Leading collaboration company, Slack, has been celebrating Frontiers 2019, their annual event in San Francisco over the last couple of days. The conference, running over the 24th and 25th of April, covered a range of exciting new announcements from Slack about up-and-coming features, tools, and partnerships.
On the first day of Frontiers, Slack announced a brand-new "email bridge" to help customers who still want access to the email environment to communicate more seamlessly from a single-pane-of-glass. The new email bridge is designed to allow companies to migrate to collaborative tools at their own pace, or simply combine the collaboration and email landscapes.
The second day of Slack Frontier's brought announcements of a new Zoom partnership, new mobile native security controls, and extended HIPAA functionality
What's New for Slack?
The first and most exciting announcement from Slack Frontier's second day is an upcoming partnership with Zoom - the leading video collaboration company. Zoom is deepening their existing relationship with Zoom and building on top of the Zoom integration for the app. Currently, more than 10,000 Slack teams already rely on Zoom's app each month - that's an upgrade of 200% from only a year ago.
Upcoming features of the deepening investment include the opportunity to manage your Zoom meetings from within your Slack user interface, and the option to make calls to Slack users over data, WiFi, and cell connections through Zoom Phone. There will also be access to smarter calendar integrations to save users some valuable time with their scheduling strategies.
