Microsoft Teams vs. X Pro

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Teams
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Teams combines video conferencing software with team collaboration tools. The communications platform allows MS Office users to conduct conference calls and share files via SharePoint, and join or initiate a group chat.
$4.80
per month per user
X Pro
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Replacing the former TweetDeck, X Pro is a social media dashboard application for management of Twitter accounts.N/A
Pricing
Microsoft TeamsX Pro
Editions & Modules
Microsoft Teams Essentials
$4.80
per month per user
Microsoft Teams Enterprise
$5.25
per month (paid yearly) per user
Microsoft Teams Enterprise
$5.25
per month per user
Microsoft 365 Business Basic
$7.20
per month per user
Microsoft 365 Business Standard
$15
per month per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft TeamsX Pro
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscounts are available for non profit organizations.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Microsoft TeamsX Pro
Features
Microsoft TeamsX Pro
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Teams
7.9
235 Ratings
2% above category average
X Pro
-
Ratings
Task Management7.9174 Ratings00 Ratings
Gantt Charts7.791 Ratings00 Ratings
Scheduling8.0202 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow Automation8.1121 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access8.1223 Ratings00 Ratings
Search7.4206 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual planning tools8.4138 Ratings00 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Teams
8.0
244 Ratings
0% below category average
X Pro
-
Ratings
Chat9.0243 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications8.3242 Ratings00 Ratings
Discussions8.6229 Ratings00 Ratings
Surveys8.1140 Ratings00 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase8.5152 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting6.547 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts5.743 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook9.1155 Ratings00 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Teams
8.1
229 Ratings
1% above category average
X Pro
-
Ratings
Versioning8.4161 Ratings00 Ratings
Video files8.3196 Ratings00 Ratings
Audio files8.6195 Ratings00 Ratings
Document collaboration8.8209 Ratings00 Ratings
Access control8.5191 Ratings00 Ratings
Advanced security features8.4151 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive5.353 Ratings00 Ratings
Device sync8.5165 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Microsoft TeamsX Pro
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(281 ratings)
8.0
(33 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
3.7
(9 ratings)
7.1
(16 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(67 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.4
(2 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(113 ratings)
8.0
(6 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
6.3
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
7.0
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Microsoft TeamsX Pro
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
It's amazing as a daily driver for team communication, and document search/store. Also, if you're doing a lot of LONG meetings and have trouble remembering details, the AI summarization is amazing and convenient. It just works. I'm not saying I always do this, of course, but if I need to 'skim' instead of really digging into every detail from a meeting, the AI-generated summary is generally good enough that I can get away with it.
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X Corp (formerly Twitter)
TweetDeck is ideal for complex media organisations / newsrooms where you want to keep track of several users accounts, or switch between multiple user and/or title accounts. It is perfect for those who want to follow conversations in real-time via many channels, at a glance. It is also useful for those who want to schedule tweets to provide around the clock coverage even when unmanned. Now that it paid-for is less suited to smaller organisations with tight budgets.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • All in one communication for Teams.
  • High quality and reliable both audio and video meetings.
  • Well organized and clear instant chat.
  • Excellent security features.
  • Beautiful integration with 3rd party tools and systems.
  • Perfect compatibility with windows ,android and iOS.
  • Allow meetings recordings for later us or sharing with teams that missed the live.
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X Corp (formerly Twitter)
  • TweetDeck is the best platform to schedule tweets - it is far better than the website itself. The process is remarkably easy and scheduling a day's worth of tweets takes no more than 10 minutes.
  • Tracking news is very easy on TweetDeck due to being able to create multiple columns each focusing on a different subject. Columns can be created using handles, searches, hashtags, and trends, and this makes TweetDeck a great platform as a news editor.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • The webinars feature has some missing functionally such as the ability for all users to use the Q&A feature (only those with a Microsoft Teams account can use it now), the ability to upload documents for attendees to easily access and download, and the ability for presenters and organizers to easily chat amongst themselves throughout the webinar.
  • The "Channels" organization hierarchy could be more clear. If you have several channels set up, it can get clunky and hard to find the specific channel you are looking for.
  • The MS Planner tool lacks functionality and organization. You cannot assign more than one person to a task and it's confusing when you try to share tasks with people - it would be nice if they were automatically added to someone's calendar.
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X Corp (formerly Twitter)
  • TweetDeck has an editing feature for scheduled posts only if there is no image attached. When a post with an image needs editing, users must instead delete the entire post and reschedule it with the edits needed.
  • TweetDeck has a real-time display, however users often need to refresh the window manually to get scheduled posts to appear in the appropriate column.
  • TweetDeck users can scroll side to side to view all off the types of columns selected. This functionality often leads to traveling back to a previous page unintentionally.
