Re:Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place
by llbeansandrice on Monday May 16, 2022 @12:22PM
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The big sells for Hangouts and Teams is that they have video. Slack doesn't so you have to find a video conference provider as well like Zoom. Also Teams integrates more easily with the existing Microsoft stack (office, outlook, etc.) that a ton of non-tech companies are on.
I think a lot of tech companies struggle to break into the non-tech world. Slack might be ubiquitous for SWEs but my SO who works in traffic engineering will probably never use it (they use Teams).
Re:Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place
by Mandatum on Monday May 16, 2022 @07:19PM
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https://slack.com/intl/en-au/video-conferencing
They do. They acquired ScreenHero for screensharing, and then fucked up the integration.
> https://www.xda-developers.com/slack-working-on-video-suppor...
They've only just got it right - check out Huddles. No doubt with their next yearly annual conference they'll be releasing the video version for this.
Re:Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place
by worik on Friday May 13, 2022 @07:34PM
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> Most people don't get to choose
Is that a case of business people making technical decisions?
That I understand. Do not like, but I understand
Re:Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place
by Johnny555 on Friday May 13, 2022 @08:53PM
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There was some technical evaluation done, but some features like retention policies and SSO were deemed requirements. Not sure what all of the criteria were or what all of the candidates were, it was a while ago.
It's got a lot of enterprise features that companies like, like SSO integration, message retention policies, security certifications like HIPAA and FedRAMP, and more.
There are also a lot of pre-made apps for integrating with corporate apps like Jira, Gmail, Salesforce, etc.
It's fine, I haven't looked at a lot of other options, but it seems more usable than Google Hangouts (or messenger or whatever they call it now) or Microsoft Teams.