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.

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

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

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