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Jive vs Slack Business - Enterprise comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 4, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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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 (35th), Web Content Management (39th), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (7th), Knowledge Management Software (22nd), Enterprise Intranet (11th)
Slack Business - Enterprise
Ranking in Enterprise Social Software
2nd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
78
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Enterprise Social Software category, the mindshare of Jive is 4.1%, down from 4.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Slack Business - Enterprise is 15.8%, up from 10.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Social Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Slack Business - Enterprise15.8%
Jive4.1%
Other80.1%
Enterprise Social Software
 

Featured Reviews

PatrickCiPaaS - PeerSpot reviewer
Works well to collaborate with creating documents or media for a specific goal.
The platform works well to collaborate with creating documents or media for a specific goal. It was more fun to create a community in Jive than to use shared spreadsheets in Dropbox or Google docs. Create a better way of adding users in bulk by email address.
Awais Mehmood - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation features and user-friendly interface support seamless communication
Slack is very supportive in terms of communication between my colleagues and clients. While working with the reimbursement feature, I found the automation capabilities on Slack to be incredibly useful, allowing me to automate messages for specific dates or times and even to greet someone on their birthday. I haven't specifically used the channel organization feature of Slack, as I am added to channels, but I use it with Airtable, which automates notifications to a specific Slack channel when a user fills out a form on our website. In my experience, Slack is a stable product for communication, and I appreciate its automation features and integration of AI capabilities for enhancing specific functions.

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."
"Slack is very supportive in terms of communication between my colleagues and clients."
"We use Slack for general communication, conference calls, and sharing screens because we have people working from different countries."
"The solution is scalable."
"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."
"The most valuable feature for me was the different channels."
"When we work with a platform like Slack, we can have one source without merging different document versions."
"Slack is a powerpack bundle of features that help small or large organizations to handle teams and their tasks."
"The product makes communication seamless."
 

Cons

"The search engine could be improved and also provide some kind of indexing."
"I have found it cumbersome to create and set up groups, or channels."
"We’d like it to have more capability for everyone to work on one doc in real time all at once."
"Integrating Slack with calendar functions would be advantageous, allowing for the seamless scheduling of meetings within the platform."
"The mobile app needs improvement. It consistently misses notifications."
"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."
"The video calling experience on Slack needs improvement."
"I want a feature in the solution that will help me share documents only with the set of people that I prefer rather than all of them. I would also like the solution to have a feature similar to Microsoft SharePoint where you can group all your documents."
"The UI could be a little bit better."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I would rate the tool's pricing a four out of ten."
"It's on the more expensive side."
"The solution’s pricing is cheap."
"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 expensive."
"It is an expensive tool. We pay 15 to 20 USD monthly per user."
"It is less expensive than one of its competitors."
"Slack is definitely worth the money."
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Comparison Review

it_user8925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 23, 2013
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Top Industries

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Performing Arts
17%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
12%
University
8%
 

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 Business54
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise21
 

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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?
From my perspective, a disadvantage of Slack compared to Teams is that connecting between the apps can be a bit difficult. In Teams, all applications available in the Microsoft launchpad are easily...
 

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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