Collaboration for big companies: 5 things that make Slack an enterprise-grade collaboration hub

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 truck 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.