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New Slack Features Show Users Want Greater Interoperability and Connection Among Disparate Teams
In its third year, the 2019 Slack Frontiers conference highlighted the rising influence of enterprise technology, particularly an increasing demand for interoperability and connecting outside users. As Slack continues to gain traction in the market, its new features are clearly a response to the emerging challenges IT is facing in…
Intra-domain Migration from Legacy UC to TC Platforms
Communication and cross-team collaboration is the lifeblood of today’s enterprise, and the newest breed of Team Collaboration (TC) tools like Slack, Microsoft Teams and Cisco Webex are gaining more traction across different companies and departments. Slack has an estimated 10 million users and Microsoft Teams has grown to 500,000 organizations….
Microsoft Teams Nearly Doubles Its Base of Enterprise Users, Slack Cozies Up With Office 365 App Through New Integration
While the Team Collaboration market expands at a break-neck pace, Microsoft Teams has demonstrated just how big the appetite for better collaboration solutions is among enterprises. VentureBeat reported that the now two year-old collaboration platform is now being used in more than 500,000 organizations. MS Teams has now become the…
New Management Portal Dashboard Gives Users Instant Insight Into Their Accounts and Powers Easy Federation
In an effort to give our customers more insight into how they use and manage NextPlane Federation services, we are excited to announce a newly redesigned management portal dashboard. The new dashboard enables customers to track their service usages. The management portal provides customers with trailing 12 months charts and…
NEW REPORT: In the fight to control the digital workplace, I.T. holds its ground
At Nextplane, our business depends on our ability to offer timely and effective solutions for both IT managers at Global 5000 companies and the many end users who fuel those companies. To better understand these two distinct but interdependent groups, we began a survey program to get to know them…
Workplace Collaboration & The New Status Quo
While often portrayed in the media as “trend-bucking boogeymen,” Millennials now comprise the largest cohort of workers in the economy. By 2030, Millennial workers will account for three-quarters of the entire workforce. Setting easy journalism and clickable trend pieces aside, it stands to reason that the tenets associated with the Millennial generation…
Are You Evaluating a Bunch of Collaboration Tools? There’s No Need To Pick Favorites
If you ask 100 different people on the street “what do you do for a living?” you’ll probably get 100 different answers. The hallmarks of the modern workforce are flexibility, specificity and at times ambiguity. It seems like people’s careers are designed to satisfy more and more niche job roles…
NEW REPORT: The Growing Rift Between I.T. and Employees
“Bring your own” culture has had a dramatic impact on the way companies operate both within their own walls and with clients and partners. Years ago, when the iPhone became an option for workers to consolidate their personal and professional lives, IT departments scrambled to make adjustments to security and…
Out Of Sight, But Not Out Of Mind — Why Remote Workers Are Becoming A Non-Negotiable Reality
Twenty-five years ago, the idea of working remotely was mostly nonexistent. Keeping a career and forgoing the commute to the office was a fantasy reserved for a small and eclectic portion of the workforce. “Working from home” was a distant concept for most people beyond the realm of novelists, screenwriters…
Playing Tug-Of-War With The IT Department
In many industries, professionals are spoiled for choice. The break-neck speed at which technology evolves from idea to prototype, and then from cutting-edge to obsolete, leaves users in a near constant pattern of adoption and upgrade. These shifting grounds are on clear display in the world of enterprise software, specifically…