The enterprise messaging wars continue
Back in July 2018, Wired ran the headline "The Office-Messaging Wars Are Over. Slack Has Won." This was in response to Atlassian striking...
Mio chats with Senior Manager of Enterprise Systems, Lyndsay Lantz @ SailPoint
Lyndsay outlined how SailPoint intends to utilise Slack following their migration from HipChat As SailPoint moves from HipChat to Slack, Mio caught up...
Why compare Slack vs Microsoft Teams when you can have both?
Comparing Slack vs Microsoft Teams is all the rage right now - but it doesn't really solve the problem most of us face...
Ready to auto upgrade Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams?
In November 2018, Microsoft announced they are ready to upgrade Skype for Business Online users to Microsoft Teams. Some small business users are...
Connect Slack and Microsoft Teams DMs
Direct messaging is crucial functionality in both Slack and Microsoft Teams. But, if your business uses both Slack and Microsoft Teams then direct messaging becomes less direct. Slack users can DM each other. Microsoft Teams users can DM each other. But, when a Slack user wants to reach out to a Microsoft Teams user, it’s ...
thevoicefactory Director Paul Harrison chats with Mio
Since Cisco acquired BroadSoft in February 2018, it’s been a period of anticipation for both communities. We caught up with Paul Harrison, Founder and Director of thevoicefactory, a leading hosted voice platform provider. thevoicefactory is an indirect supplier of the BroadWorks platform with over 30 channel partners deploying BroadSoft platforms across 72 countries. They were ...
Why is having multiple messaging platforms “bad”?
As businesses go through digital transformation, it’s common they end up with multiple messaging platforms in their Unified Comms and collaboration estate. Some businesses reach this stage because they’re testing tools and looking for a best of breed strategy. More than half of IT leaders believe that using best-of-breed tools for communication and collaboration tools is ...
HiLo Maritime Risk Management CTO, Ryan Purvis, chats with Mio
HiLo is a not for profit organization founded from within the shipping industry, focused on improving the HSSE (Health, Safety, Security and Environment) implementation across the board. Ryan Purvis is responsible for the end to end HiLo product development and all technology. Ryan’s key focus is to ensure a strong alignment of both product and ...
2019 Enterprise Chat Predictions
As 2018 draws to a close, the Mio team got together to discuss their messaging predictions for 2019. 1. More interoperability Director of Product Marketing, Meredith Schulz highlights two key areas of change for 2019. More interoperability across all types of tools. We recently covered that 2018 was the year interoperability became crucial to collaboration. 2019 ...
Our top 12 moments in 2018 while creating Mio for Slack, Webex & Microsoft Teams
It’s been a banner year for Mio and for the collaboration platforms we’ve built on (Slack, Microsoft Teams & Webex Teams). As this year comes to a close, we’re looking back at the key industry events and company milestones that defined our year. 1. Mio Launches It’s incredible that only nine months ago we officially ...
UC Pros: Mio chats with IT Director Chad Reese @ Pro Football Hall of Fame
Modern companies have a huge amount of messaging and chat apps in play today – Microsoft Teams, Glip, Skype for Business, iMessage and WhatsApp feature heavily at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. We caught up with Chad Reese, Director of IT at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, to get his thoughts on how the collaboration landscape, and ...
Are your messaging apps ready for the holidays?
Slack, Microsoft Teams, Cisco Webex Teams and email. After walking my dogs this morning, I counted back to see exactly how many apps I used whilst I was “clearing my head.” Taking a break from work is important. Once I counted past these 4, I decided that I was suffering from app overload. Allan Kohll ...