Team Communication.md

Team Communication

Requirements

Basic Use

• Must send/receive person to person messages
• Must allow rich text formatting
• Must support attachments
• Should have user presence detection
• Could have message retraction/deletion
• Could have user happiness analytics

Group Chats

• Must have the concept of group chats
• Must have dynamic group chat owner
• Must allow users to join/part group chats
• Should have historical log
• Should have historical log export
• Should have protected group chats

Other

• Must have desktop application
• Must have web based interface
• Should have broadcast capabilities
• Should have mobile client (iOS/Android)
• Should have persistent data (encrypted server side)
• Could have external API for read/write events

Candidates

Under Consideration

• Skype
• Jaconda
• Basecamp
• Google Talk
• Google Plus

To be Considered

• Hall
• IRC
• SalesForce Chatter