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What's New in Asana | April 2023

Welcome to the April edition of What’s New in Asana. First, apply multiple filters and sorts to help you quickly search for information within your project. Next, we’ve added more smart rules and widgets for integrations with Bynder, Notion, Confluence, and DocuSign so you can keep track of work across your tech stack. Finally, monitor key metrics at a glance in your portfolios. With custom field rollups, see the sum of custom fields across all projects, like budget, costs, and time. And like project Dashboards, create charts to get insights about the work within your portfolio.

7 best open-source chat APIs for businesses

A reliable communication platform is imperative for businesses to communicate with customers and colleagues. Chat applications are becoming popular as they make collaboration easier and faster. Open-source chat APIs are a great way to integrate chat abilities into an existing application or deploy them stand-alone for live stream chat. In this blog, we have curated the best open-source chat API solutions for instant messaging and the benefits you can leverage from each.

Asynchronous Work Report: What knowledge workers want and what's working

When you give something a name, you make it real in a new way. Knowledge workers are seeing this firsthand with asynchronous work (or “async”), which is when team members work on the same project or problem but at different times instead of synchronously. Suddenly, the term is everywhere — but asynchronous work is more than a buzzword. Not just a by-product of the shift to remote or hybrid, it’s about strategically making new ways of working work.

Best On-Premise B2B Applications for Enterprise-Level Companies

In this digital era, undoubtedly, it is safe and secure to employ self-hosted or on-premise B2B applications instead of depending on SaaS applications. Since the former gives complete security to your data without relying on a third party, whereas the latter may be secure but less effective and efficient than on-premise applications. You may think that most businesses depend heavily on SaaS applications.

New Datadog integration for Courier notification logs and metrics

The ability to unify all notification metrics and logs across channels and providers into an easy-to-use dashboard is a core advantage of Courier’s notification infrastructure. However, with product notifications so critical to the entire application experience, it’s important to connect that data back to central cloud observability platforms that look across the entire stack.

A new study reveals how to solve perhaps the single biggest problem for work leaders

Ah, the “non-routine problem.” It’s arguably the single biggest type of problem one can run into at work. New research points to a solution. Research Summary — Solving non-routine problems—problems for which current organizational, recurrent action patterns do not offer a predetermined, effective solution—can be an important source of value creation.