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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Mattermost

    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Mattermost from the company of the same name in Palo Alto is a messaging, collaboration and communication platform providing high security and compliance for the businesses that need it.

    $0

    per month per user

    Progress Chef

    Score6.5 out of 10
    N/AChef IT infrastructure automation suites were developed by Chef Software in Seattle and acquired by Progress Software in September 2020. The Chef Enterprise Automation Stack is an integrated suite of automation technologies presented as a solution for delivering change quickly, repeatedly, and securely over every application's lifecycle. The Chef Effortless Infrastructure Suit is an integrated suite of automation technologies to codify infrastructure, security, and compliance, as well as…N/A
    Pricing
    MattermostProgress Chef
    Editions & Modules
    Free Self-Hosted
    $0
    per month per user
    Professional
    $10
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Contact Us
    per month per user
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MattermostProgress Chef
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    MattermostProgress Chef
    Considered Both Products
    Mattermost
    No answer on this topic
    Progress Software
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    46 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    44 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    48 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    21 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    34 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    MattermostProgress Chef
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Mattermost and Progress Chef
    Feature
    Mattermost
    8.4
    49 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Progress Chef
    -
    Ratings
    Task Management8.637 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts7.59 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling7.69 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow Automation8.929 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access8.745 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search8.824 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual planning tools8.511 Ratings00 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Mattermost and Progress Chef
    Feature
    Mattermost
    8.4
    52 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Progress Chef
    -
    Ratings
    Chat8.752 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications8.352 Ratings00 Ratings
    Discussions8.749 Ratings00 Ratings
    Surveys9.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase9.335 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting7.78 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts8.012 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook7.58 Ratings00 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Mattermost and Progress Chef
    Feature
    Mattermost
    8.9
    28 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Progress Chef
    -
    Ratings
    Versioning7.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Video files9.322 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audio files9.322 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document collaboration7.918 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access control9.922 Ratings00 Ratings
    Advanced security features9.019 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive8.212 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device sync10.016 Ratings00 Ratings
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    MattermostProgress Chef
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    Score9.5 out of 10
    Salt
    Score6.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score9.8 out of 10
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    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score9 out of 10
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    Score6.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MattermostProgress Chef
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (54 ratings)
    8.9
    (18 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.1
    (8 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.4
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    7.7
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.6
    (39 ratings)
    9.6
    (5 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MattermostProgress Chef
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Mattermost
    I used Mattermost on a full remote company and it perfectly suited our collaboration and communication culture. The company dealt with privileged and personal information of a huge data base of users, so it was a significant advantage for our need to comply with industry regulations.
    Incentivized
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    Progress Software
    Chef is a fantastic tool for automating software deployments that aren't able to be containerized. It's more developer-oriented than its other competitors and thus allows you to do more with it. The Chef Infra Server software is rock-solid and has been extremely stable in our experience. I would definitely recommend its use if you're looking for an automation framework. And it also offers InSpec which is a very good tool for testing your infrastructure to ensure it deployed as intended.
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    Pros
    Mattermost
    • Easy intergration to our main CRM (Monday.com)
    • I'm not techy myself but I have seen a lot of our previous integrations in Slack transferred over to Mattermost so that's fun
    • The desktop and phone app (android) works well enough. I haven't tried it on the Apple ecosystem yet.
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    Progress Software
    • Chef is great at deploying code to both small and large groups of servers.
    • We use chef to standup new servers as well as deploy updated code to existing servers and it does this very well.
    • Being able to make a change and have it push manually or automatically to any subset of servers has changed the landscape of how our IT teams operate.
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    Cons
    Mattermost
    • Some of the features in paid plans could be free, however, they have much offered in free plan (self-hosted)
