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We performed a comparison between Adobe Experience Manager and Slack based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Social Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Adobe Experience Manager vs. Slack Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"Adobe Experience Manager is a content management system, and we use it to create and manage a website.""It is easy to learn. You don't need to be an advanced Java developer.""Easy to work with the solution.""If you want to use content in a mobile application and you want the content in some other application, you can simply expose it from the CMS to different clients or different systems. It's easy. On top of that, the technology underlying AEM is open-source and is very powerful like Apache Sling and JCR.""I've used several CMS tools, but Adobe Experience Manager is feature-rich, especially for web security and content management. It's more efficient to manage content on Adobe Experience Manager, and you can do a lot with it, such as updating content at any time, and on any platform, even from mobile or tablet. Adobe Experience Manager is still getting updated daily, and it's the best CMS tool in the market for me. I like that you can manage assets in Adobe Experience Manager. I also like that the solution has an analytics dashboard that shows you where the traffic comes from, how many clicks come from a specific location, the number of clicks and impressions, etc. Adobe Experience Manager can be accessed by other teams, for example, the digital media department of my company, so the solution can be used and updated per each team's requirement. Adobe Experience Manager is more than just a web developer tool, as it also allows visibility tracking and has other uses. I also like that the GUI for Adobe Experience Manager is straightforward and catchy. It has separate folders and icons, so using Adobe Experience Manager isn't tough. The solution is straightforward to use and handle.""Adobe Experience Manager is quite a powerful product that you can use to design files and export them.""I like the native applications such as Adobe Target, Adobe Analytics, and Adobe Experience Platform. Because of these, it's very easy to connect and obtain reports on how my website is doing, how many have visited it, how frequently, etc. The multiple publisher concept is one of the best parts of this solution."

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"With respect to being a clean and efficient communications platform, I think that it does the job quite well.""Slack is a collaboration tool where you can create specific topic-related channels and manage different threads on different talks so people can interact and maintain a chat.""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 huddle feature that allows you to get on a call with a colleague is one of the best features of Slack.""It offers customization options for various applications, including integrations with Zoom for video calls and a wide range of other integration plugins.""The feature that I have found most valuable is communication between team members.""The product gives the best user experience.""Slack offers several valuable features. Firstly, they have a message deletion feature, which is now available in other software as well, but Slack was the one who introduced it in enterprise solutions."

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Cons
"The latest trend is to render everything in the client-side framework. For example, SPA or single page application. This is a feature that needs improvement. The cloud deployment pipeline needs to be improved as well.""Adobe Experience Manager's pricing could be improved.""Tool-wise, the Adobe Experience Manager support team is not very responsive when the user face issues in AEM as a Cloud Service.""In comparison to other CMS products, Adobe Experience Manager is missing some capabilities such as proper versioning or a better versioning system and backend connectivity. If something is deleted in AEM, the user cannot recover it. You have to call technical support, and they will need to recover the whole instance. So, it's really difficult. For example, if you delete a page, you cannot recover it. There should be an option to recover it. In AEM, you have to go to the previous state of the instance itself or the virtual machine, and you have to restore everything, which is not good.""I haven't seen any areas for improvement in Adobe Experience Manager as it's a full-fledged CMS tool, and Adobe is already working on enhancements for the solution. Adobe is working to make Adobe Experience Manager more valuable and easier to use for any user, even non-technical ones, through multiple components and templates. Day by day, Adobe provides the latest update to Adobe Experience Manager, and if my team needs any particular change, it just needs to be reported to the Adobe team. As Adobe Experience Manager has a broad scope and a lot of use cases and features, it's a solution that requires some time and effort from you in terms of learning, especially if you're implementing it for different clients, which could be an area for improvement.""The solution's pricing and stability could be improved.""Programming model could be improved, it's a monolithic solution."

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"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.""Sometimes there are login issues.""Slack does not have videoconferencing capabilities, which would have been nice.""The tool has stability issues that need to be improved. We are not native English speakers and Slack needs to integrate grammar checks.""I think Slack could add additional features without making the solution slower or more difficult to use.""It is difficult to navigate the tool when I log in to two devices and start a video call.""When someone responds to my message in Slack, a new window opens. There should be an option to roll down the answers.""The solution needs to improve its scalability."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "There's a free trial for one month for Adobe Experience Manager, which you can use for learning purposes, then, after the trial period, you'll need to purchase the license. Adobe offers a few plans for Adobe Experience Manager, but I'm unaware of how much my company is paying."
  • "It's a costly solution. I would rate the price at two out of five on a scale from one to five, where one is the most expensive and five is the most competitive."
  • "Users have to pay a yearly licensing fee to use the solution, which is highly-priced."
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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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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Adobe Experience Manager is a content management system, and we use it to create and manage a website.
    Top Answer:The solution's pricing and stability could be improved.
    Top Answer:Adobe Experience Manager is used for user experience, product design, and user journeys.
    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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    5
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    Also Known As
    Adobe Day CQ5, Ektron Social Marketing, Episerver Content Cloud
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    Overview

    Adobe Communique 5 (Adobe CQ5), currently manifested as Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), is a web-based content management system which is developed to help businesses in offering high-end digital experience to their customers. 

    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
    Metra
    Strava, The New York Times, Spotify, Blue Bottle Coffee Company, Eventbrite, Box, Circa, Stripe
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization41%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Manufacturing Company4%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company24%
    Marketing Services Firm13%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Healthcare Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization82%
    Computer Software Company4%
    Financial Services Firm4%
    University1%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise64%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise46%
    Large Enterprise43%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business63%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise24%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business5%
    Midsize Enterprise83%
    Large Enterprise12%
    Buyer's Guide
    Adobe Experience Manager vs. Slack
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Adobe Experience Manager vs. Slack and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Adobe Experience Manager is ranked 5th in Enterprise Social Software with 16 reviews while Slack is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Social Software with 68 reviews. Adobe Experience Manager is rated 7.8, while Slack is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Adobe Experience Manager writes "A powerful product that can be used for user experience, product design, and user journeys". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Slack writes "A competitive solution that improves collaboration and productivity". Adobe Experience Manager is most compared with Adobe CQ5, Liferay Digital Experience Platform, WordPress, SharePoint and SDL Tridion DX, whereas Slack is most compared with SharePoint, Symphony, Atlassian Confluence, Chatter and ChatWork. See our Adobe Experience Manager vs. Slack report.

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