For businesses of any size, consulting firms can help fill in gaps in the organization without having to build out a team or department themselves. The challenge for these firms is keeping track of all of their work across all of their clients. While it may be useful at times to have an overarching view of all work, the details can get lost easily. It is nearly always the case that certain clients will have requests that take precedence over others.

When dealing with sales opportunities, it is essential that you are always up-to-date with where deals are in the pipeline, the latest sales activities and, the overall deal progress (or lack thereof). If you aren’t aware of what’s happening with your deals, then you can’t take the required action to get a deal back on track, or help push a deal over the line.

As we close in on the end of 2020, our Teamwork Spaces team have been busy enhancing the user interface of our product so your experience is constantly improving. On top of what they have released this month, they are also planning a surprise for you, our customer throughout December. Before we talk about what is coming in December, here is what the team has delivered this month.

With just over a month to go in 2020, our Product teams have synopsized some of the key features that have already been released this quarter and in addition, are highlighting what you have yet to see come into your product by the end of 2020, in these quick video updates.

This quarter our Teamwork Desk engineers are very focused on the soon to be launched business hours feature. But as we work on this high value-add feature we also released other functionality throughout October and November.

Technician scheduling is one of the most crucial factors in the success of any business involving offsite technicians. Despite the fact that it has nothing to do with the quality of the technician’s work on a machine when done right, effective scheduling can drive revenue. Done poorly, scheduling can cause your whole organization to come to a standstill.

Storing and processing of large volumes of transactional data in a real-time application is always a challenge in software development. Choosing the right database is always crucial since decisions taken in that initial phase might look fine but affect the application’s performance as the feature adoption and customer base grows. This blog is about one such problem we faced and how we solved it.

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, studies the fundamental structure of the universe by examining the behavior of subatomic particles using highly complex scientific instruments, including the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. In 2015, the research institute deployed Mattermost across the organization to consolidate messaging platforms while providing its community of researchers, scientists, and technologists with a self-hosted, secure messaging space.

Who Gives A Crap CEO co-founder Simon Griffiths leads a global team who use Slack to redefine toilet paper and do good in developing countries.