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Our customers range from two-person startups to Fortune 100 corporations. In fact, 77% of the Fortune 100 uses Slack.
For teams and companies of all sizes.
Slack is great for communication across a lot of offices across different locations. Its more fun than the likes of google chats or Microsoft teams with custom emoji's and gifs.
The only drawback is that we just have too many avenues where we connect and so Slack just got lost with all the other programs and didn't become a priority. This is why we no longer use it.
It was motivated by the price, accessibility, ease of deployment, and great, impactfull features like threads in communications and bookmarks for file sharing.
The interface is very strange as is the fact that you have a separate email & password for every Slack channel you join. Feature for feature, Slack is just a worse version of Discord.
I liked the style, functionality, and availability of slack for everything and everyone. It is completely easy and fun to use and manage as well have many useful features.
People are not used to Slack as much as they are instant messaging or emails, so a lot of people have bad etiquette, which can make Slack a lot more annoying and bothersome than it should be.
This software is just amazing for collaborations. I think it's the user interface that makes it so good, but to be honest it just has this je ne sais qouis that makes it amazing.
I get lost on some of the channels - there are a lot of channels with different teams. I find that I get confused with which channel is for what.
It cares about your privacy and the communication process is encrypted with the ease of sharing screen. Best for Online meetup of friends or colleagues.
We changed after a few months of testing. The rooms ended up giving failure and the number of participants was limited.
It's a very good, easy-to-use tool for both internal and external communications. Excellent sound quality.
There is no option to share files. Negative point is that anyone can control the meeting,anyone can mute all other participants,anyone can be admin.
Overall I am satisfied with the Jitsi platform and happy to recommend it.
Compare to other videoconference plateform or software, jitsi miss the possibility to organize independant rooms or a virtual whiteboard. You cannot also record it.
When you create a meeting, you are always able to re-enter to the same meeting with the same link, even after you close the application. The Video and the audio have a very good quality.
It is not a very widespread application and its use is limited to regular users within an organization, compared to more common options to meet with clients.
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.
Zach C.: Hi, my name's Zach. I'm a CTO, and I give Jitsi a four star out of five. For more reviews like this, click below. Before Jitsi we were using Slack video calls, and we are just having some random sort of technical difficulties with different people on our team. Some people had audio problems, some people had different connection problems, really, just unfortunately, it wasn't meeting our needs for the most basic standard, which is just having a reliable platform. It wasn't reliable enough for us. That was really the main reason why we decided to switch and look for other tools. The reasons why we chose Jitsi, for one, it's a great free solution. That was a big deal. And the fact that it works for anybody without setting out [inaudible 00:01:02] account and works through the browser, and is really easy for any other users to join a Jitsi meeting. That was a huge plus for us. It worked great internally within our team, but it also worked with other clients when we wanted to set up meetings. All we had to do was send them a link, and it was always an easy, no hassle way to start a meeting. There's no applications to download. There's no accounts to create. It doesn't matter what other programs they might be used to, Jitsi always worked great. Other than that, it really just met all those basic requirements, has all the great functionality of most of the other video conference applications, and it can also record meetings. That was also a great advantage for us. Just connect it to your Dropbox, and it can record meetings and store the recordings there. Besides that, it has all the standard configurations and ways to control the speakers and participants in the meeting. It really met all of our needs in that respect. I can say that Jitsi was probably the easiest application that I've ever gotten started. It was just so quick and easy going to the browser and just clicking on the initial button to start a meeting, and you already are up and running, and then you can send a link to your friend and get started. There's really no barriers to start up with Jitsi. It's one of the easiest applications to start with. My recommendation is if you're considering Jitsi, first of all, the price is obviously great, being free. It really just depends on your needs and what you're looking for. Within the team, if you need a quick, easy-to-set-up video conferencing tool, both internally and with clients, I really think it's a great option. Probably the only downside is that it doesn't have all the integrations, so it's not an all-in-one tool as in like the calendar and scheduling and the recording option that some other tools out there have. You do have to use Dropbox to save the recording, so you might need to get a paid Dropbox account. The calendar isn't integrated in there, so the scheduling and meeting scheduling might have to be done through a separate platform also. If you're okay with a little bit of disjointedness in that respect, then I think it's a great option. If you're really looking for one whole, cohesive video application, calendar scheduling, recording, then you might have to look at some other platforms out there.
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