Google Chat and Microsoft Teams Interoperability Is Here: Connect Both Platforms with NextPlane OpenHub

Business partnerships and cross-company collaboration are on the rise, and for good reason. Research from McKinsey shows that large enterprises that regularly collaborate with external suppliers outperform their peers in growth and profitability.

Yet one of the biggest challenges in enterprise collaboration has persisted for years: Google Chat and Microsoft Teams don’t talk to each other.

That changes today.

In May, Google announced the availability of Microsoft–Google interoperability through NextPlane OpenHub, which enables users across Teams and Google Chat to collaborate as if they were on the same platform.

With NextPlane OpenHub, enterprises can connect Google Chat and Microsoft Teams and unlock:

• Real-time presence across platforms
• Seamless 1:1 chat, group chat, and Channels and Spaces experiences
• Cross-platform file sharing
• Native voice and video calling
• And more

Best of all, organizations can deliver these capabilities without forcing users to switch platforms or introducing significant administrative overhead or security concerns.

OpenHub is built for enterprise-grade governance and compliance requirements, with a dedicated single-tenant architecture, flexible deployment options, and customer-controlled data management. 

Organizations retain complete control over identities and access while avoiding the complexity and security risks associated with workaround user accounts or excessive privileges.

NextPlane OpenHub product capabilities

In addition to enabling seamless collaboration across Microsoft Teams and Google Workspace, NextPlane OpenHub also provides several additional advantages as an interoperability layer.

Native user experience

OpenHub delivers a native Teams and Google Workspace experience for collaboration — without bots, vendor-controlled users, or end-user setup. Employees can collaborate seamlessly with colleagues on the other platform using the same familiar interface they’ve grown accustomed to.

Single-tenant, customer-owned architecture

OpenHub is deployed as a dedicated, single-tenant service that can run on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). As a result, customers retain control over  sensitive collaboration data and can meet strict data residency requirements while avoiding the shared-tenant risk model that other interoperability vendors offer.

Customer-owned identity

Other interoperability providers, like Mio, manage guest users and require persistent impersonation rights to simulate native collaboration. This extends the enterprise trust perimeter to an external SaaS vendor.

OpenHub takes a different approach. Rather than introducing synthetic or vendor-controlled users and requiring cross-tenant impersonation, OpenHub enables interoperability through customer-created user and guest accounts, aligned with existing identity, security, and compliance policies in Microsoft Teams and Google Workspace.   

This approach significantly reduces operational friction for security, legal, and compliance teams.

Minimal, scoped permissions

Unlike other providers that require excessive permissions to enable interoperability, OpenHub requires only domain-wide delegation and application-level permissions. This helps reduce the security risks associated with excessive permissions and strengthens operational security.

Native administration

OpenHub is easy to administer, with configuration and management done directly within existing Microsoft Teams and Google Workspace consoles. Unlike competing solutions, customers don’t need to manage separate user directories or external platform configurations. 

Usage-based pricing

Customers pay for what they use. There is no need to assign licenses to individual users or manage guest licensing. Pricing is based on monthly active users. That’s it.

Faster, lower-risk deployment

Customers can deploy interoperability quickly by avoiding synthetic identities, proxy tenants, and complex impersonation requirements. This translates into deployments that take weeks — not months.

Expanding interoperability roadmap

NextPlane’s roadmap includes an ever-expanding set of interoperability capabilities — including external federation and enhanced Teams–Google calling. Customers can future-proof their collaboration strategy while staying aligned with ongoing platform innovation.

NextPlane OpenHub use cases

• Collaborate seamlessly with customers, partners, and suppliers across Microsoft Teams and Google Chat
• Maintain communication continuity during mergers, acquisitions, and organizational restructuring before collaboration platforms are consolidated
• Connect with multiple Microsoft Teams organizations from a single Google Workspace environment
• Keep communication flowing across multi-company projects, joint ventures, and partner ecosystems
• Enable secure cross-platform collaboration when domain validation or deployment requirements limit internal interoperability options

Connect your collaboration ecosystem with OpenHub today

As organizations increasingly collaborate across partners, customers, suppliers, and acquired businesses, being able to communicate seamlessly across Microsoft Teams and Google Chat is becoming a necessity for business survival.

By eliminating the barriers between Microsoft Teams and Google Chat, NextPlane OpenHub enables secure, enterprise-grade interoperability — without disrupting existing workflows or compromising governance requirements.

Ready to see how OpenHub can connect your collaboration ecosystem and deliver unrivaled productivity gains? Contact sales today to request a demo and learn more about how easy it is to enable seamless communication across Teams and Google Workspace.