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What is Slack?
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…
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- Chat (403)9.696%
- Mobile Access (380)9.292%
- Discussions (390)9.292%
- Notifications (399)8.989%
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What is Slack?
Slack is a Digital HQ
As the command center of the workday, Slack provides a flexible way to work with people, apps and partners in one space.
The new space for success
Slack connects people with each other and with their tools and data, equipping teams to be productive and open up opportunities.
Slack connects people with each other and with their tools and data, equipping teams to be productive and open up opportunities.
Transform Teamwork
Working together in channels—dedicated spaces built around specific projects and initiatives—keeps the right people and information in one place.
Embrace Flexibility
Huddles let teams chat over audio instantly, with the option for video and screen sharing with the tap of a button.
Work Faster
With clips, teams can create audio, video and screen recordings to share updates, walk through demos or talk out an idea with more clarity (and personality).
Extend Collaboration
Slack Connect lets users work alongside external partners and customers in Slack channels, to speed up projects and strengthen relationships.
Integrate Tools
From project management tools to a daily calendar, Slack integrates with more than 2,400 applications.
Automate Tasks
In Slack, users can turn routine meetings and tasks like standups, approvals and requests into automated workflows.
Slack Features
Project Management Features
- Supported: Task Management
- Supported: Scheduling
- Supported: Workflow Automation
- Supported: Mobile Access
- Supported: File tracking
- Supported: Tagging
- Supported: Search
- Supported: Integrates with other Project Management Tools
- Supported: Visual planning tools
Communication Features
- Supported: Chat
- Supported: Status updates and activity feed
- Supported: Notifications
- Supported: Comments and feedback
- Supported: Discussions
- Supported: User directory and online status
- Supported: Sharing and privacy
- Supported: Surveys
- Supported: Internal knowledgebase
- Supported: Integrates with Skype
- Supported: Integrates with GoToMeeting
- Supported: Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts
- Supported: Integrates with Outlook
File Sharing & Management Features
- Supported: Versioning
- Supported: Document files
- Supported: Image files
- Supported: Video files
- Supported: Audio files
- Supported: Document collaboration
- Supported: Shared folders
- Supported: Access control
- Supported: Advanced security features
- Supported: Integrates with Google Drive
- Supported: Integrates with SharePoint
- Supported: Device sync
- Supported: Web interface
- Supported: File change notifications
- Supported: Simultaneous editing
Additional Features
- Supported: Audio Conferencing
- Supported: Video Conferencing
- Supported: Sales Enablement
- Supported: Unified Communications as a Service
- Supported: Meeting Management
- Supported: Encrypted Communications
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Slack Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
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 company has raised $340M in funding and boasts 800k users.
Slack starts at $0.
Reviewers rate Chat highest, with a score of 9.6.
The most common users of Slack are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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April 14, 2023
A better collaboration and integration platform
We use slack for inter and intra team text communication and voice huddles. We also use it for alerting
- Integration with various apps
- Good voice quality on huddles
- Organise chats
- Try to build features for video calls
- Phrase suggestions
- Better mobile app experience
April 14, 2023
Great communication tool
Being able to chat between one or multiple people within the organization around the country. It is easy to chat, call or even video chat.
Sharing ideas with each other in real time helps with ensuring the company gets the best performance while being distant from each of the sites. Leadership can share information while others are away from the office.
- Chat
- Phone
- Video
- None
April 11, 2023
Slack for the team
Slack provides a centralized platform for all of our team communication. With its intuitive interface and easy-to-use features, Slack makes it simple for our team members to collaborate and share ideas in real-time. This allows us to be more productive and efficient in our work.
- Great tool for communication
- A lot of integrations
- Mobile Application
- The Desktop application is sometimes too slow
- Price of Slack for Small companies is too much
April 11, 2023
The best way to communicate inside the organization
We use Slack in our organization mainly for internal communication, as well as communications with some of our customers. The main business problem that Slack addresses is how to communicate quickly between coworkers, and how to easily send pieces of code and files. The scope of our use case is mainly for internal communication, sending files and sharing code between employees, as well as some Slack bots/automations we developed.
