5 things that make Slack an enterprise-grade collaboration hub

Collaboration for big companies

Published June 2020

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  • No one likes to be the “no” guys. But a wave of new consumer-like applications and cloud services crashing into the enterprise have sometimes forced IT to play that role.

    After all, that “cool little app” doesn’t look so cool when it opens a security hole you could drive a lorry through. Or crashes as soon as three teams try to use it at once.

    Any IT team could be forgiven for concluding that popularity with users and enterprise-readiness are inversely correlated.

    Slack is an exception.

    Even though people can learn Slack in minutes, it’s also a highly engineered platform that passes the most stringent enterprise test. We’d like to take you through five big things that make Slack enterprise-grade:

  • Security
  • Scalability
  • Manageability
  • Extensibility
  • User love
  • These five things are part of the reason companies such as IBM, Capital One, Condé Nast, Target and Autodesk use Slack to make teamwork more agile.

    We hope once you’ve finished this quick guide, you’ll agree: collaboration and agility don’t have to come at the expense of enterprise-readiness.