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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Slack

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ASlack 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

    Venngage

    Score10 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Venngage is an infographics creation platform. Users can create inforgraphics for their marketing team from scratch or from a template.

    $19

    per month per user

    Pricing
    SlackVenngage
    Editions & Modules
    Free
    $0
    Pro
    $7.25*
    per month per user
    Business+
    $12.50*
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Premium
    $19
    per month per user
    Business
    $49
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    starting at $499
    per month 10+ seats (billed yearly)
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SlackVenngage
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    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.50% discount for Premium and Business plans for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    SlackVenngage
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    Venngage
    Chose Venngage
    Venngage's template library is easier to sort through than Canva, in my opinion. I also found the templates to be more applicable and valuable to my organization (more corporate, whereas I found Canva to have more social and e-commerce driven templates).
    Incentivized
    Chose Venngage
    Overall, they are pretty similar platforms. Canva is a nicer platform and more professional. Venngage is easier for people with zero experience to use, which some of the people on our team have, so we like that. Canva also offers more options we have noticed and more …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    503 Answers
    83%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    426 Answers
    83%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    510 Answers
    67%
    Happy with the feature set
    4 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    295 Answers
    67%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    99%
    Implementation went as expected
    330 Answers
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    Features
    SlackVenngage
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Slack and Venngage
    Feature
    Slack
    7.9
    628 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Venngage
    -
    Ratings
    Task Management7.6430 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts6.961 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling7.8363 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow Automation8.0396 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access9.4601 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search8.2608 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual planning tools7.3275 Ratings00 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Slack and Venngage
    Feature
    Slack
    8.7
    636 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Venngage
    -
    Ratings
    Chat9.6635 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications8.7632 Ratings00 Ratings
    Discussions9.2620 Ratings00 Ratings
    Surveys8.1413 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase7.8412 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting8.9110 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts8.7182 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook8.9120 Ratings00 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Slack and Venngage
    Feature
    Slack
    8.4
    603 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Venngage
    -
    Ratings
    Versioning8.2326 Ratings00 Ratings
    Video files8.2541 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audio files8.4527 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document collaboration7.9429 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access control8.3411 Ratings00 Ratings
    Advanced security features8.3362 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive9.0211 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device sync9.0455 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score9.8 out of 10
    Adobe Illustrator
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SlackVenngage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (639 ratings)
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (25 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (255 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (68 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.9
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.4
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SlackVenngage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Salesforce
    Slack is ideal for Scrum and agile teams that need continuous communication during sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, testing, and retrospectives. Slack is well-suited for maintaining team knowledge through searchable conversations and dedicated channels, where experienced team members help onboard new QA analysts.
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    Venngage
    I find it great for personal use especially when you are a visual person. As an assistant that needs a lot of organizing, it's wonderful. It helped me a lot and I usually don't require a lot of features. I also find it great for accessibility stuff, I respect that since I have a relative who has special needs. I didn't really need that specifically, but it's nice to know it was considered.
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    Pros
    Salesforce
    • Customer issues: Threads feature allows us to group a particular issue in a single thread and discuss within that thread. I can use the thread link to embed in JIRA ticket for tracking progress in JIRA (which is our details engineering tracking system).
    • Ability to add folder to Slack channel helps keep important information, documents easily accessible. e.g., we use this to keep a "ramp up" folder that can be used by any new joiner.
    • Global search is effective when I forget which group a particular message was in.
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    Venngage
    • Extremely user-friendly: simple, easy-to-follow interface really made ramping up on the offering incredibly fast and painless.
    • Variety of templates: Venngage has a HUGE assortment of templates ranging from corporate reports and business decks to more visually-engaging, "fun" content such as infographics, awesome charts, and highly customizable social graphics.
    • Brand-alignment: we really appreciated the opportunity to tee up our brand guidelines and have those remain on the back-end and let us apply our style guide to multiple templates instantaneously.
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    Cons
    Salesforce
    • Would love a better integration with GitHub. For example, notifications when your PR is updated, when review is requested, @-mention in comments, etc.
    • Improved "Later" tab, for example the ability to create to-do lists or making the "Later" tab into a more powerful to-do list (annotate items with notes)
    • More powerful integrations, e.g. Google Calendar could render a calendar view within Slack, rather than sending the daily schedule
    Incentivized
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    Venngage
    • It's hard to lock graphics into place in Venngage once you create something.
    • Layering is next to impossible. The feature is there but is very difficult to use and most times the user is better off copying the object over instead
    • Unless you have a business account (we have a professional account- middle grade) you cannot sort and organize your infographics. This is messy and cumbersome to go through and the price difference between professional and business grade accounts was quite large.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Salesforce
    To be more transparent, I give 10 because Slack serves our collaboration needs. It provide us a good platform for team communication relaying important update within the company, it has even mobile app where you can install in your phone to monitor any updates within that team that needs your immediate attention and intervention.
    Incentivized
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    Venngage
    I use Venngage for a new project 1-2 times per week... I could not see using another program at this point.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Salesforce
    Slack has good usability. Devs that are not familiar with the platform are able to jump into conversations and start sharing code and links within just minutes. Non developers are also able to understand the layout such as the Project Managers that are keeping the projects on track. We have not seen any tickets where employees are having trouble understanding Slack.
    Incentivized
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    Venngage
    I find it very user friendly, straight to the point, and the minor issues I found wasn't really impacting on my role. So I think it would depend? but personally I find it perfect for me. There were lots of templates I could use, and they were very open to feedback and customer service was very accommodating.
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    Reliability and Availability
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Venngage
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Venngage
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Salesforce
    Whenever I've had to troubleshoot an issue with Slack (which, to be honest, has not happened very often), their online documentation has been easy to locate, easy to understand, and effective in resolving my issue. Slack's ever-growing popularity also means that there's a large community of practice out there that can be depended upon.
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    Venngage
    I think that the attention that I get as a small business owner from Venngage is excellent. They quickly respond to questions and provide information that helps to resolve the issue that I am having.
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    Implementation Rating
    Salesforce
    I was not part of the implementation team, but I recall being 100% happy and excited to learn and use a new tool. I'm still am to be honest.
    Incentivized
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    Venngage
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Salesforce
    I like Slack better than ClickUp, because I would spend 30-60 minutes a day updating my ClickUp tasks. The way ClickUp was used was very micromanaging. I billed by the hour, so I was willing to put in the time to alert the boss what tasks I was working on.
    One of my jobs used Hive - I mostly just ran it in the background in case anyone messaged me. I did not use it often.
    Incentivized
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    Venngage
    We prefer Canva but feel Venngage is easier for us. In comparison to Adobe, we prefer Venngage because of the ability to have everything in one system and not have to jump around.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Salesforce
    • Slack has been incredibly helpful in connecting various tech apps and ecosystems, creating a more streamlined and responsive process.
    • Slack has made it significantly easier to communicate with our team members across multiple time zones, creating a more engaging environment for our all-remote team.
    Incentivized
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    Venngage
    • It was frustrating to be required to purchase a full month, not be able to download into PowerPoint and edit, and not be given a refund.
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