Slack introduces Enterprise Grid to manage Slack at scale for large and complex corporations

Slack is an enterprise team collaboration software, designed to make work a simpler and more pleasurable experience. The requirements of large corporations are different from those of small teams, and Slack has crated a new enterprise-grade offering for large and complex organisations. The new product is called Slack Enterprise Grid . The product is already available with dozens of large corporations, including PayPal, Capital One and IBM.

Jennifer Manry, Vice President of Workforce Technology at Capital One says, “With Enterprise Grid, Slack has preserved the sense of community, interactivity, and humanity of the workspace that our teams love, with the administrative capabilities we need as a larger enterprise.”

The Enterprise Grid has facilities communication structures that are aligned with how teams already operate. Administrators can manage the Slack activities of the entire company through a single point, and the centralised controls ensure the security of the data. Slack supports integration with other tools used in the workplace, with information and workflows delivered directly on Slack. Enterprise Grid supports unlimited workspaces for teams.

Workspaces can be created for any level of the organisation, for any kind of group within the organisation. The workspaces can be created according to team, department or location. For the end user, the experience is the same as using Slack, with channels, threaded messages and platform integrations. System administrators can configure workspaces, and control the integrations for each workspace, giving each team a focused place to work.

A unique feature on Enterprise Grid is that administrators have the ability to share channels between workspaces. Only a specified channel is shared across two or more workspaces as needed. In the shared channel, each of the participating workspaces are isolated from the noise of the channels in the other workspaces. Shared channels also prevent sensitive information from leaking from one workspace to another.

Large organisations no longer need to use unconnected instances of Slack for separate teams. A single layer of Slack Enterprise Grid spans the entire organisation. Search, one to one messaging, and group direct messaging are all available on the single Slack layer to all the employees in the organisation. End users only need to sign in once into Slack, to find all the tools, people and workspaces they need to get the job done.

There are new connections and applications, meant specially for the Enterprise Grid now. Those interested in signing up for Enterprise Grid can request a demonstration from Slack. Developers have a number of new toolkits and services available to build applications for the Enterprise Grid .