Google Chat Rolls Out Cross-Platform Messaging With Microsoft Groups, Slack: How It Works

Google Chat will now enable sending messages to Microsoft Groups and Slack with its new interoperability help. The cross-platform messaging characteristic was first introduced by the tech big on the Google Cloud Subsequent 2023 occasion, however to date the characteristic was out there solely in beta to a restricted variety of customers. With the brand new replace, all paid subscribers of Google Workspace will have the ability to ship messages to Groups and Slack customers. Notably, customers and organisations might want to use the Mio app to entry the performance.

The brand new characteristic was introduced through a Google Workspace replace. The corporate mentioned, “Interoperability will allow organisations that use Google Chat and different messaging platforms inside their area to supply a extra seamless expertise for his or her customers.” This implies customers will solely have the ability to use this characteristic to ship messages to individuals inside their very own organisation. This might be helpful to textual content coworkers in numerous groups who use a separate app for communication.

Nonetheless, there’s a caveat. The cross-platform messaging characteristic shouldn’t be constructed into Google Chat. So, customers might want to obtain and set up the Mio app to create the interoperability. This would be the tough half since organisations might want to buy a further license as a way to use the characteristic. Regardless of the additional steps, it may be a helpful characteristic for giant organisations that aren’t completely utilizing a single communications platform for all of the groups.

Cross-platform messaging characteristic between Google Chat, Microsoft Groups, and Slack was being examined by the corporate for the final one yr and its availability was restricted to some customers. Google earlier introduced on this yr’s Cloud Subsequent occasion that the characteristic shall be rolled out to all paid prospects of Workspace, and beginning final week, this characteristic is being rolled out globally.

Individually, Slack launched its synthetic intelligence (AI) options to all paid customers globally. Now, customers with a paid subscription of the platform can buy an add-on to activate options resembling recaps, search, and dialog summaries. The corporate additionally intends so as to add note-taking abstract era characteristic for its voice and video calling characteristic Huddle.