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If you already use Slack for work, most of this won’t be new to you. For those of you who have never used Slack and are not aware of its network effect, the simplest way to describe it is: “iMessage on steroids for businesses.” Android phone-toting readers in the US will inherently hate this analogy but grasp perfectly well what I am saying.
Functionally, Slack is more than simply a company chat app, just like iMessage is more than a mere texting app. Slack is designed to provide a one-stop solution for all enterprise collaboration needs. This includes integrating with all the software you use at work, be it Salesforce, Zoom, GSuite, Office 365, or something else. In fact, it integrates with most of the 1,800+ apps a company could possibly use. You can think of Slack as the control tower of a workplace, so to speak. It has shared channels that
Interestingly, Bill Gates and Satya Nadella passed up on the opportunity to buy Slack in 2016. In response to this new competition, Microsoft pushed out Teams in 2017. We should note this was not the first time Microsoft had tried to tackle collaboration. Its efforts have spanned more than a decade, starting with Communicator in 2007. It was followed by Lync in 2010 and Skype for Business in 2015 before Teams emerged, borrowing heavily from Slack. While Teams has its benefits, such as working perfectly with