Martin Potgieter, Nclose

Slack, a collaborative teamwork application with all the bells and plenty of whistles, describes itself as the enterprise’s digital HQ. It’s a smart platform that is focused on teams, information-sharing, instant messaging, and real-time decision-making. In September 2019, the platform had more than 12 million daily active users, and, according to estimates by businessofapps.com, in 2022 this number has exceeded 18 million. While Slack has fallen behind its closest competitor, Microsoft Teams, which has more than 75 million active users, this may be due to the ecosystem that Microsoft has created rather than it being a better platform.

In this dive into the interesting mind of the CIO, we ask Martin Potgieter, CIO at Nclose, Richard Bailey, the senior VP of engineering at Entersekt, and Karl Fischer, the CTO at Obsidian Systems, why they chose Slack for their collaboration stack. (No, the rhyming never gets old.)