Slack to Teams Migration for Enterprises: 2 Week Assessment
Netwoven
To enable enterprises evaluating a transition from Slack to Microsoft Teams with a comprehensive and discerning assessment of Slack and Microsoft 365 to create a roadmap for migration.
To enable enterprises evaluating a transition from Slack to Microsoft Teams with a comprehensive and discerning assessment of Slack and Microsoft 365 to create a roadmap for migration.
Netwoven will create inventory reports & an assessment of Slack workspaces, channels, messages & files. Subsequently, multiple interactive workshops will be conducted with all stakeholders to help decide the migration strategy. Netwoven will also conduct a prototype migration to highlight the nuances of an enterprise scale migration.
What is this offer for?
This is most appropriate for enterprises evaluating a move to Microsoft Teams, have been using Slack for multiple years and have accumulated millions of messages. Specifically, if you are an organization that...
Understands Slack isn't just a bucket of messages - it's a critical hub that drives business process and getting work done
Values enterprise security to protect your data
Knows you're up against vocal pushback due to platform affinity and significant time invested in Slack
Has users that have built Slack Workflows and / or custom apps / integrations
Has 10's of millions to billions of messages in Slack
Knows the primary risk / cost of the migration is the loss of productivity and diversion of your team from their core mission, not what it takes to migrate messages
What we deliver
Migration is the right time to eliminate noise and irrelevant data. Netwoven's "challenger methodology" blended with comprehensive data analysis and intuitive Power BI reports enable your team to ascertain which channels, messages, apps, workflows, bots and users should be migrated and which should be left behind.
Assessment Agenda
This is core to the identification of the content that needs to be moved. Netwoven has perfected the process over the years successfully executing a considerable number of enterprise Slack to Teams migration projects and calls it a “Challenger Methodology”. We do an automated discovery and analysis of workplaces, channels, messages, workflows and apps and create intuitive Power BI reports to enable your team to ascertain
What must be migrated for business continuity
What can be retired or archived
Where RBAC roles and Team's membership can be used across Channels to simplify management of permissions / membership
What your Slack content will look like when migrated to Microsoft Teams
This ensures that only essential workloads move forward & maintenance is simplified - reducing cost, effort, and risk.
Prototype Migration
We select a sample but representative set of content and use proprietary tooling and methodology to demonstrate migration velocity, potential issues and mitigation mechanism appraising you of what to expect during full migration.
Decision and Strategy Workshops
We conduct a series of participatory workshops and furnish comprehensive recommendations based on your specific Slack footprint to strategize and decide on your final migration roadmap.
What are our differentiators?
“Slack Migrations Are Harder Than They Look” – Consider the following.
Slack is Usually Deeply Embedded in Business Processes
Workflow Builder automations
Bot‑driven approvals
Custom integrations
Channel‑centric processes
Slack’s Data Structure Variability
Millions of messages and attachments
Multi‑workspace Enterprise Grid sprawl
Membership differences between Slack Channels and Teams Channels
App and bot content variability
User Pushback – Adoption and Change Management Risk
Slack users are notoriously vocal during transitions
Lack of proactive ACM is the #1 reason Slack migrations struggle
Technical Constraints Competitors Struggle With
Inability to reach velocity levels that enable reasonable migration timelines
Some vendors require user‑level consent for DM/GM migration
Many tools cannot maintain authorship metadata
Most tools run outside the customers’ security perimeter
Most vendors do not assist with the most complicated part of the transition - WFs, Apps and ACM
With Netwoven, you will deliver the highest ROI, most secure, fastest and highest fidelity Slack migration with the most comprehensive and seamless transition for your users – We have been doing Slack to Teams migrations for more than 7 years - longer than any other vendor in this space and we will not stop innovating.
What is the outcome?
This assessment gives you a roadmap that is specific to your environment, appraises you of the possible issues, ways to remediate those and enables you to a readiness for execution within stipulated time.