Enterprise IT Decision Making Building vs. Buying an Enterprise Messaging Platform: A Realistic Decision Framework February 26, 2026 by Jordan I.M. Most teams end up evaluating two paths for enterprise chat: build your own (often meaning self-hosted or heavily customized) or buy a packaged business chat platform. The right answer depends less on ideology and more on whether you can meet your security, control, and reliability needs without creating an internal product you can’t sustainably maintain. […] Read more » build vs buy cyber security enterprise chat privacy compliance self-hosting