Slack’s Enterprise Grid gets security and compliance enhancements
More than 150 large organizations now use Enterprise Grid, which was unveiled a year ago.
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Atlassian Stride gets general release, adds Google Drive and Dropbox integrations
Six months after a limited launch, the HipChat successor (and rival to Slack) now has ‘tens of thousands’ of teams using it.
IBM’s new Watson Assistant targets business with ‘white label’ service
The newest voice-activated A.I. assistant differs from Alexa, Siri, Cortana and others with a white-label service approach that works in the background.
A.I. and speech advances bring virtual assistants to work
Though the trend is just getting started, digital assistants show promise for boosting workplace productivity and collaboration.
Microsoft lays out a Teams vision for intelligent communications
A year after launch, the company’s team collaboration tool is now used by 200,000 companies.
The collaboration conundrum: Companies look to consolidate around team chat apps
With so many collaboration and communications tools now available, companies face app fragmentation and hurdles to ensuring their workers can actually connect.
Google’s Hangouts Chat collaboration app hits a booming market
The company plans to use artificial intelligence for Google Calendar and Docs features and tie it all tightly with G Suite.
How to get the most out of Slack
Though it's only four years old, Slack has evolved to become a leading cloud-based workplace collaboration app. Here's what it does, how to use it and why it could replace email in the future.
Microsoft targets Box, Dropbox and Google customers with OneDrive offer
Google also unveils a new Drive preview pane commenting feature in G Suite for Microsoft Office files.
Microsoft turns up heat on Slack with Teams group chat update
A Teams app directory is among the new features added to the company’s Office 365 group chat tool. Analysts say Microsoft is looking to match rivals like Slack in functionality.
Zoho takes on IFTTT and Microsoft Flow with cloud app integration tool
Zoho Flow is a no-code, automated workflow automation platform that lets users create their own automated processes by connecting a variety of cloud apps.
Trello overhauls app directory for ‘Power-Up’ integrations
Last year's Atlassian acquisition has helped grow the number of third-party applications connecting with the collaborative work management tool.
Facebook standardizes Workplace pricing, boosts cost for larger deployments
The changes will make Workplace pricing 'fair, simple and predictable,' says Facebook, though new customers with more than 1,000 active users will pay more.
Slack trials private shared channels, adds admin controls
Slack aims to reduce reliance on email for both internal and external communications as it pushes further into workplace collaboration.
Amazon Alexa arrives on Windows 10 PCs as virtual assistants go to work
HP, Acer, Asus and Lenovo debut Windows 10 laptops and PCs supporting Alexa at this year’s CES. IT leaders are generally supportive of Amazon’s enterprise push.