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8 corporate messengers, about which You did not know
Today we will talk about little-known but interesting programs, which will help to organise team communication. Among their competitive advantages: corporate stickers, the ability to share your picture, and create threads in the General correspondence and view multiple chats on one screen at the same time. For fans of advanced security was included in the selection program for fans protected correspondence.
Cotap
Cost: $5-10 per month per user (free trial) Platform: Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, web version
"WhatsApp to work" — that is positioning itself Cotap, which primarily focused on mobile communication. The product is designed not only for office workers but also, for example, store employees, so the messenger many integrations with cloud storage: Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft OneDrive for Business, Citrix ShareFile, Egnyte, Microsoft SharePoint. Also to Cotap, you can connect the account in Salesforce. Messenger allows you to make calls — though not the group. But it gives you the ability to call anyone from the company even if it's mobile you don't have.
Flock
Cost: free Platform: Windows, Mac, Chrome, iOS, Android, web version
Almost all functionality known corporate messengers Flock is free of charge and assures that it will always be. Mention, file sharing, search history of messages, quick to invite you in the chat all the tools fit for a small team. To vary the correspondence in Flock, you can use stickers, thematically related to office life.
Flowdock
Cost: $3 per user per month (free 30-day trial version and a version for teams up to 5 people) Platform: Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, web version
This messenger called streams, where you can chat, share files and to attract the attention of colleagues and personal references. The functionality of the standard, and the advantage of the service — in integration capabilities with 80 different applications (the same Slack), including Asana, Trello, Basecamp, Zapier and others. In Flowdock combined chats and threads — each message can be answered with the help of a special button, so there will be a branch of the correspondence.
Kato
Cost: free Platforms: iOS, Android, browser-based application
Kato is best suited to those who are being rewritten to several not related to each other chat rooms at the same time: for computer messenger opens up each of them a separate screen. He will enjoy the companies where every project is discussed in a separate chat intersecting teams. In Kato, you can not only exchange text messages and files, and calling, video conferencing, share your screen with your interlocutor.
Pie
Cost: free Platforms: Mac, iOS, Android, web version
Fairly simple, but visually pleasing product, this messenger is also suitable for a small team — register it is possible only with corporate email addresses that Pie brings together in one group (for the same domains). One of the chips Pie — quick responses, especially convenient for those who use Apple Watch. With two taps you can send emoticons intuitive — for example, a question mark or handset for the offer to call, clicking on which you can actually talk with someone.
Sqwiggle
Cost: free (limited functionality) or $9-25 per user per month Platform: Mac, browser-based application
Another application that focuses on remote commands and to communicate via video chat (up to 10 people). Fun feature — using Sqwiggle during the day you can do a selfie, which is displayed instead of the profile picture. If it is colored, it means that the people on the spot, and if it becomes black and white, — the interlocutor departed. The usual attributes of the chat text, such as file sharing, mentions, preview links, Sqwiggle, too.
TigerText
Cost: free Platforms: iOS, Android, web version
If you are looking for a messenger that will help keep corporate secrets, it's TigerText. It allows you to configure the auto permanently delete messages immediately after reading them or after a set period of time. Also the message can be removed manually if it is not already open, and you decided not to share information. TigerText does not allow to copy or forward messages and content, and does not allow you to take screenshots. In General, all the attributes of the messenger for paranoid — in the best sense of the word.
Unison
Cost: free (limited functionality) or $8-15 per user per month Platforms: Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, web version
Audio, video, text — Unison of those messengers that allow you to communicate by any means. With all the standard calls, but text chat has an interesting feature: not only can you see who among the participants have read the message, but also to send a reminder to those who did not. Unison makes it easy to invite other users in one conversation and not to let them into other rooms (as in the program called chats).published
Author: Victoria Charochkina
P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©
Source: secretmag.ru/articles/2015/06/10/messengeri-alternativy/
Cotap
Cost: $5-10 per month per user (free trial) Platform: Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, web version
"WhatsApp to work" — that is positioning itself Cotap, which primarily focused on mobile communication. The product is designed not only for office workers but also, for example, store employees, so the messenger many integrations with cloud storage: Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft OneDrive for Business, Citrix ShareFile, Egnyte, Microsoft SharePoint. Also to Cotap, you can connect the account in Salesforce. Messenger allows you to make calls — though not the group. But it gives you the ability to call anyone from the company even if it's mobile you don't have.
Flock
Cost: free Platform: Windows, Mac, Chrome, iOS, Android, web version
Almost all functionality known corporate messengers Flock is free of charge and assures that it will always be. Mention, file sharing, search history of messages, quick to invite you in the chat all the tools fit for a small team. To vary the correspondence in Flock, you can use stickers, thematically related to office life.
Flowdock
Cost: $3 per user per month (free 30-day trial version and a version for teams up to 5 people) Platform: Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, web version
This messenger called streams, where you can chat, share files and to attract the attention of colleagues and personal references. The functionality of the standard, and the advantage of the service — in integration capabilities with 80 different applications (the same Slack), including Asana, Trello, Basecamp, Zapier and others. In Flowdock combined chats and threads — each message can be answered with the help of a special button, so there will be a branch of the correspondence.
Kato
Cost: free Platforms: iOS, Android, browser-based application
Kato is best suited to those who are being rewritten to several not related to each other chat rooms at the same time: for computer messenger opens up each of them a separate screen. He will enjoy the companies where every project is discussed in a separate chat intersecting teams. In Kato, you can not only exchange text messages and files, and calling, video conferencing, share your screen with your interlocutor.
Pie
Cost: free Platforms: Mac, iOS, Android, web version
Fairly simple, but visually pleasing product, this messenger is also suitable for a small team — register it is possible only with corporate email addresses that Pie brings together in one group (for the same domains). One of the chips Pie — quick responses, especially convenient for those who use Apple Watch. With two taps you can send emoticons intuitive — for example, a question mark or handset for the offer to call, clicking on which you can actually talk with someone.
Sqwiggle
Cost: free (limited functionality) or $9-25 per user per month Platform: Mac, browser-based application
Another application that focuses on remote commands and to communicate via video chat (up to 10 people). Fun feature — using Sqwiggle during the day you can do a selfie, which is displayed instead of the profile picture. If it is colored, it means that the people on the spot, and if it becomes black and white, — the interlocutor departed. The usual attributes of the chat text, such as file sharing, mentions, preview links, Sqwiggle, too.
TigerText
Cost: free Platforms: iOS, Android, web version
If you are looking for a messenger that will help keep corporate secrets, it's TigerText. It allows you to configure the auto permanently delete messages immediately after reading them or after a set period of time. Also the message can be removed manually if it is not already open, and you decided not to share information. TigerText does not allow to copy or forward messages and content, and does not allow you to take screenshots. In General, all the attributes of the messenger for paranoid — in the best sense of the word.
Unison
Cost: free (limited functionality) or $8-15 per user per month Platforms: Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, web version
Audio, video, text — Unison of those messengers that allow you to communicate by any means. With all the standard calls, but text chat has an interesting feature: not only can you see who among the participants have read the message, but also to send a reminder to those who did not. Unison makes it easy to invite other users in one conversation and not to let them into other rooms (as in the program called chats).published
Author: Victoria Charochkina
P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©
Source: secretmag.ru/articles/2015/06/10/messengeri-alternativy/