Slack > Teams
Trello > Planner
PowerBi > Tableau, Looker, Mode
And by the quick looks of it:
Airtable > Lists
At the same time I'm looking at that $136 billion cash pile. Oh well, at least they acquired Github...
They don't innovate much, which is too risky -- they buy/copy and they integrate into a single attractive package for businesses.
Customers (companies) don't want to have to spend months researching which separate word processor, spreadsheet, calendar, chat app, email, etc. to use. They want a single integrated choice.
Integration brings an insane amount of value to the table. When you include that, the competitors often become a clear second choice, even if they seem better when judged on their feature set alone.
Also, for people who haven't been involved in integrating products as part of a suite, the amount of work is close to unbelievable. Want to make a small improvement in Calendar, that seems like you should budget a single developer 2 weeks for? Guess what, it's a 3-person six-month-long project because now you have to update 20 other products and API's that interface with calendar, as well as handle interoperability between versions, independent rollouts and rollbacks, etc. But at MS Office scale, the improvement can still be worth it.
All of Microsoft tools work fine, sync really well with each other and integrate natively with existing workflows.
Power users even among devs are a rare breed.
PowerBI is also on another level when compared to other BI tools due to its data modeling capabilities.
I haven't used either to an enormous extent - I've used both, but only to the extent that I've had to in recent weeks - anyone care to educate me?
Then again I bounced off Facebook in ~2011 because I didn't understand the UI (couldn't figure out where anything "went" or would appear for others when I posted it any of the various ways to post things—wall, others' walls, comments on things, statuses, and so on—or where they were coming from when I saw them) and Twitter's confused the hell out of me since a couple redesigns ago, so possibly I'm just dumb.
In which way? From what I have seen, teams functionality is so much worse than the native counterparts that I wouldn't call it integration. Even if it is better than Slack, it's obstructive to the point that I am wondering if the teams development team has ever used it to manage themselves.
Which makes the concept of "file sharing" moot because one just has to paste the new file and the entire team can start working on it without ever leaving the teams app.
The same story holds for integrating with the other 365 apps that MS has.
Additionally, the PowerBI integration is absolutely game changing for sharing performance reports seamlessly to everyone on the team.
And when it comes to file sharing: how do you copy the name of a file into the clipboard?
It’s a complete seamless experience for collaboration.
A bette experience, I think, is post link to google doc in whatever chat, everyone clicks on link and edits doc in browser. I wish that worked well in Teams. Part of the problem is Word365 which seems to break under lots of collaborators and revisions. Track changes is practically unusable with lots of edits. Every time, someone ends up “starting over.” And it’s more hassle to try than to do any serious collabs. But for minor edits, it’s nice.
There’s no advantage to me to “never leave the teams app.”
I use both multiple times a day. Teams is far from a carbon copy of Slack.
If anything, Slack needs to pay attention to Teams. They've already out-innovated Slack on several fronts. For example, Teams is a slick hybrid of industry-std channels (Slack) and industry-std video (Zoom). Slack doesn't offer that.
I would expect to never miss a notification. I don’t in Slack, but Teams will delay notification for hours.
Search in Teams doesn’t find as well as slack. Won’t search across “teams” as opposed to multiple slack orgs.
Teams will freeze and require religion/restart but I won’t know it unless I try to use the tool. So it could have been frozen for minutes or hours without updating. Slack has never had this problem.
It’s weird how multiple times each day (I’ve used Teams for about six months) I scratch my head with some bonehead bug. Not in the free tier of Slack.
Slack -> Lync/Skype for Business/Whatever other name MSFT came up with
Trello -> MS Project
Tableau -> MS SSRS
Airtable -> SharePoint Lists & Workflow
Their new terminal emulator has potential, although I do find it a bit slow and fonts to be weird.