Meetings + Chat
There are dozens of modern communications tools available but for business you want something professional based on your email address.
Text conversations which only other staff can see. Video and audio calling for hundreds of users for a conference. Team collaboration tools for internal and external stake holders. Find some ideas here, and watch the YouTube video "Business Practices That Refuse to Die" - which explains why you should consider a chat solution. |
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Microsoft Teams
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Kaizala
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Google Meet & Chat
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Chat, calls and meetings for today’s teams
Communicate in the moment and keep everyone in the know. Stay connected with chat, calls, and meetings within your team and in private or small group conversations. Schedule and join online Skype meetings with HD video, VoIP, and dial-in audio conferencing options. Share your files, apps or desktop in online meetings and review the important moments later with transcriptions of recorded content.
Get started with Teams for free (maximum 300 users). Upgrade to the paid subscription for additional features.
Try the online demo, nothing to install or sign up to.
Integrated Office 365 apps
Give your team built-in access to everything they need right in Office 365. Manage all your conversations, files, and tools in one team workspace. Enjoy instant access to SharePoint, OneNote, PowerBI, and Planner. Create and edit documents right in the app. Keep the team in the loop with email integration. Search across people, files, and chats with intelligence from Microsoft Graph.
Customizable and extensible
Tailor your Teams workspace to include key cloud services, explore data and get updates from the apps your teams use everyday. Create custom channels based on work streams or topics. Pin commonly used files and websites for easy reference. Add Bots that work on your team’s behalf.
Enterprise security, compliance and manageability
Microsoft Teams provides the enterprise-level security, compliance and management features you expect from Office 365. Microsoft Teams encrypts data at all times, at-rest and in-transit.
Microsoft Teams is included in all Office 365 subscriptions. A free edition of Teams is also available.
Communicate in the moment and keep everyone in the know. Stay connected with chat, calls, and meetings within your team and in private or small group conversations. Schedule and join online Skype meetings with HD video, VoIP, and dial-in audio conferencing options. Share your files, apps or desktop in online meetings and review the important moments later with transcriptions of recorded content.
Get started with Teams for free (maximum 300 users). Upgrade to the paid subscription for additional features.
Try the online demo, nothing to install or sign up to.
Integrated Office 365 apps
Give your team built-in access to everything they need right in Office 365. Manage all your conversations, files, and tools in one team workspace. Enjoy instant access to SharePoint, OneNote, PowerBI, and Planner. Create and edit documents right in the app. Keep the team in the loop with email integration. Search across people, files, and chats with intelligence from Microsoft Graph.
Customizable and extensible
Tailor your Teams workspace to include key cloud services, explore data and get updates from the apps your teams use everyday. Create custom channels based on work streams or topics. Pin commonly used files and websites for easy reference. Add Bots that work on your team’s behalf.
Enterprise security, compliance and manageability
Microsoft Teams provides the enterprise-level security, compliance and management features you expect from Office 365. Microsoft Teams encrypts data at all times, at-rest and in-transit.
Microsoft Teams is included in all Office 365 subscriptions. A free edition of Teams is also available.
Microsoft Kaizala
A simple and secure mobile chat app for work
Microsoft Kaizala is a phone-number based, simple, and secure mobile chat app that enables you to connect and coordinate work across your network – your organization, vendors, partners, suppliers, and customers.
Kaizala is available with Office 365 and works on iPhone and Android phone.
Connect and coordinate across your entire network
Communicate with people inside and outside your organization using only a phone number. Share text, documents, photos, and videos in a few taps. Customize group types to meet your unique communication needs.
Get work done over chat
Work using in-built apps such as poll, survey, job, training and more. Customize or build your own based on your needs. Gather insights from built-in analytics and reporting or customize as needed.
Digitize business processes
Use Kaizala’s open APIs to integrate with your line of business systems. Automate your business workflows with Office 365 integration such as with SharePoint, Flow, Excel, Power BI.
Manage and secure your data
Use the Kaizala Management Portal to manage users and groups, assign group policies, enforce Azure Active Directory sign-in and more. Kaizala meets GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC1, HIPAA compliance requirements.
A simple and secure mobile chat app for work
Microsoft Kaizala is a phone-number based, simple, and secure mobile chat app that enables you to connect and coordinate work across your network – your organization, vendors, partners, suppliers, and customers.
Kaizala is available with Office 365 and works on iPhone and Android phone.
- Sign up your team for free. Get more control with the paid edition.
- Try the Interactive Demonstration - no need sign up or install anything.
Connect and coordinate across your entire network
Communicate with people inside and outside your organization using only a phone number. Share text, documents, photos, and videos in a few taps. Customize group types to meet your unique communication needs.
Get work done over chat
Work using in-built apps such as poll, survey, job, training and more. Customize or build your own based on your needs. Gather insights from built-in analytics and reporting or customize as needed.
Digitize business processes
Use Kaizala’s open APIs to integrate with your line of business systems. Automate your business workflows with Office 365 integration such as with SharePoint, Flow, Excel, Power BI.
Manage and secure your data
Use the Kaizala Management Portal to manage users and groups, assign group policies, enforce Azure Active Directory sign-in and more. Kaizala meets GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC1, HIPAA compliance requirements.
Google Meet is included in a Google Workspace subscription.
Video meetings for your business. Connect with your team from anywhere. With easy-to-join video calls, you can meet face to face without the added cost of travel. Enjoy frictionless meetings. Meet takes the headaches out of joining a video call at work. Just set up a meeting and share a link. No worrying about whether teammates, clients, or customers have the right accounts or plug-ins. Designed for every kind of business. Meet is fully integrated with G Suite, so you can join meetings directly from a Calendar event or email invite. All of the important event details are right there when you need them, whether you’re joining from a computer, phone, or conference room. Join meetings on the go. With Meet's specially designed iOS and Android apps, you can see your meetings for the day with all the important information from Calendar, then join with a tap. |
Google Chat is included in a Google Workspace subscription.
A messaging platform built for teams Whether in a 1:1 chat or a dedicated group workspace, Hangouts Chat makes it easy to collaborate with your team in an organized way. Share and discuss Docs, Sheets, and Slides all in one place. Work seamlessly with other apps Schedule meetings, create tasks, or get updates from your team right within Chat. In addition to useful integrations with G Suite apps, Chat connects to several third-party tools, helping you manage all of your work in one place. Search with the power of Google Powerful, filterable search across Hangouts Chat threads makes it easy to find what you need, when you need it. Search acts as a collective team memory, allowing you to review past discussions and decisions. Securely message your team from any device Chat is built with leading enterprise-grade security including mobile device management, single-sign-on, two-factor authentication, admin settings, compliance, and Vault retention, holds, search & export. |