Slack forms key alliance as Atlassian throws in the towel on enterprise collaboration

With today’s announcement from Atlassian that it was selling the IP assets of its two enterprise communications tools, Hipchat and Stride, to Slack, it closes the book on one of the earliest competitors in the modern enterprise collaboration space. It was also a clear  signal that Slack is not afraid to take on its giant […] Continue reading Slack forms key alliance as Atlassian throws in the towel on enterprise collaboration

Slack wants to make search a little easier with search filters

Slack’s search functions are getting another little quality-of-life update today with the introduction of filters, which aims to make search a little more granular to find the right answers. The company also says searches are going to be more personalized. All of this is an attempt to get to the right files or conversations quickly […] Continue reading Slack wants to make search a little easier with search filters

Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, hits general availability

Last September, Atlassian launched Stride, it’s take on a Slack-like real-time communications platform for text, audio and video chats, into beta. Six months later, Stride is now generally available to any and all teams that want to give it a try. While Atlassian is a bit cagey about providing exact user numbers, so the numbers […] Continue reading Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, hits general availability

Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers

 The arrival of Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, was probably the company’s biggest launch of 2017. While the company generally allows developers to easily integrate with its products, Stride’s API remained in closed beta fo… Continue reading Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers