MyOffice: Squadus Unified Digital Workspace

2024

Squadus PRO Digital Workspace - Combine company communications in a single application

MyOffice, a Russian office software developer, has released a new corporate product for document collaboration and communication , Squadus PRO , an expanded version of the unified digital space Squadus. Read more here.

Squadus 1.5 with My MyOffice Private Cloud 3 functionality

MyOffice On June 18, 2024, announced the release of MyOffice 3.0. The updated functions also received the digital workspace Squadus 1.5 and the mobile application "MyOffice Documents" for the Aurora OS. Read more here.

Integration with the W11 Dialog Platform

On April 18, 2024, Craion introduced a solution with the integration of its own W11 Dialogue Platform into the Squadus digital workspace. The solution allows you to expand the functionality of the Squadus platform and automate various processes in the organization with finely configured chatbots. Read more here.

Squadus 1.3 Digital Workspace

MyOffice, a Russian office software company for document collaboration and communications, announces the release of the Squadus 1.3 update. The release includes many new business functions that allow you to more efficiently and comfortably organize communication in teams. So, Squadus became the first Russian product in the "corporate messengers" category, which was able to open and edit documents directly in the chat, without downloading them to the device and without installing additional software. Read more here.

2023

TAdviser IT Prize Winner: First Place for Digital Workspace of the Year

The Squadus solution was the winner of the TAdviser IT PRIZE , a national award in the field information technology in the corporate sector. The product from the company, "MyOffice" Russian a manufacturer for office software document collaboration and communication, took first place in the nomination "Digital Workspace of the Year." Representatives of the MyOffice company announced this on November 29, 2023. The expert jury determined the leader, analyzing how innovative the product is and contributes to improving the efficiency of the organization.

The Squadus digital workspace is a communication solution where users can create workgroups, meetings, forward files, conduct audio and video conferences, and automate routine work thanks to chat bots. The product is available on all platforms (web, desktop, mobile) and supports Alt OS, Astra Linux, RED OS, as well as macOS, Windows, iOS and Android. Squadus implements the functionality of federations - a special mode of operation that allows you to connect teams from different organizations and provide the possibility of end-to-end communications between them. The product is registered in the register of domestic software.

The product launched on the market in the spring of 2023. During this time, the solution has already been tested by dozens of large companies, and almost 5,000 Kaspersky Lab employees around the world use Squadus daily.

"MyOffice is actively developing its own solutions platform, we are moving from a manufacturer of document editors to an ecosystem vendor. Today we can offer the customer not only desktop document editors, but also a cloud office, mail systems. More than three years ago, we realized that the market needs a product that consolidates the work of teams with documents and unstructured correspondence. To do this, we created Squadus, "said Pavel Kalyakin, CEO of MyOffice.

Tadviser IT PRIZE is a national award in the field of information technology in the corporate sector, held since 2017. Throughout the year, the organizers select the most effective IT projects, monitor the achievements of companies and industry professionals.

GigaChat Integration

MyOffice and Sber agreed on a technological partnership aimed at accelerating the introduction of artificial intelligence technologies in the corporate environment. MyOffice (New Cloud Technologies LLC) announced this on November 22, 2023. MyOffice integrated GigaChat technologies and also showed how the technology works with Mailion corporate mail and the Squadus digital workspace. More here.

What communications solution does big business need?

Last spring, almost all leading foreign vendors left the Russian corporate communications market one after another.

Free versions of products MS Teams and that Zoom are stored by corporate companies outside data the territory are still available for use, and Russia some small Russian companies continue to use them. However, medium and large businesses are starting to look for safer solutions among the developments of domestic vendors, for example, the recently launched Squadus, and at the same time choose a usage model for themselves - ON or SaaS On-Premise. We ON will tell you about what opportunities Russian manufacturers offer today in this article. Read more here. [1]

Launching federations in Squadus 1.2

MyOffice on September 5, 2023 announced the launch of federations in Squadus 1.2. The Squadus federations are a special mode of operation that allows you to connect the Squadus commands of different organizations and provide the possibility of end-to-end communication between them.

