Streamlining Data Collaboration: Metaphor's Integration with Slack and Microsoft Teams

Unlocking data’s full potential demands effective collaboration. With its seamless integration with Slack and Microsoft Teams, Metaphor brings data collaboration to where users are, revolutionizing the way teams interact and access valuable data insights.

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Meeting Users Where They Are

Metaphor seamlessly integrates with Slack and Microsoft Teams, ensuring users can access and share data within their existing workflows. Our customers maintain uninterrupted productivity by allowing data collaboration directly within the platforms teams already use, eliminating the need for additional tools or processes.

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High-Level Architecture

Behind the scenes, Metaphor employs a robust architecture to facilitate the integration with Slack and Microsoft Teams while maintaining security and scalability. With dedicated production apps listed on respective app stores, Metaphor ensures a consistent experience for all users, from technical data teams to business end-users. Each customer is treated as a separate tenant, with its own isolated instance to guarantee tenancy and data privacy. A gateway serves as a proxy between the Slack/Teams API and event handling functions, ensuring that events are routed to the appropriate customer instance without compromising security or data integrity.

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Backend API for Event Handling

Metaphor's backend API listens to Slack/Teams events sent via the proxy, ensuring the authenticity and integrity of each message before processing. The Slack/Teams app offers a plethora of features, including Metaphor URL unfurling, asset search, change notifications, AI summarization, and natural language search. 

For example: leveraging OpenAI LLM, Metaphor provides insightful summarizations of conversation threads and answers natural language questions with universal search capabilities. This gives our customers access to comprehensive data insights without leaving their collaboration platform of choice.

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Security and Privacy

Metaphor prioritizes security and privacy in its Slack/Teams integration. Every message received undergoes validation to prevent any unauthorized access or data corruption. The data processing occurs exclusively within the customer's environment, preventing any access or interaction with other customers' data. By enforcing this segregation, Metaphor guarantees the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive information shared within Slack or Teams conversations.

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Enabling Seamless Collaboration

The integration of Metaphor with Slack and MS Teams marks an industry milestone in enabling collaboration within organizations. By embedding data capabilities into familiar communication channels, We empower our customers to communicate, collaborate, and access valuable data insights effortlessly. 

From capturing ideas scattered in conversations to providing quick access to data assets, Metaphor's integration with Slack and Teams revolutionizes the way teams interact, fostering a culture of data-driven collaboration and innovation.

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About Metaphor

The Metaphor Metadata Platform represents the next evolution of the Data Catalog - it combines best in class Technical Metadata (learnt from building DataHub at LinkedIn) with Behavioral and Social Metadata. It supercharges an organization’s ability to democratize data with state of the art capabilities for Data Governance, Data Literacy and Data Enablement, and provides an extremely intuitive user interface that turns even the most non-technical user into a fan of the catalog. See Metaphor in action today!