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I'm biased on this, as project lead for Matrix, but: we've done loads of work to support Matrix for corporate communication - especially as a route to migrate a
by Arathorn 4y ago
I'm biased on this, as project lead for Matrix, but: we've done loads of work to support Matrix for corporate communication - especially as a route to migrate away from Skype For Business, or a secure alternative to Slack & Teams. I'll try to give a balanced view:
Good stuff:
* OIDC for authentication (or CAS or SAML or LDAP etc)
* "Spaces" to organise all your rooms across the organisation (and overlapping organisations)
* Audit bot for compliance (a bolt-on in Element Enterprise)
* "Group Sync" to bridge space membership and permissions to Active Directory (a bolt-on in Element Enterprise)
* Loads of clients for different environments, and a really nice open API for writing new ones and bots and integratinos.
* Bridges to existing corp systems like Slack and Teams to help do a rolling migration.
* Great E2EE voip/video confs via Element Call (and Video Rooms) these days.
* Federation, obviously, to work with other deployments within or between orgs, if you want.
Bad stuff:
* E2EE makes it hard for new users to see history when you join encrypted rooms. We're working on this currently.
* Not as many integrations as Slack or similar yet - we really need to provide slack-compatible webhooks out of the box so we can leverage existing integs.
* E2EE search doesn't exist on mobile yet
* Lack of multiaccount makes juggling corp & personal accounts a pain.