Get ready for Skype for Business EOL in 2025

As you prepare for Skype for Business retirement in 2025, you’re considering your options. MS Teams is not the ideal solution for organizations in highly regulated industries like Government and Defense because it doesn’t offer the advanced security needed to control your data and stay compliant with regulations.

The most flexible self-sovereign Skype for Business alternative

Rocket.Chat is a flexible collaboration platform designed for evolving data privacy regulations. With on-premise and air-gapped deployment options, you can stay in total control of your data while enjoying seamless collaboration with colleagues and external partners.

Stay in touch with other MS Teams users

Rocket.Chat lets you connect across platforms. With the MS Teams and Slack bridges, you can message people in other companies and within your organization who still use MS Teams or Slack—think partners, vendors, suppliers, or internal departments. You can also enjoy secure, interoperable, and decentralized real-time communication between Rocket.Chat and any Matrix-compatible applications or servers.

Why security-conscious organizations choose Rocket.Chat over MS Teams as Skype for Business replacement?

Secure cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped deployment

E2E encryption of all data

Federation capabilities

White labeling

Custom user roles with 180+ permissions

Unlimited channels and discussions

Customizable guest user roles

Open source license

Omnichannel customer comms

Pro plan price

$6/user/month

$4/user/month

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#1 Skype for Business replacement for secure collaboration

Unquestionable GDPR compliance

Rocket.Chat has been deployed in the most rigorous environments. It supports compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, FINRA, and more.

On-premise and air-gapped deployment

Secure your conversations by leveraging secure, self-managed installation in your data center or deploy Rocket.Chat in network-isolated environments.

Self-hosted video communication

Extend your messaging experience to secure video communications by leveraging Rocket.Chat and Pexip partnership.

Stefan Teubner

“Everyone at Volkswagen is very happy with Rocket.Chat. It speeds up collaboration and accelerates timelines significantly.”

IT Project Leader, Audi Business Innovation GmbH

Oliver Jägle

"At Deutsche Bahn, we chose Rocket.Chat over Mattermost. We chose Rocket.Chat because of the way they’ve always done open source. It was more interesting for us than other free products because it was clear that the major features of it, which are necessary for enterprises, were not being cut off the main code line.”

Software-Developer at DB Systel

Niki Papazoglakis

"We needed a highly secure messaging platform to communicate across US government agencies. Rocket.Chat met all of our requirements."

CEO at Mobility 4 Public Safety

More than just team collaboration

Extending collaboration to customer interactions

Rocket.Chat allows you to go beyond team collaboration and talk to your customers. You can manage customer conversations coming from multiple channels within a single, unified Rocket.Chat panel.

Simple and secure chat embedding

Unlike Skype for Business or MS Teams, you can use Rocket.Chat iFrames and SDKs to embed a chat interface into your product. With a configuration that restricts access inside any iFrame, Rocket.Chat’s Chat Engine offering is highly secure and customizable.

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Our pre-sales and sales teams are happy to assess your needs and answer any questions about switching from Skype for Business to Rocket.Chat.

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