Skype for large corporation instant messaging
March 02, 2018
Skype for large corporation instant messaging
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Skype
Our organization currently uses Skype as our official instant messaging application. Instant Messaging is a huge part of our communication amongst teams to both save time and have more efficiency. We need the ability to go in and out of chats quickly, screen share on and off frequently, add individuals to chat groups and remove them, and share files quickly. Skype meets all of these qualifications and more.
- The tabbed chat window is great when you have a lot of conversations going on at once. For example, if throughout the day you talk to 15 people through skype all of your conversations will be tabbed out in your chat window and turn orange when that individual sends you another message
- For screen sharing it takes literally no time to just share your screen very quickly. You can also give others on the call control of the screen so they can move the mouse and show things on your screen remotely.
- Your conversation history can be integrated to store in your outlook inbox so after a certain amount of time (~ 5 minutes is what I have it set to) your conversation will be saved to your inbox under a conversation history tab so you can go back and reference old conversations.
- The conversation history, although a great feature, sometimes does not save your conversation as expected so you do not have it to reference down the line
- If you have a window with a bunch of conversation tabs and you try and add a person to a conversation it goes out of that conversation and you have to find it in your tab window again. This is not a big deal but just can be a pain to find the conversation again.
- When in an email in outlook it would be nice if you could reply all with IM (Skype) for that email. Currently, you can only reply with IM to the sender not the whole email chain.
- Individuals are able to multitask much easier than before therefore, they are more productive
- This allows for individuals to work more collaboratively from different locations to allow for more flexibility in the workplace
- Integrates really well with Microsoft outlook to start meetings and add skype meetings to calendar invites quickly.
- google messenger and Jabber
Skype integrates with other products like Microsoft outlook better than others. If you are using the Microsoft suite in your organization this product is for you. Other products like Jabber have the chat abilities but they are not as user-friendly and able to manage large chats for an individual per day.