Slack Prepares Analytics Tool To Compete With G Suite and Office 365 (computerworld.com) 23
An anonymous reader quotes Computerworld:
Slack is building a new analytics tool to offer businesses greater insights into how their teams collaborate, part of the company's plans to make better use of the data created within its popular chatapp. "We are hoping to build a set of insights that help you understand not only how Slack is being used, but how your company is collaborating and functioning," said Jamie DeLanghe, head of Slack's Search, Learning and Intelligence (SLI) team... Slack's SLI division was created in 2016 to help make better use of the reams of information being created and stored as Slack adoption grows. The New York-based team is responsible for enhancing search functionality and developing the Slack "work graph," which ties together data on a users' behavior and interactions to enable more accurate recommendations.
The team is also tasked with building out Slack's analytics capabilities to highlight areas for improvement based on information about how teams work together. Analytics is something Slack's rivals are focused on, too: Google launched Work Insights to track adoption of its G Suite software and identify which teams are collaborating frequently using tools such as Hangouts Chat. And Microsoft has launched Workplace Analytics, which performs a similar function for its Office 365 tools.
The team is also tasked with building out Slack's analytics capabilities to highlight areas for improvement based on information about how teams work together. Analytics is something Slack's rivals are focused on, too: Google launched Work Insights to track adoption of its G Suite software and identify which teams are collaborating frequently using tools such as Hangouts Chat. And Microsoft has launched Workplace Analytics, which performs a similar function for its Office 365 tools.
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Corporate decision-makers are well aware of the issues to which you refer.
That's not the problem.
The problem is that such people regard those issues as desirable features.
IRC to compete with G Suite and Office 365 (Score:2)
This is literally just IRC with some graphics, and additional easy-to-use integrations.
9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
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It doesn't matter if there are better alternatives, it matters how the person making the decision will benefit personally, any considerations for the company be damned. So IRC being technically better, available on all platforms, trivially bridgeable to any transport, and so on, doesn't matter as it fails the primary enterprise rule.
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Can IIRC create custom SharePoint sites and groups with OneDrive for business with no IT department just like Teams then?
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wat? That'd be a ridiculous layering violation. The core rule of writing reliable tools is: "do one thing and do it well". A communication medium needs a system for managing files about as much as a fish needs a bicycle.
What else would you propose, that an init system should include a web server and parse untrusted XML in it?
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Again Teams is not a chat program. It is a groupware app. On the backend when you create a group like Marketing it creates the SharePoint and One Drive for Business folders automatically so you can collaborate. I am not familiar with Slack at all but I would imagine has sharing options and custom group permissions as well.
It is not a violation if Teams or Slack is just a front end to a backend app such like a website. IIRC also is not as secure for corporate communications nor has the permissions. If you th
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This is literally just IRC with some graphics, and additional easy-to-use integrations.
9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
I can't believe I'm about to defend Slack right now. I mean, I set up a MatterMost server at work and some friends and I use Rocketchat hosted on a RasPi at home because I'm rather big on self-hosted or gtfo, but I think we, the Slashdotters, trivialize the value in the graphics and integrations.
Yes, I'm sure the majority of us would think nothing of typing sudo apt-get install ircd-hybrid on a VM somewhere and configuring it. Then, we have to get all the end users to standardize on an IRC client. Accountin
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I'm old school and still prefer IRC over the GUI chat clients.
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Teams is not chat based?? Teams has groups and each group created automatically creates a SharePoint site as well as a OneDrive for business folder group with custom permissions with no IT department required. Teams also has Yammer and Skype integration as well.
I never used Slack but I assume it is similar and has lots of functionality.
IRC is not even close and it is 2018 and not 1998 as I have not went into an IRC chatroom in many years and I am surprised people still use it?!
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This is literally just IRC with some graphics, and additional easy-to-use integrations.
"[5% of ] this is literally just IRC with [the remaining 95% being] some graphics, and additional easy-to-use integrations."
Apparently there is a great demand for some graphics and easy-to-use integration.
Yet an even better Slack Tool . . . (Score:2)
Slack is building a new analytics tool to offer businesses greater insights into how their teams collaborate
Slack is building a new analytics tool to offer businesses greater insights into how their competitors operate
What about "private" conversations? (Score:2)
Getting past the Slack-hate... Slack's ubiquity once it's in place at a company eventually makes it the de-facto communications tool. People start using it for everything. Private conversations occur in direct message channels all the time.
"I'm interviewing at competitor X on Thursday."
"Director Y is incompetent."
"Staffer Z is kinda hot."
Besides the fact that people using Slack should always assume that someone's watching, or at least able to be watching, how does Slack's analytics treat one-on-one conversa
Pokemon Go (Score:2)
And how does this help coordinate raids? lol
Slack Prepares Analytics Tool To Compete (Score:1)