{"id":10985,"date":"2019-03-23T18:25:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T18:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/mio_is_the_much-needed_enterprise_messaging_interop_tool.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:29:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:29:07","slug":"mio-is-the-much-needed-enterprise-messaging-interop-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/mio-is-the-much-needed-enterprise-messaging-interop-tool.html","title":{"rendered":"Mio is The Much-Needed Enterprise Messaging Interop Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/Tom%20Hadfield%20CEO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2019\/03\/Tom Hadfield CEO-thumb-500x500-16861.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Hadfield CEO.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Based in Austin Texas, Mio is working on making teams, Webex Teams, Slack and Microsoft Teams interoperable explained Tom Hadfield, CEO, in an in-person interview.<\/p>\n<p>Tom said, \u201cTypically, a midsize enterprise has all three. Perhaps they can\u2019t\u2019 afford to use Slack for everyone. He continued, \u201cMio allows real-time communications between them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/mio.PNG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2019\/03\/mio-thumb-500x294-16863.png\" alt=\"mio.PNG\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.builtinaustin.com\/2018\/03\/07\/mio-raises-6M-launches-universal-chat-app-integration\">raised<\/a> $12 million and is the early stage of building out their solution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe days of one single collaboration vendor are over,\u201d exclaimed Tom. Continuing, he said, \u201cNow with modern APIs, you can fully federate all collaboration systems into one unified system.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/296953219?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"325\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He explained their business model is charging $1-$3 per user per month and you can buy the solution from the various app stores.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cOur two main features are DMs between users as well as channels which are like group chats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An example he presented was a budget planning channel on MS Teams which can be made available to users on other platforms to participate in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have this belief that real-time messaging is the primary way employees communicate with one another,\u201d he exclaimed. Continuing, he said, \u201cWhen you realize a colleague is unreachable, it doesn\u2019t make any sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on and said, The API-ization of the world means these platforms have mature APIs and someone needs to stitch them together. That\u2019s what we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Based in Austin Texas, Mio is working on making teams, Webex Teams, Slack and Microsoft Teams interoperable explained Tom Hadfield, CEO, in an in-person interview. Tom said, \u201cTypically, a midsize enterprise has all three. Perhaps they can\u2019t\u2019 afford to use Slack for everyone. He continued, \u201cMio allows real-time communications between them.\u201d The company has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,180,159,199,188,189,203,118,177,191,192],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11705,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10985\/revisions\/11705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}