HipChat (discontinued)

The company I formerly worked at used HipChat for all inter-office employee communications. In 2013 when I started at GLG, it was the primary form of communication used by employees. Although our desks all had ip phones we almost never used them unless interfacing with clients outside of the business. Instant messaging through HipChat made a huge difference in productivity since it meant you could respond even while inside a meeting. Meetings were nearly constant at GLG and this massively improved productivity and response times.

HipChat is used as channel to communicate within our team, and also used to collaborate with other teams and individuals. It is used by our organization, as it was cheaper compared to other solutions at the time we started using it.

HipChat was used by our whole company and especially within the Engineering community. It helps everyone to communicate across team very effectively. HipChat had plugin and integration support so we have integrated with every other internal applications within the company. It helped for effective communication. It helped engineers' productivity and everyone reachable via this online platform.

HipChat was used for my section of the organization. My team had its own group chat were we communicated. It solved the problem of working from home and relaying messages to my team members in real time. It helped eliminate individuals getting lots of emails. HipChat gave us clarity and transparency on what people were working on.

HipChat is used by our Agile Transformation Office (ATO). We create Kanban and Scrum team rooms. Each team collaborates in dynamic discussions on daily work. We also have support and private scrum master channels.

In my company, HipChat is used for real-time cross-team communication chat application, mainly to avoid long mail trails that get lost with time and hard to keep track. Also, it's quicker to chat with anyone in the company from a list than to email to one or a group of people and wait for the reply.

HipChat is being used by all departments in the company. One of the main problems HipChat has solved is that it replaced slow internal email with faster cross-team communication either 1-on-1 or a group of people.

We started using HipChat in our Development and IT departments, but have had other teams migrate from Skype for Business so it's pretty much across the organization including remote users. Our Agile teams all have their own rooms. The cross-platform product is used by both our Mac and Windows users at higher rates than any previous chat client we had and it's stable and constantly online.

HipChat is a good tool for internal online chat. My organization tried it for some time but due to error prone technical features, we discontinued. This application has some good features with some good functionalities which gives the advantage of being developer friendly but the status changes and technical issues lower down its rating. As compared to some other products we have better options available elsewhere.

HipChat has been selected as a product from Atlassian's suite. Because we already used Bitbucket and because we were looking for a persistent chat room, HipChat was chosen. This product was not only used by our devops teams in order to discuss and receive notifications but also by software craftsmanship in order to debate technologies and help each other.

HipChat is being used across the whole organization. I'm a software developer and I use to chat and collaborate with other developers across the whole organization. We have three groups of people talking about specific topics and sharing code snippets.

Hipchat is not organisation wide but is heavily used in both the editorial content areas and the strategy implementation areas of our division. It is also heavily used by a number of development teams working on our products. In particular our editorial content and strategy teams are scattered across Australia with users in regional areas such as Broome WA, Bendigo NSW and Lismore VIC. When staff are located thousands of kilometres apart a real time targeted chat system is important.

We have a team of about 15-20 employees. HipChat has been super helpful to keep everyone instantly connected. We also have a work from home option on Friday. HipChat is extremely important from everything to quick questions to aiding as an additional conversation stream while on conference calls. It's a must to keep us connected in real time. I also love that fact that on a Mac you can drop in your screen grabs from your clip board. It saves tons of time when trying to get a point across.

We use HipChat across the whole organization to communicate with a distributed team, with members located in many corners of world - Russia, Brazil, US, Japan, India... Sometimes when problems with other messengers occurs, we also use HipChat to make video calls. Here we are missing group videocalls. So we use Skype for it, and this is the only reason to use Skype. The rest of HipChat works very well. Earlier versions of HipChat had troubles with Windows 7 x64, but nowadays it is very stable and works perfectly.

We are currently using hipchat throughout all of our organization, we have it synchronized with bitbucket, jira and confluence. All in all it is a very complete environment to work with. It mainly lets us keep track of everything that is going and allows us to quickly reference issues (or other things).

HipChat was used for online conversation throughout the entire company. In a lot of cases, it is much better, and of course much faster, to use than email for getting replies, making decisions, and collaborating.

HipChat was being used only in our department and not the whole organization. HipChat is used to keep the whole department's communication together, for the purpose of calling meetings or querying about the work task. Managing issues from JIRA and keeping track of when commits have happened in Bitbucket was easier with HipChat.

HipChat has long been a very solid standard for prompt business communication. It's full of features, both used to improve workflow with various integrations, and also to provide humor and provide a more human emotion to the standard text communication of chat. On the surface it's really great, and fairly reliable (there are bugs like any software), however the lack of proper message syncing on the back end commonly leaves me looking for a better tool. Push notifications for direct user conversation (@username) is great, but opening up their mobile app and having no room or user badges is a huge disappointment. Especially considering so many other chat providers (free and paid) have done this from their inception. I started using HipChat in 2011, and it's surprising that in 2016, this still isn't a feature. If I don't have a computer left online and logged into HipChat constantly, I miss a lot of important conversations and have no great way of knowing they occurred unless I go looking through our (>100?) rooms. Such a great tool with lots of capability, yet this single feature which seems so common place is severely limiting it's potential.

Hipchat is used by our department. Company-wide we have other chat solutions.

Hipchat allows developers, designers and support technicians to stay in touch easily in a large building without needing to call and bother the other person.

HipChat allows overall collaboration across teams which are collocated.

My company has several locations around the world, and Hipchat has proved to be a really useful tool for our cross site communication. Security is our main concern, and encrypted conversations help us to be confident that our communications will be secure. Video chat, file transfer and the ability to search through our conversation history has given us really useful tools. Integrations with several other applications has it made easy for us to monitor and follow up on several internal process. [Had we done it] in another way, it may have caused outages due lack of timing visibility.

We use it to communicate privately with individuals and in groups across the company. We also use the integrations to receive updates about the status of deployment, and other development-related processes that we are waiting on.

Technically, it is available to our entire organization however it is mostly used by our Engineering, Customer Success and Product Management teams. It's great to be on a central platform instead of using random freeware such as Yahoo, Skype, MSN, AOL, etc.

Our entire organization uses HipChat on a daily basis. It's a great tool to quickly share ideas, such as new games coming out, with each other. Our admins also inform us of company events such as free ice cream in the break room, in a timely manner so the ice cream does not melt. These usages are very effective. I did not give HipChat a 10 however, because there is a bug that happens any time we install an update, it seems to break something. You also cannot stay logged in for too long or it stops working entirely. This is annoying and inefficient.