Unison

Groups work faster in Unison

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Fast, secure teamwork

Thousands of companies and media outlets like CNBC, Bloomberg and the Washington Post have discovered that Unison is a faster way to work securely in teams. Watch our CEO tell Bloomberg TV how Unison works, or read more customer and press testimonials.

What is Unison?

Unison is a fast, secure collaboration app for groups inside and across companies. It provides private "rooms" where groups can share updates and feedback throughout the day. With Unison, 80% of email and status meetings disappear.

How is Unison different?

Instead of messy threads or feeds, Unison uses "rooms": secure spaces where a team can quickly post updates, ideas or files and get fast feedback. Unison syncs across all your devices and keeps your team on the same page, continuously.

How Unison can help

Unison is especially useful for dispersed teams and communication across companies. Here are some of the most common use cases:

Private, secure company spaces

Create secure "rooms" for your whole company, departments or individual teams. Each one is private to the members — and not accessible outside that group. Make big rooms for company announcements and small rooms for private discussions, like financials or sensitive projects.

Much faster collaboration

Unison rooms are realtime, living spaces: you see who is currently "in" them; you get instant alerts when new content is posted; and a true free/busy status tells you who is available to talk.

Kick your email habit

By moving much of your company and team collaboration into Unison, companies reduce their group email and routine status meetings by around 80%. The time savings go into productivity instead of fighting through your inbox.

Company-controlled

Unison has Enterprise versions which give companies full admin rights over rooms, users and content. So you control which rooms are set up and which people can see or contact each other. Much better control than with email or consumer IM tools.
Secure, shared team spaces

Set up groups that you control, with fast communication and sharing — and no outside interference or security risks, like spam, phishing or malware.

Faster than SharePoint or company social networks

Unison rooms are realtime, living spaces: you see who is currently "in" them; you get instant alerts when new content is posted; and a true free/busy status tells you who is available to talk.

More secure than email

Phishing via links that appear to be internal email is one of the biggest security risks today — 91% of attacks happen this way. Unison can eliminate this risk for back-office workers (some of our clients have already moved their back offices fully to Unison) — and eliminated email.

Company-controlled

Unison has Enterprise versions which give companies full admin rights over rooms, users and content. So you control which rooms are set up and which people can see or contact each other.
Secure spaces that work across companies

Unison rooms let you mix internal and external people as members: but you remain in control of who sees each room, and can change member settings at any time. It's a perfect tool for inter-company collaboration.

Dramatically speed up collaboration across company lines

Unison rooms are fast, secure spaces: you see who is currently "in" them; you get instant alerts when new content is posted; and a true free/busy status tells you who is available to talk.

Organized and user-friendly

Rooms have multiple threads with comments below — just like social network user interfaces that are already familiar to users. Adoption and training time is minimal.

You keep control

Unison has Enterprise versions which give companies full admin rights over rooms, users and content. So you control which rooms are set up and which people can see or contact each other.
Secure, non-public space for people to talk

Unison rooms are always private, and never open to the internet. So you can create a forum where everyone can see and talk to each other, with no risk of accidental publication to outsiders.

Faster than SharePoint or company social networks

Unison rooms are realtime, living spaces: you see who is currently "in" them; you get instant alerts when new content is posted; and a true free/busy status tells you who is available to talk.

Organized and user-friendly

Rooms have multiple threads with comments below — just like social network user interfaces that are already familiar to users. Adoption is simple — no training needed!

Company-controlled

Unison has Enterprise versions which give companies full admin rights over rooms, users and content. So you control which rooms are set up and which people can see or contact each other.
Light, fast, always in sync

Unison's apps for PC, Mac, tablets and smartphones give you ultrafast messaging both 1:1 and in groups. They also sync across devices so it's very easy to work on the go, or in dispersed teams.

No spam or junk, just the important messages and groups you work with

Unison is secure and private: you connect only to your team members and see just the messages and groups you need to get work done. It is spam-free and more secure than email — no spoofing, phishing and so on.

