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Slack Connect — The future of business communication
Organizations can now work securely with up to 20 partners and vendors in channels, driving stronger relationships and faster results.
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I didn’t dig deep enough but I’m wondering what’s the added value compared to bringing external collaborators to your workspace? https://slackhq.com/how-to-bring...
@amokrane_tamine we think Slack is a simpler, pleasant and more productive way to get work done. Emphasis on more productive: we hear from customers who adopt slack Connect that they get their projects done much faster. I would say this is doubly-true if they are already on Slack, where this is as simple as sharing a channel with them.
@shanand Thanks for the reply Shanan. I'm sorry but my previous message wasn't clear at all. When I said "workspace" I meant Slack Workspace or channel. It is already possible to allow an external collaborator to a slack channel so what's the benefit of this new feature? Thanks!
@amokrane_tamine, thanks for the clarification. This feature is a bundling and expansion of the capabilities we have previously provided as "shared channels" and guests. We're using this new label to cover both of these external collaboration tools, and to begin an expansion of their capabilities (now up to 20 orgs in a channel, some of the other features we pre-announced).
@shanand Thanks a lot. Indeed it looks great. You're well prepared to be big in this post covid world.
Hi Product Hunt, I'm part of the Slack team, and we're super excited to share a little more about what Slack Connect can do.
Last month Slack announced Slack Connect, a Secure Communications Environment that brings the power of your Slack channels to everyone you work with outside the walls of your organization - your supply chain, corporate subsidiaries or industry peers. Slack Connect is a foundational set of technologies that enables:
• The sharing of channels across many organizations (for now, up to 20)
• Closed networks for direct messaging based on those channels, and, in the future, the ability to form DM connections independent of channels
• A new surface area for enterprise software that crosses organizational boundaries: our workflow builder already works in shared channels and we imagine a (near!) future where those channels become the place that contracts are signed, invoices delivered, purchase orders accepted, service tickets entered, etc
• Independent control over security and compliance functionality such as message retention policies, eDiscovery, DLP, legal holds, etc.
• The verification of organizations to combat phishing and fraud, so you can ensure that communications are coming from the company
• The creation of even more sophisticated structure for collaboration, such as shared workspaces and, potentially, even shared Grid instances
This is new technology that relegates email to the fringes of business communication. For customers, we’re offering a massive step forward in the way they collaborate with their partners, suppliers, clients, the people in their ecosystem — extending all the enterprise-grade security benefits of Slack beyond the walls of their organization.
If you’d like to learn more, please check out this blog post: http://slackhq.com/slack-connect
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