Lightning Tools Social Squared Discussion Board vs. Slack
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 Lightning Tools Social Squared Discussion Board | Score10 out of 10 | Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees) | Social Squared is a SharePoint Discussion Board App that can be deployed across SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams. Social Squared improves productivity and efficiency by providing structured discussion forums for employee and student discussions. For Microsoft SharePoint Social Squared is a SharePoint discussion board application where users can post questions within relevant forums and receive answers to their questions from subject matter experts. The… | $2,200 per year per installation |
 Slack | Score9.1 out of 10 | N/A | Slack is a group messaging or team collaboration app that aims to simplify communication for businesses. Features include open discussions, private groups, and direct messaging, as well as deep contextual search and message archiving, and file sharing. Slack integrates with a number of other tools, such as MailChimp, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Slack was acquired by Salesforce in December 2020. The product is free to use, and also has paid plans with more features and greater controls. The… | $8.75 per month per user |
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| Additional Details | Prices stated are minimum per installation for "stock" products. $2.20 per user/year on top of base price. Enterprise editions can be amended to suit business needs if deemed necessary, additional costs incurred and TBD. All packages include free technical support. Free upgrades available to latest versions of tool as they are released. | *Per active user, per month, when paying once a year. Pro is $8.75 USD per active user when paying month to month. Business+ is $15.00 USD per active user when paying month to month. | ||||||||||||||
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| Likelihood to Recommend | - | 9.4 |
| Likelihood to Renew | - | 10.0 |
| Usability | - | 9.2 |
| Availability | - | 10.0 |
| Performance | - | 10.0 |
| Support Rating | - | 10.0 |
| Implementation Rating | - | 10.0 |
| Configurability | - | 10.0 |
| Ease of integration | - | 7.0 |