



You can upload files, add emoji reactions, edit and delete messages - it's really like a native experience. The two users are sending each other direct messages across platforms. Hadfield: Yes, if a Slack user sends a Webex user a message, it will arrive in Webex Teams and look like it's coming from a fellow Webex user. You can fully participate from either side.ĭoes the integration functionality include direct messaging? They are literally mirror images of each other. Anytime anyone posts a message in Webex, it appears on the Slack channel, and anytime anyone posts a message on Slack, it appears in the Webex space. Instead, we take all of your public Slack channels, and we basically synchronize or mirror them on Webex Teams - so, anyone on Webex can join and fully participate in those channels. Until now, they couldn't talk to each other, so they default back to email. A typical use case is a large company with a few thousand users on Slack - usually engineers - and then the rest of the organization either on Microsoft Teams or Webex Teams. Tom Hadfield: We exist to make Slack, Microsoft Teams and Cisco Webex Teams fully interoperable, particularly for larger enterprises that have multiple messaging apps for internal communication. Hadfield shared more about how the technology enables Slack, Microsoft Teams and Cisco Webex integrations during a conversation at Enterprise Connect.Įditor's note: This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Mio - the latest winner of TechTarget's Network Innovation Award – aims to get everyone on the same digital page. Today's typical enterprise might have engineering and product management teams that favor Slack, for example, but sales and marketing departments loyal to Microsoft Teams. The UC startup aims to solve a problem facing many of today's organizations - too many messaging apps.
