Managing Team Collaboration after a Merger or Acquisition
Following an acquisition or merger, you have two choices in team chat. Either migrate all users from one collaboration platform to the other, or keep everybody chatting on the same platform.
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Interoperability in 2019 will Drive Better Collaboration
In collaboration IT, interoperability usually happens when competitors work together. When two competing systems work together, without regard to brand name, the end user’s outcome then becomes the same. This is crucial for collaboration to enable, well, genuine collaboration. Lack of interoperability in collaborative businesses creates communication silos, friction, and often leads to what we’ve ...
Unified Comms Influencers: The Top 50 for 2019 Revealed
The Unified Comms market is worth a staggering $56bn in 2019. Despite this, the tech, the brands, and most importantly the people of Unified Comms remain a mystery to some SMBs and enterprises. One vendor, Ribbon Communications, went as far as saying that some businesses are unaware of Unified Comms, at an event hosted by ...
78k Blog Views Later – Addressing Microsoft Teams Guest Access
Microsoft Teams guest access is the most read post on the Microsoft tech community forum. It has 78k views but we don’t seem to be much closer to a resolution. There is no doubt that Microsoft Teams is one of the market-leading tools, with a whole host of functionality. In fact, Teams now has 13m ...
Top 50 Apps Like Slack in 2019 – Microsoft, Cisco, and Many More
Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts and Cisco Webex Teams. The industry that Slack began is growing more crowded each day. Now, full of loads of great alternatives to Slack. Email is not completely dead yet. But it’s no longer the only way for people to communicate at work. Today, real-time enterprise messaging applications are growing ...
The 2019 Enterprise Messaging Wars are Only Just Beginning
"The Office-Messaging Wars Are Over. Slack Has Won.” CEO Tom Hadfield thinks otherwise and declares they are only just beginning.
Why isn’t Slack in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Comms?
Microsoft and Cisco feature in the top right corner of Gardner’s Magic Quadrant got Unified Communications... so where is Slack?
Shadow IT in Team Collaboration Apps
Since writing this article in July 2018, every conversation I have had with an IT professional has mentioned shadow IT and shadow messaging. With everyone using their own mobile devices, the door is open to a wider range of ways to message each other. Enterprises should be aware of the complexities involved when it comes ...