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Slack’s Outages Cost $8.This article contains content that is written like an advertisement. Slack and Zoom Increasing in Popularity With Office 365-Subscribed Organizations People Are Dismissing Slack and Settling for Microsoft Teams Slack CEO Sells $555,575 in Stock Over a Month Slack Reports Better-Than-Expected Results for Q3 Modernize Communications and Collaboration InfrastructureĮstablish a Communication and Collaboration System StrategyĢ020 May Be the Year for a Slack-quisition Additionally, IT shops that wish to dilute their exposure to Microsoft may view Slack as a viable, albeit expensive, enterprise alternative. However, winning IBM’s business across all 350,000 of its employees is a fantastic step forward and does establish Slack as a legitimate player in the large enterprise market segment. Accessed NovemOur TakeĪs I have previously mentioned here, I don’t believe Slack will win the “collaboration wars” with Microsoft as its primary opponent. Source: Slack Scorecard at SoftwareReviews.

Security and reliability: Slack worked with IBM to ensure its unique and specific needs were met within the app.

Massive integration layer: Slack has worked to enable thousand of integrations with IBM’s internal applications.

IBM employees love it: they are achieving unparalleled levels of transparency and efficiency in communications across departments.

IBM touts the following key benefits of adopting Slack end to end: In fact, this partnership led to the creation of Slack’s Enterprise Grid product line. The early days were an education for Slack on how to architect, build, and deploy applications that can support a true enterprise scale. Slack and IBM have been partnering for the better part of the last five years, with Slack adopting IBM’s Watson analytics product and IBM wading into using Slack's collaboration product.

This announcement demonstrates that Slack is not going to take the onslaught by Microsoft’s Teams product lying down. Slack has just landed IBM as its largest customer with over 350,000 users.

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