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How to Improve Remote Collaboration in 2021

“With a distributed team, it’s not uncommon for messages to be sent when people are offline. While organizations don’t need to implement a formal process for different time zones or offline message reception, it can help preface messages with ‘Not Urgent’ or other qualifiers if they know someone is likely to be offline.”

Travis Airmen modernizes the Air Force w/ the Digital Airmen Initiative

“’Mattermost is an app being utilized to replace other forms of communication such as email or workflow and was designed to help Airmen accomplish missions more efficiently,’ said Maj. Eric Robinson, 21st Airlift Squadron Phoenix Spark representative.”

Mattermost Takes a Shot at DevOps Collaboration With New SaaS Tool

“One of the important points to note here is that Mattermost Cloud is built to preserve privacy through a high-trust deployment option with dedicated single-tenant cloud infrastructure, enterprise-grade secure network topology, and strict data residency options.”

Mattermost looks to boost DevOps collaboration with cloud platform

“Mattermost thus enables DevOps teams to collaborate throughout the incident lifecycle from triage and investigation, finally resolution and autopsy — involving the entire team and enabling whatever depth is needed for users to understand their roles to get the job done.”

Mattermost Offers DevOps Command Center in the Cloud

“Mattermost Cloud is essentially a DevOps command center that provides single pane-of-glass pre-built workflows that address most common DevOps processes. IT teams can add their own custom workflows as their DevOps processes mature.”

Mattermost Launches New SaaS Platform to Optimize DevOps Collaboration

“Mattermost Cloud enables developers to collaborate in a high-trust environment. The cloud platform offers a high-trust deployment option in a single-tenant, dedicated infrastructure including an isolated Kubernetes cluster, secure network topology with VPC peering, and strict data residency options across global regions.”

This open source messaging startup raised $50 million to take on Slack and Microsoft Teams and rope in customers who care a lot about privacy

“Mattermost, a messaging app designed for businesses with serious privacy and security needs, announced a $50 million funding round on Wednesday, roughly four months after scooping up its first, Series A round of funding.”

Mattermost raises $50 million to advance its open source Slack alternative

“CEO Ian Tien says the series B proceeds will accelerate Mattermost’s community expansion and product development and fuel expansion of its workforce from 65 employees to 110 by 2020.”

Y Combinator leads $50M round into open-source Slack rival Mattermost

“Mattermost provides an open-source messaging platform built to run on companies’ internal infrastructure. The service can be deployed in a public cloud such as Amazon Web Services or on on-premises hardware, behind the corporate firewall. That allows organizations to retain full control of employee communications and shield chat messages from prying eyes with the help of the existing security systems protecting their infrastructure.”

Open-source chat plat toasts rival after picking up $50m in funding: 'The better Slack does, the better Mattermost does'

“Investor enthusiasm for all things messaging does not appear to be waning as CEO Ian Tien rolled his wheelbarrow of cash away from the offices of Y Combinator Continuity (YC), who led the $50m Series B investment.”

How open source Mattermost is sneaking up on Slack's messaging empire

“Mattermost has 10,000 downloads each month, adding up to a growing threat to Slack’s hegemony.”

Enterprise Messaging Platform Mattermost Raises $20 Million

“Developers are adopting Mattermost because they want the extensibility of an open source platform to integrate with developer tools and automate portions of infrastructure operations.”

Slack Competitor Mattermost Raises $20 Million in Funding

“Since its founding in 2015, Mattermost has witnessed steady growth, recently reaching the 10,000 server downloads per month milestone.”

What matters most to open-source chat plat Mattermost? To shove this fresh $20m into security, privacy

“The messaging platform has proved popular with engineering teams, enamored by access to the code as well as the many, many add-ons published.”

Slack competitor Mattermost raises $20 million for its workplace chat app

Private, open source Slack competitor Mattermost today closed a $20 million funding round to help members of its community create new plugins and integrations.

The open-source, private cloud alternatives to Dropbox and Slack

“Since then, the software has notably been adopted by customers like Uber, which detailed in a blog post the adaptations it made to Mattermost to build its own, custom internal chat tool.”

Market Trends: Workstream Collaboration Providers Must Overcome Adoption Barriers to Grow

“Workstream collaboration growth opportunities remain untapped due to typical nascent market barriers. To build and market WSC applications, technology product marketing leaders must demonstrate distinct value propositions for different customer types and decision makers.”

Slack competitor Spectrum released as open source group messaging platform

“For alternative self-hosted collaboration platforms, Mattermost is used by the US Department of Defense, Department of Interior, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and CERN.”

How ING Bank Does SRE

“In terms of monitoring and incident response, they are building shared tooling, based on Prometheus, Grafana and Mattermost (ChatOps). They facilitate postmortems by the product teams, and provide consulting on how to identify and fix reliability issues.”

7 Alternatives to Slack for Your Company’s Instant Messaging

“…Mattermost, an open source, private cloud-powered tool that is the complete opposite of Slack’s SaaS-only essence.”

Uber didn’t like Silicon Valley’s biggest chat apps — so it was forced to make its own

“Uber used to use HipChat and Slack, and Uber mentioned that one of the advantages of building its own chat app off of Mattermost was that its “client user interfaces were similar to those of chat applications popular among Uber employees.”

OmniROM community migrating to Mattermost for better transparency

“Omni says that the move to Mattermost has indeed helped their initial problems of keeping connected to their community.”

Open source software has to sell user experience

“Mattermost does open source the right way… designing and building a beautiful user experience, and backing it up with the awesomeness of open source.” Adam Hyde, Co-Founder of the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation

Top 5: Alternatives to Dreamweaver for web design, Mattermost for high school chat, and more

“Mattermost will feel like you scored the assigned seat beside your best friend.” – Charlie Reisinger, Penn Manor IT

“Mattermost is fun to use.” – Charlie Reisinger, Penn Manor IT

Mattermost Desktop

“…the tool you need to make your team’s communication more productive.”

Black Duck Names Open-Source Rookies of the Year

“Mattermost consolidates all team communication into one place, through an intuitive interface that is searchable and accessible anywhere.”

Slack smackback: There’s no IRC in team (software), say open-sourcers

“…all the popular features of Slack.”

Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack

“Slack alternative Mattermost… topped the Black Duck Rookies of the Year report, an annual list of new open source projects that attract the most developers and produce the most code.”

“…the best of both worlds”

“…for people and companies who want something different, their options are open.”

Black Duck Announces Open Source “Rookies of the Year”

“…top new open source projects initiated in 2015.”

“…proprietary solutions face competition from open source alternatives which promise all the same features of the originals, but without the lock-in downside of proprietary solutions.”

“This year’s Rookies are impressive examples of how far open source has come, with start-ups like Mattermost and Glucosio as well as big players like Google, Facebook and Red Hat”

Top 10 open source projects of 2015

“Mattermost is [a] very modern approach to team chat.”

“It features private and public chats, including one on one communication, good archival support, and a very similar interface to Slack, including most of the features you’ve come to expect there.”

5 open-source alternatives to Slack

“…you can download it and run it on whatever server you want. …you’re in charge”

GitLab Mattermost, on open source, on-premises Slack alternative

“We found Mattermost to be the leading open source Slack-alternative…”