Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

We’ve seen increasing interest in our ESS Community distribution from those looking for a free-use replacement of Mattermost Entry. Back in October 2025, Mattermost announced limitations as from Mattermost v11 for both of its free-use tiers (Mattermost Team Edition and Mattermost Entry). The chat history limitation of 10,000 messages for Mattermost Entry has caused a lot of frustration, especially considering it’s a self-hosted solution.

We’re kicking off 2026 with updates designed to keep your projects healthy and your team’s schedule organized. With automated watchdogs for monitoring retainer metrics, context notes to your resource bookings, and more efficient bulk role management, you can now handle the fine details of your workspace with much less manual effort. Stick around for the end, too – we’ve got some big news about subtasks and the future of work planning in Scoro!

Secure your hybrid teams with structured remote tech standards. Download the Hybrid Work Policy Playbook and see how Insightful brings real-time compliance.

If you think work performance is about “always staying busy”, it's not. It is about delivering the best results consistently. This depends on how employees manage their time, collaborate, and stay engaged. It affects the customer experience, sustainable growth, and drives a consistent working pattern. But most of the organisations rely on assumptions instead of practical and genuine outcomes that evaluate the performance.

Loved our blogs? Find more wAnywhere perspectives on productivity and compliance Set as a preferred Google source Table of Contents Many BPO leaders believe that their organization’s compliance is under control, especially when: However, compliance failures in BPOs never announce themselves. They only catch the eyes of the leaders after a sudden client escalation, regulatory inquiries, surprise audits, or data exposure incidents.

So, you want better tools — but getting buy-in isn’t easy. Too often, we hear leaders asking, Why can’t internal communication teams use the tools the organization already has? “Why not SharePoint?” “Can’t we post it on ServiceNow?” What they don’t see is that internal comms isn’t just about sharing information — it’s about shaping culture, fueling performance, and enabling change.

One person’s knowledge isn’t enough to execute the work that really matters. Even your team can’t go it alone. To make great things happen, your entire organization must pool their cognitive resources. Sharing knowledge improves innovation, creativity, and productivity for everyone. Without it, information gets trapped within departments, teams, and individuals’ brains (the dreaded silos).

Wire, Europe’s leader in secure communication and sovereign collaboration, and Collabora Productivity, the company behind Collabora Online, today announced a strategic partnership to advance secure, interoperable, and sovereignty-focused collaboration capabilities for organizations globally. The partnership brings together two European technology providers with a shared commitment to open standards, transparent architectures, and verifiable security.

MING Labs is a global venture builder and corporate innovation company that partners with organizations to discover new growth opportunities through design. Operating across multiple continents, the firm specializes in taking clients from high-level goals and initial ideas to market-ready solutions and first revenue, navigating the complex terrain of stakeholder alignment, customer discovery, and rapid prototyping.