Best Corporate Communication & Online Communication Business Tools in 2021
Although businesses and industries around the world are slowly reopening, there’re still many working remotely. Large teams and physically disconnected departments relying heavily on digital communication mediums to ensure smooth workflow and uncompromised productivity; all of this following the COVID-19 pandemic.
A research concluded that even now, around 80% of the global workforce is executing their daily activities remotely thus termed as desk-less OR mobile employees. So whether it’s corporate email, making important calls, reaching out to potential clients or any other crucial business task, work on-the-go is the way to do it, possible only with outstanding smart mobile apps.
All that said; worldwide experienced a tremendous boost in terms of projects and custom app requirements given to the unique nature of businesses. Have a look at some of the best corporate communication and project management apps picked by professionals for 2021
Slack
Used by some of the most hi-tech companies, Slack is an enterprise-grade communications and collaboration app which is quite user-friendly thanks to the handy interface. With the ability to integrate more than 1500 apps seamlessly, Slack isn’t just a communications tool but a complete project management platform through which users can also share important files, documents, create groups, chat rooms and do so much more.
Exclusive Features:
- Enable person-to-person and group chat
- Single user and team-based audio calls
- Video conferences
- Drag-and-drop documents with multiple supportable formats such as PDFs, images, multimedia (audio/video)
Microsoft Teams
Anything from Microsoft is undoubtedly acceptable especially when it comes to corporate solutions! Like many other communications and project management apps, Microsoft Teams also let you communicate, call, enable video conference and collaborate with the team; anytime, anywhere. Because it’s Microsoft’s official, you can access, share, edit and collaborate complete MS Office Suite online, particularly documents in Word, PowerPoint and Excel format.
Exclusive Features:
- One-on-one and team audio/video calls and conferences
- Screen sharing, direct collaboration and editing
- Customised backgrounds
- Instant messaging
- Downloadable desktop app
- Video calls, conference calls, one-on-one calls
- Screen sharing
Troop Messenger
Collaborate, interact and communicate uninterruptedly with your team with Troop Messenger. Like various other team communications apps, the user-friendly interface enables peer-to-peer as well as group interaction, let you video call, share screen and so much more. The user interface and experience of Troop Messenger is quite enhanced with instant file sharing, preview, content filter and even marking favourites/liked files in real-time. Government employees and intra-corporate teams will find the app pretty impressive because of its amazing security and massive storage feature.
Exclusive Features:
- Downloadable desktop app
- Video calls, conference calls, one-on-one calls
- Screen sharing
Chanty
An AI-based chat app for solo users and corporations which enable chat, audio, video and even screen sharing, Chanty is a project management plus communications app but more of a lighter version with basic support features. The app can easily convert messages into tasks, integrate with some of the biggest online libraries like Google Drive, Github, Dropbox, Trello and many others to ensure proper organisation and task flow. Using Chanty, you can conveniently share content, pin messages, conversations and much more. It’s pretty simple, user-friendly but quite handy.
Exclusive Features:
- Audio/video conference
- Enable user-to-user and team chats
- Screen sharing
Rocket.Chat
A complete ‘communications hub’ and designed specifically for businesses, Rocket.Chat surely lives up to its name as the app enables smooth, uninterrupted communications and collaboration with the team, real time chatting, share files and instant switching to audio/video conference. The software also let you access complete source code for full customisation, extension and even include new functions.
Exclusive Features:
- Screen and file sharing in real-time
- SSO
- Audio/video calls
- Asynchronous, real-time team chat
Hangouts
Developed by search engine giant, none other than Google; Hangouts is an ultimate communication platform allowing users to engage and initiate real-time in different mediums in an effortless way. Some of the most notable features that come along with Hangouts are custom administrative control options, screen sharing, multiple device support, direct messaging, HD group conference and voice call so on to name a few.
Exclusive Features:
- Part of the Google G Suite
- Desktop extension for Google Chrome
- Integrated Google accounts
- Virtual chat rooms, messaging, video and voice calls
- Per-user based pricing
No free version or trial
Facebook Workplace
Workplace is the ultimate answer to the ‘team communications app’ from none other than social media giant, Facebook. Much like the paid version of Slack; Facebook Workplace charges per-month and on the number of users while offering a complete package of communication and project management! Global and remotely-active teams are the primary audience that are mostly professionals, managers, department team leads, software developers, technical employees, data journalists and so on.
Exclusive Features:
- Familiar, user-friendly Facebook-like interface
- Supports new member joining
- Enable creation of new communication group, chat rooms, live video streaming
- Third-party storage integration
- Free premium version with advanced features exclusive only to NGOs and education institutions
Flowdock
Adding a touch of uniqueness to the usual communications app is Flowdock. Besides establishing safe and secure connection with internal teams in a company, it can categorise chats based on specific topics, locations and even time zones. Flowdock also align all your work tasks, tools and conversations on a single platform for the convenience of prioritising work, solve problems, execute search and distribute tasks based on team specifications, location and time zones.
Exclusive Features:
- Discussion threads and chats in real-time
- File sharing and search
- Audio/video conferencing
Flock
Team messaging, project management, task collaboration and much more, do it all in an extremely convenient manner with Flock. The app puts together all your important conversations and discussions, let you create exclusive channels and chat rooms, integrate with more than 30 different third-party apps. Also, you can easily collaborate on different projects, share ideas and proceed with the tasks in real-time. Vendors can also join tasks and communications as ‘guests’ which further adds a pro-fact to the app than many others.
Exclusive Features:
- Access discussion threads
- Perform search and file sharing
- Allow real-time chat
- Audio/Video conferencing
ProofHub
For fast, easy, reliable and secure internal communication, ProofHub is the ultimate answer to all your queries. The app offers some of the most advanced communication features, it was originally development as an online project management app for the corporate teams to collaborate on a specific project and get things done in a highly secure and organised manner. The user interface is simple, organised and friendly that allow admins to keep a track on theirs as well as team’s tasks, live projects and much more.
Exclusive Features:
- Enable group chats and organise workflows
- Create and access corporate agendas, boards and rich project reports
Convo
Optimize security and conversation between teams through Convo, exclusively developed for both in-house and remote workers. The app also filters or distils tasks based on their importance and effectiveness whereas known as the best project management and productivity app for larger and more agile teams.
Exclusive Features:
- Allow team collaboration and brainstorming sessions
- Easy management of calendar, contacts, digital content, documents, projects and tasks
- Enable discussion boards and chat rooms
- Video and audio conferencing
Wrike
Trusted by more than 30,000 corporate organisations worldwide, the award-winning, user friendly and seamlessly collaborative work management software is Wrike. Other than convenience of chatting in real-time using just the “@” symbol, you can mention particular users on a task with file and workflow sharing, work deployment, share and proof digital files so on. With Wrike, level-up your corporate communication and project management aims.
Exclusive Features:
- Instant toggle option between home screen, dashboards, timesheets, reports, calendars and notification stream
- Above 400 pre-built native integration with leading file management software from Google, Dropbox, Microsoft, Salesforce and Marketo.
Team communication and project management tools have seen a gradual surge during the entire pandemic era, serving small, medium and multi-tier corporations in an amazing way. With so many apps to choose from, which one will you pick for yourself? Not sure? Scroll the above list again from top to bottom.
