I'm caught in a bastard twilight zone of having to use both of these for overlapping groups.
I'm going to make a call on going with only 1 across the organisation - I have my thoughts, but for those of you who have used both, which do you prefer and why?
Slack by far.
Slack. It's more intuitive (I don't k ow how MS manage to make everything so complex) and generally a nicer user experience.
We've moved over to Teams now, and I miss Slack. The irony is we don't use Outlook so we don't even get the integration there.
having been in the same situation they both have advantages over the other. i liked how Teams is backed by Sharepoint and you can have documents in teams and also shared with individuals who are not in the private teams channel.
Slack as a pure chat function is a nicer app, although the thick client is not memory or cpu efficient.
Depending on who's using what and why it might be a challenge to get rid of slack even if it's just an expensive version of irc.
Slack as a pure chat function is a nicer app, although the thick client is not memory or cpu efficient.
You're kidding, right? Compared with Teams?
They're both resource intensive IME.
Use both...Slack is for more of the technical chats and Teams seems to be used as a wider business used tool.
Teams seems to do a lot more than Slack for me...Slack seems to be a chat tool and Teams does more integration with Calendars and Sharepoint, etc.
What is it needed for? Which one does it better?
The obvious answer is to use Zoom for the organisation-wide calls. 🙂
I wish I could say I'm joking, but that's literally what just happened at my work. At least we're Skype/Lync free now.
At least we’re Skype/Lync free now
We're still in this hell, with 90% of our office at home the skype performance has been awful (bring back Arkadin) but the future for us is Teams which I have yet to be exposed to.
I have only heard of Slack due to Silicon Valley and Monica passing on it...
It depends if you are on board with O365
Already using O365? Teams for the integration. Otherwise the decision gets harder, both have their merits.
Already using O365? Teams for the integration. Otherwise the decision gets harder, both have their merits.
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Yep, this is fundamentally it. If you’re a Microsoft shop, use Outlook/exchange for email, etc then Teams will make a lot more sense.
The places that don’t default to Microsoft (google cloud, zoom, etc) then Slack probably makes more sense as your chat/collab platform.
Teams if you want easier management and control. I'm still a member of slack channels from a previous company. Teams it's linked to your office 365 account. You leave, you no longer have access.
EDIT: Unless of course you have slack linked to your org single sign on.
Im a TEAMS user, i quite like it, waaaayyyy better than SKYPE. I fin d it works really well, and as we are O365 all of the integration works well. Iim sure we only use a tiny fraction of it's potential usefulness, so would be good to get people trained on it properly..
Slack every time. Just gone from one place using Slack to another using Teams, it's usable but nowhere near as slick.
Slack seems to be a chat tool and Teams does more integration with Calendars and Sharepoint, etc.
Slack has loads of integrations via plugins.
Slack unless you are an MS house, the killer part of teams is the enterprise integration.
People like what they like and lose all objectivity defending their decision.
My company uses O365 so as above its a no brainer from and AD perspective. I have used Slack and it seemed very good but I didnt use it for long.
I try not to get to emotionally attached to a piece of software or a vendor however we made the O365 decision a few years ago and it would be wasteful not to maximise that spend, plus love it or hate it is very heavily used commercially as is MS Excel/Word etc.