Unified workspaces software centralizes disparate software applications into a single platform, allowing users to access different tools without leaving the unified workspace. During the workday, employees often lose time moving between applications or looking for information. Unified workspaces aim to bring together all the applications in a company’s tech stack to eliminate time wasted shuffling between software tools. All unified workspace options bring together popular collaboration, communication, and cloud content collaboration software solutions, but some products will also integrate with other common software solutions.
Unified workspaces can vary greatly in how extensive their features are. Enterprise options will often emphasize security. As a result, enterprise unified workspaces will provide features like native or integrated single sign-on (SSO), security dashboards for administrators, and more native functionality. Alternative unified workspaces will focus on ease of use and connectivity, offering features like password savers for multiple apps and cross-app activity feeds.
To qualify for inclusion in the Unified Workspaces category, a product must:
- Provide single sign-on (SSO) functionality, or store login information for multiple applications
- Allow users to access multiple applications (or features of other applications) within a singular workspace
- Offer unified search across applications
