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SnoChatSlack, https://chatsnomedintl.snomedtoolsslack.orgcom/, is the new online, collaborative team chat application for SNOMED International. It is built upon very similar to the previous tool used by the organization, Rocket Chat, an open source chat server and is similar to other tools such as Slack and HipChat. but is provided as a cloud service. 

After using Rocket Chat for over a year, we have come to realize that considering the priorities of the organization, the overhead for managing this service outweighs the benefit of having a service in-house. Slack is probably the most mature chat platform available and has been around for a number of years. It meets all of our requirements and more, as well as removing the infrastructure management overhead.

We are providing our own server in order to store the full history of conversations and data, and to be able to provide a chat platform that both staff and the community can use without increasing costs from external service providers such as Slack. This service will replace our current use of HipChatSnoChat. If you are currently using HipChatSnoChat, then this tool Slack will be the tool you use going forward and the way it works will be familiar.However, if you have never heard of HipChat, then you are welcome to come and try out SnoChat and set up private groups for your teamvery familiar.