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."
"Many of the features in Office 365 are good, but I think Excel is a very good tool."
"The most innovative feature of Office 365 is the Power Apps, which allows us to automate literally everything that we want automated. For example, sending attachments to specific folders on SharePoint, adding people's SharePoint when certain apps are performed, or emailing certain people at certain instances, such as when you've done a follow-up with the CRM and you need a marketing email to be sent out at a particular point."
"It's inexpensive to license."
"The most valuable features of Office 365 are Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams. Teams helped us to collaborate more through its call and document sharing features."
"The product helps us be more efficient. It helps us to have a standardized way of doing things."
"Adaptable solution with a good interface. It's easy to set up and easy to use."
"There are all sorts of really good tools for use on the information security side that allow us to make sure that our people are doing business and doing business right."
"Tasks and team huddles are the most valuable features of Slack."
"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."
"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."
"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 event, a company-wide gathering, or a social event, all the information is shared there. This keeps us all updated."
"You can create channels between teams internally and externally, which is great. There is a lot of security with Slack internal, which is what I value."
"Slack provides very fast communication."
"I use Slack for communication with my colleagues."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"I rate the support of Office 365 a four out of five."
"In terms of improvement, it should have tutorials when you first have the opportunity to use it, to be able to really learn it."
"There are some complexities to the initial setup if you use some of the more advanced features."
"Using Office 365 is not that flexible on some mobile devices, like Android."
"I would like to see the macro functionality in Excel made simpler."
"They should do more testing before product releases."
"I started working a lot on Microsoft Teams and I find it a bit vast. It should be divided out a bit so that someone can use it for basic functionality, like audio, video, and calls. Then, if someone wants more advanced functionality for file sharing and team creation, and so on, they could use a separate app."
"Microsoft Word is a little bit left behind regarding the tools it has."
"It would be better if Slack had a 'select all' option to delete all the files."
"The tool should be able to fetch a conversation when we search for it even if it is in the thread."
"The reason is we are moving towards a new CRM, so we have a suitable solution to integrate with the new CRM."
"I would like the in-meeting content sharing facility to be improved."
"Slack's interface is not simple for me. It's not a user-friendly interface"
"The only area of concern that I have is with the inability to preview received documents without having to download them first."
"Slack tends to crash once a month."
"I think Slack could add additional features without making the solution slower or more difficult to use."
Office 365 is ranked 3rd 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 Zoom, whereas Slack is most compared with SharePoint, Symphony, Atlassian Confluence, Chatter and Zoho Cliq. See our Office 365 vs. Slack report.
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