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.
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Teamwork.com
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Teamwork.com is a project management platform built specifically for client work. The platform helps users deliver work on time and on budget, eliminate client chaos, and understand profitability. Teamwork.com’s customers track and manage their projects with a suite of integrated solutions such as helpdesk, collaboration, knowledge sharing and customer relationship management add-ons, enabling Teamwork.com to be the ‘one-stop shop’ solution for business owners. Headquartered in Cork,…
$12.50
per user/per month
Pricing
Slack
Teamwork.com
Editions & Modules
Free
$0
Pro
$7.25*
per month per user
Business+
$12.50*
per month per user
Enterprise
Contact Sales
Pro
$12.50
per user/per month
Premium
$22.50
per user/per month
Free Forever
Free
Up to 5 users
Enterprise
Contact sales team
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Slack
Teamwork.com
Free Trial
Yes
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
Optional
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.
Discord had most of the same features that we wanted to use, and worked pretty well for most of our use cases. Unfortunately, it was glitchy and just not as refined as Slack. Plus outside organizations that we want to connect with often weren't on Discord, so we had to keep …
In the past we always communicated via Google chat. Google chat gets messy after awhile. You make certain chat groups and they continue to multiply, the chat history is never available, it's hard to organize - impossible really- what the chat topic is meant to be about. Plus it …
We previously relied solely on TaskManager which was an in-house developed task management platform. It did not have a lot of the functionalities that Teamwork has. TaskManager did provide some visualization tools to monitor team member progress but it relied on other tools for …
For my purposes, Teamwork blows all other project management systems out of the water. They are providing more frequent updates as well so the software is always improving. Teamwork's mobile app isn't as good as some other's, but that is not my main device, so that doesn't …
I prefer Teamwork over monday.com and Google Drive, but it could still use more functionality. We primarily use the Gantt chart, but I wish there was more functionality. There aren't as many features as I would like and I wish we didn't need to pay per user. I like things like B…
Our team overwhelmingly preferred Teamwork Projects to other project management tools. It is reasonably priced while still offering an equal or better product.
Teamwork Projects has a better feature set than Basecamp and we also found the pricing to be more attractive since we only needed a handful of users. The pricing structure of Basecamp with unlimited users would be more attractive for larger teams and for future-proofing growth. …
Teamwork has not only a Kanban view and Gantt chart view, but it also shows a calendar view, board view, and list view. It's very comprehensive and gives its users freedom to customize the viewing experience where several other competitor platforms only show one or two views.
Teamwork is way better than ProWorkflow in every way, especially design (UI). PWF was hard to use and that resulted in people not using it and logging time--which caused a whole bunch of business problems. Compared to Basecamp, TW Proejcts is way more organized and easy to …
We didn't like Asana. We thought it wasn't user-friendly at all and our team did not adapt to Asana. Some of us were not even using it because of how complex it was. We chose Teamwork and stayed with it because it was very user-friendly and it has everything our team needed.
We moved from TaskRay to Teamwork Projects in large part because of the total cost. By moving away from TaskRay we were able to discontinue SalesForce licences for many team members that didn't need access to CRM data. The trade off is that projects and tasks aren't integrated …
In another role, we used Harvest for time tracking and project management. It was more robust in terms of time tracking and resource allocation, but didn't offer anything more/greater than Teamwork in terms of project management and tracking. Both appeal to the smaller …
Teamwork Projects was much more deeper than Trello, but not as massive or unwieldy as Basecamp. It was similar in functionality to Wrike, but miles better in pricing and usability.
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
Teamwork is awesome for teams who need a flexible tool that supports all types of projects. Since it supports kanban it makes visualizing the work to be done and the work in progress very easy. The Gantt chart support is decent and helps to understand how a team is doing when it comes to getting work done in a given time frame. Teamwork isn't a great option for companies that have a bunch of projects going simultaneously due to the way Teamwork structures their billing based on a number of active projects.
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.
Visualization needs to be improved, charts graphs are limited
Value stream mapping should be available to determine and prioritize the work.
Documentation should be available stepwise with export and printable facility.
It should be configurable like ERP with cross functionalities of different users, where users login, assign and approve the work, job or project details, where it should be collectively effected on a project.
Add many examples, little more AI, Machine learning required for suggestion and recommendation. It would be a plus point
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.
We are already at an annual contract, and have been for the past 5 years; so far the system has delivered, and our personal is already trained in it. A major overhaul of our entire infrastructure (as in moving everything to a single, unified platform) might change the current continuity of Teamwork Projects on our organization, but that's not feasible in the near future.
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
I give it a 9 out of 10, because there is a bit of a learning curve when you first start using Teamwork Projects because there is a lot to learn & recognize where to find it. They do offer a good range of tools that can be applied to every project - So say you're working on an internal project and don't need Milestones or Billing, you can shut those modules off. This can help simplify the interface for beginners. Once you've had a few days in Teamwork Projects, I think it's a 10/10 usability. It's very easy to accomplish your tasks and keep track of what you're managing.
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.
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.
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.
We've been able to meet with the customer success team on multiple occasions to discuss the roadmap and learn about the company culture. Being based in Ireland, we occasionally have to wait until they wake up to get support requests handled in the states and larger conversations about big enhancement requests were politely collected but not followed up on
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.
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.
I spoke about this quite a bit before, but as far as usability goes, Microsoft Projects is totally useless for me, so I avoid it at all costs. Basecamp was just a task management app and had very small feature set beyond that. We had to rig it to do other things for us, but it failed at that. Asana was a very nice app to trial, but it lacked many of the features that we were looking for.
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
Teamwork was a great starter into project management software. We were WAY more organized and efficient than we ever were with Trello boards and the PM software included with our accounting system.
Clients were mostly pleased with interacting with Teamwork, and appreciated the ability to track their comments and requests in one place.
Ultimately, we stopped using Teamwork after about 6 months because we need something more focused on web development projects specifically