What problems is Slack solving and how is that benefiting you?
The fundamental problem Slack solves is keeping a cross-functional team coordinated without relying on email chains and scheduled meetings for every piece of communication. In product marketing I work with people across five or six different teams on any given week, and the work moves fast enough that waiting for a meeting or an email reply creates real bottlenecks. Slack lets me get a quick answer from a product manager, share a draft with a designer for gut-check feedback, and align with the demand gen team on launch timing all within the same hour. That speed of coordination is the single biggest benefit.
It also solves the problem of context disappearing. Before Slack, decisions got made on calls or in hallway conversations and the only record was whoever happened to take notes. Now most of those decisions happen in channels where there is a searchable history. When someone joins a project late or when I need to revisit why a particular direction was chosen, the conversation is there. It is not formal documentation, but it is a significant upgrade over having no record at all.
The integration problem is one I did not think about until Slack solved it. Having notifications from the tools my team uses, Google Drive, Figma, Jira, Salesforce, flow into the same interface where conversations happen means I spend less time checking individual tools for updates. The information comes to me in the context where I can act on it. When a Figma file I am waiting on gets updated, I see it in the project channel and can review it immediately rather than discovering it the next time I happen to open Figma.
The net benefit is that coordination overhead has gone down meaningfully. The meetings that still happen are more focused because the status updates and quick decisions already happened in Slack. The tradeoff is managing the volume, which is real work, but the alternative of going back to email-driven coordination is not something I would choose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.