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Alternatives to RingCentral

Grasshopper, Zoom, Dialpad, GoToMeeting, and Microsoft Teams are the most popular alternatives and competitors to RingCentral.
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What is RingCentral and what are its top alternatives?

Since RingCentral is cloud based, you enjoy the freedom to connect and manage multiple locations, devices and workers within your cloud phone system. You can easily customize users, departments, and call handling rules. No matter where you, or the users, are. You only need a high-speed Internet connection and your phone system is ready to work lightning fast, anytime and anyplace. There’s no PBX hardware.
RingCentral is a tool in the Phone category of a tech stack.

Top Alternatives to RingCentral

  • Grasshopper
    Grasshopper

    Sound more professional and stay connected with Grasshopper, the Virtual Phone System designed for entrepreneurs. Grasshopper works just like a traditional phone system, but requires no hardware to purchase or software to install. ...

  • Zoom
    Zoom

    Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, and cross platform group chat into one easy-to-use platform. Our solution offers the best video, audio, and screen-sharing experience across Zoom Rooms, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and H.323/SIP room systems. ...

  • Dialpad
    Dialpad

    It is a pure-cloud business communication platform that's in tune with the way your team works . Connect your team with a business communication platform that powers voice, video, messages, and meetings across your existing devices. ...

  • GoToMeeting
    GoToMeeting

    It is an online meeting, desktop sharing, and video conferencing software package that enables the user to meet with other computer users, customers, clients or colleagues via the Internet in real time. ...

  • Microsoft Teams
    Microsoft Teams

    See content and chat history anytime, including team chats with Skype that are visible to the whole team. Private group chats are available for smaller group conversations. ...

  • Twilio
    Twilio

    Twilio offers developers a powerful API for phone services to make and receive phone calls, and send and receive text messages. Their product allows programmers to more easily integrate various communication methods into their software and programs. ...

  • Slack
    Slack

    Imagine all your team communication in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. That’s Slack. All your messages. All your files. And everything from Twitter, Dropbox, Google Docs, Asana, Trello, GitHub and dozens of other services. All together. ...

  • WhatsApp
    WhatsApp

    It is a cross-platform mobile messaging app for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia. It allows users to send text messages and voice messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other media. ...

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      PROS OF ZOOM
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        Web conferencing made easy
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        Remote control option
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        Draw on screen
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        Very reliable
      • 11
        In-meeting chat is pretty good
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        Free
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        Pair programming sessions with shared controls
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        Easy to share meeting links/invites
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        Good Sound Quality
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        Cloud recordings for meetings
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        Great mobile app
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        Virtual backgrounds
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        Recording Feature
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        Other people use it
      • 4
        User Friendly actions
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        Reactions (emoticons)
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        Auto reconnecting
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        Chrome extension is great to easily create meetings
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        While sharing screen, you can still see your video
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        Mute all participants at once
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        When ending the videocall, everybody gets kicked
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        Different options for blocking chat
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        Easily share video with audio
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        /zoom on Slack
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        Registration form
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        Meant for business and education
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        Zoom
      CONS OF ZOOM
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        Limited time if you are a basic member
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        Limited Storage
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        Hate how sharing your screen defaults to Full Screen
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        Quality isn't great (Free)
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        No cursor highlight on screenshare.
      • 8
        Potential security flaws
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        Onboarding process for new users is not intuitive
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        Virtual background quality isn't good
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        Security
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        Editing can be improved
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        Doesn't handle switching audio sources well
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        The native calendar is buggy
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        Dashboard can be improved
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        Pornographic material displayed
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        Any body can get in it
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        Not many emojis
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        Past chat history is not saved
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        Recording Feature
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        En In reality,the chat in the meet not is excelent,noo
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        Zoom lags a lot

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      Uploadcare is mostly remote team and we're using video conferencing all the time both for internal team meetings and for external sales, support, interview, etc. calls. I think we've tried every solution there is on the market before we've decided to stop with Zoom.

      Tools just plainly don't work (Skype), are painful to install for external participants (Webex and other "enterprise" solutions) can't properly handle 10+ participants calls (Google Hangouts Chat).

      Zoom just works. It has all required features and even handles bad connections very graciously. One of the best tool decisions we've ever made :)

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      I want to host an online Jeopardy game with less than 30 participants. During each round of the game, I'll stream some videos. The point is to gather friends together to play the Jeopardy game and watch random stuff. Please let me know if there's a more suitable platform other than Discord and Zoom. Thanks, everyone!

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      Dialpad logo

      Dialpad

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          GoToMeeting

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          A professional online meeting software
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          PROS OF GOTOMEETING
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            More control over participant’s webcams and chat
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            Lock the meeting room
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            Display 25 camera at a time
          CONS OF GOTOMEETING
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            Microsoft Teams

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            PROS OF MICROSOFT TEAMS
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              Work well with the rest of Office 365 work flow
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              Mobile friendly
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              Free
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              Great integrations
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              Well-thought Design
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              Channels
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              Easy setup
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              Unlimited users
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              Strong search and data archiving
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              Multi domain switching support
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              Easy to integrate with
            • 3
              Same interface on multiple platforms
            • 3
              Web interface
            • 2
              Great voice quality
            CONS OF MICROSOFT TEAMS
            • 17
              Confusing UI
            • 12
              Bad performance on init and after quite a use
            • 10
              Bad Usermanagement
            • 6
              No desktop client (only fat and slow electron app)
            • 6
              Can't see all members in a video meeting
            • 5
              Unable to Mute users
            • 5
              No Markdown Support
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              You don't really own your messages
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              MIssing public channels
            • 4
              Forced WYSIWYG
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              Stubborn, unused friendly
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              Challenging Onboarding
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              No linux support
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              Audio support problems

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            Looking for the pros and cons for a tool we can use best for cross-team collaboration (software development). Has anyone compared Google Hangouts Chat with Microsoft Teams? What were the advantages of either??

