Chatter (discontinued) vs. Microsoft Teams

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Chatter (discontinued)
Score 9.3 out of 10
N/A
Chatter was a collaboration platform with integration into the business process and the ability to conduct actions like approving expense reports and creating support cases from the activity feed itself. It was acquired by Salesforce and is currently discontinued.N/A
Microsoft Teams
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Teams combines video conferencing software with team collaboration tools. The communications platform allows MS Office users to conduct conference calls and share files via SharePoint, and join or initiate a group chat.
$4.80
per month per user
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Microsoft Teams Essentials
$4.80
per month per user
Microsoft Teams Enterprise
$5.25
per month (paid yearly) per user
Microsoft Teams Enterprise
$5.25
per month per user
Microsoft 365 Business Basic
$7.20
per month per user
Microsoft 365 Business Standard
$15
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscounts are available for non profit organizations.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Chatter (discontinued)
Chose Chatter (discontinued)
Chatter is an excellent tool that provides advanced collaboration methods and let us share our files efficiently in a fast way.
Chose Chatter (discontinued)
Slack, Hangouts, there are a ton of messaging/social apps out there. Overall, I like to use Slack and Hangouts more as a messaging tool. However, when there are certain things that HAVE to get done within Salesforce, I can totally understand why Chatter would be important. When …
Chose Chatter (discontinued)
We were using Skype for business before, but Skype was mostly good at team communication and sharing activities/updates only. Since we started using Salesforce, we got the best option by using Chatter's added advantages. By using it we don't miss any action items. It's a …
Chose Chatter (discontinued)
Because Chatter is tied into our CRM I feel it is easier to use. Teams is better for instant answers and chats. Chatter is better for a data storage of ideas and answers. While they both have there advantages It is hard to say which is more valuable on their own.
Chose Chatter (discontinued)
Chatter is a solid tool within Salesforce. Slack has become more commonplace within our organization, but the fastest way to find out what is going on within an account or opportunity is to check the Chatter feed. I think there are different uses for each of the tools, but …
Chose Chatter (discontinued)
Slack utterly dominates chatter. Slack is searchable, has the use of channels. When you can sync it with Salesforce (there are multiple ways to automate alerts or notifications to be sent from Salesforce to Slack), it renders Chatter useless. Slack makes me never want to use …
Chose Chatter (discontinued)
Chatter is simply the most accessible, user-friendly, and convenient on the go platform we enjoy utilizing daily to help our company grow and boost overall revenue. Without the many features, Salesforce offers daily. We would be unable to capitalize on many lead and application …
Chose Chatter (discontinued)
We are using Chatter just because it is integrated with SFDC, and we use SFDC as our CRM. We use other communication tools as well. You can find communication tools in many applications and platforms, I recommend using the very specific ones, like Chatter, for only the teams …
Chose Chatter (discontinued)
There's a variety of communication tools available for selection out in the market place but I like the easy to navigate system of Chatter. I think there's a whole bunch of more features available in Chatter that I currently do not utilize but I think it's a good robust option.
Chose Chatter (discontinued)
Very similar but I'll give Chatter the advantage because of the different areas and notifications that come with it.
Chose Chatter (discontinued)
We also use Teams. Chatter is very helpful in that I can directly tag any object in our CRM. Instead of taking email requests for admin needs, I have added a Chatter process builder that helps me manage requests. If the case calls for a report to be made, I am able to tag the …
Chose Chatter (discontinued)
It is easier to use Slack for all external communication, but Salesforce is better for team communication.
Chose Chatter (discontinued)
Chatter has a better UI interface and offers more customization.
Chose Chatter (discontinued)
We have also tried to use Slack and Service Now. Service Now simply did not have the features we needed. Slack was useful but not nearly as good for the end users who simply want very simple. Slack confused the end user which caused them frustration, which also meant they did …
Chose Chatter (discontinued)
It is tough because there are several applications that allow for internal communication among teams. Chatter, however, is the only one that's native to Salesforce and allows for all communication to be attached to their respective artifacts. We use Slack in addition to Chatter …
Chose Chatter (discontinued)
Not much differential between these services. Better off integrating with more popular solutions via API.
