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AI Receptionist vs. Business Phone System: Which Does Your Business Need?

Every missed business call represents an unanswered question, a frustrated customer, or a potential sale that may go elsewhere. Yet answering every call is difficult, especially for small teams. Employees may be helping customers, working on-site, attending meetings, or simply unavailable outside normal business hours. Technology can solve part of this problem, but businesses are often presented with two different categories of solutions: business phone systems and AI receptionists.

Slack School | How to Test Bolt Apps Locally

Tired of deploying an entire app just to test a tiny code tweak? Let’s skip all that. In this episode, we’ll use a handy tool called ngrok to hook your local Bolt app right into Slack. You’ll learn how to update your manifest, run your app, and test it in Slack without touching your hosted version. Fewer deployment delays, zero production stress, and a much smoother way to build. Class dismissed!

On-premise to cloud intranet migration guide for IT managers

In 2012, your on-premise intranet lived behind a VPN, went dark during patch nights, and groaned under peak loads after all-hands emails. Jump to today: the perimeter is identity, search is instant, and updates land without a maintenance window. This guide is your bridge between those two realities.

HIPAA-Compliant Texting: Rules, Risks & Best Practices

Text messaging has become one of the fastest and most convenient ways for healthcare professionals to communicate, and that speed is exactly why it creates compliance risk. Most consumer apps are not HIPAA-compliant, and texting through those apps creates risks for your organization. But that doesn’t mean you have to skip texting entirely.

Critical National Infrastructure: Security, Threats & Protection

Critical national infrastructure covers power grids, water systems, healthcare, financial networks, communications, transport, and other infrastructure where disruption can have serious consequences for the nation. Protecting these systems means knowing what infrastructure is critical, how different sectors depend on each other, and which threats could interrupt essential services.

Cybersecurity Risk in Digital Collaboration: What It Is and How to Manage It

Cybersecurity risk in digital collaboration is the exposure to harm or the potential loss that comes from using messaging, calling, conferencing, and file-sharing tools to run day-to-day work. It covers the potential for data theft, unauthorized access, service disruption, and compliance exposure tied to a compromised, misconfigured, or ungoverned collaboration tool.

How one AI Teammate helps Asana distill up to 30 analyst reports a week

When Jerry Weltsch, Head of Analyst Relations at Asana, receives a new industry report, he doesn't read it cover to cover. He assigns it to a custom AI research assistant to analyze. Jerry is responsible for managing relationships with industry analysts who specialize in software markets. That means constantly reading research, making sense of it, and communicating what it means for the business. Before customizing his teammate, Jerry used to process four or five analyst reports a week.

What's new in Asana | August 2026

Welcome to the August edition of What’s new in Asana, our monthly product update. Key moments: AI Studio instruction suggestions: Improve automation instructions in AI Studio with tips from Asana AI to make your instructions clearer. And remember to follow us on our other social media channels: LinkedIn - / asana Instagram - / asana.

Using @Jira in Microsoft Team: create, update and assign work from chat | Atlassian

Yes, Jira works inside Microsoft Teams. The Jira Cloud for Microsoft Teams app brings project management into your conversations, and it just got smarter. Over a million users already rely on the Jira for Microsoft Teams integration for notifications, work item previews, and quick actions. Now Jira understands natural language, so you can create, update, and assign work without ever leaving your Teams chat.