IMO, the cool thing about slack is integration with other services for "real-time" notifications. At my previous job, we had this tool built internally in irc c

IMO, the cool thing about slack is integration with other services for "real-time" notifications. At my previous job, we had this tool built internally in irc chat room to notify whenever client connected/disconnected a session, breached some risk limit, etc. It was super helpful to be on top of stuff in real-time. And once you have something like this it's hard to let go of it.