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HCL Verse vs Slack Business - Enterprise comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

HCL Verse
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Email Applications (13th)
Slack Business - Enterprise
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.6
Number of Reviews
83
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Social Software (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Messaging and Collaboration solutions, they serve different purposes. HCL Verse is designed for Email Applications and holds a mindshare of 2.5%, up 1.5% compared to last year.
Slack Business - Enterprise, on the other hand, focuses on Enterprise Social Software, holds 10.5% mindshare, down 13.0% since last year.
Email Applications Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
HCL Verse2.5%
Google Workspace15.9%
Amazon WorkMail9.9%
Other71.7%
Email Applications
Enterprise Social Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Slack Business - Enterprise10.5%
Microsoft Teams7.4%
Atlassian Confluence6.5%
Other75.6%
Enterprise Social Software
 

Featured Reviews

MR
Diretor at MASTERDOM
Stable, scalable, and good interface
HCL Verse has a nice interface and it is a practical email solution. There are a diverse set of features, such as the search bar on top of the screens. The usability from the old applications to the new version has been very good. It was great that we were able to migrate applications from the older version to the new one.
Akhil Viswam - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Threaded collaboration has transformed how our team tracks tickets and monitors automation updates
One suggestion I would make for improving Slack Business - Enterprise is the support of multimedia such as images and videos that we can easily share through Slack. That would be great. Additionally, another thing is AI integration; if Slack has some AI capabilities to get insights about conversations or summarization, that would be a great feature. If Slack has an AI feature that can summarize a particular Slack thread and provide a summary of that, that would be a great feature for us. I would rate it a ten if it comes with some AI features, particularly using generative AI to produce summarization and other kinds of insights from communication in a more secure, data-secure way.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"This solution is the best one."
"The most valuable feature is the mail server."
"We switched to Verse because of enhanced features, better design, and higher security."
"HCL Verse has a nice interface and it is a practical email solution. There are a diverse set of features, such as the search bar on top of the screens."
"Slack's categorization of content and the availability of channels are highly valuable, as they keep communications organized."
"Slack provides very fast communication."
"Slack offers the ability to make customizable applications and plugins."
"Slack Business - Enterprise has impacted our organization positively; it is performing very positively compared to other chat applications and is very helpful at an enterprise level to keep track of everything in separate threads."
"I like Slack's notifications. It is more user-friendly and pleasing than Teams."
"It's valuable for announcements and communicating between team members."
"I use Slack for communication with my colleagues."
"It is a great product and the mobile app is a big plus."
 

Cons

"Security is very important to us, so improvements to this functionality are welcome."
"The solution could improve by allowing us to use a color that we want in the editing boxes."
"The setup was not very easy due to higher security standards."
"The product should provide integration with other solutions like Gmail or Outlook."
"When showing screens during calls, the screen sharing functionality is not as smooth as Google's offering. It appears to be designed for short calls, which limits its effectiveness for longer sessions."
"We’d like it to have more capability for everyone to work on one doc in real time all at once."
"Slack's channel and chat management could be more intuitive. Configuring chats and pinning in Teams is easier, even though Slack has these features, they are not intuitive enough to engage with."
"I'd like the ability to re-organize the channels in my list. You can favorite a channel but you can't organize them in a specific order that fits your everyday use."
"Tried to find information about advance settings for notifications, but did not find what I was looking for."
"Slack tends to crash once a month."
"We do experience issues when trying to log in on Slack."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution is reasonable."
"This is an affordable solution but the price could be improved."
"The tool's pricing could be cheaper."
"The solution is expensive."
"When it comes to pricing, it is on the expensive side."
"Slack is definitely worth the money."
"It's on the more expensive side."
"It is an affordable solution."
"The solution is cheap in my country."
"The pricing can range up to about twenty bucks a user. You can spend a lot of money, especially if you're talking about thousands of users. Generally speaking, Slack is less expensive than Teams. Slack doesn't include all the bells and whistles that Teams does. So you can go from a $6 license in Microsoft 365 to a $50 license per user per month, and there's a lot more you can do in the $50 license."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Government
18%
Comms Service Provider
8%
University
8%
Construction Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Construction Company
10%
Performing Arts
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business58
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise25
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Slack?
I am not aware of pricing, setup costs, or licensing, due to my company's partnership with Slack.
What needs improvement with Slack?
I am uncertain how Slack Business - Enterprise can be improved. Better notification controls, improved threading, and more integrations are all good features that seem relevant.
What is your primary use case for Slack?
My main use case for Slack Business - Enterprise is connecting between different teams and facilitating communication for teams. A quick, specific example of how my teams use Slack Business - Enter...
 

Also Known As

Verse, IBM Verse
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