The best business messaging apps

If coronavirus continue expanding, more people are going to be working from home. These business-messaging apps can help teams communicate even if they don´t go to the office. These tools allow you to have one-on-one conversations, group chats and public conversations with anyone who wants to join them. When used appropriately, team-messaging apps can increase productivity, improve teamwork, and help maintain company culture.

Business collaboration apps

The listed tools can help your organization communicate and collaborate effectively with your team at all time.

Slack

Slack is a powerful team messaging app with a rich collection of settings and options. It is basically, a chat room for organizations, designed to replace email as the primary method of communication and sharing. It allows you to organize messages by channels for group discussions and it can be used for private messages or for group conversation. Slack is fully customizable, and can work in both browser and mobile versions. It can also integrate with other custom enterprise apps and with another 3rd party messaging client like. You can set up personal and public channels. The personal ones allow team members to share their views or opinions with each other in a private manner.

Microsoft Teams

This app allows you having everything in one place. Also, it is natively integrated with all the Microsoft Suite which facilitate users’ experience. Microsoft Teams syncs with your calendar and pulls in all existing appointments, it also displays suggested times when all the other attendee’s within your team are free. The Microsoft Teams application gives you the option to choose if the meeting is private or anyone can join in. Once you have created a meeting, both you and the attendees can post about the meeting in a separate chat thread, set agendas and upload relevant documents.

Glip

Glip is a cloud-based collaboration tool that provides integrated task management, video conferencing, notes, calendars, communication tools and file sharing. You can also use it to set up team calendars and to do video calling. It also allows users to manage files and communication from multiple sources and can be use for all type of businesses and industries. It is simple to use, very efficient and integrates effectively with a wide variety of other apps and it is cheaper than Slack.

Zoho Cliq

Zoho Cliq is a team collaboration solution that caters to businesses of all sizes across various industries. It borrows many of the best features from team messaging apps like Slack at a more convenient price. Features include document management, drag-and-drop file sharing, channel-based permissions, team video calling and more. It also has the ability to show multiple channels in one window.
Zoho Cliq’s live chat allows team members to communicate in real time, share audio and video files and search the chat for specific information. You can create various channels for different business units and can add vendors and prospective customers to these channels.
This app can either be deployed on-premise or hosted in the cloud.

Samepage

Samepage combines team chat, video conferencing, screen sharing, task management, file sharing, and real-time document collaboration in a single cloud-based collaborative workspace
With this team collaboration software, you will find every document, task and conversation in one place and can communicate within your organization with a single click. Their award-winning team chat software includes direct messaging, group & team chat, page chat alongside real-time document collaboration, audio/video conferencing and much more features. This tool will help you to create the best workflow for your business. It’s a secure platform and can helps teams of all sizes communicate, manage projects, run meetings and more.

Flock

Flock is another alternative to Slack, but it has many of the same features and cost less. This app has a tidy interface, an integrated to-do list, and the option to make a read-only message board, which could be used to broadcast information from a legal department, HR, or company executives

Conclusion

Business messaging apps have several advantages over emails. Firstly, they allow users to communicate in real time. Secondly, most discussions happen on an opt-in basis so, you can join conversations that are relevant to you, and skip anything beside the point. Thirdly, messaging apps allow for continuous, ongoing conversations. For instance, if you open a forum called “Brainstorming” other users can add an idea whenever it suit them.
The use of collaboration tools can bring many benefits to your organization, perhaps the biggest one is the improvement to employee productivity, which can increase by up to 20% when using one.
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