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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
13th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (34th), Web Content Management (40th), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (7th), Knowledge Management Software (11th), Enterprise Intranet (6th)
Slack
Ranking in Enterprise Social Software
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
75
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Enterprise Social Software category, the mindshare of Jive is 4.1%, up from 3.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Slack is 12.6%, up from 10.0% 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."
"Slack helps me to read bulk messages."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is communication between team members."
"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."
"The solution makes it easy to create groups, share documents, and communicate."
"I like the tool's ability to send voice mail. We can also search for conversations easily in Slack."
"Slack is a really easy collaboration tool to use and many companies are adopting this popular tool."
"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."
"With respect to being a clean and efficient communications platform, I think that it does the job quite well."
 

Cons

"The search engine could be improved and also provide some kind of indexing."
"Its capabilities to provide security features could be better for corporations."
"The tool should be able to fetch a conversation when we search for it even if it is in the thread."
"It could be more stable than one of its competitors."
"The solution needs to improve its scalability."
"I would like to see the social sharing of blogs, announcements, or other news directly from the message corner."
"I would like the text in chat to be more customizable."
"The way groups are created on slack could be improved. Once you create a group of people, you can't add additional people unless you convert it to a channel."
"Slack tends to crash once a month."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It's on the more expensive side."
"Slack is not the cheapest solution, but that's okay."
"The solution is cheap in my country."
"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."
"When it comes to pricing, it is on the expensive side."
"I would rate the tool's pricing a four out of ten."
"The solution is expensive."
"It is an expensive tool. We pay 15 to 20 USD monthly per user."
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Comparison Review

it_user8925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 23, 2013
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Top Industries

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Educational Organization
80%
Computer Software Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
4%
University
2%
 

Company Size

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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...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

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

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