All in one communication
platform
By
Kevin Yang & John Stewart
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Agenda:
1. What is Slack?
2. Email vs Slack
3. Value of Slack
4. Challenges
5.Q&A
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Part 1:
What is Slack?
What is Slack?
• Slack at its core is a tool for communicating with your team and
everyone and everything else that you work with
• It is organized by public channels and private channels
• Think of it like a command console for your work place, a
dashboard to see the entire workplace
• Integrates with other apps and services
Cross platform support
How much does it cost?
Slack for Education program offers an 85% discount
on our annual and monthly plans to eligible groups
and institutions:
Annual cost per team member, after the discount:
$12.00 per year — Standard plan
$22.50 per year — Plus plan
Is it secure?
https://slack.com/security
Requirements
• Usability
How easy and friendly is the software
• Scalability
Can this grow as our requirements change
• Reliability
Is it dependable
• Compatibility
Does it fit with our current services and processes
Other choices
• Google Hangouts
• Skype
• WhatsApp
• SMS
• Viber
• Jabber
Part 2:
Email vs. Slack
Focuses on what’s important
• Disorganized responses
• Very few functions for collaboration
• Unable to selectively choose alerts and notifications
• Messages are not real time
• Hard to search for messages and file attachments
Focuses on what’s important
Focuses on what’s important
Slack and its advantages
• All in one dashboard for conversations
• Easy to create discussion groups
• Create custom alerts with other apps and services
• Real time, push notifications to devices
• Easy to search for messages and attachments
Value of Slack - Chat
@One to one
Similar to other messaging applications, people can chat privately
with each other
Private groups
Group chats can be created on specific matters (alerts, tickets,
projects or other topics)
#channels
Channels are used to discuss or share information that concerns
everyone. Each person can subscribe to the channels they want to
be in
Value of Slack – Notifications
• Mute or snooze notifications
• Assign notifications to private or public channels
• Receive notifications from other external apps
• No spam emails
Focuses on what’s important
Slack and its advantages
Part 3:
Value of Slack
Value of Slack – Apps
Why do we want alerts and
notifications in Slack?
Value of Slack – Webhooks
Value of Slack – Webhooks
https://www.programmableweb.com/news/how-tointegrate-webhooks-slack-api/how-to/2015/10/20
Value of Slack – Webhooks
Value of Slack – LibreNMS Integration
Value of Slack – LibreNMS PHP
Value of Slack – Splunk Integration
Value of Slack – Splunk Integration
Value of Slack – Xymon Integration
Value of Slack – Curl Examples
Value of Slack – Alerts are different now
Part 4:
Challenges
Q+A