The announcement by the World Health Organization (WHO) that the coronavirus disease has officially reached the ‘pandemic’ status has meant that the number of people working from home or working remotely is on the rise. This unforeseen increase in working from home can present both its problems (e.g. companies are not geared up to work remotely) as well as its opportunities.
If you’re an enterprise new to allowing your staff to work from home/remotely, we have listed some of best tools to make sure you stay productive. If you are looking to deploy any of these digital tools in your business, we strongly recommend you assess the risks that may be introduced from use of the tools e.g. how and where will your data be accessed from?
This is not an exhaustive list, but many are of an ‘enterprise grade’ meaning you can rest assured that they could offer long term fit for your business and not just a short term ‘sticking plaster’. You may require some input from your IT team, but we believe you could be up and running in 60 minutes or less.
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Office 365
Office 365 is an enterprise solutions tool that has integrated apps and services that are specifically designed to help your business grow. Office 365 is a one-stop shop tool for email, chat, video, voice and task management. It has many useful capabilities for business including file sharing, video-conferencing, online phone call functions, team chat, project / task management, and screen-sharing.
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G-Suite
G-Suite, formerly known as Google Apps, is another enterprise solutions tool that has a collection of integrated apps and services like Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Calendar, Keep and more. These apps/services are offered by Google to help streamline your business. The tool has capabilities such as file sharing, video-conferencing, online phone calls, team chat, screen sharing and allows you 30GB of storage on the basic plan. It provides a comparable offering to Office 365.
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Cisco Webex
Cisco Webex is a cloud-based collaboration tool which products provide capabilities such as video conferencing meetings, team instant messaging, file sharing, project management (with Cisco Webex Teams), screen sharing and allows you to use it on your own device from anywhere.
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Zoom Video Communications
Zoom is a cloud-based collaboration tool that allows you a consistent enterprise experience. Zoom provides capabilities such as video conferencing, file sharing, online phone calls, instant messaging between teams, screen sharing and meeting recordings.
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Slack
Slack is a workplace collaboration tool that is designed to support the way that teams naturally work together – giving you the opportunity to collaborate with your team online as efficiently as face-to-face meetings. Slack is designed to replace email as the primary method of communication across your team with instant messaging and has the capabilities to file share, video conferencing, online phone calls, and project management.
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Chanty
Chanty is an AI-powered team communication software that is designed to make business teams collaborate and be more productive. This team communication tool has capabilities such as file sharing, video-conferencing, instant messaging, project management and screen sharing – all in one place.
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Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a team chat-based collaboration tool in Office 365 that provides teams with an online meeting environment to share documents, chat and work together whilst ensuring the max level of productivity. Microsoft Teams boasts capabilities such as file sharing, video-conferencing, voice calls, instant messaging, screen-sharing. Teams also has the capability of project management when using app integration, Priority Matrix.
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Google Hangouts
Google Hangouts is a messaging collaboration tool that is built for team communication. Google Hangouts is developed by Google and is part of G-Suite. This tool is designed to help users communicate across different channels such as instant messaging, video-conferences and voice/audio calls. The tool also has capabilities such as file sharing and screen sharing.
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Trello
Trello is a web and mobile collaboration tool that focuses primarily on project / task management. Trello has the functionality to tell you what is being worked on and who is working on it. This tool has various capabilities including, video conferencing, file sharing, screen sharing and offers you 10MB of storage per file attachment.
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ProofHub
ProofHub is a cloud project management tool that helps managers and teams stay on top of business objectives, tasks and deadlines. This tool will primarily help with planning, managing and delivering business outcomes to the deadline. It allows managers, teams and clients to collaborate by sharing tasks and notes to achieve a quicker response.
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Microsoft Planner
Microsoft Planner is a project management tool that is available on the Microsoft Office 365 platform. The tool is designed to enable users and teams to manage their projects by creating plans, assigning tasks and sharing files. The list of capabilities for Microsoft Planner can be extended when integrated with Microsoft Teams. This will unlock capabilities such as video-conferencing, voice calls, instant messaging and screen-sharing.
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