We performed a comparison between Office 365 and Slack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Content Collaboration Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."My primary use case is for preparing presentations to teach, often on PowerPoint."
"The most valuable feature of Office 365 is that it has many solutions bundled together."
"OneNote is the feature I use the most. We also frequently use the Power Apps features."
"It has more features than somebody would expect, and it is worth taking a deeper look into the features available."
"The most valuable feature is Microsoft Exchange."
"The solution is quite intuitive and easy to use."
"The way the ERP presents information for the user is very good."
"I like that it is cloud-based, wherefrom any computer I can access my documents and continue working."
"Slack helps us keep the conversation focused and avoid multiple threads that create more confusion. I would say that has been the biggest advantage for us."
"I like the tool's ability to send voice mail. We can also search for conversations easily in Slack."
"The most valuable feature for me was the different channels."
"Slack is a powerpack bundle of features that help small or large organizations to handle teams and their tasks."
"We use Slack for general communication, conference calls, and sharing screens because we have people working from different countries."
"The huddle feature is valuable to me."
"The solution has a great user interface and functionalities. It has good features that we can use. We can integrate any third-party application with Slack so that it provides you with insights and updates in real-time on Slack itself."
"The most valuable feature is that we can easily integrate different workloads and the alerts are reliable. Also because it allows us to use it as a monitoring tool sometimes."
"Sometimes the configurations of the error troubleshooting are pretty problematic and there are a lot of issues that happen even if you follow the step-by-step guides. They can work on fixing this issue. If there are a lot of issues in your Windows or your Office or anything, you restart your PC and it works. They need to get rid of this need."
"Sometimes the synchronization between the desktop and online is a little bit slow."
"It would be a fantastic opportunity if their solution could be used in combination with VoIP software, allowing you to combine VoIP software and Office 365 on a single platform."
"Office 365 could be easier to use at first. Tutorials are needed to know how to use the solution."
"If two people update the same file, it causes issues."
"The security should be improved."
"Microsoft Word is a little bit left behind regarding the tools it has."
"A need that a company like ours has is that we want to be able to have data flow into one tool, for example, for all the management of tasks through the company and workflow of who is doing what and so on. There are no real solutions for this at the moment in Office 365. It would be nice if they could implement this in the next release, so we can have one solution from one company giving us the whole data and flow of data into the company."
"I have found it cumbersome to create and set up groups, or channels."
"Slack should add a feature to schedule meetings."
"Slack could add additional and better integrations."
"I would like to see the social sharing of blogs, announcements, or other news directly from the message corner."
"The solution should have less frequent updates."
"Sometimes, the servers are not available."
"The only area of concern that I have is with the inability to preview received documents without having to download them first."
"Slack does not have videoconferencing capabilities, which would have been nice."
Office 365 is ranked 6th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 54 reviews while Slack is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Social Software with 68 reviews. Office 365 is rated 8.4, while Slack is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Office 365 writes "Great vulnerability insights, offers very impressive cash savings, and offers great information security tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Slack writes "A competitive solution that improves collaboration and productivity". Office 365 is most compared with Atlassian Confluence, Amazon WorkDocs, Citrix ShareFile, Box and SharePoint, whereas Slack is most compared with Symphony, SharePoint, Atlassian Confluence, Chatter and ServiceMax Zinc. See our Office 365 vs. Slack report.
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