Business Report: Slack Software Benefits and Challenges Analysis

This report provides an analysis of Slack software, a proprietary cloud-based instant messaging platform developed by Slack Technologies. It explores the advantages of Slack, such as efficient communication, increased transparency, and support for integrating with other applications, leading to improved team work and motivation within an enterprise. However, the report also addresses the disadvantages, including potential time consumption due to lack of end-to-end encryption, increased expenses related to training and installation, and the possibility of information distortion. The report concludes by emphasizing the need for organizations to carefully consider both the benefits and challenges associated with using Slack software.

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Introduction
Slack is actually a proprietary instant platform for messaging which is mainly based
upon cloud and it is developed by the Slack Technologies. Slack software is known for
helping a lot in offering full information via messaging of text and any employee of the
enterprise can be accessing it directly from any place and can even share a lot of various files.
But, in some of the studies it has been noticed that there are disadvantages of slack software
as well. It has been found that the Slack Software also possess some greatly negative effects
within the organization (Hansen & Sia, 2015). It has been found that there are various issues
which have been hugely faced by a particular organization of Australia because of utilizing
the specific software of slack.
The main aim of the study is demonstrate that there are several benefits as well as
challenges of utilizing the particular slack software which has been known to be actually
developed by the Slack Technologies.
Body
The communication which is done digitally is greatly considered to be a specific
approach which is greatly adopted within the organization for the reduction of any specific
misunderstanding and also for motivating all of the various employees such that there is the
maintenance of a very good environment (Flyverbo et al., 2016). Slack software is found to
be hugely helping a lot for offering great communication via text messages. The particular
slack software offers several advantages to any specific enterprise and this is because of
greater efficiency within the communication by the involvement of several members for any
specific task. This particular software is known for incrementing the transparency within the
enterprise because of lesser mails as well as quicker response on a timely basis. It is also
known to be hugely supporting all of the various employees as well as managers for

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integrating with some other applications which is productive (Macnamara, 2019). There is a
great influence in the better functioning of the enterprise and also in the productivity because
of the utilization of slack software. This communications which has been facilitated by the
slack software helps the enterprise a lot in incrementing the work of team and also offers
huge motivation within the entire corporation.
But, there are some studies which clearly shows that there are various kinds of
negative effects of utilizing slack software within the organization (Anderson, 2016). It has
been found that it is really becoming very much time consuming for any particular enterprise
to directly deliver essential information because of the lack of encryption which will be end
to end. It is even known for incrementing the expense of the enterprise as there will be need
for offering a lot of training for all the various employees and there is also an increment in the
cost of installation. It has even been seen that the all over profit of the enterprise is also
greatly lowered because of all the various problems which have been faced by some
employees while communicating via slack software (Mangipudi, Prasad & Vaidya, 2019).
Sometimes it may be happening that the information will be getting distorted because of
some issues in the connection. The issues may be occurring because of the setting of security
and also because of some other various problems.
Conclusion
It can be concluded that there are various advantages as well as disadvantages of
utilizing slack software in the enterprise. Even though there are some advantages, it is to be
greatly remembered that any particular organization must be taking care of all the challenges
which may be faced because of the use of the slack software.

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