Google has promised revolutionary compatibility between its own Chat app and competing services like Slack and Teams in a move that is expected to simplify workplace communication to a much-welcome extent.
According to Google, a key factor contributing to conversation silos is the widespread usage of many messaging services by bigger organisations, not to mention those used for external discussions with consumers and clients.
The business has now partnered with Mio, a supplier of collaborative interoperability solutions, to address interoperability. Mio works with Google Chat, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Webex, and Zoom Chat.
The functionality is presently available for beta testing, the business said in a release, and it is anticipated to become generally available in the first quarter of 2024.
Google Workspace Business Starter/Standard/Plus, Essentials Starter, Enterprise Essentials/Essentials Plus/Standard/Plus, Frontline Starter/Standard, and Nonprofits clients are among the accounts that qualify.
Companies interested in using the beta version are urged to get in touch with their account representative or Mio directly.
Customers, who are likely to be considerably pleased with their communications settings, as well as providers, who may be less motivated to compete with one another for exclusive business, may benefit from the emerging interoperability.
This isn’t the first time Google has taken a significant step towards collaborating with rivals; at the beginning of this year, it announced that users of Meet video conferencing will be allowed to join Zoom conversations and vice versa.
Later, it declared that its own Calendar will work with Outlook’s equivalent at the start of the summer.