Thanks to federations, it becomes possible to build effective interaction in holding structures or in interacting entities, each of which works in its own digital workspace Squadus. This allows employees of subsidiaries of the same holding, for example, to quickly contact partners, customers, as well as their colleagues from other companies at Squadus. Employees of different organizations will be able to communicate in personal chats and in common channels, as well as hold joint conferences and quickly find the right users by contact information and account - both within their organization and in the Squadus federation.

Unlike guest access, Squadus federations give more rights and authority. Within the federations, Squadus users are endowed with the same capabilities as when working inside their digital workspace, Squadus. While guests cannot create groups for communication and initiate dialogues with other people: they can only communicate in those chats where they were added. In federated communication, corporate users receive labels that show an employee's affiliation with a specific organization.

The main task of the Squadus federations is to create distributed secure communications between organizations that are required to ensure business continuity. Enterprise Squadus servers deployed at the capacity of organizations or trusted partners communicate via TLS tunnels.

Federations in Squadus can be organized between an unlimited number of servers. Interaction is configured in the administrative panel on the servers of each company and, unlike foreign solutions, a separate standalone server is not required to configure interaction. In this case, one organization can also have several Squadus servers, between which you can configure federated communication.

Squadus federations allow employees of different organizations to communicate efficiently and safely with each other. Expanding the communication capabilities of two or more organizations does not entail an increase in their operating or capital costs, since federations are configured directly from the Squadus administrative panel, and there is no need to license the company's servers - licensing the Squadus digital workspace is carried out only by the number of users, - said Pyotr Shcheglov, Director of Product Marketing, MyOffice.

Release of Squadus version 1.1 with 384 changes

MyOffice, an expert in Russian market office software for document collaboration and communications, announced on July 10, 2023 the release of a major update to the unified digital workspace Squadus. This release significantly improved security features and search technologies, as well as the ability to create polls in conferences.

Improve administration efficiency

In the release of Squadus 1.1, registration of information security events appeared, as well as their sending in CEF format about the syslog protocol. The functionality allows you to record all user actions that can affect the integrity and confidentiality of information, as well as restore activity histories with the identification of the activity itself and the time of its occurrence.

Protect chats with end-to-end encryption

In Squadus 1.1, the possibility of end-to-end has appeared. enciphering chats The function can be enabled in commands, channels, discussions and personal correspondence. After activating it, everyone data encrypted in the chats will remain only within the closed chat in which they were sent. Thanks to this, users will not be able to copy or send messages and attachments, which guarantees the non-proliferation of text, audio and video messages, as well as any attached outside files the chat.

Creation of surveys in conferences for prompt feedback collection

In Squadus 1.1, it became possible to create polls in conferences. The function is available to all meeting participants, the number of polls within one chat is also unlimited. Thanks to the function, it has become more convenient to receive feedback on the issues discussed directly during the conference and make appropriate decisions.

Speed and ease of finding objects

Now the user no longer needs to remember how the contact or chat was recorded in the directory. Automatic cross-language search will help you quickly find the contacts and chats you are looking for, which will significantly reduce the time spent on tasks. You also do not need to switch the layout - the search automatically transliterizes the desired object. This significantly reduces the time required to perform typical user tasks.

With each update, MyOffice products receive many fixes, improvements and various features. So, in Squadus 1.1, 384 changes were made: in addition to security tools, search technologies and chat polls, we also implemented other functions. For example, the ability to turn on the waiting room and set a password to access the Squadus conference was also added. We regularly improve the product interface and conduct UX studies, on the basis of which we also make adjustments. In addition, we pay great attention to information security audits and respond in a timely manner when various vulnerabilities are detected, stated Petr Shcheglov, Director of Product Marketing, MyOffice.

