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Jive vs Slack comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Jive
Ranking in Enterprise Social Software
15th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (35th), Web Content Management (41st), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (7th), Knowledge Management Software (10th), Enterprise Intranet (5th)
Slack
Ranking in Enterprise Social Software
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
73
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Enterprise Social Software category, the mindshare of Jive is 3.5%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Slack is 12.5%, up from 9.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Social Software
 

Featured Reviews

it_user446067 - PeerSpot reviewer
Used by our agile teams instead of email to track impediments.
Stream activity could be better organized. Activities or content you are following will either be emailed to you or you follow in a stream. This is the largest issue to overcome for new people using the solution. When using email they receive way too many and it becomes noise. If they use streams, it's yet another thing to check along with email, IM, etc.
PaulButticaz - PeerSpot reviewer
A competitive solution that improves collaboration and productivity
Slack has been around for a long time, and it's an industry leader. Of course, Salesforce owns Slack now and is starting to integrate into it. I have attended Slack conferences and met with product and support managers. They're an excellent organization. Choosing Slack depends on the organization's size, so you need to plan your deployment and make sure you put some controls and standards in place and not just turn it on. If you're a Slack shop, you will have to have something like a Zoom or Microsoft Teams platform for when you need to do video conferencing internally or externally. Many shops have both products, but they use Slack for collaboration, chat, and so on, and use Teams for video and audio conferences. At the end of the day, Slack is missing those capabilities, so either you're going to be a Slack/Zoom shop or you're going to be a Microsoft Teams shop. I rate Slack an eight out of ten.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We are able to handle more than one hundred POs at any given time with their shipping docs and info, with only one person in charge."
"With respect to being a clean and efficient communications platform, I think that it does the job quite well."
"You can create channels between teams internally and externally, which is great. There is a lot of security with Slack internal, which is what I value."
"The solution makes it easy to create groups, share documents, and communicate."
"The product makes communication seamless."
"Slack offers the ability to make customizable applications and plugins."
"We use Slack for general communication, conference calls, and sharing screens because we have people working from different countries."
"One thing I like about Slack is the ability to change the color of Slack. It depends on my mood. When I'm having a bright day, I just change the background color of my Slack, which is nice."
"It has definitively made an improvement on our productivity. Information does not got lost in hundreds of less important messages."
 

Cons

"The search engine could be improved and also provide some kind of indexing."
"Customization is something that Slack is lacking."
"The mobile app needs improvement. It consistently misses notifications."
"The product crashes when I use it on the desktop."
"The integration with SharePoint doesn’t work properly."
"We do experience issues when trying to log in on Slack."
"The tool is a bit slow."
"Slack could add additional and better integrations."
"It is difficult to navigate the tool when I log in to two devices and start a video call."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It is an expensive tool. We pay 15 to 20 USD monthly per user."
"Slack is definitely worth the money."
"The solution is expensive."
"The solution is cheap in my country."
"When it comes to pricing, it is on the expensive side."
"The pricing can range up to about twenty bucks a user. You can spend a lot of money, especially if you're talking about thousands of users. Generally speaking, Slack is less expensive than Teams. Slack doesn't include all the bells and whistles that Teams does. So you can go from a $6 license in Microsoft 365 to a $50 license per user per month, and there's a lot more you can do in the $50 license."
"It is less expensive than one of its competitors."
"The tool's pricing could be cheaper."
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Comparison Review

it_user8925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 23, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Educational Organization
86%
Computer Software Company
4%
Financial Services Firm
2%
University
1%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about Slack?
Nowadays, we don't need to visit an HR portal. Our marketing and human resources teams directly share details about birthdays, upcoming events, and important dates in Slack. Whether it's a training...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Slack?
The pricing is reasonable. While cheaper would be better, we are generally satisfied with the current pricing model.
What needs improvement with Slack?
Slack's Canvas feature could be improved in terms of its user experience. While they are trying to integrate something like Notion, it doesn't work well, which is why we still use Notion for offici...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Clearspace, Jive SBS, Jive Engage, Jive-x, Jive-n
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Sample Customers

Eloqua, Hitachi Data Systems,T-Mobile, UBM, Thomson-Reuters, Groupon, Nike, Cisco, and others.
Strava, The New York Times, Spotify, Blue Bottle Coffee Company, Eventbrite, Box, Circa, Stripe
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