Top 10 Self Hosted/On Premise Slack Alternative for Team Chat

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Top 10 Team Chat Software for a Self-Hosted
environment specifically designed for Large
Enterprises
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You need a platform to host your enterprise work
conversations! Indeed thats the only way you
bring your teams together to exchange work ideas
and discuss more work. Making your teams rely on
personal chat applications at your workplace is
no fun when you seriously look for productive
outcomes from them. Instead, give them the best
self- hosted slack team chat software like Troop
Messenger, Flock, Rocket Chat, Mattermost, etc.,
to stay informed and monitored about all the work
routines and updates. These days, the business
entities, corporates, Start-ups, SMEs, large
enterprises, etc., are bombarded with many
collaboration tool options. And, most of the
tools are available in the variants of SaaS and
Self-Hosting. Data is crucial for every industry,
but enterprise risk management is true of high
priority for large enterprises and Governments.
That being said, an instant messaging solution
that delivers self-hosting is recommended for
such kind of data-specific industries. Let us
have a look at the following business
collaboration tools that safeguard the internal
communication needs of these entities. Troop
Messenger
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The work you plan and structure needs to be duly
conveyed to your teams to achieve the right work
outcomes. Troop Messenger provides you the best
team collaboration like never before. It
empowers a great user experience with its simple
and seamless user interface. All your work
conversations are taken care of with instant
messaging, group conversations, voice-video
calling, screen sharing, Fork out, Burnout, and
more. It extends high-form of security to users
work/business conversations with strong end-to-
end encrypted algorithms. It has been designed
for small teams, SMEs, large enterprises,
Governments, security organizations, etc.,
Besides SaaS, Chat APIs, and custom application
development, the self-hosted delivery model has
been exclusively developed for large enterprises
keeping their data-sensitivity in mind.
Pros Unique collaboration feature-stack
Cost-Effective Great customer support Advanced
Filters that gives quick search results
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Easy to understand help documentation.
Cons Does not support migration Need to have
more Add-Ons Pricing Troop Messenger has a quite
economical pricing structure when compared to its
competitors. The one who registers the
application is given a one-month enterprise free
trial. Besides this, the premium pricing plan is
charged at 1 per user/per month and Enterprise
at 5 per user/per month. It offers a special
plan for self-hosting at 5per user/ per
month. Rocket chat
Rocket Chat is famously known for its open-source
team communication. The two delivery models that
are available with this tool are SaaS and
Self-Managed. Large Enterprises can hugely
benefit from this tool as it extends high
security to message- exchanges with two-factor
authentication, E2E encryption, SSO and OAuth
providers. An
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exclusive feature of real-time translation
translates its UI to over 50 languages that make
users feel native. The self-managed version
allows users to download the docker image and
install the application on their
servers. Pros It has an unlimited free plan It
supports endless customizations that include
Integrations, Plugins, Themes and Powerful
APIs Easy-to-implement data importers Scale as
per your needs Cons Lack of in-depth
documentation Need better support and sales
system Pricing Rocket Chat provides different
pricing structures for Self-Managed and Cloud.
For Self- Managed, it has come up with the
pricing plans of Community _at_ Free, Pro _at_ 3/per
user/month, and Enterprise _at_ Tiered pricing. The
Bronze, Silver, and Gold pricing plans of the
Cloud/SaaS delivery model comes at 2/user/month,
4/user/month and tiered pricing
respectively. Mattermost
Mattermost introduces itself as a High Trust
Messaging for the Enterprise, and it is true.
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An exceptional self-hosted open source messaging
platform that extends secure communication
across the industries of all forms and sizes. It
can be deployed on a private cloud within the
premises of local servers. The organizations
which are high on privacy-conscious believe
Mattermost as their flexible partner for all
internal instant communications. The tool is
popular on GitHub, and it provides an extensive
level of documentation that helps in docker
installation. Pros Build custom workflows
Enables Dev Ops workflows Enterprise-grade
scalability and security Supports
Migration Cons Tedious deployment process No
in-app voice-video call feature. Need to
integrate. Pricing Mattermost comes with two
delivery models cloud and self-hosted. Large
Enterprises who look for self-hosting can go
with server download that supports both Linux
Install and Docker Install. Moving forward, it
extends the free 30-day trial of Enterprise
Edition(E20). And, the other plans E10 and E20
are priced at 3.25 user/month and 8.50
user/month when billed annually. Zulip
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Catch upon only important conversations and
ignore irrelevant ones, is what Zulip says.
