Slack - easy team communication
August 24, 2016

Slack - easy team communication

Angelina Altobano | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Slack

Slack was being used as a way to communicate among specific teams of people. They also have community boards that the whole agency had access to, to share noteworthy content.
  • The gif generator is fun and makes conversations interesting.
  • It's simple and intuitive.
  • The interface was a little difficult to get use to.
  • Sometimes I wouldn't see notifications, so people would go unanswered for long periods.
  • It consolidated communication among team members, making it faster and easier.
  • It ended up being another app that we had to use within the company so I'm not sure how well it ended up integrating with the other apps they were using.
  • Communication was fun and people were more inclined to interact with each other outside of their specific teams.
Slack is an easy team messaging app that's fun to use, with features like the random gif generator. It's an easy way to consolidate multiple team message boards and contact individuals in the company. Although it's not exactly a work flow type app it is suppose to easily integrate with apps like Trello. The mobile app is easy to use and the notifications on the mobile app are more visual than the desktop version.
Slack is great specifically for a company with multiple teams. It's easy to create large group conversations and individual conversations. It's fun and fresh, but it also feels like just another app the team wants you to use. We were working with multiple team apps and it was difficult to get everyone on board because they just didn't want to use another program. They felt email or IM was easier. But the company decided to go with Slack for security purposes and to consolidate work communications into one app.

Slack Feature Ratings

Task Management
5
Gantt Charts
Not Rated
Scheduling
Not Rated
Workflow Automation
3
Mobile Access
10
Search
7
Visual planning tools
Not Rated
Chat
10
Notifications
7
Discussions
10
Surveys
Not Rated
Internal knowledgebase
Not Rated
Integrates with GoToMeeting
Not Rated
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts
Not Rated
Integrates with Outlook
Not Rated
Versioning
5
Video files
5
Audio files
5
Document collaboration
Not Rated
Access control
Not Rated
Advanced security features
Not Rated
Integrates with Google Drive
Not Rated
Device sync
Not Rated