Weiss: Companies love Slack most when piping internal backend tools into it
Noah Weiss · Big Data at Slack // Noah Weiss, Slack (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark) · Sep 30, 2016 · at 20:40
Noah Weiss, Head of Search, Learning & Intelligence at Slack, explains how organizations derive maximum engagement and value from Slack.
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“I think the companies that wind up loving Slack the most, they basically take all these really ugly internal tools that they have that no one ever wants to log into anyway, And they start just kind of connecting those pipes into Slack and that's something that winds up being kind of magical experience for them.”
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