Slack versus Microsoft Teams

Slack has become the top contender among work communication platforms, and many other brands have paled in comparison to this $17 billion company. One tool that continues to be a strong competitor in the battle against Slack is Teams from Microsoft.

Microsoft Teams is a communication and collaboration platform that connects people, content, and tools to streamline a company's processes. This tool is very similar to Slack and has many of the same appealing features, yet there are distinctive reasons for choosing Slack over Microsoft Teams.

Teams that already have an Office 365 subscription may find that Microsoft Teams functions best for their needs. Teams integrates with Microsoft's full suite of products to make sharing projects and other details quick and easy. Teams can easily be customized to meet a company's needs, including APIs, bots, and third-party services. This platform scales with your company and can be utilized across many industries.

However, Microsoft Teams has some steep limitations that make Slack a worthy contender in this discussion. Teams does not allow external parties to be welcomed onto a company's team portal. This would get expensive if you frequently work with external organizations, and that is a significant win for Slack as external stakeholders can be welcomed onto a shared channel. Teams also has limited access to different functions, including a lack of notifications, a set number of channels, and storage that fills quickly with shared files.

Teams is perfect for those with Office 365 subscriptions; however, many small businesses, early-stage start-ups, and solo entrepreneurs may not find it accessible. These individuals and many others rely heavily on Google Drive to create content, track projects, and more. Slack offers full integration with your Google Workspace that makes sharing files simple.

The following reasons would make your company a fit for Microsoft Teams:

• It utilizes Office 365.
• It is a large enterprise.
• It has an IT team that can do a complex Teams setup.

Overall, Microsoft Teams was created with large enterprises in mind, whereas Slack caters to those across different levels of development. Your local start-up can find success on Slack just as 65 Fortune 100 companies do. That transformative functionality is what makes Slack a leader in this space.