- Messaging
- Sharing code
- Sharing files
- Slack Huddle can be improved
- A way to control the screen of another use through Slack
April 11, 2023
Happy Slack-er!
I love Slack! It’s been so great to use and chat with my coworkers on specific topics with more ease than email. Its instant messaging is simple and efficient, and I also love that we can integrate other technologies into it as well. It’s been a great command center for our team!
- Instant messaging
- Team building
- File sharing
- Technical support
- Account support
- OOO
March 29, 2023
Excellent tool for communication
Slack improves the communication with colleagues, for every new project we create a new channel to concentrate all the communication in one place and can keep the history of the project for years. The adoption of Slack in the company was smoothly and nowadays we certainly use more Slack messages than email for internal communication.
Other excellent functionality is the use of integrations, Slack allows integrations with many other tools, like tools for meeting, phone call, email, task manager and many others.
Other excellent functionality is the use of integrations, Slack allows integrations with many other tools, like tools for meeting, phone call, email, task manager and many others.
- Allows efficient communication
- Keep history of messages in channels for years
- Search functionally really works
- Integrations with other tools are great
- Integration with file storage tools could be better
March 13, 2023
Slack -- Fun and Easy to Use!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Especially in our hybrid environment where most of our team is remote and we are rarely all together physically in one location, Slack has allowed us to remain connected and collaborative. In addition, we have developed a strong, positive and fun culture over Slack via the ability to send out fun messages from time to time (random facts, animated gifs, etc).
- Communicate
- Collaborate
- Share info
- Stay connected
- Conduct quick polls
- Improved integration with Gmail
March 06, 2023
Slack Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Slack is used in my organization for internal communication. What is great about it, is that you can save files and share files through Slack without risking of them getting lost
- internal communication
- sharing documents/links
- connecting with your teammates
- bug issues with updates
- find a better way to notify you on a new message , bolding the conversation does not help with urgent slacks.
- more privacy in the group chats
February 27, 2023
Slack connects our team easily and helps us collaborate.
We use Slack for many of our internal communications: daily scrum, weekly company video meetings, daily communication between team members. We have a project management suite of course, as well as an email suite and Gsuite, but I'd say 90% of our instantaneous team communication comes through Slack. For a fully remote company, this is a pretty significant part of our business, so it needs to be fast and easy. Slack fits the bill.
- Instant communication
- Group meetings
- Asynchronous communication
- Video calls are sometimes wonky, though better than they used to be.
- Responses to a particular comment begin a thread, which is kind of useful, but this thread is a single layer deep (ie no responding to a particular comment inside the thread) and I think another layer or two would be nice.
- There should be an option to open the thread below the comment responded to rather than just in the thin sidebar.
February 24, 2023
Use Slack to increase Productivity
We use Slack for internal communication and to collaborate on projects. Email is not a feasible long-term solution for collaboration. So, using Slack we build Channels based on projects and sub-projects and related people can work together within the same projects. In this way information are easy to retrieve and collaboration is fast and easy.
- Sharing of Video files. We can share explainer videos among colleagues easily.
- Direct communication is simple but well presented
- Easy to create channel for project. We can create any amount of channels
- I prefer the desktop app and don't really like the mobile app which requires better UI
- Should have integration with more apps
February 21, 2023
Immediate & transparent communications for those who can manage it.
We use slack for all internal communications; as a small company, it enables us to be transparent so that everyone can have an awareness of what's going on, breaking down any silos that might exist. As a consultancy, we also use it to communicate with clients to allow more immediate and less formal communications.
- Slack speeds communicating up.
- Slack enables transparent communications.
- Slack has flexibility to customize notifications so you can balance noise with focus.
- Slack enables you to keep important information top of mind (pin posts, set message reminders).
- Slack enables you to schedule sending messages so you can respect colleagues' work hours.
- If you have many channels, it can be hard to remember where you saw a post to get back to it.
- If other users don't know how to manage communications specifically for Slack, then it can get cluttered and disorganized.
- If a company uses both email and slack equally, it can duplicate effort and cause confusion where messages are sent – you need to create clear guidelines for your employees.
