Slack vs. vRealize Orchestrator (discontined)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Slack
Score 9.0 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
vRealize Orchestrator (discontined)
Score 5.0 out of 10
N/A
vRealize Orchestrator was a workflow automation platform used to simplify and automate complex data center infrastructure tasks for increased extensibility and agility.N/A
Pricing
SlackvRealize Orchestrator (discontined)
Editions & Modules
Free
$0
Pro
$7.25*
per month per user
Business+
$12.50*
per month per user
Enterprise
Contact Sales
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SlackvRealize Orchestrator (discontined)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
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.
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Community Pulse
SlackvRealize Orchestrator (discontined)
Features
SlackvRealize Orchestrator (discontined)
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Slack
7.9
628 Ratings
2% above category average
vRealize Orchestrator (discontined)
-
Ratings
Task Management7.7430 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 Product A and Product B
Slack
8.7
636 Ratings
9% above category average
vRealize Orchestrator (discontined)
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Ratings
Chat9.6635 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications8.8632 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 Product A and Product B
Slack
8.4
603 Ratings
4% above category average
vRealize Orchestrator (discontined)
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Ratings
Versioning8.2326 Ratings00 Ratings
Video files8.2541 Ratings00 Ratings
Audio files8.4527 Ratings00 Ratings
Document collaboration8.0429 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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User Ratings
SlackvRealize Orchestrator (discontined)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(639 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(25 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(255 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(68 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.8
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 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
SlackvRealize Orchestrator (discontined)
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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Capabilities on vRealize Orchestration are effective from the multiple data security provided for all the project data managed on vRealize Orchestration environment is excellent and easy to monitor multiple Cloud data modeling and also effective data extraction capabilities. The real time capability through data analytics results and reporting results are productive.
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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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  • Orchestration capability is excellent.
  • Multiple services Automation is easy.
  • Speed of performance through Cloud is excellent.
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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
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Discontinued Products
  • The multiple services Automation functionalities can be more stable.
  • Data migration speed to improve.
  • Not easy learning vRealize Orchestration deep functionalities.
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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.
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Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
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.
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Discontinued Products
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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.
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Discontinued Products
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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.
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Discontinued Products
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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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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.
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Discontinued Products
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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.
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Discontinued Products
Unlike the above solutions, vRealize Orchestration provides secure multiple data management environment for easy big data management and easy to transport multiple project data across various Cloud platform very securely and quick saving much time for project and cost management is also a major important thing on vRealize Orchestration, and even creating data analytics is effective.
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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.
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Discontinued Products
  • vRealize Orchestration enable the development team to easily track multiple Cloud operations easily.
  • The big data analytics production, and easy data and files migration via Cloud services.
  • Easy to manage project contacts and creating effective changes reports and its notification functions keeps the user updated.
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