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Jive vs Slack Business - Enterprise comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 9, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Jive
Ranking in Enterprise Social Software
12th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (31st), Web Content Management (27th), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (7th), Knowledge Management Software (15th), Enterprise Intranet (6th)
Slack Business - Enterprise
Ranking in Enterprise Social Software
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.6
Number of Reviews
83
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Enterprise Social Software category, the mindshare of Jive is 4.1%, up from 3.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Slack Business - Enterprise is 11.2%, down from 12.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Social Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Slack Business - Enterprise11.2%
Jive4.1%
Other84.7%
Enterprise Social Software
 

Featured Reviews

GD
VP - International Business at Amtex S.A.
A flexible solution that improves our administrative efficiency
We use Jive-n for followups on details regarding purchase orders, shipping documents, and other information We are able to handle more than one hundred POs at any given time with their shipping docs and info, with only one person in charge. This solution provides great flexibility of permission…
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

"We are able to handle more than one hundred POs at any given time with their shipping docs and info, with only one person in charge."
"Overall, it is a good idea as it works better than most solutions out there."
"Slack helps us keep the conversation focused and avoid multiple threads that create more confusion. I would say that has been the biggest advantage for us."
"Slack is a very collaborative tool that makes it easier for me to communicate with the onboarding and billing teams."
"Slack offers the ability to make customizable applications and plugins."
"Its intuitive design makes it easy to use and understand, hence we do not have a need to spend much on educating our teams."
"You can create channels between teams internally and externally, which is great. There is a lot of security with Slack internal, which is what I value."
"Slack Business - Enterprise has had a positive impact on our organization with better communication, provides faster response times, fewer emails, and has helped create a more agile company."
"Slack offers several valuable features. Firstly, they have a message deletion feature, which is now available in other software as well, but Slack was the one who introduced it in enterprise solutions."
 

Cons

"The search engine could be improved and also provide some kind of indexing."
"The product should provide integration with other solutions like Gmail or Outlook."
"We do experience issues when trying to log in on Slack."
"The way groups are created on slack could be improved. Once you create a group of people, you can't add additional people unless you convert it to a channel."
"We could see improvement in Slack by having an integrated meeting tool. Currently, we rely on third-party integration tools like Zoom to schedule meetings. It would be much more convenient to schedule meetings directly within Slack without additional integrations. It needs to have calendar and CRM integrations as well."
"There could be a read function so that when you send a message, instead of the other person having to add a reaction, you know that the message went through."
"Customization is something that Slack is lacking."
"I would like the in-meeting content sharing facility to be improved."
"The tool has stability issues that need to be improved. We are not native English speakers and Slack needs to integrate grammar checks."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The tool's pricing could be cheaper."
"It is less expensive than one of its competitors."
"It is an affordable solution."
"The solution’s pricing is cheap."
"It is an expensive tool. We pay 15 to 20 USD monthly per user."
"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."
"The solution is cheap in my country."
"We use the free version that does not have a license."
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Comparison Review

it_user8925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer with 51-200 employees
Aug 23, 2013
Jive vs Sharepoint vs Drupal Commons
At Mediacurrent we often get requests to compare Drupal to other platforms used for intranet sites and social business platforms (like https://dev.twitter.com/ for example). This is often referred to as “Social Business Software”, which has grown in popularity in recent years. I decided to do a…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Performing Arts
18%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
Marketing Services Firm
9%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business57
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise23
 

Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about Slack?
Nowadays, we don't need to visit an HR portal. Our marketing and human resources teams directly share details about birthdays, upcoming events, and important dates in Slack. Whether it's a training...
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?
Slack Business - Enterprise keeps on adding a lot of features, but I would not comment from the feature point of view. Rather, I would comment on the ease of integration point of view. There is som...
 

Also Known As

Clearspace, Jive SBS, Jive Engage, Jive-x, Jive-n
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Sample Customers

Eloqua, Hitachi Data Systems,T-Mobile, UBM, Thomson-Reuters, Groupon, Nike, Cisco, and others.
Strava, The New York Times, Spotify, Blue Bottle Coffee Company, Eventbrite, Box, Circa, Stripe
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