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Breakdown in Communication: What is It and How to Deal With It

Do you know some companies don’t realize or admit they are suffering from communication breakdowns, which causes adverse outcomes like arguments between the teams leading to blame games, delays in deliveries, employees' poor performance affecting their morale, the noxious surge of customer complaints, and so on? The grievous problem is about the companies that don’t realize the breakdown in communication.

On-premise solutions: 5 reasons why they're getting more popular

Lately, on-premise solutions are experiencing an upsurge. Although many companies choose cloud computing for its convenience and scalability, organizations prioritizing airtight security, complete control, and privacy prefer leveraging on-premise solutions. On-prem deployment has many unique benefits businesses can capitalize on, such as in-house storage of data and software, lower network bandwidth cost, easier compliance, and more.

9 best on-premise chat solutions for secure business collaboration

Given the widespread use of instant messaging and chat apps for communication in 2023, organizations are prioritizing control over data exchanges on these platforms. MarketsandMarkets reports that the on-premises collaboration market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 12.7% during the forecast period, with an expected market size of USD 85.8 billion by 2026. What drives this growth? It is the increasing adoption of cloud-based and on-premises collaboration solutions by organizations!

6 Communication Plan Templates With Examples

Effective communication plans are critical to any business. You need to describe your specific business messages and who should say them across business situations. This can help ensure your staff and stakeholders take your desired action. The result is that you reach your communication goals. The thing is, certain business situations crop up more than once.

Automate Slack and Microsoft Teams Notifications using Python

Messaging apps are essential for internal collaboration and critical notifications such as reminders, alerts, and other time-sensitive updates. While integrating with the Slack and Microsoft APIs is fairly straightforward, implementing these tools as a part of a full-featured notification system that embeds with your app experience can be far more daunting.

New Courier Inbox: Add a full-featured notification center to your app in minutes

Email and SMS are becoming increasingly busy channels. Sometimes, there’s no better way to reach a user than by sending a message to a notification center right inside of your app. However, building an inbox experience like this, from scratch, was a significant engineering effort. Today, we are announcing a major update to Courier Inbox, a solution for developers to add an in-app notification center to their web application in a matter of minutes.

Mattermost Boards How-to: Project Management

Whether you’re working on a small feature or a large cross-team initiative, you’ll need a way to track tasks and keep everyone up-to-date. Managing projects on spreadsheets isn’t optimal for most teams, and specialized project management tools may lack flexibility and robust communication options. With Mattermost Boards, you can create fully customizable boards to fit your project needs.

How can air-gapped networks offer airtight security?

With the advancement in technology and rapid digitization, the potential risk for cyber crimes has also increased to a great extent. These risks often incur a data loss, negatively impact assets, and in some extreme cases, lead to plant shutdowns. In order to mitigate such risks, many businesses are now shifting towards adapting the air-gapped network strategy. This security measure ensures that systems and their stored data are protected from unauthorized access.

Pros and Cons of Self-Hosted software Over The One in Cloud

Like it or not, cloud services have entered our lives. Kids play online, adults upload photos to the cloud, IT professionals create sophisticated software, and big businesses like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have long relied on big data centers. The only question left is which is better: self-hosted software or the one in the cloud. On the one hand, a self-hosted server gives you complete control, but on the other hand, the maintenance costs are much higher compared to computing in the cloud.