Slack Overview

Slack is a productivity platform that enhances team communication. It offers faster, better-organized, and more secure interactions than email.

Use Cases

Customers recommend Collaboration, Communication Management, Content Management, as the business use cases that they have been most satisfied with while using Slack.

Other use cases:

  • Sales Document Management
  • Engagement Management
  • Workflow Management
  • Training & Onboarding
  • Conference Call Management
  • Helpdesk Management
  • Trade Show Marketing
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Business Priorities

Improve Internal Communications and Acquire Customers are the most popular business priorities that customers and associates have achieved using Slack.

Other priorities:

  • Enhance Customer Relationships
  • Scale Best Practices
  • Improve Visibility
  • Grow Market Share
  • Improve Stakeholder Relations
  • Launch New Products
  • Enter New Markets Internationally Or Locally
  • Improve Digital And Social Presence
  • Increase Sales & Revenue
  • Improve Efficiency
  • Build Brand Awareness
  • Shorten Ramp Up Time
  • Establish Thought Leadership
  • Improve ROI
  • Improve Brand Engagement
  • Improve Consistency
  • Increase Customer Life Time Value
  • Manage Risk
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Slack Use-Cases and Business Priorities: Customer Satisfaction Data

Slack works with different mediums / channels such as Chat. Slack. and E-Mail.

Slack's features include Alerts: Popups & Notifications, Personalization, Bot, etc. and Slack support capabilities include AI Powered, Chat Support, Email Support, etc. also Slack analytics capabilities include Custom Reports, and Analytics.

Reviews

"When anyone wants insight or advice, they can raise their hand and also give feedback in Slack. It’s a great way for everyone to see what’s happening and keep up transparency at Sharesies." - Brooke Roberts

Slack, Microsoft Teams, Yammer, Workplace from Meta, Salesforce Anywhere, etc., all belong to a category of solutions that help Team Collaboration. Each of them excels in different abilities. Therefore, determining the best platform for your business will depend on your specific needs and requirements.

Popular Business Setting

for Slack

Top Industries

  • Computer Software
  • Information Technology and Services
  • Marketing and Advertising

Popular in

  • Small Business
  • Mid Market
  • Enterprise

Slack is popular in Computer Software, Information Technology And Services, and Marketing And Advertising and is widely used by Small Business, Mid Market, and Enterprise.

Comprehensive Insights on Slack Use Cases

What benefits does Slack offer for Collaboration?

What solutions does Slack provide for Communication Management?

What benefits does Slack offer for Content Management?

How does Slack address your Sales Document Management Challenges?

What makes Slack ideal for Engagement Management?

91+ more Business Use Cases

11 buyers and buying teams have used Cuspera to assess how well Slack solved their Team Collaboration needs. Cuspera uses 68322 insights from these buyers along with peer reviews, customer case studies, testimonials, expert blogs and vendor provided installation data to help you assess the fit for your specific Team Collaboration needs.

Customer Testimonials

CUSTOMERS TESTIMONIALS
Slack testimonial

Brooke Roberts

co-founder and co-CEO

Sharesies

When anyone wants insight or advice, they can raise their hand and also give feedback in Slack. It’s a great way for everyone to see what’s happening and keep up transparency at Sharesies. Testimonial By Brooke Roberts
Slack testimonial

Chris Aitchison

Head of Technology

Up

Slack has been integral to our journey as we’ve gone from an idea, to launching Australia’s most-loved digital bank, to completely dominating the landscape that we created. Testimonial By Chris Aitchison
Slack testimonial

Aya Kanai

Editor in Chief of Marie Claire

Hearst Magazines

Given the pace of the content creation for all of our different brands, being secretive does not benefit anyone. Slack has really allowed us to encourage openness and transparency. Testimonial By Aya Kanai
CUSTOMERS TESTIMONIALS
Slack testimonial

Brooke Roberts

co-founder and co-CEO

Sharesies

When anyone wants insight or advice, they can raise their hand and also give feedback in Slack. It’s a great way for everyone to see what’s happening and keep up transparency at Sharesies. Testimonial By Brooke Roberts
Slack testimonial

Chris Aitchison

Head of Technology

Up

Slack has been integral to our journey as we’ve gone from an idea, to launching Australia’s most-loved digital bank, to completely dominating the landscape that we created. Testimonial By Chris Aitchison
Slack testimonial

Aya Kanai

Editor in Chief of Marie Claire

Hearst Magazines

Given the pace of the content creation for all of our different brands, being secretive does not benefit anyone. Slack has really allowed us to encourage openness and transparency. Testimonial By Aya Kanai

Case Studies

COMPANY INDUSTRY CASE STUDIES
Slack case study
Consumer Services
Consumer Services
CASE STUDY Shipt

Shipt uses Slack to scale its delivery system, meeting growing demands efficiently.

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Publishing
Publishing
Case Study Veepee

How e-commerce unicorn Veepee decreased incidents by 67% with Slack

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Slack case study
Entertainment
Entertainment
CASE STUDY Fandango

Fandango enhanced their movie experience using Slack, improving collaboration and project management while integrating tools for better efficiency and communication.

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Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ)

for Slack

What is Slack?

Slack is the collaboration hub that brings the right people, information and tools together to get work done. It helps to align their teams, unify their systems, and drive their businesses forward.

Slack offers a secure, enterprise-grade environment that can scale with the largest companies in the world. It is a stack where people can work together more effectively, connect all their other software tools and services, and find the information they need to do their best work. It offers real-time messaging, file sharing, archiving, and search. It has several internal and external sharing options to receive and share files with anyone. It offers advanced search, filters and sorting that make it easy to get the right files.

Some of its features include conversation channels, private groups, messaging, message history, search, snippets, webhooks, collaboration, fFile sharing, file browsing, voice/video calls, feedback, progress archive, notifications, integrations, synchronization, open API and more.

What is Slack used for?

Slack is a Team Collaboration Software mainly used by its customers to Improve Internal Communications and Acquire Customers by Collaboration, Communication Management and Content Management .

What are the top features of Slack?

Alerts: popups & Notifications, Personalization and bot are some of the top features of Slack.

Who uses Slack?

Slack is used by Computer Software, Information Technology And Services and Marketing And Advertising among other industries.

What are Slack alternatives?

Microsoft Teams, Yammer, Workplace From Meta and Salesforce Anywhere are popular alternatives for Slack.

Where is Slack located?

Slack is headquartered at 415 Mission Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States.
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Peers used Slack for collaboration and communication management

Slack Features

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FEATURE RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

4.65/5 ★

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Custom Reports

3.99/5 ★

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Analytics

3.85/5 ★

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CAPABILITIES RATINGS AND REVIEWS
AI Powered

4.65/5 ★

Read Reviews (212)
Custom Reports

3.99/5 ★

Read Reviews (3108)
Analytics

3.85/5 ★

Read Reviews (511)

Software Failure Risk Guidance

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Salesforce, Inc. Profile

Company Name

Salesforce, Inc.

Year Founded

1999

HQ Location

415 Mission Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States

Employees

10001+

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Financials

IPO