Single Digital Workspace Overview Squadus

MyOffice, a Russian office software company, has released the Squadus solution for creating a single digital workspace. The new product, suitable for organizations of all sizes, offers collaboration and teamwork tools.

Squadus helps structure communications within teams. Within a single space, users can work with documents in chats, assign audio and video conferences from the calendar of the mail service, receive notifications from the chat bot about the upcoming meeting, etc. Read more here.

Bringing the Product to Market

On April 18, 2023, MyOffice announced a new product, Squadus, which complements the company's office solutions ecosystem. The product is positioned as a digital workspace for collaboration and corporate communication in organizations of all sizes.

At the presentation of the product on April 18, representatives of MyOffice in the demo zone told TAdviser that in terms of functionality, the new product is closest to MS Teams.

Squadus belongs to the class of communication software and complements the MyOffice ecosystem of office solutions

The company explains the prerequisites for the creation of Squadus as follows: now the number of communication channels of a corporate employee is in the hundreds - countless chats, online meetings, letters and corporate files. In addition to the fact that information noise slows down the speed of operation, a separate difficulty is the search for the necessary information - communications occur through disparate channels that are incompatible with each other.

The unified digital workspace of Squadus provides information flow management, chat structuring, document retrieval and systematization, and video conferencing, which speeds up the organization's business processes. The product interacts with the corporate catalog, allows you to quickly find employees of the organization and create workgroups.

Squadus is available on all platforms (web, desktop, mobile) and supports Alt, Astra Linux, RED OS, as well as macOS, Windows, iOS and Android.

Squadus has a smart search over a large array of data that takes into account the morphology of the Russian language, and also allows you to expand your functionality using bots that can be developed by both corporate automation departments and independent developers. Bots allow you to automate the creation of appointments in calendar events, sending messages and notifications, searching and forwarding files, as well as perform many other operations.

The Squadus interface on an Android tablet "(photo - TAdviser)"

The product has declared flexible structuring of chats, employees can be organized in teams (for example, employees of a department or project group) and in channels. Channels can be open and closed.

In this case, the administrator can invite employees from other departments, as well as external users for guest access, to discuss. The ability to differentiate rights allows the discussion administrator to restrict the access of various users to information.

Squadus also uses its own "MyOffice" document viewing technologies.

The developers assure that Squadus provides full control over data by storing information on the servers of the organization (on-premium) or a trusted partner. It also implements end-to-end encryption, connection protection, two-factor authentication, and other basic security features.

Pavel Kalyakin, CEO of MyOffice, at the presentation of the product noted that the withdrawal of some foreign competitors from the market showed the risks of storing data in the cloud.

The developers of Squadus promise seamless migration to their product from competitors' products.

You can purchase Squadus separately or with other MyOffice solutions. Licensing is carried out by the number of users, urgent and perpetual licenses are available to customers with the right to receive updates up to 3 years. The base cost of Squadus is 3250 rubles per year. This is 37-47% lower than the prices of solutions of the largest foreign vendors, the company estimates.

More than 3 years ago, we realized that the market needs a product that consolidates the work of teams with documents and unstructured correspondence. Squadus easily integrates with other products of the MyOffice office solutions ecosystem, which allows businesses to structure information flows, and users to work more efficiently in teams and working groups, "said Pavel Kalyakin.

A team of about 50 people worked on the product, the development of which began in 2020, the company said.

In April 2023, Squadus was included in the register of domestic software in the category of communication software.

And the first users of Squadus were almost 5 thousand Kaspersky Lab employees who switched to this product from Microsoft Teams.

We use the product for daily communication with colleagues around the world, it allows you to organize the flow of information, and also simplifies communication with colleagues from other companies thanks to the online version. Our experience in using the product has shown that the tools of team interaction proposed by MyOffice really help to effectively solve work issues, "said Anton Ivanov, Director of Research and Development at Kaspersky Lab.