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Diving into Asana's ROI of Work Management Report

In unprecedented times, how can organizations use technology to achieve continuity and clarity? It’s a question that countless organizations around the world are asking themselves today. We believe that the solution lies with work management platforms. They allow everyone to do their best work and enable businesses to flourish. But with economies and individual organizations under extreme pressure, we need facts to prove work management platforms are a vital part of the modern tech stack.

Bonjour, Element on Android!

Hopefully by now you have all upgraded to Element, with Android users leaving behind the old legacy Riot Android app. If you haven’t already been previewing it via RiotX (which has been in beta for a year now), it should hopefully feel like a game changer: as we said in our Welcome to Element post, we’ve got more than just a rebrand going on here! But let’s rewind a bit.

Version Update: Expensify Integration And More

Instead of doing things the old (read: slow) way, we believe in saving time and energy on routine tasks. This is exactly the reason we’ve built an integration that handles various work-related expenses for you and makes cost management easy. You guessed it, this update includes Scoro’s Expensify integration. In addition, we’re building something major, but we’ll get to that in a bit. Here’s what’s new in Scoro.

Mattermost and Jitsi come together to deliver deeper collaboration

One of our favorite things about Mattermost is that it makes it easy for teams to collaborate on projects and topics in specific channels. Today, we’re excited to announce that Mattermost users can now easily carry conversations over to a video conference and screen sharing with Jitsi, a leading open-source video conferencing solution.

Zulip 3.0: Threaded Open Source Team Chat

We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 3.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes to help distributed and remote teams stay productive and focused. Zulip is the open-source threaded team chat app, used by thousands of teams globally. Zulip’s unique topic-based threading experience combines the immediacy of real-time chat with the asynchronous efficiency of email-style threading.

Nucleus Research: M-Files Tops Among 17 Content Management Vendors in Both Functionality and Usability

M-Files bested all competitors in this year’s edition of the Nucleus Research Content Management (CM) Technology Value Matrix. Similar to the Gartner Magic Quadrant, the matrix places vendors in four regions — assessing them on two key factors: functionality and usability. M-Files earned the top spot for both criteria, placed in the Leader quadrant for the seventh consecutive year.

Welcome to Element!

Hi everyone, We are incredibly excited to announce that Riot is now Element! In fact we have simplified all our naming: Element is also the name for New Vector (the company behind Riot) while Modular, our flagship Matrix hosting service, has become Element Matrix Services. For those discovering us for the first time: Element is the flagship secure collaboration app for the decentralised Matrix communication network.

Element brings Matrix to Europe

Although Element is working with companies around the world, our busiest region is Europe and in particular European governments and public sector organisations. There are multiple reasons, but three of the biggest are: Data ownership, open collaboration and privacy are driving the use of Matrix Element’s messaging and collaboration solution, being based on the open source Matrix project, is decentralised.