12 Slack Bots to Superpower Your Team
With the continuous growth of Slack platform, come the numerous apps that help teams to optimize their work. Here are 12 bots for Slack to superpower your team:
Statsbot
Any conversation about analytics and user behavior requires exporting data from related data services. Moreover, it is often required the living presence of several people in front of one screen. Statsbot will change your notion of team work with analytics tools. Bot integrates with Google Analytics, New Relic, Mixpanel and sends different metrics right into your Slack. Statsbot is one of the most popular bots in Slack. More than 5000 teams have already installed this bot.
Nikabot
A very useful tool which allows to see what your whole team has been working on in one neatly organized place. Nikabot asks team members what they do, and then on the basis of retrieved data it builds informative and interactive reports of how things are going. It costs only 1$ per month.
Roundtable
When each team member knows about the working status of each other, productivity soars. The time has come to say goodbye to the old reporting system. Roundtable detects “create” keyword and allows to make collective todo list with easy. Also, the bot automatically checks for status of tasks, which allows all the staff know what’s going on and who needs help.
Atomic Kit
Are you afraid to miss the most significant details of the conversation? Atomic Kit will not allow you to lose important messages for your team. This bot aggregates all starred messages, and the messages will be sent in the next scheduled email. Everyone in your Slack community will receive the email digest, unless they have selectively unsubscribed from the emails.
Meekan
Meekan is a great scheduling robot which helps to organize corporate meetings and plans. When building a working calendar within the team, Meekan keeps in mind a to-do list of each employee and their time zones. The bot also makes it easy to reorganize the list of cases, taking into account the wishes of each. Rescheduling? No problem. Conflicts? Sorted out in seconds. Just checking your calendar in Slack? No need to switch apps.
Dbot
Have you ever thought about the security of incoming information in your Slack channels?
Greet the first antivirus for corporate chat — Dbot. This bot protects Slack users by monitoring communications in the background and warning them about malicious and harmful content in real time. DBOT saves time and effort by delivering threat feed reputation for IP, URL and Files from multiple sources right within Slack.
Workbot
Workbot for Slack actually allows you to do work in your cloud apps from Slack, not just pull information in (though it does this too!). Add a subscriber to a campaign in MailChimp, update a lead in SalesForce, create a new ticket in Github or Jira, and more without ever leaving Slack. This bot understands context, which means you’ll be prompted with intuitive next steps across apps.
For example, if Workbot notifies you of a new ticket in Zendesk marked high priority, it will ask you if you want to see more information about that customer. If you say yes, it will pull the customer profile from SalesForce into Slack. If you want to add a new note to the customer’s profile, you can do so right in the chat. The ability to give smart notifications and get work done across your cloud apps within Slack, makes Workbot a powerful business tool.
Relay
It’s a known fact that most engaging products are delivered by teams that stay close to their users. Relay will help you with it. The bot monitors the user activity in your app and notifies about various events in respective channels in Slack. Relay works on the basis of analytical platform Segment.com
Growbot
The keystone of high productivity of each member of your team is their motivation. Also, equally important is understanding the results of their work. And it’s good when in these processes there are elements of gamification. So Growbot defines words (prop, kudos, etc.) and assigns points to the person to whom they relate.
Safelink
Safelink introduces an additional level of security for the most important information. Bot uploads your message or file on Amazon’s SSE-S3 over latest TLS with AES_256_CBC encryption and HMAC-SHA1 for message authentication and ECDHE_RSA as the key exchange mechanism. Receiver must get phone number PIN verification for identity authentication.
Leo
This is the kindest bot ever. Using Leo is the most powerful way to measure and improve employees’ satisfaction, without ever leaving Slack. Leo creates different anonymous polls: “How would you rate your relations with your colleagues in general?”, “Do you clearly understand your day-to-day responsibilities?”, “You happiness at work is…”.
Ace
Neat and handy task manager directly in your Slack. Ace is enabled with multiple features that help you check items off your list. Also, bot can create and run polls with your team members. For adding a task, you just need to type “todo” for yourself and “todo + @username” to delegate to someone.
