How Slack and Hipchat made collaboration cool in 2015

Here’s something you probably didn’t think you’d see in 2015: Collaboration software became cool. Confounded by labyrinthine email threads, employees turned to messaging platforms such as Slack and Atlassian's Hipchat to conduct online conversations and share content with colleagues, partners and clients."These tools allows persistent group chat, which is really important to corporate teams," says Adam Preset, a Gartner analyst who researches cloud collaboration tools. They pro