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            Jack Graves

            We use Microsoft Teams as our primary workplace collaboration tool. It enables our team to work remotely and still collaborate on projects - with integration to JIRA and Confluence, the tool enables us to create War Rooms when problems occur and also provides information-sharing capabilities. Replaced HipChat.

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            Twilio

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              Clear pricing
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              Great sms services
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              Low cost of entry
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              Global SMS Gateway
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              Good value
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              Cloud IVR
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              Simple
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              Extremely simple to integrate with rails
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              Great for startups
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              SMS
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              Great developer program
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              Hassle free
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              Text me the app pages
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              New Features constantly rolling out
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              Many deployment options, from build from scratch to buy
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              Easy integration
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              Two factor authentication
            CONS OF TWILIO
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              Predictable pricing
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              Expensive

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            Hi, We are looking to implement 2FA - so that users would be sent a Verification code over their Email and SMS to their phone.

            We faced some limitations with Amazon SNS where we could either send the verification code to email OR to the phone number, while we want to send it to both.

            We also are looking to make the 2FA more flexible by adding any other options later on.

            What are the best alternatives to SNS for this use case and purpose? Looked at Twilio but want to explore other options before making a decision.

            Would be great to know what the experience with Twilio has been, especially the limitations/issues with Twilio...

            Appreciate any input from users of Twilio and others who have had similar use cases.

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            Searching for options for SMS that integrates with SiteLink and will allow personalization of text and tracking of both incoming/outgoing messages with reporting (Time, date, call#, etc) Have been looking at Twilio, and seems most leaning toward this. Are there any other options known that integrate into SiteLink? Also looked at Clickatell.

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            Slack

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              Excellent interface on multiple platforms
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              Free
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              Mobile friendly
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              People really enjoy using it
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              Great integrations
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              Flexible notification preferences
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              Unlimited users
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              Strong search and data archiving
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              Multi domain switching support
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              Easy to use
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              Beautiful
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              Hubot support
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              Unread/read control
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              Slackbot
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              Permalink for each messages
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              Text snippet with highlighting
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              Quote message easily
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              Per-room notification
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              Awesome integration support
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              IRC gateway
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              Star for each message / attached files
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              Good communication within a team
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              Dropbox Integration
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              Jira Integration
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              Slick, search is great
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              New Relic Integration
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              Great communication tool
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              Asana Integration
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              Combine All Services Quickly
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              Awesomeness
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              This tool understands developers
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              Google Drive Integration
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              XMPP gateway
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              Replaces email
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              Twitter Integration
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              Google Docs Integration
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              BitBucket integration
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              GREAT Customer Support / Quick Response to Feedback
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              Jenkins Integration
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              Guest and Restricted user control
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              Gathers all my communications in one place
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              Clean UI
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              GitHub integration
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              Excellent multi platform internal communication tool
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              Mention list view
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              Perfect implementation of chat + integrations
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              Android app
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              Visual Studio Integration
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              Easy to start working with
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              Easy
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              Easy to add a reaction
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              Timely while non intrusive
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              Great on-boarding
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              Threaded chat
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              Eases collaboration for geographically dispersed teams
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              Message Actions
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              Simplicity
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              So much better than email
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              It's basically an improved (although closed) IRC
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              Great Channel Customization
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              Great interface
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              Intuitive, easy to use, great integrations
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              Markdown
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              API
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              Easy remote communication
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              Get less busy
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              Targetprocess integration
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              Better User Experience
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              Multi work-space support
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              Travis CI integration
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              It's the coolest IM ever
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              Dev communication Made Easy
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              Community
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              Integrates with just about everything
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              Great API
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              Very customizable
            • 1
              Great Support Team
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              Flexible and Accessible
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              Finally with terrible "threading"—I miss Flowdock
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              Archive Importing
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              Complete with plenty of Electron BLOAT
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              Watch
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              I was 666 star :D
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              Easy to useL
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              Platforms
            CONS OF SLACK
            • 13
              Can be distracting depending on how you use it
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              Requires some management for large teams
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              Limit messages history
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              Too expensive
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              You don't really own your messages
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              Too many notifications by default

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            Yonas Beshawred

            Using Screenhero via Slack was getting to be pretty horrible. Video and sound quality was often times pretty bad and worst of all the service just wasn't reliable. We all had high hopes when the acquisition went through but ultimately, the product just didn't live up to expectations. We ended up trying Zoom after I had heard about it from some friends at other companies. We noticed the video/sound quality was better, and more importantly it was super reliable. The Slack integration was awesome (just type /zoom and it starts a call)

            You can schedule recurring calls which is helpful. There's a G Suite (Google Calendar) integration which lets you add a Zoom call (w/dial in info + link to web/mobile) with the click of a button.

            Meeting recordings (video and audio) are really nice, you get recordings stored in the cloud on the higher tier plans. One of our engineers, Jerome, actually built a cool little Slack integration using the Slack API and Zoom API so that every time a recording is processed, a link gets posted to the "event-recordings" channel. The iOS app is great too!

            #WebAndVideoConferencing #videochat

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            PROS OF WHATSAPP
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              Free
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              Easy to carry on with contact
            CONS OF WHATSAPP
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              No privacy
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              Centralized
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              Maximum to 8 person video call

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