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Email Killers 2017: A Look at 14 Cloud-Based Team Collaboration Apps: Page 16 of 17

Wimi

A Paris-based startup with offices in San Francisco as well, Wimi has been in the team collaboration app space since 2010. It sells mainly to SMBs and smaller-sized groups within larger companies. Wimi reports having about 65,000 active daily users, some of whom are from very recognizable companies, such as AT&T, Intel, and Starwood Hotels.

When Wimi first launched many of its subscribers used the app mainly to share, transfer, and sync documents. Wimi responded to this unexpected use case by rejiggering its paid plans so they kick off with one -- called Doc, appropriately enough -- that's very document-centric, as well as providing group chat and other communications features. Other plans add things like productivity services for teamwork such as agile task management, calendaring, video chat and screen sharing, LDAP integration, and document recovery. It's localized in French, German, and Spanish.

Notable features include Wimi Drive, which makes files posted in workspaces available even when users are offline. Optionally, security- and compliance-conscious companies can run the Wimi software on premises. And Wimi offers a number of training services that help users understand and effectively use team collaboration apps with which they may previously have been unfamiliar. In the past year, changes to the various plans have centered around increasing the amount storage that's available to individual users.

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