Business Messaging Software Evaluation How to Evaluate a Self-Hosted Chat Without Getting Lost in Technical Details December 29, 2025 by Jordan I.M. Evaluating a self-hosted chat can feel like being dropped into a room full of acronyms: SSO, SAML, LDAP, E2EE, Kubernetes. The risk isn’t that you won’t understand any of it—it’s that you’ll spend weeks debating implementation details before you’ve answered the only question that matters: is this the right internal messaging system for your organization, […] Read more » evaluation criteria internal messaging reliability security and privacy self-hosted chat