We performed a comparison between Slack and Workplace by Facebook 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."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."
"Slack provides very fast communication."
"The most valuable feature for me was the different channels."
"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."
"Slack helps me to read bulk messages."
"Slack is a very stable product."
"It has definitively made an improvement on our productivity. Information does not got lost in hundreds of less important messages."
"The product has the ability to scale."
"Storage is the best thing about the solution."
"A full-featured collaboration tool that is as easy to use as Facebook."
"The product was easy to use."
"The solution is used as a knowledge platform for sharing knowledge and information that everybody can easily access."
"I would like the in-meeting content sharing facility to be improved."
"The solution should have less frequent updates."
"Slack's interface is not simple for me. It's not a user-friendly interface"
"I want a feature in the solution that will help me share documents only with the set of people that I prefer rather than all of them. I would also like the solution to have a feature similar to Microsoft SharePoint where you can group all your documents."
"The notifications on the phone are delayed."
"The only area of concern that I have is with the inability to preview received documents without having to download them first."
"We’d like it to have more capability for everyone to work on one doc in real time all at once."
"Slack feels clustered and hence it should improve its design and UI."
"The conferencing feature does not work well with multiple parties or locations."
"The product should allow users to assign tasks and automate processes."
"The implementation could be made easier."
"There needs to be a restriction on who can download content."
Slack is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Social Software with 68 reviews while Workplace by Facebook is ranked 9th in Enterprise Social Software with 4 reviews. Slack is rated 8.4, while Workplace by Facebook is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Slack writes "A competitive solution that improves collaboration and productivity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Workplace by Facebook writes "A scalable and easy-to-use solution that can be used for internal communication and storage". Slack is most compared with Symphony, SharePoint, Atlassian Confluence, Chatter and ChatWork, whereas Workplace by Facebook is most compared with Yammer and SharePoint. See our Slack vs. Workplace by Facebook report.
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