February 09, 2023
Benefits of Slack
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use this for team chats, important places for announcements, calls and so many more things.
- Real time notifcations
- Dependable communication
- Connectivity is better then other chat forums
- Sync to ATS or email or even LinkedIn
January 05, 2023
Top Communication Platform
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Slack as our primary communication platform, it's very secure and easy to use. It comes with web hooks which we can link to almost anything. And more than a communication tool, we also integrate it with various observability solutions for alerting. Apart from that it comes with bots which make lives easier.
- Chat application within and outside organization
- Bots to make things easier
- Web hooks to integrate and send automatic notifications
- Emoji and sticker support is delight
- Text formatting could be improved.
- Support for tables need to be added
- Reply suggestions will be helpful
December 15, 2022
Impeccable as a real-time communication tool
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It being a large organization with multiple teams in sophisticated structure, timely and effective communication becomes a critical challenge. Slack allows an intuitive chat-like interface for any person-to-person or group discussions—both public and private. Thanks to its extensive list of external integrations (e.g. Google Calendar for scheduling, Zoom for meeting, Lattice for person operations, etc), consolidating other work-related tasks in one place becomes easier.
- Real-time discussions between team members like a chat application
- Direct integrations with calendar and video call applications
- Intuitive shorthand for emoji inputs and Markdown styling
- Smart copy-paste UX for media files and external links that detects the type of assets being pasted
- Streamlined mechanism for archiving older discussions to easily search and find items — currently, any old discussions/threads become hard to find in the sea of more recent discussions
- Ability to categorizing the channels, so that users won't have to comb through a lengthy list of channels — currently, when there are dozens of channels one subscribe to, it becomes challenging to find the signal from the noise
December 07, 2022
Slack is the way to go for sailing through projects together quicker and more efficient.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Slack to organize events. It is a nice way to categorize separate events with notes and different participants in those events. We can post graphics and get feedback from those who joined the events to keep moving along and working faster. It is a great solution to keep everyone updated on important things that need attention.
- Organize topics or events.
- post graphics or files for viewing from different members.
- A great way to notify others when things are posted to get feedback quickly.
- Possibly there is a way to pin graphics that are posted in a group so it stays on top.
- Ability to work on files together such as word docs.
- Tools to annotate on top of graphics.
November 21, 2022
Slack is a fantastic communication app for any company
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Slack is fantastic collaboration and messaging app. We used it to communicate with the team along with sharing best practices, and generally know what's going on with one another and in the ongoing project. The app basically eliminates the need for emails, text messages, and other communication tools. It is fun, yet official. By properly utilizing Slack, we were able to see a significant increase in productivity for most projects.
- Allows us to communicate with team members across the company, anywhere in the world.
- Be up to date about the ongoing project or any other updates.
- UI and UX are amazing
- It lags at times on certain devices.
- More customization of notifications would be deeply appreciated
- Read receipts
November 07, 2022
Slack is a great chat app for big companies
Slack its more than messenger, it's a powerful tool for a people who works in a big organizations. In ours we widely use it, you have to be available in slack during the working hours, it's a part of the job. We have many channels groups and treads where we talk about bugs different updates, merges, or other nice topics as what we are going to eat on a lunch, which updates we have in a different offices and what is the news around a company itself. Most of the real time updates we send via slack, if in our r&d we have troubles we share them in a slack it's basiaclly our stackoverflow where you can search for the solution on your troubles
- Integration with other services
- Messages and UI of the conversation itself
- Channels for every different topic
- The replies are still looks a little bit overhead if you are talking 1 on 1
- Slack has a troubles with the timezones, can just use a fix one which toy settle in the settings
November 07, 2022
Slack is a great tool for businesses of all sizes and stage!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
My company uses Slack to have immediate and direct communication from within each department. This eliminates the need for emails, text messages, and other tools that add bloat the employee workflows. By utilizing Slack we have been able to see a significant increase in productivity and communication has skyrocketed.
- Departmental Communication
- Direct Employee to Employee Communication
- Organizing conversations
- The ability to share larger file sizes.
- Data Retention.
- The ability to sort through the information based on content type.
