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The latest News and Information on Collaboration, tools and related technologies.

How to manage a mix of staff and contractors

Businesses should be constantly looking for ways to adapt and change with the times. This means not only moving with the market they operate in and keeping up-to-date with modern technology, but something more fundamental; how to get the most out of their team. It is no longer the case that the workforce is made up entirely of people interested in 9 to 5 Monday to Friday working shifts.

Zoom Video Conferencing in Bitrix24

Today we'd like to inform you about the cool update in Bitrix24. Bitrix24 CRM and Messenger now integrate with Zoom. This means you can now use Zoom directly in Bitrix24 to communicate with your customers and team members. This means you can now use Zoom directly in Bitrix24 to communicate with your customers and team members. No additional steps and actions needed from your side.

How we scale our Tech culture at Freshworks

“Culture forms the bedrock of everything we do at Freshworks.” – Suman Gopalan, CHRO Freshworks When the pandemic broke out in March 2020, at Freshworks we were apprehensive about a lot of things, particularly about how we were going to collaborate across teams in different locations and get things done. Fast forward to September, we are quite proud of how far we have come, and of all the things we have been able to achieve.

Wire - The future of communication starts here.

Wire™ is the most secure collaboration platform, transforming the way businesses communicate at the same speed that our founders disrupted telephony with Skype. Headquartered in Berlin with offices in Switzerland and San Francisco, Wire’s award-winning collaboration and communication platform counts over 1,800 enterprise customers worldwide. Recognized by IDC, Forrester, and Gartner as one of the most secure collaboration platforms, Wire offers messaging, audio/video conferencing, file-sharing, and external collaboration - all protected by the strongest end-to-end encryption.

Part 2: Not Making a Decision is Still a Decision

In Part 1 of this series, we talked about why it’s important to make decisions that can positively impact your customer support department swiftly, and what the consequences are if you don’t. Even a big decision like changing your B2B customer support system can move quickly if you know where to start and how to evaluate the right solution providers.

Deliver the best omnichannel customer service with Freshdesk

Freshdesk is a customer service and engagement platform that brings people and bots together to delight customers at every touchpoint across all channels. Freshdesk empowers businesses to monitor customer conversations across email, phone, chat, social media and instant messaging, improve agent productivity with smart automations, deliver better self-service experiences with AI-chatbots and branded help centers, and monitor key performance metrics with powerful analytics. Freshdesk is used by 40,000 businesses across the globe to make customer service their competitive advantage.

Slack open source: Top 3 reasons why companies adopt different platforms for team collaboration

If you were to survey the most productive teams, you’d find a common ingredient – efficient communication. That explains the rise of team collaboration tools in 2020 and mega deals happening in the industry, such as Salesforce’s acquisition of Slack. However, right after heavily adopting tools like Slack, companies might notice the downsides of such tools. We aren’t just talking about fearing that Slack will hand over your data to Salesforce.

Elsevier Tech cuts report generation time to less than half with Freshworks Analytics

Elsevier Technologies is a global information analytics business that helps scientists and clinicians to find new answers, reshape human knowledge, and tackle the most urgent social crises. For 140 years, they have partnered with the research world to curate and verify scientific knowledge. As one of the world’s foremost providers of scientific, technical, and medical information, Elsevier publishes more than 470,000 articles annually in over 2,500 journals.

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Is IT Prepared for a Hybrid Remote Workplace Environment?

Return to work is happening. After working remotely from home for months due to Covid, companies are now offering employees the option to return to their workplace. In a survey done by Google, 62% of its workers would like to return to the office at some point and see their work future as more flexible. This sentiment is catching up among the rest of the enterprises in Silicon Valley and the rest of America. The hybrid remote workplace model continues to be appreciated by employees seeking to spend more time with family and engaging with the office community.