Stride (corporate messenger)

2017: Announcement

In September, 2017 the producer of the corporate software Atlassian announced the new tool for interaction of staff of the companies. Service under the name Stride integrated in itself possibilities of the messenger for joint work of Slack and the program for Skype IP telephony.

Stride allows to keep track of intermediate results of work of commands and to appoint accomplishment of certain tasks to workers. Employees who missed an online meeting or joined it with delay can look what was solved on an action and what tasks were set by heads. At the same time it is not necessary to browse all history of correspondence or record of a conference call. A system also outputs information on on what task this or that participant of a command works at present.

Screenshot from the Stride program

As told the Bloomberg agency one of heads of Atlassian Mike Cannon-Brookes, Stride allows to eliminate spaces in work which arise at discussion of the project, decision making and distribution of duties. The software functions on mobile devices and personal computers and is compatible to the competing software, he added.

Stride is offered as the web version and dependences on available functions is free or paid service. In the latter case cost is $3 counting on one user a month. In this subscription more memory in the cloud storage, function of sharing of the screen, etc. is available.

Stride is cheaper than Slack which costs 6-15$/month for one user depending on regularity of payments and the selected tariff plan. Besides, Stride allows to store 25 thousand messages against 10 thousand in Slack, and in the free version of Stride there are more opportunities, than at the competitor.^[1]

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