October 15, 2022
Slack is great for teamwork.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Slack is fantastic for us. We enter all our deals and follow-ups in Slack. It helps greatly with workflow and time management. Slack works wonders for us.
- Great work flow.
- Reminders are awesome.
- Helps manage deals and scheduling.
- Reminders don't go off.
- Calendar built in would be great.
- Better interface.
October 12, 2022
Great Communication Enhancer
Slack is integral for team communication, we use it consistently throughout the day. It allows for quick and seamless communication. Along with simple messaging, it is also great for calls and screen sharing. In our current WFH-dominated world, it is a great tool for team building and communication.
- Quick and easy messaging
- Screen sharing
- Calls
- Could be easier to message new people
- Screen sharing can cause some lag
- Occasional forced log out is annoying
October 12, 2022
Slack has been great for our company!
We use slack to communicate with our team. We are a remote company so it is essential we have a efficient and good way to communicate with each other. We use this for large scale communication as well as for communication between individuals. We also try to use Slack as a way to have fun and give each other props.
- Allows for communication between teams and individuals
- Has ability to have multiple channels so you can divide out teams
- User friendly
- Can't get giphy to work all of the time.
- Be more clear in how to change notifications.
October 11, 2022
Best in the business
The ease of using Slack is phenomenal because of its lightweight design. There are other products in the market, but this application apts for a Developer or a Person who is even working in the Computer Field. Slack helps us to connect quickly through huddles and screen presentations, with the pen option being ultimate. We also have channels where we can call out for teammates, and we use the channel as a record, just like an email. Slack is bringing new features very swiftly, and it is vivid that Slack is the go-to option for any Employer.
- The threading option in Slack is one of the finest options and allows us to discuss a particular topic in the thread itself. By doing this, the messages about a particular topic won't be scattered.
- Slack has a lot of Emoji that are very interactive and brings a smile to the face and I personally love it.
- We can integrate slack with Jira, Calendars, etc., which is required for any employee working in the IT field.
- I don't know why Slack doesn't allow us to add people in the huddle where it is started by someone else. That feature should be added soon.
- I don't believe Slack requires any improvements, as the application already sits on the top. Anyways, there is room to improve and make the UI more user-friendly.
- The huddle option is nice in 1-1 calls, but the huddles in the channels should pop a prompt for confirmation because we might accidentally start a huddle in channels.
October 08, 2022
Slack makes me more productive with easy access to my team.
Being a remote-first company, we rely on a quick line of communication with our co-workers who are all around the globe. Additionally, the integrations and 'bonus' functionality (besides being a chat service) have allowed me to send videos, and files, have quick verbal chats (through their huddle feature) and even remind me about messages that were sent. I can also see when we get new submissions from a Zapier connection and create channels for focused collaboration among different departments. It's an incredibly valuable productivity service.
- Well thought out chat service for 1:1s.
- Allows for collaboration among bigger groups via channels.
- Syncs well with calendars to keep you on pace and allow others to know your availability.
- I'd like to see further ways to organize my chats. Right now, it's very linear. Maybe folders inside folders.
- Being able to transfer any videos recorded in Slack between slack conversations without downloading and uploading. Aka, a Slack link for the video (like loom).
- A cheat sheet of available commands (like starting a zoom chat) --I'd love to know what all my company has enabled.
October 08, 2022
Makes life easy!
We use slack to communicate across teams, share best practices, and generally know what's going on with one another and in the company. Whether it's DMs, public channels for departments, or private channels to coordinate something, we use them all day, every day!
- Allows me to communicate with team members across the country.
- Share best practices and templates.
- Be up to date on company announcements.
- I wish that Gifs didn't play non-stop because it can cause an eye sore.
- It's easy for things to get lost in message threads; having the ability to pin is helpful but could be more robust.
- The video call feature is hit or miss.
October 08, 2022
Instant Collaboration.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Our attorneys travel all over NY state, and we have three different offices. Slack allows us to communicate as if we were sitting across from each other and share pertinent information quickly.
- Internal Communication.
- Notifications of messaging.
- Ability to use on multiple platforms.
- No changes necessary.