Jive is a well-known intranet and collaboration software. Founded in 2001, it is one of the pioneers in the team collaboration industry. Having said that, Jive is not the only team collaboration software available in the market. There are plenty of tools (both old and new ones) which are great alternatives to Jive. In this article, we have used our experience in the team collaboration space and compared Jive with similar tools based on features, price, and user reviews.

When we ask our customers what IT teams appreciate most about Mattermost, security is often at the top of the list. The fine-grained control of Mattermost capabilities and the ownership of their critical data within Mattermost are the two most cited benefits. But ownership of data also implies responsibility, and much of the burden of this responsibility is placed on IT to manually execute.

Companies have been remaking the work experience over the past couple of years. This has included adjusting the way they hire, reshaping communication standards to operate well in an at least partially remote atmosphere, and developing a stronger culture overall. These shifts and changes have certainly created obstacles for scaling, but we are proud to announce that 2021 was a fantastic year of growth at Courier!

Messaging apps are meant to be simple, but the sheer volume of them can be overwhelming. You speak to Gran on Facebook because, let’s be honest, that’s the only app she knows how to use. Then we have Lucy over on Instagram. Your friends are split between Signal and Telegram. The family group chat is on WhatsApp, where you can’t get a word in edgeways. Your longtime work friend Jonathan keeps in touch via LinkedIn. All things work related go via email… and so on.

Digital transformation in the public sector is already a reality. More than ever, public sector organizations are becoming aware of their need for digitalization. Even so, change is not always easy since public-sector organizations have high standards and specific requirements for online solutions. Data privacy is government agencies’ top concern; they’re the ones that should set the bar when it comes to protecting users’ information.

We were pretty happy to use Skype during the last decade. Skype has managed to become a synonym for instant communication just like Xerox used to be a synonym for photocopying. We’d ask people to meet on Skype, and added our Skype names to the email signature. It’s also been a part of our everyday life at work. Then Slack popped up in 2013 and turned the world of business communication upside down. Was it the first app of a kind? No.

Voting for a new feature in a messaging app? Deciding where to go for lunch? Soliciting friends’ advice on whether to go on that second date?! We all know the pain of group decision-making, especially in busy chat rooms. We’ve seen creative uses of reactions as an informal way to see which option is most popular, but a lot of you have been asking for the ability to run proper polls. So….

Rocket.Chat 4.4.0 brings more improvements and new features for better admin and user experience. Let's see what's new with the latest Rocket.Chat edition. 🚀 Please visit the official release notes for the whole list of improvements and bug fixes.‍

Open source software is making its way into education. Even though using open source software for educational purposes is nothing new, we observe an increased demand for it across higher education institutions. Why now, and why such a surge in interest? Well, there is hardly any industry that didn’t experience an impact made by the pandemic. The conclusion across the board is almost unanimous: the future is digital, and it’s approaching us at a greater speed than ever before.