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
Microsoft Teams is included with our Office 365 subscription and we have no intention of migrating off of Office 365 and Microsoft products. Since Microsoft Teams is included for free with our Office 365 subscription, and since we enjoy all the features, benefits, and functionality, there is no question that our team will continue to use the product
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X Corp (formerly Twitter)
As I previously mentioned, if TweetDeck were to increase some features and integrations, cleaned up its interface, and developed a tool to measure ROI, it would remain competitive with HootSuite and Hubspot. Altogether, it is an effective tool for the job of scheduling and monitoring your impact on Twitter, it falls behind other competitors that offer a more robust solution.
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Usability
Microsoft
If you have the full Microsoft Office suite, it works really well because it's integrated well within its ecosystem, but if not, it can be annoying because it tries to open a shared file in the web versions of the file equivalents. The web version is also a bit slow, and the login is very difficult to handle if you have multiple Microsoft or Outlook accounts.
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X Corp (formerly Twitter)
It's a pretty easy tool to use I find a few of the columns to be a bit repetitive. If you are managing more than one account you'll start to find yourself having easily 10 plus columns all tracking all different information which creates nice track lanes to keep all that relative information in one column or "view". With the amount of data that is pushed out, if you are following a large number of accounts, it's extremely easy to lose valuable posts in your feeds. As you begin building out your columns they get the point where you only look at one or two and the rest seem to be lost. Overall, this a free tool and there are other social monitoring tools that are out there but are in the multiple thousands of dollar range
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Reliability and Availability
Microsoft
Rare, but outages do happen
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X Corp (formerly Twitter)
TweetDeck tends to be available for use majority of the time...however, I've had times where it would get stuck in a loop and then post my Tweet multiple times.
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Performance
Microsoft
Sometimes about once a week I get a message that says "Sorry, there seems to be something wrong". But it goes away in a few minutes.
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X Corp (formerly Twitter)
Besides posting multiple times when stuck in a loop not other real issues.
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Support Rating
Microsoft
The overall support provided by Microsoft for Microsoft Teams has been quite good but there is still some room for improvements. Microsoft needs to proactively work on fixing the open bugs in order to provide a seamless experience to the users. But over the service and experience provided by the Microsoft team have been quite satisfactory.
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X Corp (formerly Twitter)
I've never had to contact customer support. Tweetdeck has always worked like a charm for me. And, if I have had a problem, I've simply deleted the column, then recreated it and it worked again. While it's not without its glitches every once in a great while, it's worked like a charm.
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Implementation Rating
Microsoft
I find everything I need for my day-to-day work.
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X Corp (formerly Twitter)
Easy download and launch of application.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Microsoft Teams offers a much more integrated experience between their chat and video call function compared to Google Chat and Slack. Both other tools are much better for internal communications are they have simpler UI without other features. Whereas Microsoft Teams can be used for more critical conversations, particularly between external companies, and has been very useful in sales conversations which is what we chose it for when speaking to companies that work exclusively through Microsoft.
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X Corp (formerly Twitter)
Several years ago I used the Hootsuite Free service. I found Tweetdeck to be preferable because of its user interface, and greater functionality. Moreover, I recall Hootsuite bombarding me with emails that were just irrelevant. TweetDeck just does what it does, without hassle. Its UI and functionality for multiple accounts seems to be the best I've tried.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Microsoft
Honestly, this tool is worth every penny. Yes, it's not free and you pay for the quality of services and the license. But the ROI and the benefits are all there. Also, the renewal, negotiation, and contract terms are all very well explained by our Microsoft account manager, and she's a charm.
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X Corp (formerly Twitter)
No answers on this topic
Scalability
Microsoft
It does not appear to have a limit to how many teams and employees we can have using it
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X Corp (formerly Twitter)
No answers on this topic
Professional Services
Microsoft
I used Skype for Business to take calls, hold conferences, and provide remote assistance to users. Microsoft Teams, on the other hand, is superior to Skype for Business in my opinion. My job entails a lot of screen sharing.
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X Corp (formerly Twitter)
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Personally, I would say that by using Microsoft Teams, it upped my collaboration with my colleagues by around 50% or around more than half of what I usually did prior to using it.
  • I had 100% show rate and attendance on all of my meetings in the past 6 months.
  • If I may add, I also have been chattier & collaborative towards my colleagues in past 3 months particularly the month of December when we had huge traffic at work. I would estimate this behavior to have been increased by around 60% than what I usually incur during normal operating days.
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X Corp (formerly Twitter)
  • Positive: User-friendly and therefore easy to teach new members.
  • Positive: Easy team management (when there are multiple users/managers for one channel).
  • Positive impact on well being - You can take a break from social media and go on holiday even when you are working as a social media manager.
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