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What’s a better tool to use?

We are an office 365 shop using SharePoint, but the office staff are older or less tech friendly. We have office 2019 Pro Plus installed on all the machines. So that lends towards Teams, but I like the ease of use with Slack.

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We upgraded to Teams from S4B about a month or so ago, and I’m enjoying it way better than S4B. The amount of info and communication we can share now is incredibl.

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How does Yammer compare with them, I am working on deploying some kind of communications app out now…

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I like slack, but i’m seem to hog too much memory

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I am not a fan of the Teams app. It seems like it is missing many of the features of Slack.

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We are on O365 with SharePoint and OD4B and now implementing MS Teams. I don’t know much about Slack but MS Teams is so far much better than S4B with it’s collaborative abilities. I have ran through lots of training material and it seems rather straight forward and shouldn’t confuse/challenge many people.

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Found this… Microsoft Teams: How to use it, and how it stacks up to Slack and Zoom | Computerworld

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From a user perspective Slack is much easier to use and read. Teams wastes so much real estate it is not funny. Slack will stack comments on top of each other and Teams allocates 2-3 lines worth of text to a single comment, lots of scrolling. Also when a comment i made in Slack you see the entire comment, Teams has an auto-collapse so you only see 4-5 lines of the comment and have to hit expand to see the entire piece.

We would go back to Slack if we had a choice, Teams has been forced on us and one guy made the comment this morning that Teams “makes his eyes bleed”! Most of us would dump it if we had a say in it.

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Out of curiosity, what’s missing in comparison?

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I’m probably the only employee who has used both. I don’t think any other staff members have used slack. I was wondering if there was any real consensus about it or strong arguments, but I’m not seeing that.

I agree about the teams layout having a lot of wasted space, but I like the integrations with SharePoint.

Unless we don’t get any traction I’ll lend up sticking with Teams. It will be one less login for everyone to learn.

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One less thing to manage as well. Fully integrated in 365 and you have the search and compliance center if you have to deal with any legal / compliance issues.

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I have not used slack, but been using Teams from the beginning. Remember Teams is the direct competitor for Slack so both are similar in features, Teams may not have all the features comparing to slack but it’s not completed yet updates are being released on a daily/weekly/monthly basis.

IMHO Hence, you already have O365 then Teams will give more benefits over slack you can easily integrate with other O365 stuffs.

Edit: As per Office 365 Message Center report: Teams desktop client will be added for the existing user with Office 365 ProPlus, Microsoft/Office 365 Business, and Microsoft/Office 365 Business Premium apps. We’ll roll this out in the second half of June to Business/Business Premium and Office 365 ProPlus customers on the Monthly update channel. We’ll continue the rollout to desktops on Semi-Annual Channel (Targeted) and Semi-Annual Channel in the coming months.

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We’re currently moving from Slack to Teams, partly as a cost-saving exercise but also because we’re a Microsoft house and Teams integrates so well into everything else. There has been some resistance to the move, but there will always be that and some people bemoan that lack of emoji choice (because that’s what is important in a business tool!). Most of the differences are cosmetic but Microsoft are really investing in the tool and it’s so much more than a chat app.

So far I think Slack is easier and slicker to use from a users point of view, more intuitive. Teams is clunkier in comparison but a lot more feature rich. I can only see it getting better.

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I don’t know which is better than the other. However… if you are using O365 then Teams would seem to me the logical choice as it all links together.

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Given you’re already in the O365 ecosystem, going with Teams is by far your best option. The cross-integration alone is an argument winner, before looking at managing multiple platforms, multiple logins, etc.

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You may also want to check out Mattermost which is an opensource Slack alternative that you can host privately instead of relying on Slack to secure your data in their cloud infrastructure.

Here is a top ten list of features that are different (not necessarily better as it depends in your needs).

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We use Teams for us, and S4B for users. I prefer Teams, myself.

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If you already have Office 365, I would recommend going with Teams. It is a big improvement over Skype for Business.

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My condolences on using Sharepoint. Slack is great but the chat history is limited if you do not pay for the premium features.

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I am a true believer in minimizing the software that we use, so for us it wasn’t even a question. We already use Office 365 extensively, so going to Teams was a no brainer.