsama > Organize everything you need to do today in one place. Tasks, meetings, emails, you name itRoutine > Unify your calendars, centralize your work, plan your days and focus on what matters now

🔵 Unified NotificationsAcapela > Take control of your notifications. Capture, filter, and action them all from one place

💬 Unified ChatsBeeper > All your chats in one app. Yes, reallyTexts > All of your messages in one inbox

📖 Experts to Follow

1. Zeb Evans > Founder & CEO at ClickUp

2. Patricia Bernasconi > CEO & co-founder at Kairn App

🔗 Useful Links

1. How Glean loads instantly

2. language.work > A mini-documentary series that brings together experts, business leaders and academics, to discuss the evolution of work and how we can change it for the better

3. Introducing Dashworks > The one-stop-shop for your company’s knowledge

4. Qatalog Review: The Structured Notion?

5. What Is Glean? Intelligent Enterprise Search Software

6. Kairn - Welcome to the public beta

📰 Recent News

1. Dropbox acquired Clew.ai

2. Command E is joinind Dropbox

3. Glean raises $100M series C at $1B valuation to power search and discovery across workplace SaaS apps

4. Dashworks is announcing that it raised a $4 million round led by Point72 Ventures

5. Acapela has raised a total of $3M in funding

6. Developer tool Raycast launches alongside £11.3m Series A

7. ClickUp Acquires Slapdash to Unify Work and Accelerate Productivity

8. Introducing ClickUp 3.0 with Universal Search

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