Hot Vendors™ in Team Collaboration, 2019

Team collaboration is becoming a larger priority in the enterprise as users shift their attention away from collaborating via email. In the race to speed up business processes, messaging is proving to be a catalyst in delivering increased levels of human-to-human and human-to-machine interactions. Aragon identifies four new team collaboration vendors for 2019.

In 2019, team collaboration has become a key part of the digital workplace landscape, even though full deployment in enterprise is still a work in progress. The success of providers such as Slack has forced other providers to offer an alternative that sometimes is more integrated with other collaboration and communication capabilities.

Messaging, the core of team collaboration, is slowly becoming a priority in the enterprise. Today, enabling collaboration via mobile technology is not enough; collaboration also needs to be secure and shift toward automation (via chatbots). In this research note, we discuss the current and future state of the team collaboration market and identify four Hot Vendors in team collaboration.