Amium

With our dynamic and ever-so-changing work environments, it is no wonder that by transcending the boundaries of distance between remote employees, collaborative tools lead to increased productivity and ultimately, can prove to be one of the biggest competitive advantages for most companies.

Amium is a slick and novice-accessible piece of software designed from the ground up to offer you and your team a distraction-free and efficient environment for communication, as well as for sharing and editing files or documents.

Subsequent to its typical, step-by-step wizard installation process, you are required to input the name of your team and the official Amium credentials. Please note that you are required to first visit the app's website and create a team, before you can actually make use of what Amium has to offer.

The interface is not what you would call impressive but it does a decent job at helping you manage everything from direct and group conversations all the way up to other collaborative tasks such as uploading, creating and co-editing documents.

This said, one of the main advantages of Amium is the fact that it comes with Microsoft Office Online, straight out of the box. In fact, the application comes with support for the full range of Office-specific files that includes Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations.

This is the perfect time to point out Amium's other useful features like the fact that it automatically saves the full version history of your files and all team conversations. This makes it very easy for you to pinpoint possible mistakes and to revert to valid versions of the project.

By now, you might be thinking that this is just your run-of-the-mill collaboration app, with not much support and typical bits and bobs but this is not the case.

Probably the most impressive thing about Amium is the fact that it makes it extremely easy for you to extend its functionality by offering integration with some of the most widely used platforms out there. Some examples include, BitBucket, GitHub, HelloSign, Jira, FreshDeck, Crashlytics, Mailchimp, New Relic, PageDuty, Stripe, Bonusly, Cat, Reaction and Giphy.

Before we conclude, you should also know that the application is fully supported on all major operating systems like Windows, macOS and Linux, as well as on two of the most relevant mobile platforms to date, namely iOS and Android.

Amium may not be the most popular or the most feature-packed collaboration application out there but what it lacks in this department, it surely more than makes up for with its integration with important platforms.