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Slack

Slack

Composite Score
9.0 /10
CX Score
9.2 /10
Category
Slack
9.0 /10

What is Slack?

Slack creates alignment and shared understanding across your team, making you more productive, less stressed, and just a little bit happier. Slack brings all your team's communication together, giving everyone a shared workspace where conversations are organized and accessible.

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Awards & Recognition

Slack won the following awards in the Business Instant Messaging - Enterprise category

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Slack Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

91 Likeliness to Recommend

97 Plan to Renew

87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product Experience:
94%
Negotiation and Contract:
91%
Conflict Resolution:
93%
Strategy & Innovation:
92%
Service Experience:
94%

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+93 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Slack?

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1% Negative
3% Neutral
96% Positive

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Respectful
  • Fair

Feature Ratings

Average 87

Instant Messaging

91

Notifications

87

File Sharing Collaboration

86

Integration With Productivity Tools

86

Cross Platform Support

85

Search

85

Granular Access Management

85

Task Management

83

Document Collaboration

82

Screen Sharing

81

Voice and Video Collaboration

80

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 84

Ease of Implementation

86

Business Value Created

86

Usability and Intuitiveness

86

Quality of Features

85

Breadth of Features

85

Ease of IT Administration

84

Ease of Data Integration

84

Ease of Customization

83

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

83

Availability and Quality of Training

82

Vendor Support

82

Slack Reviews

Aman K.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Education
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2021

Fantastic platform to engaging with people.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Slack from other similar products?

1. Its user interface is fantastic. 2. It is simple and quick to use. 3. We may create various channels for different tasks.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

1. The files can be shared. 2. It will notify you if there is an urgent message. 3. It also allows us to communicate via phone calls. 4. Slack's channel feature is really handy. 5. Emoji support is also good.

What do you dislike most about this product?

1. Slack consumes too much RAM to function properly. 2. Sometimes the desktop notification does not fire. 3. The paid version is a tad pricey.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I'll Highly recommend this product to anyone who wants to interact with individuals around the world.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Pankaj Singh S.

  • Role: Sales Marketing
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2021

Fast and versatile product.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Slack from other similar products?

Integration with other products and services.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Fast messaging and integration with other services.

What do you dislike most about this product?

GIF integration could be better. Expecting better Video call quality.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Very good product for startup and SME business for fast communication.

Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Transparent
  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product

Erlon S.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2021

Its expandability is its biggest highlight.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Slack from other similar products?

Its API is very rich allowing you to build integrations with many other tools, which opens up huge possibilities.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

In addition to the entire ecosystem of applications created around Slack, its usage policy is very fair, allowing its use for free contemplating a large part of its features.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Sometimes it is not that simple to expand Slack by integrating it to another tools. Its documentation could be more clear about that.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Use the free version at first, check all the features you already have, also double check whether the paid features are something essential for your business before committing with paying it.

Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Unique Features
  • Inspires Innovation

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