Team Collaboration and Productivity is the new unified communications technology that helps teams communicate and collaborate effectively, efficiently and securely.
The Team Collaboration and Productivity Platform provides the building blocks to create private enterprise social networks without coding or development expertise. For Customers (IDEalto.com, Salesforce.com, Oracle, Microsoft), this is basically a white label application where technology can be made available branded with your own company name. This reduces training costs and allows you to deploy directly for your customers. The platform also provides seamless integration with task management systems (Jira, Slack or FogBugz for example), project management systems (Asana, JIRA, Trello or Microsoft Project) and accounting systems (Quickbooks, Sage Intac
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a unified communications platform that merges workplace chat with video meetings, file storage, attachments and app integration. Your teams can host web conferences on this platform, and communicate through audio, video and chat – with both people from within and outside the organization.
Pros
- Full integration across Office 365 apps
- Ample cloud storage per user
- Provides access to Microsoft Office tools in one place
Cons
- The interface is fairly complicated
- Challenging to start
Bit.ai
This is a smart document collaboration platform that allows teams to create and collaborate on robust internal and client facing documents with built in tracking capabilities.
Bit has over 50 integrations, and lets you collaborate on interactive documents, track the engagement levels on your documents, and manage your digital content with ease.
Pros
- Numerous integrations
- Robust templates
- Slick interface
Cons
- Lacks a robust mobile app
TimeCamp
TimeCamp is widely known as an automatic time tracker, but also helps teams and freelancers manage tasks efficiently. Its unique project structure allows the user to add as many tasks and subtasks to the projects, so it’s easy to assign hours spent on working for each customer.
The tool offers a wide range of reports, so that managers know exactly how their teams are performing.TimeCamp minimizes time spent on filling timesheets manually. Desktop app works in the background and tracks time for each activity performed during working hours, then it assigns them to the appropriate project. Saves a lot of time for being more creative!
Pros
- You can define different billing rates for specific users and groups
- Easy to invite your clients to let them keep an eye on time and resources spent for their project
- Attendance module allows managers to track employees workdays, leaves, vacations and holidays
- Employees can fill their timesheets automatically with activities tracked during work hours
Cons
- Some users point the UX is quite outdated
Sketch
Sketch app aims mainly professionals in web designs as it has become a complete tool for UX design deliverables. It takes the pain out of working with repeated design elements so that designers can design once and use it anywhere. You can find some nested symbols in Sketch to create flexible design elements with ease.
What is unique about Sketch:
- Intuitive interface and an expansive plugin ecosystem
- Link Artboards, add simple animations and turn static screens into clickable prototypes
- Create, update, and share designs at one place
- Offers world-class pixel precision, vector editing, export presets, prototyping
One
ONE by TemplateMonster is a valuable subscription service that provides users with a multitude of high-quality products and web-design tools. When you become a part of this service, you get access to a bunch of ready-made solutions – from themes designed for popular CMS to HTML templates, various extensions, and graphics. As you can understand, everything you need for your next online-project is already waiting for you. Each of them can be downloaded freely and used without any limitations. By the way, it is possible to effectively cut your time (you could spend on mastering your websites) using extra services provided by the team.
What is unique about One:
- Unlimited options – themes, plugins, templates, stock images and whatnot, One is the truly the one stop shop for everything that you need for your web development and creative needs.
- No licence – just pay once and use the entire bouquet of services offered by One for the entire year, without having to worry about licenses of per-service fee.
- Discounts – by subscribing for this service, you become eligible for availing discounts of up to 50% on TemplateMonster products.
- Draftium Pro Mockup Tool – you also get access to this premium mockup tool for free for an entire year.
- Special deals – besides this you also get an opportunity to avail special deals and discounts on web hosting services.
GotoMeeting
Next collaboration software for businesses is GoTo Meeting. GoToMeeting also comes with dozens of useful tools, easy-to-use Web-conferencing solution, to get you started immediately.
What’s unique about GotoMeeting?
- Screen sharing, Web audio, a dial-in conference line, drawing tools and the ability to record meetings.
- With GTM your remote team has no need to go anywhere for meetings.
- HD-quality video is perfect for conducting webinars and hosting conferences.
Zoom
Zoom is a leading modern enterprise video communication software with a reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing. This video conferencing tool enables you to attend a meeting from your desktop, mobile device, or conference room.
What’s unique about Zoom
- Loaded with features like high definition sound and visual quality, voice detection, seamless screen sharing, group collaboration and much more
- applicable across various platforms such as Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, Blackberry, Zoom Rooms, and H.323/SIP room systems
- Up to 100 interactive video participants can engage with an unlimited audience in live virtual events
Hiver
Hiver is an email collaboration platform that helps teams manage group inboxes like info@, sales@, and support@ right from Gmail. An extremely easy-to-use and intuitive solution, teams use Hiver to streamline their daily email workload, gain visibility into what everyone is doing, collaborate without hassle, and monitor performance.
What is unique about Hiver?
- Simplify email assignment: With Hiver, team leads and managers can assign emails as tasks in just a click, without having to forward these emails around.
- Track email status in real-time: Hiver enables team leads to stay on top of every email query, till the point of resolution. You can find out in real-time if an email is yet to be picked up, work in progress, or has been resolved.
- Collaborate internally via Email Notes: Team members get to collaborate, sync up, and run discussions via Email Notes that are attached to an email thread. You can, therefore, completely do away with sending internal emails that only add to inbox clutter.
- Automate repetitive tasks: By using Hiver’s automations, teams can create specific workflows that save them a ton of time and effort. For instance, any email with ‘invoice’ in the subject line can be automatically assigned to someone from the finance team.
TextMagic
TextMagic is a text messaging platform enabling automated or mass texting to your customers, team and business partners.
The platform is capable of two-way messaging between SMS, email and web app messaging, enabling your whole team to stay updated on text conversations. TextMagic also supports the use of distribution lists, and can conduct SMS surveys to gather vital feedback from customers and leads.
The platform is highly versatile, and is used by businesses to improve both internal communications and customer support, in addition to marketing and sales applications. Potential uses include everything from booking appointments with clients and automating inventory management to staying in touch with remote workers.
Additionally, the platform benefits from global SMS coverage, enabling businesses to contact customers and partners in 200 countries.
TextMagic supports more than 750 Zapier SMS integrations and features a well-documented gateway API, making it simple to add the platform to your business systems.
Invision
Invision is an enterprise grade prototyping tool that enables users to upload designs, create actions such as button clicks, and gather feedback seamlessly from colleagues and customers right from within the app.
With Invision, you can manage your projects from a single dashboard. The dashboard will show you a breakdown of project status as well as comments collected. You can also integrate with various platforms to create a seamless design environment.
Conclusion
Team Collaboration and Productivity is an integrated, modular software solution designed to strengthen collaboration and drive productivity. We provide a platform that allows a company to quickly scope a project and then deliver the product in a phased approach with planned features that meet the customer’s budget and team’s timelines.