We performed a comparison between Slack and Symphony based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Social Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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 allows to facilitate communication, allowing us to create channels for updates, file sharing, and photo sharing within our team profiles."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"Slack makes it easy for employees to contact each other and exchange documents or information."
"It has definitively made an improvement on our productivity. Information does not got lost in hundreds of less important messages."
"It's valuable for announcements and communicating between team members."
"It offers customization options for various applications, including integrations with Zoom for video calls and a wide range of other integration plugins."
"The product is user-friendly."
"The overall functions are good."
"Symphony and Laravel are the most comfortable frameworks for any developer. It is also lightweight."
"The solution is user-friendly, and it is very good security-wise."
"I found the RAM Commander module in Symphony to be the most valuable."
"The entire product is good."
"When someone responds to my message in Slack, a new window opens. There should be an option to roll down the answers."
"Slack could add additional and better integrations."
"It could be more stable than one of its competitors."
"Sometimes there are login issues."
"We’d like it to have more capability for everyone to work on one doc in real time all at once."
"We do experience issues when trying to log in on Slack."
"I would like to be able to do live streaming on Slack. Slack allows Slack huddle where you can do a group call, but it is not very well-designed. I'm not sure if it is going very well, but live streaming is one thing that I would definitely love to see. When you use Zoom, I like how you can run webinars. If we could do that through Slack, it would become an all-integrated platform. I would also like to be able to schedule meetings using Slack, similar to Zoom."
"The integration with SharePoint doesn’t work properly."
"The solution needs to improve CI."
"Compared to established vendors, it lacks user flexibility and customization, especially in the PM module."
"The area that needs to be improved is modular asset management. When we are uploading the assets in bulk, it is not aligned."
"The solution is very expensive, and its pricing could be improved."
"To improve the situation, enhancing the functionality for integrating with other applications and addressing ticketing issues is crucial."
Slack is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Social Software with 68 reviews while Symphony is ranked 8th in Enterprise Social Software with 5 reviews. Slack is rated 8.4, while Symphony is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Slack writes "A competitive solution that improves collaboration and productivity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symphony writes "Makes tasks like network planning and performance monitoring much easier". Slack is most compared with SharePoint, Atlassian Confluence, Chatter, ChatWork and Zulip, whereas Symphony is most compared with Microsoft Teams, Drupal and SharePoint. See our Slack vs. Symphony report.
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