What are the pros and cons of using Slack vs. Teams for online collaboration?

Slack is the AI-powered platform that enables cross-functional collaboration, reduces information silos, and improves productivity by integrating with the entire tech stack to streamline, automate and unify processes. Slack uniquely impacts the way communication happens by reflecting the way organizations are structured. Conversations are organized in topic-based channels to support all lines of business.

The Microsoft 365 intergration is the key thing here. Being able to work across the suite and stay 'in the flow of work' in Teams means you're spending less time switching between products. Many organisations will already have a Microsoft subscription which includes Teams.

Sem dúvidas um dos principais pontos fortes do Microsoft Teams é a integra??o com os demais aplicativos da suite do Microsoft 365. Poder utilizar todo esse ecosistema dentro do Teams e integrado com ele facilita no dia a dia.

Slack deeply integrates with Salesforce and other key enterprise software systems, unifying data and empowering collaboration in a single space. This improves productivity, maximizes ROI across the tech stack, and helps employees stay aligned to achieve business objectives.

Slack's broader integrations and customisability is a win for a lot of people. There are similar features in Teams but feature parity isn't there when it comes to the speed of text-based add-ins.

I give Teams full credit for its integration with SharePoint. If I ever find myself managing a SharePoint site again, I'll definitely work to make sure that SharePoint/Teams integration is working properly so I can introduce it to users.

With over 300 million users, the broader adoption of Teams means it's a more common platform that people are familiar with. This makes it easer for external collaboration, or even moving between jobs. The meeting use in Teams also includes webinars and Town Halls for larger meetings. Paired with Teams Rooms technology, hybrid meetings in Teams can be more inclusive and collaborative. On top of this, the general integration with Microsoft 365 services and security means you're getting more than a messaging platform.

Integrating Teams with SharePoint and our personal OneDrive makes it easier to share files, edit files, and collaborate in real time. This integration definitely makes team collaboration more effective.

Lack of integration with SharePoint / OneDrive makes it harder to collaborate around documents than in Teams, which has native integration

Search function is really bad and it's hard to find anything if you don't know which specific team / channel a document is in.

One disadvantage is the time it takes to evangelize users so that they can start using teams correctly, understanding the difference between teams, channels, chats and individual chats.

Microsoft Teams gets into trouble when it tries to be everything to everybody. I've come to dread video conferencing on Teams, especially with prospective clients or for job interviews because of the poor video and audio quality and it being such an unabashed resource hog.