This quarter our Teamwork Desk engineers are very focused on the soon to be launched business hours feature. But as we work on this high value-add feature we also released other functionality throughout October and November.

Storing and processing of large volumes of transactional data in a real-time application is always a challenge in software development. Choosing the right database is always crucial since decisions taken in that initial phase might look fine but affect the application’s performance as the feature adoption and customer base grows. This blog is about one such problem we faced and how we solved it.

The Meetings and Briefings section is a useful communication tool designed for structuring and managing both online and offline meetings with colleagues. The meeting creation process includes several simple steps, depending on the information you need for the meeting: topic, attendees, date, time, duration, description, agenda, the responsible people for the questions to be discussed.

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, studies the fundamental structure of the universe by examining the behavior of subatomic particles using highly complex scientific instruments, including the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. In 2015, the research institute deployed Mattermost across the organization to consolidate messaging platforms while providing its community of researchers, scientists, and technologists with a self-hosted, secure messaging space.

Thanks in no small part to the fast-paced digital world that we’re now living in, companies of all types NEED to be able to share information quickly and efficiently with their customers. It’s no longer a recommendation, but a requirement.

Who Gives A Crap CEO co-founder Simon Griffiths leads a global team who use Slack to redefine toilet paper and do good in developing countries.

Meeting and briefings have always been an inseparable part of team communication and collaboration. Since nowadays many companies have switched to working remotely, traditional offline meetings are temporarily off the table. Anyway, the importance to hold meeting is still there for the majority of them. In Bitrix24 you may create meetings both offline to meet in person and online via videoconferencing.

The perfect meeting is an elusive concept. We’re all familiar with the mind-numbing “I talk, you listen” model of the corporate presentation and the chaos of open-ended brainstorms with no clear takeaways. If our calendars are starting to look like brick walls of meeting blocks, this pattern can lead to frustration and burnout. It’s time to challenge the status quo and make meetings more efficient, engaging, and interactive.