    • The Desktop App we use on windows has some bugs, like when Mattermost is down and comes back up, the app needs restart
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    Progress Software
    • Chef could do a better job with integration with other DevOps tools. Our company relies on Jenkins and Ansible, which took some development and convincing for plug-ins to be created/available.
    • It would be nice if kitchen didn't only have a vagrant/virtual-box prerequisite. Our company one day stop allowing virtual-box to run without special privileges, and that caused a lot of issues for people trying to do kitchen tests.
    • Chef could use more practice materials for the advanced certification badges. There was not a lot of guidance in what to study or examples of certain topics.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Mattermost
    Mattermost has been an excellent tool for our business, allowing for a very cost-effective means of communicating, collaborating, and sharing project and business documentation and resources. The free community edition allows for simple installation on existing cloud server resources which results in significantly lower recurring costs compared to the competition
    Incentivized
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    Progress Software
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Mattermost
    Since it helps track all the things at one place and the bots can be made which helps to automate many tasks. We use it in our security incident tracking in which there are pre defined tasks like adding people, creating groups, launching bots. All these things make the work easier and oraganized
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    Progress Software
    The suite of tools is very powerful. The ability to create custom modules allows for unlimited potential for managing all aspects of a system. However, there is pretty significant learning curve with the toolset. It currently takes approx 3-4 months for new engineers to feel comfortable with our implementation
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    Performance
    Mattermost
    No answers on this topic
    Progress Software
    It loads quick enough for basically all our systems. Because we have this for local dev environments, speed isn't really a big issue here. Yes, depending on the system, sometimes it does take a relatively long time, but it's not an issue for me. One thing that is annoying is that if I want to make a small change to a cookbook and re-run the Chef client, I can't just make the change in the cache and run it. I have to do the whole process of updating the server.
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    Support Rating
    Mattermost
    We have not had to contact support for Mattermost ever. All that we have needed has been available in the documentation or website. One of our DevOps team members set it up in a couple of hours. The whole team was using Mattermost that same day. No support needed.
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    Progress Software
    Support for Chef is easily available for fee or through the open source community as most the issues you will face will have been addressed through the Chef developer community forums. The documentation for Chef is moderate to great and easily readable.
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    Implementation Rating
    Mattermost
    This went as expected. No surprises or major hurdles.
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    Progress Software
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Mattermost
    I feel slack is a bit more difficult to use overall than Mattermost. Mattermost makes the tasks of communicating across departments and team members easier, as well as giving the ability to share information via hyper links, attachments, and other forms of communication among every body here. Also, easier user interface
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    Progress Software
    We considered the three leading competitors in the field: Chef, Puppet and Ansible. Ansible is a very strong competitor and has a nice degree of flexibility in that it does not require a client install. Instead the configuration is delivered by SSH which is very simple. Puppet seems like it has fallen off the pace of the competition and lacked the strong community offered by Chef. We chose Chef because of the strong support by the company and the dynamic and deep community support.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Mattermost
    No answers on this topic
    Progress Software
    The pricing seemed inline with our products in this space. Nothing out of the ordinary in contract, term, or pricing structure
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    Professional Services
    Mattermost
    No answers on this topic
    Progress Software
    The entire professional services team was great to work with. The curriculum was tailored to our specific use cases. The group we worked with were very responsive, listened to our feedback, was very easy to schedule and accommodate. I cannot say enough good things about our professional services experience
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    Return on Investment
    Mattermost
    • Improved Communication Efficiency by consolidating all the variety of messaging apps etc
    • real-time communication and collaboration has improved the orgs ability to address issues and implement changes rapidly.
    • Accelerated decision-making processes, reducing the time required for team approvals and discussions which used to be in back and forth emails.
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    Progress Software
    • Chef is a good tool for baselining servers. It will be a good ROI when there are huge number of servers. For less number of servers maintaining a master will be an over head.
    • One good ROI will be that the Operations Team also gets into agile and DevOps methodologies. Operational teams can start writing scripts/automations to keep their infra more stable and their application stack more reliable.
    • Implementation of Chef eliminates the manual mode of doing things and everyone aligns to automation mind set. It helps in change of culture.
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    ScreenShots

    Mattermost Screenshots

    Screenshot of Channels: All team communications in one place.Screenshot of Playbooks: Orchestrates work across tools and teams.Screenshot of Boards: Project planning and milestones.Screenshot of Connections: Unites the entire technology stack through a single point of collaboration.