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Slack may have unleashed a new demand among the working world to have better tools to chat to each other about their projects and more, but it's also unleashed something else: a torrent of competing products from other tech firms that sell to the enterprise. Today comes the latest in that trend: BroadSoft, a company known for its cloud-based unified communications services, is launching Team-One, a platform for people to chat to each other, bringing in links and data from other projects, and more. Team-One is making its debut today, but it's built on a product that existed before. Earlier this year, BroadSoft acquired a Slack competitor called Intellinote, which it has now integrated with its bigger platform, including its calling and videoconferencing products, adding in new features such as artificial intelligence and bots to help you source data to get your work done. Apart from being a reflection of just how popular collaboration products have become among businesses, the launch of Team-One also another sign of how Slack's early success in this market is getting attacked by competitors from many angles. The startup has seen some of its fast growth slow down, which presents an opportunity for some of those rivals with established customer bases to move in, or for Slack to demonstrate that it definitely is better than the rest.