Chose Chatter (discontinued)
Chatter allows you to converse in SFDC which is the core of any sales organization. Keeps everything under one roof.
Chose Chatter (discontinued)
I personally like Google Hangouts more due to the flow of conversations. I find it a much more efficient way to speak back and forth with work colleagues, other than face-to-face of course. But, as a manager I could see how Chatter would be useful to use when managing pipeline.
Chose Chatter (discontinued)
Chatter was within Salesforce already, so we simply went with it because it's attached and integrated well within Salesforce and Google Drive and Gmail.
Chose Chatter (discontinued)
Chatter has more features than the two software listed above. In other terms, it can be seen as an updated version of the rest
Chose Chatter (discontinued)
I've never used any other embedded collaboration tool.
Chose Chatter (discontinued)
Chatter is much more basic than other solutions, mainly, because it is not the core product for Salesforce. It is great for basic communication needs, but if you are looking for a much more robust solution then I would recommend using an application that is more focused on …
Microsoft Teams
Chose Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a complementary tool I used in my software panel. So it can cover many cases where partners are not using the same tools as the ones used in my firm. It is a complementary tool with other ones like Miro, Slack, and Jira, for example, in order to facilitate …
Chose Microsoft Teams
I suppose on some level I selected Microsoft Teams because my company has it installed on the computers automatically, but having used other programs I find the Microsoft Teams interface to be very user-friendly and you aren't forced into harder to use features unless you …
Chose Microsoft Teams
I think Microsoft Teams is much more user friendly and has more features.
Chose Microsoft Teams
I only use Teams because I am forced by my employer. I think Slack is far superior - it just works.
Chose Microsoft Teams
With Microsoft Teams you can better check each one's agenda. The background when in a meeting is better. Microsoft Teams also have more options for integrations in place.
It's also easier and more intuitive.
It also offers more options of communicating and not only video …
Chose Microsoft Teams
I had the priviledge to work with Microsoft Teams Rooms both in bring your own device mode and also connecting a device via Azure monitor. This helped a lot when we needed to do local meetings with a lot of people with external partners. This helped a lot since we were able to …
Chose Microsoft Teams
We are in the Microsoft Eco-system, so Teams integrates well with our other tools.
We also integrated our company website and IT website to contact me or our IT team.
Without a second doubt, Teams is the application we choose among others and we will continue to use Teams as our …
Chose Microsoft Teams
I prefer using Slack for text and quick video/audio calls. It is easy and has features like GIFs and other integrations built in. It's a nice one button way to communicate. We use Zoom for our more structured meetings and I use Zoom for my training sessions because I can plug …
Chose Microsoft Teams
We chose primarily because of the promised integration with the Microsoft Business Suite - which it mostly delivers on. That does give Teams an obvious advantage over competitors. IMHO Teams has a richer, more mature feature set, and the experience is more reliable and stable. …
Chose Microsoft Teams
We selected Microsoft Teams as we were using starleaf and we had numerous issues.

But now we are also not satisfied at all. And I hope we would move to another app soon.
Chose Microsoft Teams
The Office 365 suit contains everything needed for daily use such as document editing, spreadsheet, email client. The onedrive is a great addition to that. Microsoft Teams allows the editing and access to files saved in onedrive if ther are shared to you. Therefore, Microsoft …
Chose Microsoft Teams
Teams is the best of the company message tools that I have used so far because it integrates so many functionalities. Teams goes way beyond the instant messaging or video calls features with screen-sharing. It integrated with your calendar, enables you to do task tracking (e.g. …
Chose Microsoft Teams
While we mostly use Monday.com for our CRM needs, we still use Teams for our communication needs all day every day. We couldn't function as a team without Teams! The chat and meeting setup/scheduling function is so useful and easy to use. We have found that having meetings is …
Chose Microsoft Teams
  • Microsoft Teams has a lot of features
  • it's well integrated with all other Microsoft products
  • It has a user-friendly desktop and mobile applications
Chose Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a centralized application and integrates to all O365 application suite, this allows any company to have everything at reach, applications, data stored, sharepoint and so on. You can set up meetings and record them which is an advantage because you dont need …
Chose Microsoft Teams
Teams was selected by another team in the organization to manage Instant Messaging needs.
