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92% willing to recommend
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Pros
"We are able to handle more than one hundred POs at any given time with their shipping docs and info, with only one person in charge."

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"The product makes communication seamless.""Slack provides very fast communication.""Its intuitive design makes it easy to use and understand, hence we do not have a need to spend much on educating our teams.""We use thread-based communication. So that if a new person comes to look into a problem for a particular task, they can easily go and look into the particular thread it is discussed in.""The most valuable feature for me was the different channels.""The product is easy to use.""It offers customization options for various applications, including integrations with Zoom for video calls and a wide range of other integration plugins.""The solution makes it easy to create groups, share documents, and communicate."

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Cons
"The search engine could be improved and also provide some kind of indexing."

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"Slack tends to crash once a month.""I think Slack could add additional features without making the solution slower or more difficult to use.""Customization is something that Slack is lacking.""It would be better if Slack had a 'select all' option to delete all the files.""The way groups are created on slack could be improved. Once you create a group of people, you can't add additional people unless you convert it to a channel.""The integration with SharePoint doesn’t work properly.""I would like the text in chat to be more customizable.""We’d like it to have more capability for everyone to work on one doc in real time all at once."

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  • "We use the free version that does not have a license."
  • "The solution is expensive."
  • "It is less expensive than one of its competitors."
  • "It is an expensive tool. We pay 15 to 20 USD monthly per user."
  • "Slack is definitely worth the money."
  • "The pricing can range up to about twenty bucks a user. You can spend a lot of money, especially if you're talking about thousands of users. Generally speaking, Slack is less expensive than Teams. Slack doesn't include all the bells and whistles that Teams does. So you can go from a $6 license in Microsoft 365 to a $50 license per user per month, and there's a lot more you can do in the $50 license."
  • "I would rate the tool's pricing a four out of ten."
  • "The solution is cheap in my country."
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    At Mediacurrent we often get requests to compare Drupal to other platforms used for intranet sites and social business platforms (like https://dev.twitter.com/ for example). This is often referred to as “Social Business Software”, which has grown in popularity in recent years. I decided to do a round-up of a couple of the more well known platforms and compare their products to Drupal. In this roundup we will be comparing Jive, Sharepoint and Drupal Commons. Drupal Commons is a popular distribution created by Acquia to compete with some of these other proprietary platforms. There are many other options out there, commercial and otherwise, to compare with Drupal but I want to focus on Jive and Sharepoint for a couple of reasons. I chose Jive because it is one of the leading competitors in this space in respect to market share. Next, I chose Sharepoint because I have some history with Sharepoint. This experience dates back to when I built www.adhe.edu with Sharepoint 2007 a few years ago. I subsequently wrote this blog entry about my experience shortly after joining Mediacurrent. This roundup will also act as a refresher for those who read my original “Drupal vs. Sharepoint” blog. Yammer, which was recently bought by Microsoft and is the tool we currently use for office communication will also get some mentions throughout this article. As I went through and tested each of these tools I used three main criteria in my evaluation Cost Ability to Customize Overall features… Read more →
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    Top Answer:Nowadays, we don't need to visit an HR portal. Our marketing and human resources teams directly share details about birthdays, upcoming events, and important dates in Slack. Whether it's a training… more »
    Top Answer:We could see improvement in Slack by having an integrated meeting tool. Currently, we rely on third-party integration tools like Zoom to schedule meetings. It would be much more convenient to schedule… more »
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    8.4
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    Yammer logo
    Compared 53% of the time.
    Atlassian Confluence logo
    Compared 47% of the time.
    Symphony logo
    Compared 18% of the time.
    SharePoint logo
    Compared 17% of the time.
    Atlassian Confluence logo
    Compared 15% of the time.
    Chatter logo
    Compared 14% of the time.
    ChatWork logo
    Compared 14% of the time.
    Also Known As
    Clearspace, Jive SBS, Jive Engage, Jive-x, Jive-n
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    Overview

    The workplace has changed. It has become more mobile, and has become a place where communication and collaboration across all spheres of the business is key to success. This is where Jive comes in with its cutting-edge mobile portal, its enterprise social network, and its integrative platform that is compatible with current infrastructure and modern cloud applications.

    As a portal, Jive brings colleagues, content, and current news straight to your desktop or mobile device at the touch of your fingertips. The enterprise social software aspect of Jive connects business colleagues as never-before across geographical locations and throughout the organizational structure. The Jive platform is completely flexible and integrative, and will seamlessly integrate with current systems such as SharePoint and CRM tools, as well as cloud apps like Google Drive and Okta

    Slack is where work happens. It’s a digital workspace that powers your organization — all the pieces and the people — so you can get things done.

    Slack brings all your communication together in one place. It's real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams.

    Sample Customers
    Eloqua, Hitachi Data Systems,T-Mobile, UBM, Thomson-Reuters, Groupon, Nike, Cisco, and others.
    Strava, The New York Times, Spotify, Blue Bottle Coffee Company, Eventbrite, Box, Circa, Stripe
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Government10%
    Healthcare Company9%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company24%
    Marketing Services Firm13%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Healthcare Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization83%
    Computer Software Company4%
    Financial Services Firm3%
    University1%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business50%
    Large Enterprise50%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise26%
    Large Enterprise59%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business63%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise24%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business5%
    Midsize Enterprise83%
    Large Enterprise12%
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    Enterprise Social Software
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Atlassian, Slack and others in Enterprise Social Software. Updated: May 2024.
    771,212 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Jive is ranked 14th in Enterprise Social Software while Slack is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Social Software with 68 reviews. Jive is rated 8.2, while Slack is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Jive writes "Used by our agile teams instead of email to track impediments". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Slack writes "A competitive solution that improves collaboration and productivity". Jive is most compared with Yammer and Atlassian Confluence, whereas Slack is most compared with Symphony, SharePoint, Atlassian Confluence, Chatter and ChatWork.

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