Welcome back to another brilliant week of news from the Unified Communication and Collaboration industry. We’ve been keeping you up to date on all of the most exciting stories in the landscape over the last seven days, offering insights into new AI-driven meeting solutions, and the arrival of new tools for Microsoft Teams.
This week has been a particularly scorching one for the communication space, thanks to Slack taking the next step in its rivalry with Microsoft Teams.
We also published our fantastic UC Service Management roundtable and offered some handy overviews on up and coming tools for the modern workplace.
Here are the stories you won’t want to miss from the last 7 days.
Huddl.ai Launches an Intelligent Video Meetings Service
As the demand for convenient collaborative workspaces continues to grow, we’re seeing a rapid increase in the number of businesses producing their own VCaaS solutions. Video conferencing is trending now, more than ever, particularly as companies struggle to maintain connections with teams distributed outside of the office.
Huddl.ai is one of the companies that promises to change the way that we meet for the collaboration era of tomorrow. The solution comes with access to document sharing, instant chat, notes, and other fantastic features. There’s also an advanced recommendation system that helps employees to manage their meetings with team members based on intelligent calendaring. Learn more about the software here.
Slack Launches an Official Complaint Against Microsoft
Slack and Microsoft have spent years battling for the top spot in the collaboration industry. While Slack promises convenient and easy-to-use instant messaging technology for the masses, Microsoft Teams provides collaboration technology infused with the Microsoft productivity suite. While the competition between Slack and Microsoft hasn’t always been friendly, things have taken a serious turn this July.
Slack announced on the 22nd of July that it was launching an official complaint with the European Commission. The complaint states that Microsoft is using it’s unfair presence in the marketplace to gain too much power in the collaboration industry. Slack believes that Microsoft is forcing Teams onto Microsoft Office users, and it asked the EU to step in. Read the story here.
Discover AudioCodes Live for Microsoft Teams
In this new era of remote working, collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams are rapidly emerging as the heart of business operations. These solutions bridge the gap between distributed teams, offering things like instant messaging, file sharing, video conferencing, and more.
