Slack Atlas
A product for integrating Slack with your organization’s user directory and org chart.
Key Terms
- HRIS System: Human Resources Information System
- Used to help organizations manage and automate various HR processes and employee data
- SCIM API: System for Cross-domain Identity Management
- An open API standard for managing identities across different systems
- Dedicated note for SCIM found here.
What is it?
- An enhanced Slack profile and dynamic org chart
- Utilizes SCIM and other standard APIs to automatically synchronize various employee profile data from your HRIS systems
- Highly customizable to display content relevant for your organization
- You can pick and choose which fields you want to show
Implementation Notes
- It’s recommended that you initially activate & configure Atlas in a Slack Sandbox. To get a Slack Sandbox:
- Enterprise Grid customers: Make a request to your AE/CSM team
- Business Plus: Create your own at slack.com/create
- Consider how implementation in a Sandbox and re-implementation in a production Slack instance will impact implementation timeline & cost
- Activating Slack Atlas isn’t self-serve; you have to email feedback@slack.com with your instance URL to have them enable it for you
- Upon activation / enablement, no visible changes occur for end-users
- It just exposes to the Slack admins the controls to configure Atlas
- If your IdP or HRIS doesn’t have a prebuilt SCIM connector, you’ll have to build one yourself as part of the Atlas setup. According to the docs that I could find, those that have them include the following:
- Azure Active Directory
- Okta
- OneLogin
- PingFederate
- PingOne
Misc. Notes
- View-Only Profiles: You can create profiles in Slack even for those people in your organization that aren’t Slack users
- This helps to provide a more holistic view of your entire organization through Atlas
- These people cannot also be existing or deactivated Slack users
Resources
- Slack Atlas Product Page
- Slack Atlas Admin / Deployment Resources
- Atlas Profile Modules Document
- Slack Admin SCIM Documentation
- Slack Atlas Launch Checklist