Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Rocket.Chat 8.5: Intelligent Search improvements and full accessibility conformance

Intelligent Search finds messages by meaning across your entire workspace, with filters that work in air-gapped environments, indexing that scales with message volume, and admin controls that keep results precise and trustworthy. Rocket.Chat now fully conforms to WCAG 2.1 Level AA across web, iOS, and Android, independently verified by two external auditors and satisfying Section 508, the European Accessibility Act, BITV 2.0, and EN 301 549.

Asana Unveils Operating System for Human-Agent Teams

Agentic Work Management solves the AI productivity gap; Organizations can run critical work with humans and agents on the same plan, with the same context, under the same governance. Asana announces next generation AI Teammates purpose-built for industries and Asana Dash, an AI Chief of Staff for every user that knows your individual goals, priorities and what needs your attention. New apps coming soon: Asana Service Management for IT, Command by Asana for Builders, and Asana Client Management for Professional Services.

Introducing the new AI Project Wizard: faster, smarter, and built around your feedback

Project setup is one of those tasks that everyone knows is important, but nobody enjoys doing. With the new version of the AI Project Wizard, your team can turn client briefs into full-fledged projects within seconds. Thanks to new improvements based on your feedback (including ready-to-use task lists and better syncing with documents), project planning will feel less like administration and more like acceleration.

Introducing Cursor in Jira

Starting today, Jira teams can assign work directly to Cursor, where a cloud agent will pick it up and begin working. You can steer agents directly from Jira, your IDE, or Cursor on the web. When Cursor needs input or is ready for review, it will notify you in Jira. When it opens a pull request, it will be automatically linked back to Jira.

Zulip 12.0: Organized chat for distributed teams

We’re excited to announce the release of Zulip Server 12.0, containing hundreds of new features and bug fixes: end-to-end encryption for mobile push notifications, a major upgrade for Docker, configurable image previews, and much more! Almost 5,500 new commits have been merged across the project since the 11.0 release in August 2025. Zulip is an organized team chat application ideal for both live and asynchronous communication.

Simpplr named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Intranet Platforms, Q2 2026

Simpplr has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Intranet Platforms, Q2 2026. We believe this recognition reflects something deeper than a strong product cycle. It’s evidence of a yearslong commitment to building the platform distributed organizations truly need.

Rocket.Chat v8.3: Everything your teams need, inside your secure perimeter

Your teams are operating in environments where leaving the approved platform is not an option. v8.3 makes sure they never have to. Federation is now production-ready, built and tested for cross-agency operations at scale. Screen sharing is now native to voice calls, keeping every conversation inside the secure perimeter. This is what mission-critical build standards look like in practice. When you build a secure environment, you account for every risk you can see.

The New Wire Integrations SDK: A New Foundation for Secure Collaboration Ecosystems

Modern collaboration software has evolved along two primary architectural paths. On one side are mainstream collaboration platforms that prioritize extensibility and integration but rely on centralized trust models. On the other are secure messaging applications that implement end-to-end encryption (E2EE), typically designed as closed communication systems rather than extensible development platforms.