Slack is a very good tool for maintaining communication between departments and managers in any company.
April 14, 2020

Slack is a very good tool for maintaining communication between departments and managers in any company.

Mary Vasquez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Slack

Slack has been used in my company as a communication tool between departments and co-workers in order to maintain a tight-knit community and for everyone to be clear about their activities and roles within the organization as such. With Slack we have addressed the main problem in any IT company: effective and proactive communication. Like other tools that do the same job, Slack brings together all the chat options on demand so that both users and managers can have the ability to communicate without any major problems.
  • Enables effective and proactive communication between departments and managers in the organization.
  • Brings a great benefit to projects that your company is currently working on, organizing all the medium to long term objectives
  • Slack is a very easy-to-use platform and intuitive for first-time users.
  • Slack's technical support needs to improve its response times, sometimes taking longer than usual, making it unreliable software.
  • Slack performance is sometimes affected by saturation effects on the company's server, making the whole process look a little slow.
  • I would like to see more features in Slack such as: implementing the ability to make video calls without the need for other external software.
  • Slack has given us 45% more response than with similar tools.
  • With Slack we have saved a significant amount of money for good software quality and performance.
  • Our clients are very grateful to be included in private chats where new plans or projects stipulated for the coming months can be discussed.
The great advantage that Slack has over Microsoft Teams is the versatility that the software it offers, something that Microsoft has had a hard time with, and that makes it an unreliable software with many problems when it comes to performance. Also, Slack does not need to be installed as software on operating systems such as Windows, the most popular in my company at least.
Slack's technical support needs to improve a lot in terms of customer service, sometimes they treat customers badly, and many times we prefer to call support in English. They are friendlier and empathic in that sense. Also, they need to improve their response times. When you send them a ticket, they take up to 7 days and their answers are not very clear and offer a vague idea of what you can do to solve any problem you have.

Do you think Slack delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Slack's feature set?

Yes

Did Slack live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Slack go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Slack again?

Yes

Slack is very good at creating communities and establishing links with departments of any organization, which makes this tool a fundamental pillar in terms of communication. However, Slack cannot be relied upon to implement action plans in private conversations due to the minimalist and unconventional nature of its chat tools.

Slack Feature Ratings

Task Management
9
Gantt Charts
10
Scheduling
9
Workflow Automation
10
Mobile Access
9
Search
10
Visual planning tools
9
Chat
10
Notifications
9
Discussions
10
Surveys
9
Internal knowledgebase
10
Integrates with GoToMeeting
9
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts
10
Integrates with Outlook
9
Versioning
10
Video files
9
Audio files
10
Document collaboration
9
Access control
10
Advanced security features
9
Integrates with Google Drive
10
Device sync
9