We are excited to launch our support of Slack’s latest product, Slack Enterprise Grid, which brings the power of Slack to organizations of any shape or size. The latest version of our open source development tool is ready today with seamless, full support for this exciting new environment for bots. Bots already built on Botkit will work on new Grid-enabled teams without any changes — all that is required is a painless upgrade to our library.
Start here, with our preconfigured starter project that includes everything you need to build a bot for your team, or get to work on the next killer enterprise app.
5 reasons Botkit is great for the enterprise
- Botkit works great with the top natural language processing and understanding tools like IBM Watson, Microsoft LUIS, Wit, and api.ai.
- Botkit includes support for all of Slack’s latest features, including threads, interactive messages, and the events API.
- Botkit can easily be configured to work with existing databases and internal resources, with built-in support for mongo, redis, firebase and others.
- Botkit is old-fashioned vanilla JavaScript with an extremely active open source community. No special training or knowledge is necessary to build a bot because Botkit provides well-documented, easy-to-understand conversational building tools.
- Botkit runs in your data center! You control all the messages between Slack and your users, you control your user data, and you control what special access your bot has into your private network and internal resources.
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Learn more about developing for Slack Enterprise Grid on Slack’s official blog.
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