Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

With cloud-based services in demand, the future should be bright for the cloud. However, growing fears over data privacy and compliance – and technology providers’ failure to quash these concerns – may stunt public cloud’s growth as enterprises consider moving their data on premise.

BERLIN & SAN FRANCISCO, 14 April, 2021 Wire, the most secure collaboration platform, today announced it has closed a $21m Series B funding round led by VC firm UVC Partners. This investment comes off the back of Wire’s 3x annual revenue growth in 2020, and a number of significant customer wins across sectors such as energy, financial services and government - including five of the G7 governments.

Element launches a mission to connect more than 100 million people trapped on ‘Good-Enough’ island... It’s the big one! After offering bridges to Discord, Slack and Telegram, Element Matrix Services (EMS) is now launching Microsoft Teams Bridging.

When most people think of web apps, they think of progressive web apps (PWAs). The problem is that PWAs are essentially just locally cached web pages that generally still need to connect to a server to fully function. They aren’t complete apps in and of themselves. But what if you could package the entire web stack — i.e., both client-side and server-side — as a standalone desktop application? It might sound crazy, but it isn’t.

What do you get when you combine the power of superior customer and employee engagement software with the world’s largest cloud platform? Yes, you got it right: more choice for millions of businesses small and large to buy modern, agile cloud solutions that delight customers and employees. With the added availability of Freshworks products via AWS Marketplace’s curated digital catalog, customers can now easily find, test, buy, and deploy Freshworks solutions with simplified controls.

Recruitment takes 30% less time, and with 1,400 custom Slack apps, employees can collaborate like never before.

It’s been over a year since work as we knew it transformed overnight. Today, distributed work continues to pose challenges for teams and organizations around the world, whether they’re struggling to prioritize work, logging longer hours, or experiencing burnout at higher rates. Contributing to these remote work hurdles, according to the Anatomy of Work Index 2021, is that workers switch between 10 apps—25 times a day—and miss over one-quarter of all deadlines.

In October 2020, we launched our brand new conferencing capabilities, expanding our video limits to 12 and audio limits to 25 participants. We received resoundingly positive feedback on how vital this increased capacity was for collaboration and communication in the COVID era. Since that initial launch, we have received tons of valuable feedback from our customers about the conferencing experience.