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My very-large project switched chat apps in one weekend (backed by a few weeks of prep by IT team). We had JIRA integration on day one, and one or two missing
by khazhou 7y ago
My very-large project switched chat apps in one weekend (backed by a few weeks of prep by IT team). We had JIRA integration on day one, and one or two missing things within a week. It wasn't that big a deal.
I think Slack aficionados overestimate how much investment most companies have in custom integrations and bots and things that increase switching costs.
- gpm 7y agoChat history seems like the issue to me. My company has tons of institutional knowledge locked away in slack channels.
- dillonmckay 7y agoThey really need to make the search better.
- bjoernw 7y agoYou could always just export all your company's slack data to preserve it and make it queryable https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201658943-Export-your-workspace-data https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201658943-Export-yo...
- gpm 7y agoHuh, good to know that exists.
- sciurus 7y agoThat might not be an issue at many big companies, which likely have data retention policies that disallow storing chat history longer than N days.
- Jare 7y ago> My company has tons of institutional knowledge locked away I think your company should start working on that problem ASAP.