Team Collaboration & Interoperability Blog

Slack is a leading communication tool, but it might not suit every team due to its cost and complexity. This article delves into why Slack is a favorite and offers 13 alternatives—both paid and open-source—that provide unique features like better pricing, built-in task management, and robust integrations. Discover tools tailored to your team’s specific needs and boost collaboration effectively.

In the era of digital communication, teams often find themselves juggling multiple communication platforms to stay connected and efficient. As the market becomes saturated with various tools, a common question arises: “How do I connect this and that?”. Integrating Slack and Microsoft Teams is crucial for businesses that pick those to break communication barriers and…

In today’s digital era, where remote work has become the norm for many businesses, choosing the right collaboration tool is more crucial than ever. Microsoft Teams and Zoom, renowned for their user-friendly interfaces, are two of the leading platforms in this domain. They offer a wide array of features to facilitate communication, collaboration, and productivity…

Mountain View, CA – 4/9/2025 – Google and NextPlane announced a strategic partnership to enable seamless interoperability between Google Chat and leading enterprise messaging platforms while offering enhanced data sovereignty, security, and cost efficiency. This collaboration empowers Google Workspace customers to communicate effortlessly with colleagues and partners using Microsoft Teams, Slack, Webex, and other messaging…

For years, enterprises have faced a frustrating collaboration gap: some teams, partners, customers, or suppliers work in Microsoft Teams while others work in Google Chat.  The result is familiar: context switching, duplicate conversations, guest-account workarounds, missed messages, and unnecessary friction across business-critical relationships.  Now, that barrier is coming down.  In May 2026, Google announced the general availability…

A practical comparison of Google Gemini vs. Microsoft Copilot in 2026. Explore features, pricing, integrations, and when to use one—or both—for maximum productivity.

Learn why Google Workspace adoption often stalls and how interoperability with Microsoft 365 reduces friction, improves collaboration, and accelerates enterprise ROI.

Effective communication is a cornerstone of today’s most successful organizations. In the age of remote work, on-the-go employees, and distributed teams, learning chat etiquette and following best practices of how teams communicate are key ingredients of success.  According to recent data, companies that excel at collaboration are 5x more likely to be high performing and…

Connecting Microsoft Teams and Google Chat with an interoperability solution eliminates major collaboration pain points across your organization. But instead of dwelling on what’s broken, we’re focusing on what you stand to gain. Read on to learn about eight key benefits your organization unlocks when Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 work seamlessly together, connecting Microsoft…

Video calls deliver the richest form of digital collaboration—essential for complex discussions, feedback, and connection. With seamless interoperability between Google Workspace and Microsoft Teams, your employees can escalate chats to voice or video instantly, securely, and without leaving their preferred platform.

Organizations using both Google Workspace and Microsoft Teams face app-switching and collaboration challenges. This article explores how to integrate Google with Teams, improve cross-platform communication, maintain security, and streamline workflows—seamlessly enabled by OpenHub.

Google announced it chose NextPlane OpenHub to enable seamless interoperability between Google Chat and Microsoft Teams. OpenHub’s proxy guest architecture delivers native cross-platform messaging, file sharing, and reactions while honoring existing identities, permissions, and compliance—reducing admin overhead and licensing costs.

Microsoft’s July 2025 disclosure of on-prem SharePoint breaches spotlights a hidden risk: third-party apps demanding application-level permissions. We compare Mio’s super-admin model to NextPlane OpenHub’s delegated access and explain why least-privilege integrations reduce exposure to attacks, data loss, and costly cleanup.

Context switching between apps like Teams and Google Workspace leads to lost productivity, security risks, and disengaged employees. Learn how interoperability with NextPlane OpenHub reduces app sprawl, eliminates shadow IT, and helps teams collaborate efficiently without switching platforms.

In the era of remote work and geographically dispersed teams, digital collaboration tools have become indispensable for businesses to thrive. Microsoft Teams has emerged as a powerhouse, empowering organizations to streamline communication, enhance teamwork, and boost productivity. As the world embraces new ways of working, Teams has continuously evolved, introducing features that cater to the…

With more than 40 million mesages being sent out every minute, it’s no wonder that messaging apps are outpacing social networks in popularity by roughly 20%. After all, we not only use them to communicate, but to make appointments, share updates, organize events, and make purchases. Reaching a whopping 75 million daily active users earlier in 2020, Microsoft Teams…

Effective communication is paramount to success in today’s fast-paced, digital workplace. As organizations increasingly rely on multiple messaging and collaboration platforms, seamless integration and interoperability have never been more critical. This is where unified communications comes into play, offering a powerful solution to streamline workflows and improve productivity in a multi-platform environment. What is Unified…