In Part 1 of this series, we talked about why it’s important to make decisions that can positively impact your customer support department swiftly, and what the consequences are if you don’t. Even a big decision like changing your B2B customer support system can move quickly if you know where to start and how to evaluate the right solution providers.

If you were to survey the most productive teams, you’d find a common ingredient – efficient communication. That explains the rise of team collaboration tools in 2020 and mega deals happening in the industry, such as Salesforce’s acquisition of Slack. However, right after heavily adopting tools like Slack, companies might notice the downsides of such tools. We aren’t just talking about fearing that Slack will hand over your data to Salesforce.

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The way we live and work has changed significantly in the last year. One aspect of our work lives that has taken a hit is the way we collaborate with our colleagues and clients. The process of reviewing content and providing feedback may have been done face-to-face in the past, but this won’t be possible in the near future.

Combination of no. 1 CRM platform with the most innovative enterprise communications platform creates the operating system for the new way to work

In early March of 2020 during the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, countless workers suddenly found themselves working remotely — some for the very first time. Businesses needed to quickly adapt to this uncertain “new normal” we were all a part of and for many, telework became an ideal “stop-gap” to continue operations in a way that bought time until everyone could return to the office again.

We released Zulip Server 3.3 today! This is a bug fix release, containing a few cherry-picked changes since Zulip Server 3.2.