Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Element will participate in the Building Sovereign Digital Workspace discussion track at UN Open Source Week. We’ve been invited to present a session titled: “The importance of open standard federation for chat.” A genuine open standard is the single most important part of ensuring digitally sovereign communications between multiple separate organisations.

In architecture, project management is crucial. But that doesn’t mean you need a complicated strategy to deliver great work. To simplify the process, focus on your scope, schedule, and pricing. These factors are the key to keeping architecture projects within budget, delivering them on time, and meeting client expectations. Here’s how to approach these three elements and excel at project management for architects.

For successful architecture projects, amazing designs aren’t enough. You also need the right data to execute them. That’s a lesson Giovanni Scippo, Director at 3D Lines, learned firsthand: We started tracking KPIs more formally about four years ago, and it completely changed how we quote, schedule, and staff projects. Now, we have real data backing our decisions, which has helped reduce scope creep and last-minute firefighting.

Today’s workforce runs on the internet. But even the best teams can get distracted. Studies show that 5.8% of remote employees play computer games during work hours, and 5.6% spend time socializing online. That’s why many companies use internet monitoring tools to keep teams on track and protect sensitive information. However, excessive monitoring can harm your employees’ morale. This guide will walk you through how to monitor internet use the right way.

Learn how to structure your workday, monitor smartly, and balance workloads so employees stay productive and healthy, on-site or remote.

Your stack should speed you up, not slow you down. Yet when your CRM, CDP, and analytics tools keep data to themselves, campaigns drag and budgets drip away. The fix is a modern martech stack — a setup that blends data orchestration, workflow automation, and AI-powered personalization so you move fast and spend smart.

Tired of relying on Big Tech for your collaboration, communication and productivity needs? You’re not alone. Whether you’re concerned about data privacy, compliance, vendor lock-in, or digital sovereignty, the shift to European-built software is gaining serious momentum. And for good reason: these platforms respect your data, operate under GDPR by default, and are often open source or self-hosted.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is putting the best foot forward possible in an impossible situation. Microsoft is investing significant effort and resources into “private” and “sovereign” service offerings and curation to reassure EU customers that their data will be secure. In a recent LinkedIn post, Satya announced new sovereign offerings that he says reflect Microsoft’s commitment to giving customers choice, control, and security.