Chose Microsoft Teams
The most noticeable thing that Microsoft Teams offers and Zoom lacks is providing the history of meeting chats. If you join a Zoom meeting late, you don't get any of the chat info (e.g. shared messages, files, contact info, weblinks) that were sent prior to you joining. With …
Chose Microsoft Teams
Zoom has better video call quality and fewer drops in voice calls.
Chose Microsoft Teams
For our particular use case, which is collaboration across teams sitting in different geographies in a fast-paced sales organization, Microsoft Teams is just the perfect platform to bring everyone together. Teams helps you keep the dialogue strictly professional which is good …
Chose Microsoft Teams
User experience is of a higher level and integrates well into Outlook. Using the tool to facilitate user testing with participants outside the company is a breeze too.
Chose Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Team is one of Microsoft's newest applications. Looking at the evolution of the Office suite, I can only imagine what Team will become with the next updates. It's a product that fills a need and has a lot of possibilities to evolve well. I would put it right in the …
Features
Chatter (discontinued)Microsoft Teams
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Chatter (discontinued)
8.3
Ratings
7% above category average
Microsoft Teams
7.0
Ratings
10% below category average
Task Management8.80 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Gantt Charts8.00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Scheduling7.90 Ratings6.30 Ratings
Workflow Automation8.90 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Mobile Access8.00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Search7.90 Ratings6.60 Ratings
Visual planning tools8.80 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
Chatter (discontinued)
8.4
Ratings
6% above category average
Microsoft Teams
7.8
Ratings
2% below category average
Chat9.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Notifications7.10 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Discussions8.10 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Surveys8.00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase8.00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting9.00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts8.90 Ratings5.70 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook9.00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Chatter (discontinued)
8.5
Ratings
8% above category average
Microsoft Teams
7.6
Ratings
4% below category average
Versioning8.80 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Video files8.80 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Audio files7.90 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Document collaboration8.90 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Access control8.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Advanced security features8.90 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive9.00 Ratings5.30 Ratings
Device sync8.00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
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Troop Messenger
Score 9.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(0 ratings)
8.1
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.1
(0 ratings)
3.7
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(0 ratings)
8.3
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.6
(0 ratings)
8.3
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
[Chatter] is the tool that makes our relations
stronger. It provides advanced ways of communication. I have trained my many
team members because of the easy features and functions of this tool, It is very user-friendly. Give it a try if you want to improve your relations with your
customers. It will surely enhance the productivity of your organization.
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Microsoft Teams is ideal for organizations where employees regularly collaborate by sharing files, working on the same documents, updating the progress, etc. This is because different file formats are supported for online editing and collaboration with the help of Microsoft Teams. Additionally, for every file which is shared among the team members, emails are not sent again and again which helps in easily managing and organizing files. It is less appropriate where the team members have to instantly reply to an urgent task as sometimes the notifications are not sent properly which may lead to a delay in the work.
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Pros
  • Keeping track of all activities.
  • Helps sharing files or syncing any data.
  • Its being mobile is best for our sales managers to keep an track while traveling.
  • Showing a score for the level of opportunity helps to prioritize the sales funnel.
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  • Video calls are great with Microsoft Teams. They've made big improvements over the last year and I rarely have issue with getting on. It's nice when things just work.
