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 GitHub | Score9.2 out of 10 | N/A | GitHub is a platform that hosts public and private code and provides software development and collaboration tools. Features include version control, issue tracking, code review, team management, syntax highlighting, etc. Personal plans ($0-50), Organizational plans ($0-200), and Enterprise plans are available. | $4 per month per user |
 Slack | Score9 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… | $8.75 per month per user |
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| Considered Both Products | Chose GitHub The only other tool I have used is Tortoise SVN. That was helpful for not overriding other people's changes, but there was no way to really do a code review with it. We simply kept it so that we could have some history. GitHub makes it so much easier, as you do not need the app … Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose GitHub The only other ticketing system we use is Zendesk, which is not exactly the same. They are used differently but have the same idea of tickets. Both great for what they are used for and highly recommend. Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose GitHub Incentivized Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose GitHub GitHub has better branching features than Subversion. The code review process in GitHub alone makes it worthwhile, whereas we could have branches in Subversion, it was missing the ability to comment and review other people's code before checkin. GitHub has more control around … Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose GitHub Git and GitHub are so much easier to use. I didn't necessarily find the others that I've tried difficult, but they all had their quirks. GitHub has their quirks, but their quirks make sense once you really think about i. The other may or may not have command line options, … Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose GitHub Incentivized Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose GitHub Local storage of your repository is not exactly the safest thing you should do, since if you lost your project, you lose your project. This is not really a great alternative when you are considering it over using some thing you can access from any computer at any time. GitHub … Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose GitHub I selected GitHub because I knew it integrated with more other services and seemed like the more established platform. Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info | Chose Slack our team's current non-Microsoft(Google) tech stack, hard-coded into our workflow. It's infinitely more customizable than Teams, easily meeting our requirements. Additionally, Slack has unlimited external users, whereas Teams has limitation, so Slack is the obvious choice for … Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Slack We did not found the same level of features on all these products. Where Slack is better than other ones, is that you are interacting with other really fast, you can jump in open channels, private channels, be updated about topics and also manage different workspaces. The … Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Slack Slack is systematically organizing channel for different groups and also notification of slack is very good compared to Microsoft Teams as in if you use same slack login with mobile as well as computer you get notified over both in slack while i was facing the problem in teams … Invited by TrustRadius (TR) on Vendor's Behalf A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Slack The others got discontinued, but Slack is a step beyond them anyway. Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Slack Slack offers a seamless experience with a very simple and easy understandable user interface. Slack is better when it comes to memory management on Windows. The menu design offered by Slack to the left of the screen offers a much better user experience than those provided by … Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Slack Before in the organization, we used Google Hangouts, but it was not well integrated into our team. The functionalities were very limited and could not cover our needs. The advice was very messy and we failed to meet the productivity objectives we had. Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Slack Having had to use Skype/Lync in a former life as a Fortune 100 contractor, I can say that Slack's ease-of-use, customizability, and solid integrations with online tools puts it far ahead. It's nice to not be beholden to the Microsoft Stack for every little thing, as well. … Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info Chose Slack I've used Discord which is a direct Slack competitor in tech/gaming communities and I have found both have strengths and weaknesses. Once I've gotten accustomed to certain text formatting features of Slack, I've found switching over to using Discord was sometimes disappointing … Independently Invited by TrustRadius A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. 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| Small Businesses |  Git Score10 out of 10 |  Flock Score9.5 out of 10 |
| Medium-sized Companies | Git Score10 out of 10 |  Troop Messenger Score9.8 out of 10 |
| Enterprises |  Perforce P4 Score7.5 out of 10 |  Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued) Score9 out of 10 |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 9.9 | 9.1 |
| Likelihood to Renew | 10.0 | 10.0 |
| Usability | 9.4 | 9.0 |
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| Support Rating | 8.8 | 10.0 |
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| Contract Terms and Pricing Model | - | 10.0 |
| Ease of integration | - | 9.7 |
| Product Scalability | - | 10.0 |
| Professional Services | - | 10.0 |
| Vendor post-sale | - | 10.0 |
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