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Self-Hosted Messaging - Deployment and Security Guide

Self-hosted messaging is a communication solution where an organization hosts and manages its own messaging server instead of relying on a third-party cloud provider. It gives complete control over messages, files, user data, and security, making it the preferred choice for enterprises, government agencies, defence organizations, and other regulated industries that require data sovereignty and compliance.

Velocity over speed: Relevance AI founder & co-CEO Jacky Koh on moving fast as a team

AI has made every individual faster. The harder question — one we spent the day discussing at Canvas 26 Sydney — is whether it’s made teams faster. Those aren’t the same thing, and confusing them is where a lot of organizations’ AI ambitions get stuck. Jacky Koh has watched it happen up close. As founder and co-CEO of Relevance AI, an AI workforce platform used by Canva, Databricks, and Uber among many others, he spends his days helping companies put agents to work.

How we're evolving Jira for AI-native software development

Whether I speak to customers or Atlassian’s own engineering teams, the message is consistent: the unprecedented adoption of powerful coding agents has transformed software development, but the hard parts of delivering software are…gasp…still pretty hard. Teams still have to decide what to build, and why it should exist. They need to understand the system they’re changing and which constraints matter.

Defence-Grade Encryption: What Standards Actually Matter for Secure Messaging

Defence-grade encryption is a level of cryptographic protection, typically built on standards like AES-256 and end-to-end encryption with strict key management, that meets the security requirements demanded by military, government, and other high-risk organizations. The problem is that "defence-grade" and "military-grade" have become marketing terms slapped onto products with little regard for what they actually mean.

Data Sovereignty - What It Is, Why It Matters, and How Businesses Can Comply

Data sovereignty is the principle that data is subject to the laws and regulations of the country in which it is collected, stored, or processed meaning a government has legal authority over any data that exists within its borders, regardless of where the organization that owns the data is headquartered.

New Templates in Miroverse: June 2026

In June 2026, our community published 194 new templates to Miroverse. Creators leaned into big moments and everyday workflows alike — from World Cup-themed sweepstakes and retros to AI adoption playbooks, workshop briefing tools, and agile health checks. Miro Flows showed up throughout the month, powering everything from workshop briefing summarization to career-in-innovation workshops. Below, you’ll find the top templates and creators from June 2026 — plus an AI workflow spotlight.

Best Microsoft Copilot Alternatives for IT and HR Teams in 2026

Ask most IT and HR leaders why IT and HR need different AI tools than Copilot, and the answer comes down to how a request actually ends. IT requests resolve in an action. HR requests resolve in a lookup or a handoff. Copilot, built as a single AI layer inside Microsoft 365, treats both as the same kind of task — a question to answer — and that's where it starts to fall short for support teams specifically.

What Is the Value of Consulting When Everyone Can Build?

Anyone can spin up a working prototype in an afternoon now. So what's a consultant actually for? In this session of Reframe, Miro's webinar series for consultants and agencies rethinking client work in the age of AI, Rory Keddie makes the case that consulting's value hasn't disappeared — it's moved. From scarcity to abundance, from delivering to co-creating, from billing hours to owning outcomes.

Tracking deliverables in Jira as a Product Manager | How I Atlassian

Tired of being your team's "status bot"? In this video, a Product Manager shares how she stopped chasing updates over DMs and started using Jira to keep her team aligned, so she can focus on what actually matters. Here's what you'll learn: How to centralize launch tasks in Jira as work items How to organize your backlog and pull priorities into sprints How to use work item comments so your team self-reports progress.

From Idea to Evidence: Validating Innovation at AI Speed

Most teams can generate ideas all day. The hard part is knowing which ones are actually worth building. In this session of Reframe, Miro's webinar series for consultants and agencies rethinking client work in the age of AI, Todd Reily (Founder, RightThing.io) shows what AI-native innovation actually looks like in practice — live, on a Miro board, working through a real product case study from idea to validated evidence.