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Oracle reached approximately 90,000 active users on Slack

Kevin Egan · From Freemium to Enterprise with Slack · Jul 1, 2019 · at 26:18

Kevin Egan, VP of North American Sales at Slack, highlights large-scale enterprise deployments of Slack at tech companies.

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“Ah, Oracle is a customer that's reaching about 90,000 active users.”

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The claim, plainly

As of July 2019, Oracle was a Slack customer reaching approximately 90,000 active users.

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Assessment

Official company statements and contemporary business reporting directly corroborate the claim. In an official blog post published on July 22, 2019, Slack confirmed that Oracle was one of its largest enterprise customers with 'upwards of 90,000 people collaborating in Slack channels at any given time.' Additionally, Slack's 2019 SEC Form S-1 filings listed Oracle as a major enterprise customer, and Inc. Magazine reported in April 2019 that Oracle's Slack deployment had expanded to over 100,000 employees.

Slack Official Blog (July 22, 2019): Noted that for its largest customers, including IBM and Oracle, adoption reached 'upwards of 90,000 people collaborating in Slack channels at any given time.'
Slack Technologies, Inc. SEC Form S-1 / Prospectus (April–June 2019): Identified Oracle as a key enterprise customer deployed on Slack Enterprise Grid.
Inc. Magazine (April 29, 2019): Reported that Oracle had expanded its Slack usage from 30,000 users in 2017 to more than 100,000 employees by early 2019.

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[1] slack.com [2] sec.gov [3] cloudfront.net [4] ciodive.com [5] inc.com [6] forbes.com

"Oracle" "Slack" "S-1" "30,000" OR "90,000" OR "100,000" "Oracle" "Slack" "90,000" OR "90k" OR "90 000" "Oracle" "Enterprise Grid" "Slack" 2018 OR 2019 OR 2020 "Oracle" Slack largest customer 2018 OR 2019 OR 2020 Slack customer Oracle case study 90000 users

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