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Jive vs Slack comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Jive
Ranking in Enterprise Social Software
14th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (34th), 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
Number of Reviews
73
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Enterprise Social Software category, the mindshare of Jive is 3.9%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Slack is 11.7%, up from 9.2% 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."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"I am impressed with the product's calls and screen share features which are very useful."
"It allows to facilitate communication, allowing us to create channels for updates, file sharing, and photo sharing within our team profiles."
"The product has the ability to scale."
"Slack helps us keep the conversation focused and avoid multiple threads that create more confusion. I would say that has been the biggest advantage for us."
"The most valuable feature is that we can easily integrate different workloads and the alerts are reliable. Also because it allows us to use it as a monitoring tool sometimes."
"With respect to being a clean and efficient communications platform, I think that it does the job quite well."
"In terms of setup, approaching its menu is simple."
 

Cons

"The search engine could be improved and also provide some kind of indexing."
"Notifications are not as good as they could be (especially for mobile)."
"The tool should be able to fetch a conversation when we search for it even if it is in the thread."
"Slack should add a feature to schedule meetings."
"There could be a read function so that when you send a message, instead of the other person having to add a reaction, you know that the message went through."
"The mobile app needs improvement. It consistently misses notifications."
"The product crashes when I use it on the desktop."
"The solution needs to improve its scalability."
"The solution’s initial setup is not very easy."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"When it comes to pricing, it is on the expensive side."
"It is an expensive tool. We pay 15 to 20 USD monthly per user."
"It's on the more 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."
"The tool's pricing could be cheaper."
"It is less expensive than one of its competitors."
"Slack is not the cheapest solution, but that's okay."
"I would rate the tool's pricing a four out of ten."
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Comparison Review

it_user8925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 23, 2013
Jive vs Sharepoint vs Drupal Commons
At Mediacurrent we often get requests to compare Drupal to other platforms used for intranet sites and social business platforms (like https://dev.twitter.com/ for example). This is often referred to as “Social Business Software”, which has grown in popularity in recent years. I decided to do a…
 

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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Large Enterprise
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 solution has lots of competitors in the market. Slack is not the cheapest solution, but that's okay.
What needs improvement with Slack?
The solution’s initial setup is not very easy.
 

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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