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At a Glance

Slack

32,840 reviews

Yammer

1,437 reviews

Slack

Small-Business (42.5% of reviews)

Yammer

Enterprise (59.5% of reviews)

Slack

$0.00

Yammer

No pricing information available

Slack vs Yammer

When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Slack easier to use, set up, and administer. Reviewers also preferred doing business with Slack overall.

Reviewers felt that Slack meets the needs of their business better than Yammer.
When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Slack is the preferred option.
For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Slack over Yammer.

Pricing

Slack Pricing

Free

$0.00

Standard

$6.67per active user, per month (billed annually)

Plus

$12.50per active user, per month (billed annually)

Enterprise Grid

Free Trial

Yammer Pricing

‐

Free Trial Unavailable

Ratings

Slack

9.1

Responses: 27808

Yammer

7.9

Responses: 1260

Slack

9.1

Responses: 27927

Yammer

8.1

Responses: 1276

Slack

9.0

Responses: 4824

Yammer

8.3

Responses: 175

Slack

8.8

Responses: 4415

Yammer

7.7

Responses: 166

Slack

8.8

Responses: 18856

Yammer

7.8

Responses: 753

Slack

9.0

Responses: 3907

Yammer

7.8

Responses: 147

Slack

8.6

Responses: 27148

Yammer

5.9

Responses: 1260

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Reviewers' Company Size

Reviewers of Slack were most often representing companies in the Small-Business segment, while reviewers for Yammer were more commonly in the Enterprise segment.

Slack

42.5%

Yammer

10.2%

Slack

39.3%

Yammer

30.3%

Slack

18.2%

Yammer

59.5%

Reviewers' Industry

Slack Industry

Computer Software

15.1%

Information Technology and Services

12.3%

Marketing and Advertising

8.8%

Internet

5.2%

Higher Education

3.6%

Other

55.1%

Yammer Industry

Information Technology and Services

15.0%

Computer Software

6.8%

Hospital & Health Care

5.2%

Education Management

3.9%

Higher Education

3.8%

Other

65.3%

Categories

Slack

Yammer

Slack and Yammer share no categories

Slack is categorized as Business Instant Messaging, Video Conferencing, Unified Workspaces, Audio Conferencing, Screen Sharing, Work Management, Project Collaboration, and Project Management

Yammer is categorized as Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) and Employee Intranet

Reviews

Verified User in Internet

I like the ability to stay up to date on internal conversations by subscribing to different channels. It keeps me in the know in real time, instead of waiting for a meeting to get updates. On a related note, it also declutters my email inbox, and makes...

Paul L.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

At a large company of 25k employee's it was awesome to see what's going on with the company in real-time. If problems arose the leadership could respond fairly quickly with short and concise answers. You could follow different area's of the business which...

Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing

That it takes for ever to load files it's like 4 steps- insert a file, wait for file to load, send file, wait for it to load again. the file should just load and send.

Vrena R.

Verified User in Computer Software

Its just another social network, nothing to special about it. After a week after my company signed up for it every one stopped using it.

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Discussions

Slack Discussions

How do I delete a channel in slack?

47 comments

Currently, Slack has disabled deleting a channel, you can only archive it if you created it.Read more

What does slack software do?

26 comments

Slack is messaging and communication platform which allow an individual for video and audio calls and many more.Read more

Is Slack a good tool?

12 comments

Great tool and have fantastic feature available in it including messaging, channels, file sharing, integration video and as well as audio call means many...Read more

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Yammer Discussions

Yammer and Office integration

1 comment

Hi, the product is Microsoft owned and as such works well with the overall suite. Recently, they seem to be investing heavily in Teams also which has some...Read more

How do you turn off the annoying email notifications that give me updates?

1 comment

Constantly. I turn them off or try to opt out as much as possible. I have an entire email nearly dedicated to spam notices.Read more

Whats the best way to use Yammer is it only for sharing an update or a post?

1 comment

in the application but the Web interface is not bad at allRead more

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