Productivity Cloud Apps On The Rise: 3 Next-Generation Workplace Solutions

In order to maximize workplace productivity, modern professionals increasingly rely on cloud apps to collaborate, share files and store all sorts of data. Using the power of remote servers to enable constant access and real-time sharing, cloud has introduced IT innovation that revolutionized the business setting.

The moment it was released in 2003, Skype has become world-famous telecommunication application software, and hardly had any real competition. However, in 2013, Slack was introduced to the market and gained great advantage over Skype due to some of its unique and outstanding features.

First of all, Slack integrates with 80 external services allowing you to automatically pull information from outside tools. It also combines every other app you use such as Google Docs, Google Calendar, Hangouts, Twitter and many more, and it does not only make communication easier, but also much more efficient.

Additionally, it enables you to send both one-to-one and group messages, drag and drop files and documents of all types and get immediate feedback from your colleagues through comments. However, what sets Slack apart from Skype and all the other competitors is its rich messaging. This exceptional app allows you to format your messages, use different fonts and colors, enabling you to emphasize important words and phrases, making the conversation with your team much more effective. It is also possible to mention some of the colleagues in a comment with @ to make sure they do not miss out on an important piece of information in a group chat. If it happens that the particular person is offline at the time he or she is mentioned in the conversation, they will be notified via email.

For years Dropbox has been the ideal online storage app, but ever since the first breach in 2013, many have started looking for alternate but equally effective cloud solutions, such as pCloud itself. Available for both PC and mobile, it synchronizes files on Linux, Windows and Mac. Moreover, pCloud can backup other cloud accounts, for instance Facebook, Dropbox, Instagram and Picasa, so you can have all of your files automatically copied to your pCloud account. What makes this app truly amazing is the option to favorize certain files and then use them even when there is no internet connection.

When juggling several email accounts, Gmail is hardly of any use to the user. If you are looking for an app that will help you re-organize and separate professional from personal email accounts, CloudMagic might just be what you so desperately needed.

This smart app supports all the major email platforms such as Gmail, Outlook.com and Yahoo, and it synchronizes automatically across all of your devices. One of the greatest advantages of this apps is the fact that it allows you to attach files from Google Drive and Dropbox, as well as the ability to save attachments to any storage service you are using. Additionally, CloudMagic’s extraordinary fast search makes it possible for you to find important emails and messages in no time. Finally, as everything is color-coded, you can visually go through different email accounts and types effortlessly in a timely manner.