What internal messaging system do you use for your business?

[CrimsonAvenger]

Skype for Business will be retired at the end of this year. MS seem to be putting all their effort into Teams. We are using it and I'm pretty impressed so far.

 

[Plainsong]

Skype for Business here.

 

[Lopéz]

Teams. We use Teams calls quite a bit too.

Used to be Slack, which the devs say they still preferred.

 

[Maccy]

Currently use Slack, although have used Hipchat in the past which works well.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

Skype for Business will be retired at the end of this year. MS seem to be putting all their effort into Teams. We are using it and I'm pretty impressed so far.

Ffs we only changed over last year.

Tbh it doesn’t bother me, but half the organisation hasn’t mastered Skype yet so I will have to sit through yet another “sorry, technical issues...” delay whilst the presenter tries to figure out Teams

 

[grudas]

Currently use Slack, although have used Hipchat in the past which works well.

Hipchat is gone. Merged with slack.

 

[Energize]

Assume this is cloud based? Something I'd like to avoid for various reasons.

You have a mail server on site which you plan to use instead?

 

[MrRockliffe]

Hangouts Chat

 

[Buddy]

It's more of an internal system that's required. Less so about Skype calls or video conferences. Inboxes and trails to follow tasks and actions on specific jobs between staff members. Separate pools for acute and chronic tasks.

Will play around with slack and try Teams.

 

[Shoza]

Microsoft Lync

 

[ED209]

Skype for Business will be retired at the end of this year. MS seem to be putting all their effort into Teams. We are using it and I'm pretty impressed so far.

Really??? We only moved over to Skype for Business within the last 8 months or so.

We also have Teams but no one uses it

 

[BattFink]

Really??? We only moved over to Skype for Business within the last 8 months or so.

I wouldn't worry too much, Skype for Business 2019 server has just been released, Microsoft will be supporting it for a while

 

[233]

small taxi company we use whatsapp for non urgent comms, drivers chat room availabiltiy and general stuff we dont want logged officially against any bookings

 

[ED209]

I wouldn't worry too much, Skype for Business 2019 server has just been released, Microsoft will be supporting it for a while

We was on lotus notes before and used whatever was built in to that, so glad
We moved away from this as it was terrible as a e mail client

 

[Lopéz]

We was on lotus notes before and used whatever was built in to that,

Sametime.

 

[weringo]

Google Hangouts. Whilst it's decent we also have to use gmail for emails which lacks the functionality you'd expect of a work email system. The search function is handy though.

 

[ED209]

Sametime.

that's the one, was also crap! lol

 

[snips86x]

Skype for business

This is what we use currently, but we're migrating to Teams.

 

[BigT]

Slack now since Atlassian canned Hipchat and it’s replacement Stride. Smart move on their part to invest in Slack rather than continue to try and compete.

 

[Nicholas Sorrell]

Slack here.