  • The most used functionality is, of course, the chat feature. It does what it's supposed to do and you can create chat groups from whoever you'd like. We use it a lot when there is a special project and a team from various groups get together for a short period of time to get things done.
  • An overlooked function is the ability to search anything within Microsoft Teams. Any photo, document, or chat can be searched and found pretty easily. I can't tell you how many times this has saved me from having to rewrite something or start over.
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Cons
  • As an admin I would like to make it so that all users receive notifications, to help implement it into their daily practice.
  • If Chatter license users could have a bit more access to view reports, that could be utilized more by us.
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  • I sometimes have a hard time viewing both the meeting screen and chat window at the same time.
  • There have been times when someone in a meeting will totally lose their connection.
  • At times the sound quality is not what it should be which makes it hard to hear each other.
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Likelihood to Renew
Chatter can fulfill at least 85-90% of our business requirements in an easy-to-use platform. Usability is a key requirement and we have had our share of bad usability experiences. In our experience, even the most novice users were able to pick up Chatter in a relatively short amount of time with little/no assistance.
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Microsoft Teams is included with our Office 365 subscription and we have no intention of migrating off of Office 365 and Microsoft products. Since Microsoft Teams is included for free with our Office 365 subscription, and since we enjoy all the features, benefits, and functionality, there is no question that our team will continue to use the product
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Usability
It is easy to use but the impact of it feels like it is a bit antiquated. It does not feel collaborative and real time. Chatter is more akin to email versus Slack or Hangouts where it feels like problems are being solved as you are communicating.
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The overall functionality of the product is incredible in that it provides a one-stop solution for organization and communication. The product is also very well integrated into Microsoft Outlook and other Office apps. Visually pleasing and very easy to use interface. New features are constantly being added to enhance the user experience.
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Reliability and Availability
No answers on this topic
Rare, but outages do happen
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Performance
No answers on this topic
Sometimes about once a week I get a message that says "Sorry, there seems to be something wrong". But it goes away in a few minutes.
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Support Rating
I haven't had to use support often, but when I have Salesforce was very responsive. Like with all things Salesforce, it is easy to use and doesn't have too many issues, so I don't think that people will have to use support often, but if so, they are easy to work with and helpful within the product.
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I think Microsoft Team is overall good application for communication, track Project work inter the teams and also intra teams. I have 7 out of 10 because it needs improvements in certain features like video sharing call, call drop, audio quality and connecting problems even after having good internet connection.
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Implementation Rating
No answers on this topic
I find everything I need for my day-to-day work.
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Alternatives Considered
Because Chatter is tied into our CRM I feel it is easier to use. Teams is better for instant answers and chats. Chatter is better for a data storage of ideas and answers. While they both have there advantages It is hard to say which is more valuable on their own
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We chose primarily because of the promised integration with the Microsoft Business Suite - which it mostly delivers on. That does give Teams an obvious advantage over competitors. IMHO Teams has a richer, more mature feature set, and the experience is more reliable and stable. Although like any of there there is room for imporvement.
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Scalability
No answers on this topic
It does not appear to have a limit to how many teams and employees we can have using it
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Return on Investment
  • This has had a very positive impact when it comes to verifying if proper communication has been had among teams. This helps us know when and what people have been informed of, which gives us the opportunity to regularly review our communication styles.
  • This has had a very positive impact when trying to find particular individuals in a very large company, and without any barriers.
  • This also provides a 'get networking' tool for new and existing individuals to the company, helping people gain influence and awareness among their stakeholders.
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  • User experience has been much better than the previous Skype for Business app. It has an easy-to-use interface with persistent chats. The search feature is very fast and useful.
  • MS Teams has mostly focused on Collaboration and team building features which are very useful for organisational communications. This in turn has a positive impact on the overall business outcome.
  • Scheduling meetings have never been so easy in the past. We can schedule meetings on the go without any hassles
  • Since Teams is accessible from multiple platforms like Laptop, Desktop, Mobile phones, etc it has been very convenient from a Mobility perspective.
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