November 14, 2016
Understand the most significant differences and similarities of Slack and Microsoft Teams.
November 14, 2016
Understand the most significant differences and similarities of Slack and Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft recently announced the introduction of Microsoft Teams. A chat-based collaboration platform integrated with Office 365. The solution is being touted as Microsoft’s answer to Slack. Teams is still in preview and will be generally available in the first quarter of 2017. And while advertised features of Microsoft Teams such as the people-finding Who-bot have yet to be released, we have prepared this quick feature comparison of Slack and Microsoft Teams as the two products exist today.
In the past two years, Slack has experienced phenomenal growth. According to Techcrunch, Slack’s user count and paid seat count grew 3.5 times in 2016. The product is artfully designed to reduce the friction associated with collaboration online and encourage adoption and growth through network effects. The product has also been infused with a sense of fun and whimsy: their helpful Slackbot doesn’t take itself too seriously and with integrations like GIPHY, ensures that the collaborative environment is endearingly human rather than overly sterile. Clearly there’s something to be learned from their approach.
Slack
One of Slack’s greatest strengths lies in its large and diverse ecosystem of compatible applications. Microsoft Teams, on the other hand, advertises an open ecosystem but is currently largely enriched by its close ties to Office 365– the most widely adopted enterprise cloud service by user count.
Microsoft Teams joins Yammer, Groups, Outlook and SharePoint team sites as part of the suite of collaborative options available in Office 365.
Microsoft Teams
In an upcoming post, we will review Microsoft Teams and explore how it extends and complements other collaborative options within the digital workplace. But given the obvious similarity with Slack, we thought it was worth examining how the two solutions compare side-by-side.
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