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How AI Is Changing Team Communication Tools: From Chat Apps to Context-Aware Collaboration

Team communication tools have evolved significantly over the past decade. What began as simple chat applications designed to replace emails have now transformed into intelligent collaboration platforms capable of understanding context, predicting needs, and improving productivity at scale. At the center of this transformation is artificial intelligence (AI). AI is no longer an experimental feature in workplace tools. It is actively reshaping how teams communicate, collaborate, and make decisions.

Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: How It's Used, Benefits, and Risks

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a thing of the future or a tool used only by large tech companies. Look around today’s workplace, and you’ll see it helping people draft emails, analyze data, even schedule meetings — it’s everywhere. According to a recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, AI adoption in the workplace has grown quickly since its mainstream use in 2022.

The internal communicator's path to becoming a gen AI power user

Many internal communicators began their AI journey with ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, using them for basic tasks: document summaries, email drafts, headline variations. Useful, but limited. Each conversation starts fresh. Every prompt requires providing context all over again. Nothing builds on what came before.

Forrester report: How transformation leaders can deploy AI for GTM teams

IT leaders now manage an average of 12 AI tools, which is a 2.4x increase in just the last three years. And yet 89% of AI usage inside large organizations is effectively invisible, suggesting many of these tools aren’t procured, monitored, or measured properly.

Evaluate AI agents using Zendesk QA scorecards, spotlights, and dashboards | What's New

As AI agents handle more customer conversations, knowing how they perform matters. AI Agent QA lets teams evaluate AI agent conversations using the same QA tools as human agents. Automatically or manually review bot interactions with scorecards, track results in dashboards, and monitor key metrics like escalations to refine AI workflows and improve support quality. Zendesk makes customer and employee service better. We build software to meet customer and employee needs, set your team up for success, and keep your business in sync.

Zero to App in Minutes: Automating Hackathons with Miro AI & MCP

Learn how to use Miro AI + MCP (Model Context Protocol) to turn visual ideas into a working application in record time. In this video, we walkthrough a complete "Agentic Workflow" designed for hackathons and rapid prototyping. We start by using Miro AI Workflows (Flows) to transform a simple idea into a comprehensive project brief, user stories, and high-fidelity mobile prototypes. Then, we leverage the Miro MCP server to give an AI agent (Claude Code) full context of our board to generate a production-ready Node.js app automatically.

Does AI Make PSAs Obsolete?

As AI tools get more powerful, a fair question keeps coming up –– If AI can connect everything, do you still need a PSA? With AI agents, MCP, and a bit of low-code creativity, it can feel like you could stitch together your own operating stack. That assumption misses an important distinction –– AI is an accelerator. It’s not infrastructure. For professional services businesses, reliability, structure, and trust come from having a clear system of record underneath it all. That’s what makes automation sustainable, reporting credible, and decisions defensible.

AI Is Only as Smart as the Systems It's Plugged Into

AI is quickly becoming the control center for operations teams. MCP is the next step – letting AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude, securely connect to your systems and actually take action, not just respond to prompts. But there’s a catch. AI doesn’t fix messy operations. If your information is scattered across tools, spreadsheets, and workarounds, AI just amplifies the mess. The real value shows up when there’s a clear system of record underneath it all.