Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AlertMedia
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
AlertMedia headquartered in Austin offers their eponymous platform as a multi-channel emergency notification system, providing an intuitive mass communication solution, which may also be used to provide two-way communications, shipping alerts, or other related functions.N/A
Slack
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Slack is a group messaging or team collaboration app that aims to simplify communication for businesses. Features include open discussions, private groups, and direct messaging, as well as deep contextual search and message archiving, and file sharing. Slack integrates with a number of other tools, such as MailChimp, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Slack was acquired by Salesforce in December 2020. The product is free to use, and also has paid plans with more features and greater controls. The…
$0
per month per user
Pricing
AlertMediaSlack
Editions & Modules
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Free
$0
Pro
$7.25*
per month per user
Business+
$12.50*
per month per user
Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AlertMediaSlack
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details*Per active user, per month, when paying once a year. Pro is $8.75 USD per active user when paying month to month. Business+ is $15.00 USD per active user when paying month to month.
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Project Management
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AlertMedia
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Ratings
Slack
8.1
479 Ratings
4% above category average
Task Management00 Ratings8.0310 Ratings
Gantt Charts00 Ratings6.961 Ratings
Scheduling00 Ratings7.9259 Ratings
Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.3284 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings9.3460 Ratings
Search00 Ratings8.4463 Ratings
Visual planning tools00 Ratings7.7187 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
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Slack
8.8
488 Ratings
10% above category average
Chat00 Ratings9.7488 Ratings
Notifications00 Ratings9.0484 Ratings
Discussions00 Ratings9.4473 Ratings
Surveys00 Ratings8.1302 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings7.7300 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings8.8110 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings8.6182 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings8.8120 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
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AlertMedia
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Ratings
Slack
8.5
461 Ratings
7% above category average
Versioning00 Ratings8.1229 Ratings
Video files00 Ratings8.7412 Ratings
Audio files00 Ratings8.7403 Ratings
Document collaboration00 Ratings8.2318 Ratings
Access control00 Ratings8.2305 Ratings
Advanced security features00 Ratings8.4264 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings8.9211 Ratings
Device sync00 Ratings9.1339 Ratings
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User Ratings
AlertMediaSlack
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(2 ratings)
9.4
(489 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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(0 ratings)
9.7
(23 ratings)
Usability
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9.2
(103 ratings)
Availability
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(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
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10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.0
(66 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
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10.0
(3 ratings)
Configurability
-
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10.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
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7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AlertMediaSlack
Likelihood to Recommend
AlertMedia
We use AlertMedia to send highly important messages to nurses that have deployed with us. We have used it to send messages to our current internal employees also. When we send messages out to people who have showed interest in working with us, we know what they are interested in by their profile information and their work specific groups.
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Salesforce
Slack is well suited as another tool in our toolbelt to find answers to common questions and to find resources. it is less appropriate to be used to collaborate on a project in terms of being a project management tool
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Pros
AlertMedia
  • Real-time notifications are a must for all urgent matters.
  • Organization-wide and smaller, identified groups can be developed for AlertMedia notifications.
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Salesforce
  • Can create channels for small, medium, or even bigger team to relay important information/updates and whatnots.
  • You can do one-on-one (huddle feature) if you're on-boarding a member.
  • A platform that can be collaborated with other platform. Example a CRM to be linked with Slack for easier comms relay.
  • The best feature for me so far is that you can mention a team member so he/she won't missed an important message you sent.
  • You can directly message about anyone within the company.
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Cons
AlertMedia
  • A build-in template for notifications about various activities (weather, injury, etc.) would help make alerts more systematic in both appearance and content.
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Salesforce
  • Undoubtedly Slack’s search function is powerful but sometimes it is difficult to find specific messages or files in very active channels with high message volumes. This needs an improvement.
  • I have experienced notification issues on my phone. I am not receiving notifications and have missed important updates as a result. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app, but the problem still persists.
  • The Business Plus plan does not include support for data loss prevention or offline backup providers.
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Likelihood to Renew
AlertMedia
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Salesforce
Slack is wonderful, it is a tool that changed our perspective and our way to work. We used to use another one, which was purely and sorely designed to messages. Slack provides us that possibility and more, all the other functions that we daily use in our work routine, not to mention the fact that Slack has a wonderful design and it's really easy to use and adapt.
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Usability
AlertMedia
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Salesforce
Applications can cause slowdown when onboarding because of the learning curve. Slack is user friendly and very easy to teach new users how to navigate the app. Installation is fairly quick, which also saves a lot of time when setting up new computers and users
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Reliability and Availability
AlertMedia
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Salesforce
Yes, the app works 24/7. I don't even recall having any period that we could not use since the implementation. Even the maintenance periods are barely noticeable and our work is not impacted by it when it happens.
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Performance
AlertMedia
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Salesforce
Slack is a soft app, we don't have many issues with it. I recall one or two people complaining about something during our usage period, but I didn't have a bad experience. When the app is slow, usually the problem is with my computer or my internet. The app works just fine.
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Support Rating
AlertMedia
Support from AlertMedia has been ongoing and very accessible. Staff are consistently available and quick to respond. And I was developing an organization-wide training for this system, I called and spoke with a recruiter/trainer who emailed several training slides and helpful tips that I was able to convert into an online training.
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Salesforce
I've never had to contact support for Slack which is a great testament to its ease and use. Adding people outside of the organization takes a little getting used to, but ultimately allows for greater collaboration between FTE and contractors. There is no clear alternative to this software, so it's the best we can do for now.
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Implementation Rating
AlertMedia
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Salesforce
It always helps if you communicate to everyone in the organization how important it is to drop whatever other chat tools they are using and jump quickly to Slack. They will all fall in love with it.
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Alternatives Considered
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Salesforce
Slack is vastly easier to use than Teams and far less convoluted. It also handles Trello and GitLab integrations in a way that is easy to read and digest (whereas Teams handles them in the most useless way possible). Every time I use Teams, something is broken or I can't find things. But Slack is on the ball. Always easy to use and to search. Plus better emoji syntax (um, Microsoft, people put stuff in parenthesis all the time; that doesn't mean they want it to be emojis). Anyway, I'd choose Slack over Teams any day, if given the option.
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Return on Investment
AlertMedia
  • For the costs, AlertMedia has a high ROI as our organization requires all-agency and project groups urgent notifications on a regular basis.
  • Immediate notification to agency legal counsel and human resource departments is definitely a plus.
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Salesforce
  • I don't have hard numbers, but I can't imagine the level of mistakes that would go uncaught without the easy ability of multiple people being alerted to look at something in real time.
  • Efficiency of communicating this way takes a lot of slog out of email, more focus on more important conversations and tasks
  • It is on managers to define expectations on how long it should take someone to respond on Slack; it can feel immediate, which can be distracting to deeper work
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