Slack vs Seismic: Which is a better fit?

Speaker 1: I'm Cam, senior director in our company, anywhere between 20 and 25 employees across the world at any given time. I couldn't go a day without Slack. That's five stars for me. Before Slack, we actually had to use two different software options. We used Sococo for our virtual meeting offices, and that served a purpose. It was good for a little bit, but then as we got bigger, we also had to use Skype. And so a natural progression was moving on from both of those into one that offered the same exact offerings, if not even more, and that was Slack. So previous to Slack, Sococo, Skype, and a couple other different instant messaging systems, all provided by Slack going forward. Everything from the pricing to the ease of deployment to how quickly we could get up and running, and just how generally available Slack is, whether it's desktop or the app, and from a mobile phone, you could have a web browser, anything you wanted to. You're never away from Slack, technically. And so, while that might not be a good thing for the work-life balance, it definitely made it much easier to deploy than anything else we researched, and we got forward. And now, it's just part of everyday life. The reason we chose Slack, one of them at least the biggest one was how quickly we could move everything from previous options or previous programs we used to deploy the day of. So I think that was on a scale of one to five, five being the easiest. It was a five. If not, even higher than that. It was as easy as possible to deploy Slack, get everything set up from our exec team, and then trickling it down. It took maybe a matter of a half hour to get everybody on board and inside of Slack, and it's still even faster now. So that was probably the biggest factor to getting us over to Slack in the initial phase. Recommending Slack, or if you're choosing between Slack and something else, just try the free version of Slack and understand that that is good enough to probably get you in the door and keep you in the door as well. The paid version and the other offerings from Slack make it even more integral to your business, so I would highly recommend giving it a shot. Just in general, the ease in which you could get started and the ease in which you could continue going forward without skipping a beat in your business needs, whatever your business needs might be, it's Slack and Slack going forward.

Casidy B.: Hi, this is Casidy. I'm a senior district manager. For Seismic, I give them four stars, and for more reviews like this, click below. Seismic was the first thing that we decided to use just because it checked all the boxes right off the bat. Seismic basically was able to cover everything that we needed. There's not just my position within the realm of where I work. So, it was able to capture everyone's position, the information that they were going to need for each position, and organize it accordingly. So yeah, that's one of the main reasons why. Actually getting onboarded and logged in, it was pretty easy. Understanding how to completely utilize Seismic, to be honest, I'm still learning how to do it. I can get caught down the rabbit hole. There's just a lot that I can click on that the company has uploaded. But other than that, I think just searching for specific things, being able to search for something has really helped me get the ins and outs of how to use it. One of the biggest recommendations that I have is just start using it. For me, it was overwhelming at first, but I was just a new hire. Being able to search and actually get my hands into Seismic, seeing the ins and outs and how easy it is to actually start finding the things that I need, organizing the things that I have, utilizing the resources that other people have posted in there, live sending things; to be honest, it's one of the best experiences I've had, especially as the new hire whenever I was hired onto the company.