Rocket.Chat 4.4.0 brings more improvements and new features for better admin and user experience. Let's see what's new with the latest Rocket.Chat edition. 🚀 Please visit the official release notes for the whole list of improvements and bug fixes.
Open source software is making its way into education. Even though using open source software for educational purposes is nothing new, we observe an increased demand for it across higher education institutions. Why now, and why such a surge in interest? Well, there is hardly any industry that didn’t experience an impact made by the pandemic. The conclusion across the board is almost unanimous: the future is digital, and it’s approaching us at a greater speed than ever before.
This tuition-free school uses Slack to develop the next generation of computer programmers.
EdTech has been a crucial part of a digital learning experience for many students and teachers. Now, the market for online learning apps is drastically expanding. The abrupt increase in the number of EdTech users, fueled by the pandemic, has shown that digital education is necessary to equip students with the skills essential for their future. That’s why experts predict that the EdTech market will almost double in size by 2025 - meaning that the total EdTech spend will be $404 Billion.
Data from the Future Forum Pulse reveals alarming discrepancies between who is and isn’t coming into the office.
We never know how many more COVID variants are going to hit the people of this world and how long working from home or a remote location will continue to persist. Come what may, employers should be more inclined towards providing a productive work environment to their workforce to improve their company’s ROI. Additionally, they should look for encrypted messaging apps that offer E2EE and other secure access methods like multi-factor authentication to avoid security breaches on data.
Secure tools can curb high-risk messaging at work when they are collaborative and pleasant to use.
Messaging apps have become part of human life. Individuals, families, and business organizations are looking at advanced messaging software to run their businesses and exchange communication on platforms. Does a normal messaging app work as a government messaging app? No, the normal and personal messaging apps are mostly limited to holding a large number of people and users on the platform, and their features are limited for government operations.
PostgreSQL announced their latest version (PostgreSQL 14) on September 30th, which includes a bunch of features like pipeline API, gathering statistics on replication slots, query parallelism improvements and so on. While the origin of PostgreSQL can be traced back to 1986, it has been in active development for the past 30 years.
Being productive when working remotely can be challenging if you are underprepared without the right tools to help your business. In addition, it would disrupt coordination between internal teams on tasks and cause problems around collaboration for meetings, performance reviews, and planning for existing and newer projects. Fortunately, with the fast-paced evolution of digital technology, there are multiple remote working tools for you and your teams to explore.
It is common knowledge in the eCommerce market that the cost of acquiring a customer exceeds the cost of retaining one. Customer retention is of the most important variables that formulate the user base of your store, and thus, it shouldn’t be taken lightly. Getting your customer retention rate to go up simply means making sure your business excels in the digital market. But the main question is how to improve customer retention?
Will your technology be able to keep up as your company expands? Is it possible to scale it up or down based on demand? Despite the fact that we are in the midst of a fast digital revolution, many businesses are failing to keep up, losing out to more agile competitors. With that in mind, below are 7 surprisingly affordable tech solutions that businesses can leverage.
Imagine being a CISO, hauled into a boardroom, and asked: “Why is your team using a collaboration tool that isn’t even end-to-end encrypted?” Where would you go with that? via GIPHY While there’s a fair amount of truth that you “never get fired for buying ,” there is far more truth in “you definitely get fired for failing to take basic precautions that make getting breached far harder.” Although to be fair that doesn’t trip off the tongue.
Who says onboarding has to be dull? Here’s how to teach new teammates to search in Slack with ease.
Outsourcing is a technique for contracting out corporate processes to third-party companies that is effective and, when done correctly, can generate serious ROI. When used properly, it reduces the risks associated with various processes, resulting in a variety of advantages ranging from cost savings to increased competitive advantage and service enhancements. It can help your company improve its adaptability, agility and flexibility in response to the market's ever-changing conditions and problems.
The world is growing more digital by the minute. Although digital transformation has impacted businesses the most, educational institutions also face an increased need for digital strategies. Ever since the world went completely digital due to the pandemic in 2020, digital education has become a priority for students, parents, teachers, and educational institutions alike.
An internal hackathon is an effective way to engage your employees in short-term collaborative events. It spurs innovation, increases employee engagement, explores new feature possibilities, imparts corporate culture, and builds teamwork and collaboration skills. By organizing internal hackathons in your company, your employees can challenge and compete to solve internal or customer problems—which can lead to real-life features in your product.
Have you ever wished to measure your team's sentiments on a topic with a live poll? There is a free Rocket.Chat app for that! As many of you discovered already, you can easily use our poll app to perform basic polls. But most of you found the existing poll app rather limiting. We heard you! We’ve launched a new app - the Poll Plus app that can do much more than the old app on Rocket.Chat.
Remote employees are generally more productive and pleased with their careers, according to studies, and remote companies can absolutely be tenable and sustainable long-term. Employing remote employees who utilize their home offices to conduct their daily activities saves companies money on office supplies, space, and computers.
As it is common for the online community to use the internet to land in their next job, a whole new opportunity comes along. It is your perfect chance to develop and grow your business that connects the employers and the employees. How to Create an Online Job Board? This question strikes our minds, but we often fail to answer them correctly. This piece aims to make you understand the setup of the Job Board Website successfully.
As we head into a new year, technical organizations are more likely than ever to have distributed workforces. While over half of the developers we surveyed for our Guide to Developer Productivity said remote work has helped them be more productive, they still stated that team distribution is a significant blocker to developer collaboration.
As modern applications have become increasingly feature-rich and performant, user expectations are at an all-time high. Failure to communicate key information or displaying out-of-date information frustrates users and causes a loss of trust. Think about the last time you ordered something online: if you didn’t receive your order confirmation within seconds, you probably began to worry that something went wrong. Users require product transparency for consistent use.
I am quite sure after learning the terms On-Premise vs Cloud you must be reinvigorating about the knowledge you have, perhaps some of you have minimum knowledge about them which is likely enough to be involved in the very start of the conversation. If you are thinking IT companies should be worried about this topic and you ain’t since your domain differs, let me illuminate the fact that by this end of the blog you will realize both on-premise and cloud apply to every domain.
Collaboration is essential to business success in the 21st century. However, there are very few good tools on the market that can help you manage team collaboration. With the rise of remote teams and freelance workers, business collaboration apps have become a necessity. Creating new ways for people to get their work done regardless of location is a profitable and worthwhile venture.
Virtual teams and flexible work hours have been the saving grace in the face of covid-19 and its impact on how we function as a society. Richard Branson’s quote from 2013 comes to mind where he quipped that the office would become a thing of the past. Well, it surely has, at least for the time being. The IT and Ecommerce industries have the luxury of possessing the required tools to embrace a digital working environment.
