Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Build an app once, and share it with any other team - or, if another team has already built something you like, add it to your own team, by pasting a single App ID. No deployment, no code, no waiting. That's the headline here. As a starter kit for trying this out, Wire has built two apps of its own - Reminder and Poll - that any team can add today. They're a trusted way to see how External Apps work before building your own.

On other platforms, when a group loses its last administrator because someone leaves the company or moves to another team, an authorized operator can step in. The company's IT team or the platform provider's support staff can reassign ownership, update the membership, and restore the group. Wire was designed differently. If a group lost its last administrator, no operator had the access required to repair it. The group became unmanageable.

Most security teams have invested heavily in identity. Single sign-on, multifactor authentication and conditional access now guard the front door of almost every enterprise application. Access decisions keep living after that door closes, in shared folders, partner chats and guest links that nobody remembers to revoke. In our State of Secure Collaboration 2026 survey of 208 CISOs across Germany, France and the UK, 61% said access to shared files stays active longer than intended after a project ends.

Few pieces of EU legislation have been declared dead as often as Chat Control, and few have returned as reliably. In July 2026 a scanning law that more MEPs voted against than for came back into force. On 29 September 2026 negotiators meet again to decide the shape of the permanent regulation. The outcome affects ministries, armed forces, defence suppliers and energy operators, because it determines how much control they keep over who can read their communications.

Most companies focus on securing conversations but forget what’s actually holding those conversations together—the apps themselves. They set up encrypted chat, tighten up file-sharing, and train employees to sniff out phishing emails. Sure, those things matter. But think about all the tools your team uses every day: the messaging app, the company wiki, the approval system, the customer portal. Each one is a web application with its own unique code, dependencies, and vulnerabilities.

Wire Apps SDK let developers build automations and integrations that run as full participants inside Wire’s end-to-end encrypted conversations. Until now, that meant building on our Java/Kotlin SDK. Today, we’re extending that same capability to JavaScript and TypeScript, giving teams the freedom to build in the language that fits them best.

Governance is one of the four risks enterprises face in digital collaboration, and it's the one that shows up first as a productivity workaround before anyone recognizes it as a risk at all.

It's a familiar story. A social worker gets a message from a client on a Saturday. A family needs to move a home visit. A colleague forwards a photo of a document that has to be dealt with before Monday. None of it goes through an official system. All of it goes through WhatsApp, because that is where the client already is, and because it works.

Compliance is one of the four risks enterprises face in digital collaboration, and it's the one most directly tied to fines, legal liability, and regulatory scrutiny.

Effective place of work collaboration relies on genuinely replacing messages. Modern businesses want communication systems that help personnel share facts securely, coordinate projects, have conversations, and get access to vital archives except dropping manage over enterprise data. As groups turn out to be more dispersed and agencies cope with more and more sensitive information, impenetrable communication has come to be an essential part of day-to-day operations.