Open-Source software that was built by hundreds
of developers across the globe. The self-hosted
delivery model specifically designed for Large
Entities provides an excellent production
installation guide that lets users deploy it on
their networks. Besides its 90 native
integrations, Zulip supports more integrations
from Hubot, Zapier, and IFTTT. It has excellent
user documentation ranging from product
installations guides to stream
management. Pros It has a high-quality
developer-friendly code. Build your integrations
with its APIs Unique threading approach Supports
migration Cons Steep learning curve
Minimalistic features Pricing Zulip cloud and
Zulip On-Premise are two different pricing models
that it offers. The former comes with Free and
Standard Plans at unlimited and 6.67/user/month
respectively, and the later comes with the plans
of Community Support as Free and Open source
forever. The Enterprise pricing variant of the
same varies with support required. Users need to
contact their sales team.
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Matrix.org
Besides a messaging protocol, Matrix is known as
a decentralized conversation store. It
replicates the sent message over all the servers
where user participation is active. An
exceptional self-hosted delivery model that
provides strong end-to-end encryption via the
Olm and Megolm cryptographic ratchets. It helps
to build your apps, chat rooms, direct chats,
and chatbots, with a simple RESTful HTTP/JSON
APIs. Pros Each server has full level control
over users' data. Open specification of Matrix
standard No single points of control or failure
Supports Bridging Cons Not available on the
cloud Pricing Matrix.org never charges. It's
completely free. Its free servers are open to all
for public registrations. Lets Chat
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Yours is a small team and want to have a
full-scale control over your team collaboration.
Then Lets Chat is the right self-hosted tool
exclusively made for small teams. It runs on
Node.js and MongoDB and deployed easily at your
local servers. It supports Docker and Vagrant
platform installations. Lets Chat has some
interesting features private/password protected
rooms, Image embeds, transcripts/chat history and
more. Pros Supports LDAP/Kerberos Authentication
Supports BYOS (Bring your own server) It has
multiple chat rooms It is Hubot-friendly Cons Not
available over the cloud It doesnt support any
integrations. Pricing Its free(MIT
Licensed) nextcloud
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The self-hosted collaboration tool built for
protecting the user data through multiple layers
of security offers a wide range of products like
Nextcloud Files, Nextcloud Talk, Nextcloud
Groupware, Nextcloud at home, and industry
solutions. Nextcloud says, control is key to
data. To ensure this, it implements the
authentication mechanisms of SAML, Kerberos, and
LDAP. Its an open-source application with the
code available on GitHub for developers. Pros It
has two variants Nextcloud at home and
Nextcloud at Enterprises. Adhere with the
compliances of HIPPA and GDPR Enterprise
support Direct access to core Nextcloud
Engineering. Cons Has fewer issues with
deployment on shared hosting No detailed manual
installation guides. Pricing Nextcloud offers
three pricing plans Basic, Standard, and
Premium. The annual pricing for Basic, Standard,
and Premium for 50 users is priced at 1900Euros,
3400Euros, and 4900Euros respectively. Wire
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Modernize the way you collaborate, is what Wire
says. It offers uncompromised end-to- end
security to protect users' communication and
data. Wire adheres to the compliances of ISO,
CCPA, GDPR, and SOX. It allows the new users or
the migrators to adopt it with different
deployment options. Cloud, private and
on-premises are three deployment choices
available to the users. The wire is 100
open-source and its source code is available on
GitHub. Pros It is independently audited It
provides forward and backward secrecy Simple
privacy policy No phone number required, just
register with email id Cons The learning curve
is steep Occasionally slow Pricing The highly
secured team collaboration platform comes in
three pricing plans Wire Pro, Wire Enterprise
and Wire Enterprise Technology. All the three
plans are charged at 4Euros per user/per month,
8 Euros per user/per month, when billed
biennially. The users need to contact their team
to understand the Wire Enterprise Technology
pricing.
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Jitsi
Jitsi is a 100 free multi-platform open-source
video conferencing tool that looks good and
sounds amazing. The users/developers across the
world can use Jitsi or build their own apps
using the tools of it. Jitsi has two projects
jitsi Video bridge, and jitsi Meet. Both are
open-source and WebRTC compatible that allows
users to develop high-quality and scalable video
conferences. Pros Jitsi Desktop allows calls,
chat, conferencing, file transfer and more It is
an open-source community It encodes/decodes the
audio/video flows Recording and live streaming
for Jitsi Meet Cons Rare issues with the
connections Pricing It is 100 free. Tox Chat
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Another instant messaging application for large
corporations and governments. TOX is a free,
easy-to-use messaging tool that comes without
advertising. It's a people made a tool, that is
highly encrypted and distributed. The other
features of Tox include voice, video, screen
sharing, file sharing and groups Pros A simple
and secure messaging tool Encrypted voice
calls Cons Your IP is visible to
others Pricing No corporate interests and no
hidden agendas, it's free. Signing Off At the
end of the day, it is all about how you safeguard
your organization's data. Choose a highly
secured on-premise collaboration tool that has no
access to any third-party vendors.
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