# Integrating Slack with Amazon Q Business
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Amazon Q Business can enhance your users' Slack experience by increasing their productivity, bringing Amazon Q's AI-powered assistance directly into their daily workflows. With the Amazon Q assistant in Slack, users can access Amazon Q's knowledge without context switching during communications. Users can ask Amazon Q questions about its company knowledge, general knowledge (if enabled), and uploaded files using the Slack AI assistant side panel. Users can also mention *@Amazon Q Business* in Slack threads to add it as a collaborator and ask contextual questions about the thread such as "*what are the action items from this thread?*" or "*summarize this thread*".

With the Amazon Q Slack integration your users can do the following:
+ Mention @*Amazon Q Business* in conversations to add it as a collaborator.
+ Ask contextual questions about conversations like "summarize this thread".
+ Access Amazon Q's general knowledge.
+ Access their company's knowledge (if enabled).
+ Upload documents and other features that they have access to in the [using the Amazon Q web experience](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/using-web-experience.html#upload-documents).

**Topics**
+ [Configuring the Amazon Q Business Slack integration for use](slack-configuration.md)
+ [Using the Amazon Q Business Slack App](slack-using.md)