Organized and user-friendly

"Rooms" allow multiple threads (conversations) with comments below, which keep things organized. They are similar to social network feeds that are already familiar to users. Adoption and training time is minimal.

You keep control

Unison has Enterprise versions which give companies full admin rights over rooms, users and content. So you control which rooms are set up and which people can see or contact each other.
Put your communications in one place

Unison is fast and easy-to-use, but also powerful. It includes group spaces with presence, files, discussions, as well as live voice and video chats. In some cases, Unison has completely replaced email and PBX for internal users.

Works anywhere

With apps for all major platforms — PC, Mac, iOS, Android — Unison is mobile like your staff. It keeps teams on the same page, in sync throughout the day.

Highly cost-effective

Many unified communications systems from big vendors like Microsoft and Cisco come with huge feature sets and huge price tags. They are complex to set up and run. Unison is simple to set up and use, and much less expensive.

You control the space

Unison has Enterprise versions which give companies full admin rights over rooms, users and content. So you control which rooms are set up and which people can see or contact each other.

How Unison compares

Unison is the only tool that combines the speed of instant messaging with the structure a business needs: separate secure spaces for each group or team, with multiple discussions among each group.

Business instant messengers

Campfire, HipChat etc
Unison
Enterprise social network

Yammer, Chatter etc

Super organized
Separate spaces for each project, issue or team	Yes, create multiple chat groups	Yes, create as many Unison "rooms" as you need — and control the membership of each	Products oriented around a single noisy stream of updates, not on separate spaces
Each space organized into multiple threads	No, just a single, long jumble of chat messages in each space	Unison "rooms" contain posts, with comments under each — easier to follow and organize	Posts with comments: easier to follow
See who is "in" each space and thread right now	No live presence-awareness	See who is "in" the room and specific thread with you right now	No separate rooms with presence, just a single noisy stream of people
Post and talk: Text Docs and files Images Voice notes	No voice notes	All available from computer, smartphone, tablet, including ability to send voice notes in chats or into rooms	No voice notes
Easily add people outside your company	Mostly designed for internal group discussions	Create secure, shared rooms with clients, vendors, contractors, etc	Clunky "external group" function, bolted on as an afterthought
Convenient, secure messaging
Text, audio, video chat one-to-one	Text only	Chat by text, voice or video	Text only
Group voice conferences with one click	No live voice or video — need to schedule a conference call (ugh)	Start a team call from a computer, smartphone or tablet. Works in Chrome without a plugin	No live voice or video — need to schedule a conference call (ugh)
256-bit encryption for security
High speed
Rapid messaging		Fast IM with correct read/unread status	Web-only IM; no accurate read/unread flags
Real-time free/busy status to see availability	Often inaccurate	Instantly updates green/orange/red across all devices, based on user's actual presence	Horribly inaccurate — apps fundamentally not designed for realtime usage or to track presence
Instant syncing of all content across all devices	Slower than Unison, poor/no device sync	Zero lag time, content refreshes in real time and "follows" you across devices	Sloooooow, need to refresh the screen manually to see updated content
Works anywhere
Full suite of apps for: Web (Chrome, FF, IE, Safari, others) Windows Mac iOS Android	Some apps	Fast, native apps on all platforms	Slow, crashy desktop apps, often based on Adobe AIR

Groups work faster in Unison

Fast, secure teamwork

What is Unison?

How is Unison different?

How Unison can help

Private, secure company spaces

Much faster collaboration

Kick your email habit

Company-controlled

Secure, shared team spaces

Faster than SharePoint or company social networks

More secure than email

Company-controlled

Secure spaces that work across companies

Dramatically speed up collaboration across company lines

Organized and user-friendly

You keep control

Secure, non-public space for people to talk

Faster than SharePoint or company social networks

Organized and user-friendly

Company-controlled

Light, fast, always in sync

No spam or junk, just the important messages and groups you work with

Organized and user-friendly

You keep control

Put your communications in one place

Works anywhere

Highly cost-effective

You control the space

How Unison compares

Business instant messengers

Unison

Enterprise social network