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Adobe Experience Manager vs Slack comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
8.5
Adobe Experience Manager offers high ROI with ease of use, excellent content management, and no-deployment-required content updates.
Sentiment score
7.4
Slack boosts productivity and collaboration with a 40% ROI, praised for efficiency despite some desiring lower pricing.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.3
Adobe Experience Manager's customer service varies, with knowledgeable staff but inconsistent response times and lengthy ticket processes.
Sentiment score
7.1
Slack's reliable service rarely requires support, but customer service is responsive and effective, receiving high praise overall.
They are attentive to big companies but tend to be negligent towards mid-sized companies.
They are always supportive.
We tend to focus more on Workato for support, but internally we raise service requests with the infrastructure team for any issues related to Slack.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Adobe Experience Manager offers scalable, customizable global site provisioning, with challenges in cloud transition and licensing requirements for horizontal scaling.
Sentiment score
7.6
Slack efficiently scales for teams of all sizes, though free version limitations and management of many channels can be challenging.
You cannot simply add more servers without purchasing the license.
Slack is endlessly scalable.
A user who engages with Slack daily and utilizes various features would provide more valuable insights.
Slack is not as comprehensive as Microsoft Teams in terms of scheduling and hosting meetings.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
6.8
Adobe Experience Manager offers high performance and stability, though large-scale setups and integrations may face occasional challenges.
Sentiment score
7.7
Slack is largely praised for its stability and reliability, with occasional minor issues typically related to integrations or updates.
Since they are enterprise and have significant digital business coming through the digital medium, the stability of the product is very important.
It integrates with various systems, allowing us to manage site reliability, availability, and reliability.
Slack's stability is a perfect 10.
Occasionally, Slack behaves unexpectedly and shuts down, which can be irritating, especially when I am in the middle of a task.
 

Room For Improvement

Adobe Experience Manager needs improved documentation, integration, pricing, content synchronization, and developer support to ease management and development.
Users suggest improvements in Slack's video chat, organization, integrations, interface, security, mobile capabilities, and non-developer functionalities.
There is a feature missing where if content is created on the UAT environment and needs to be transferred or synced to the production environment, there is no direct way of doing the sync.
Technical support could be improved, especially for smaller companies.
We can also improve the creation of channels, particularly in terms of privacy, security, flexibility, and the addition of members to newly created channels.
Configuring chats and pinning in Teams is easier, even though Slack has these features, they are not intuitive enough to engage with.
There is a need to add a call group feature to facilitate scheduling and conducting meetings within Slack.
 

Setup Cost

Adobe Experience Manager is costly, with unclear licensing fees, but offers a free trial and potential efficiency benefits.
Slack's free version suits small teams, while enterprises prefer paid plans for security, costing 15-20 USD per user.
Adobe Experience Manager is expensive compared to competitors.
For large enterprises, the cost is often comparable with other major CMSs.
 

Valuable Features

Adobe Experience Manager integrates with Adobe Marketing Cloud, offering user-friendly content management, powerful analytics, and advanced asset handling capabilities.
Slack excels in chat functionalities, app integrations, customization, productivity tools, and offers a seamless, secure communication platform.
Feature-wise, I believe the dispatcher module is the best aspect of Adobe Experience Manager.
The integration of customer behavior and website setup is impressive.
In my experience, Slack is a stable product for communication, and I appreciate its automation features and integration of AI capabilities for enhancing specific functions.
We have created some error alerts and notification-related channels in the Workato recipe itself, where if we encounter any production issue errors or alerts, we receive error notifications with descriptions, error messages, and recipe names in a dedicated production error alerts Slack channel.
In managing releases via Slack channels, one major advantage over Teams is the ability to have threaded discussions, which helps in catching up on relevant discussions without the distraction of interleaved conversations.
 

Categories and Ranking

Adobe Experience Manager
Ranking in Enterprise Social Software
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (7th), Web Content Management (2nd), Digital Experience Platforms (DXP) (1st)
Slack
Ranking in Enterprise Social Software
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
76
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Enterprise Social Software category, the mindshare of Adobe Experience Manager is 3.4%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Slack is 13.0%, up from 9.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Social Software
 

Featured Reviews

Thomas Becker - PeerSpot reviewer
Impressive integration of customer behavior with an easy setup and okay support
I've worked with all major content management systems. Currently, I work with the leaders such as Adobe Experience Manager, Sitecore, and Acquia Working with big companies, I help them either consider setting up a new content management system or address issues they might have with their existing…
Awais Mehmood - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation features and user-friendly interface support seamless communication
Slack is very supportive in terms of communication between my colleagues and clients. While working with the reimbursement feature, I found the automation capabilities on Slack to be incredibly useful, allowing me to automate messages for specific dates or times and even to greet someone on their birthday. I haven't specifically used the channel organization feature of Slack, as I am added to channels, but I use it with Airtable, which automates notifications to a specific Slack channel when a user fills out a form on our website. In my experience, Slack is a stable product for communication, and I appreciate its automation features and integration of AI capabilities for enhancing specific functions.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
19%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Educational Organization
59%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
7%
University
3%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Adobe Experience Manager?
It is easy to learn. You don't need to be an advanced Java developer.
What needs improvement with Adobe Experience Manager?
The content is created as Adobe Experience Manager has an author, publisher, and dispatcher. However, there is a feature missing where if content is created on the UAT environment and needs to be t...
What is your primary use case for Adobe Experience Manager?
We are working on digital experience platforms such as Adobe Experience Manager or Sitefinity. It's for powering their customer-facing website, not the transaction portal, but the brochureware port...
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?
I am not aware of pricing, setup costs, or licensing, due to my company's partnership with Slack.
What needs improvement with Slack?
Sometimes Slack behaves unexpectedly and shuts down without notification or support communication. There is a need to add a call group feature to facilitate scheduling and conducting meetings withi...
 

Also Known As

Adobe Day CQ5, Ektron Social Marketing, Episerver Content Cloud
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Metra
Strava, The New York Times, Spotify, Blue Bottle Coffee Company, Eventbrite, Box, Circa, Stripe
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