We were so delighted and honored to read a great review yesterday on ComputerWorld.com, where David Strom performed an in depth analysis of three newcomers in the collaboration space. One of the key messages of the article was that “The concept of how we collaborate is changing.” We couldn’t agree more.

Overall, the article concludes that while methods of team communication like email and Instant Messaging have been useful components in the past, the mandate for a complete and real-time collaboration app has arrived.

So where does Glip stand in this conversation?

To put it simply, Glip is the first and only business messaging app to introduce both proprietary productivity tools and industry leading integrations to real-time conversation streams; accessible anywhere and fully searchable.

The article makes note of the power and simplicity of the compose button that allows the user to chat, create a task, an event, a note, share files (including Dropbox & Google Drive), or start a video chat all within the conversation stream.

He also highlights the Google Docs and Dropbox integrations, “You merely follow the pull-down menu choices; there is no need for any additional action outside the workflow.”

The article does mention a few features left to be desired, such as shared document editing. Thankfully we were on the same page, as our latest product update, Interactive Notes, has proven to be very well received by our users. In fact, I am using it right now!

There are also some great new integrations like JIRA, GitHub, Harvest, Zendesk, MailChimp and more on the way. We are also taking the emotional culture of teams seriously, as a communications solution where much of a team’s interactions take place. We recently released emoticons and the ability for teams to create their own custom emoticons as well to reflect their unique team dynamic.

We could not have asked for a more thoughtful and humbling conclusion to Strom’s evaluation of up and coming team collaboration tools:

“In the end, however, Glip is clearly the most capable of the three and could probably make your team more productive and cut down on lots of emails about scheduling, task management and sharing document versions. In fact, Glip stands up successfully to some of the heavier and older collaboration tools such as WebEx and GoToMeeting (provided you keep the group size small). It is particularly useful for groups working on visual projects, such as art directors and photo editors.”