Mattermost has extended its Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 offerings to accelerate mission-critical workflows in vital services and government organisations.
Mattermost, a leading collaboration platform for critical infrastructure, unveiled its Microsoft Teams platform, which it pitches as a “flexible interoperability framework” to direct data and communications across business-wide Microsoft 365 users and technical and operational organisations.
“This latest iteration of Mattermost represents the next stage in our commitment to building a scalable, resilient collaboration platform for the teams that manage the world’s most essential infrastructure,” said Chen Lim, VP of Product at Mattermost.
By enabling Mattermost customers to scale their workspace, connect to business-critical tools like Microsoft Teams, and improve their own visibility into the health and security of their Mattermost environments, we’re helping them achieve more effective workflows now and in the future.”
Mattermost says it enhances traditional “Enterprise IT” systems like Microsoft Teams with specialised “Mission IT” workflows for organisations focused on national security, public safety, and critical infrastructure. Mattermost stresses that these workflows are crucial for maintaining cyber resilience and include out-of-band incident response, ChatOps in segregated networks, Red Team and penetration testing activities, and emergency communications.
Mattermost for Microsoft Teams is now available as part of the latest Mattermost platform release. Mattermost underlined that this update includes investments in the platform’s scalability, reliability, and security, tailored for mission-critical work.
Key enhancements encompass a reliability dashboard, metrics plugin, health check plugin, and improved load testing tools, enabling Mattermost customers to scale their environments to support up to 100,000 active users.
More Specifics On Mattermost For Microsoft Teams
Mattermost stresses that through its Teams solution, technical operators can leverage webhooks, slash commands, custom plugins, and workflow orchestration while staying connected to the broader organisation. Users can log in where they are most productive and still maintain communication with each other.
By combining Mattermost’s out-of-band incident response, emergency communications, and security operation workflows with Microsoft Teams’ collaboration tools, Mattermost suggests organisations can maintain enterprise-wide communication. This integration allows messages to flow securely from Teams into Mattermost, intending to optimise overall collaboration efficiency.
Integrating Microsoft Teams and Mattermost in mission-critical environments aims to ensure critical information flows smoothly. This configuration enables faster response times and improved decision-making, which the company emphasises are essential for maintaining situation awareness in high-stakes scenarios.
Moreover, Mattermost says it helps organisations meet advanced and custom security and compliance needs for critical infrastructure. By enabling mission-critical environments to securely ingest and transform data from external sources through continuous monitoring, filtering, and alerting, Mattermost intends to ensure that organisations can maintain high security and compliance standards.
Microsoft Teams Releases Two-Way Translation Feature
Earlier this week, Teams launched bidirectional translation support for interpreters.
The feature allows interpreters to switch the direction of language translation with a single button press, ensuring seamless translation without interrupting the speaker’s flow. This capability enables a single interpreter to handle both sides of a conversation, eliminating the need to hire a second interpreter to manage the opposite direction of translation.
Microsoft added that live language interpretations can be added to non-encrypted meetings in Teams.
