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Hipchat is the main competitor I'd say. From what I've heard, Slack hit a pretty big infrastructure wall when it came to big organizations. Teams just didn't s
by phamilton 9y ago
Hipchat is the main competitor I'd say.
From what I've heard, Slack hit a pretty big infrastructure wall when it came to big organizations. Teams just didn't scale past 1000 people. So they've had to rebuild significant parts of the product in order to target large corporate customers.
Looking at some of their latest API updates, you can see glimpses of enterprise support. (eg moving away from handles to user ids likely enables active directory integration).
Back to the question: Why raise money? Because enterprise whales are a much more solid backbone than thousands of 20 person startups, and they still have some eng investments they need to make to handle someone like Walmart in an on premise installation with 10s of thousands of users.
- maxxxxx 9y ago"Why raise money? " I think the more likely answer is because they can.
- dbbk 9y agoTheir CEO Stewart said of the last round "we should because it's cheap right now".
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- qwert12355 9y ago>>What are you talking about? He's talking about teams in the context of Slack not a different product.
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- detaro 9y agoThe parent is talking about the size of Slack teams, not the Microsoft product "Teams" which you seem to be talking about. (Why would Slack have to rebuild anything because of MS?!)
- robbiemitchell 9y agoAtlassian is about to replace Hipchat with Stride. But the real competition is Google or MSFT, since they have email and docs deployed to just about everyone and can try to capture that attention by offering something _just_ good enough for a lot less. At Slack Frontiers last week (their first ever conference), they had a number of speakers from large orgs that use Slack, including Fox and Oracle. That size business is probably what they're working hardest to capture.
- manigandham 9y agoMicrosoft already has Microsoft Teams which works well and is included in Office 365 now: https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat...
- robbiemitchell 9y agoRight. Google also has the next incarnation of office messaging, called Hangouts Chat, now in beta. All of them will be racing to secure adoption and integrations with services used by various teams throughout organizations.