

It looks and feels very similar to Slack as it also uses ‘channels’ for collaboration.

Microsoft Teams is also a comms platform, but it has more emphasis on video conferencing and comes with Office 365 integration. Managers and employees create and use various ‘channels’ to talk to each other and these channels help to either differentiate departments or workflows, depending on the preference of the organisation. Slack is a communications platform that, at its most basic, offers internal instant messaging and document sharing services to businesses. They want businesses to talk to other businesses from within their platforms, rather than use emails. However, two companies that always seem to be pitted against each other in this space, Slack and Microsoft Teams, want to take this one step further. Business communication is a hotly contested market with a slew of different services that your organisation can use for internal messaging.
