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Mattermost vs Microsoft Teams: What are the differences?

Mattermost vs Microsoft Teams

Mattermost and Microsoft Teams are two popular collaboration and communication platforms. While they share some similarities, there are key differences that set them apart. Here, we will highlight the main differences between Mattermost and Microsoft Teams.

  1. Customizability: Mattermost offers greater customization options compared to Microsoft Teams. Users can tailor the interface, features, and integrations according to their specific needs. This flexibility allows teams to build a personalized collaboration environment that suits their workflow.

  2. Platform Compatibility: Microsoft Teams is closely integrated with the Office 365 suite, making it seamless for organizations already using Microsoft products. On the other hand, Mattermost is platform-agnostic and can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud, allowing teams to integrate it with a wide range of existing tools and systems.

  3. Open Source: Mattermost is an open-source platform, which means users have access to the source code and can modify and extend it to match their requirements. This not only offers more transparency but also allows for a more active and vibrant community-driven development process.

  4. Privacy and Security: Mattermost emphasizes privacy and security, providing end-to-end encryption and self-hosting options. This allows organizations with more stringent security and compliance requirements to have complete control over their data and communications. Microsoft Teams, although secure, operates within the Microsoft ecosystem and the data is stored on Microsoft servers, making it subject to their privacy and security policies.

  5. Pricing: Mattermost offers a flexible pricing structure, with a free open-source edition and various paid plans for additional features and support. Microsoft Teams, on the other hand, is bundled in the Office 365 suite and requires a subscription to access all its features. This makes Mattermost more cost-effective for small to medium-sized organizations.

  6. Integration Options: Mattermost provides extensive integration options with popular third-party tools and services. It has a vast library of integrations, allowing teams to connect their collaboration tool with their existing systems seamlessly. While Microsoft Teams also supports integrations, the options are more focused on the Microsoft ecosystem, limiting the flexibility for businesses using a diverse range of tools.

In summary, Mattermost offers greater customization, platform compatibility, privacy, and security options, while Microsoft Teams provides tight integration with the Microsoft suite, a wider range of collaboration features, and a more structured pricing model. The choice between the two would depend on the specific needs, existing infrastructure, and preferences of the organization.

Decisions about Mattermost and Microsoft Teams
Christopher Semmler

Mattermost sports higher performance, uses Postgres, is a pure server side application not using up too much of system resources on the client side, and gives an overall enterprise grade impression in general.

Updates go smooth without a hassle, everything is organised logically, and the integration with the OS is absolutely stable. Apart from that, the underlying runtimes and code are mature, proven and stable.

The developers are maybe a bit more cautious in regard to introducing new features, but they maintain a stable experience, not breaking the codebase in order to hastily implement bells and whistles, which are not yet ready for production. Documentation and debugging are fantastic, so running this in enterprise production environment is absolutely approved of.

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As it is the communication tool chosen for the course, our team will be using Slack to monitor the course announcements from our instructor as well as to communicate with the instructor and industry partners. The tool for communicating within the team will be Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams enables the team to share documents and edit them synchronously(Google Drive is not an option due to one team member's location). Since it also provides a group chat feature, we chose to use it as our communication tool to avoid using too many softwares.

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Hirotaka Ishihara
Undergrad at University of Toronto · | 3 upvotes · 182.8K views

Communication We have chosen two tools for our team communication.

  • Slack

We choose Slack since all of us are familiar with this communication tool. We have a private channel for our team Sphinx for text messages. We added Github apps inside our private channel for repo update notifications. Furthermore, we could contact the subject matter experts within the workspace DCSIL directly for the issues we meet.

  • Microsoft Teams

We use Microsoft Teams for virtual meetings for its fast connection speed. In addition, the call feature in Slack is a paid feature, and we could have virtual meetings and share screens for free in Microsoft Teams.

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Mohammad Hossein Amri
Chief Technology Officer at Planally · | 3 upvotes · 250.4K views

we were using slack and at the same time we had a subscription with office 365. after a while we hit the slack free limitation quota. and it got annoying. the search ability was useless in free tier. and more annoying whenever you search, it opens a webpage and doesn't do it in the app.

on mobile there were many cases that I didn't get notification of important discussions. rooms was the way to separate a talk. but it become tedious. each time for a new subject that you wanted to discuss, you needed to add all the team members into a new room. and after a while the room goes silent. you will end up with a tons of not-in-use rooms that you don't want to clean up them for history purposes. also the slack UI for sub discussion is very stupid. if someone forget to check the checkbox to post the subdiscussion in the main discussion thread, other team members even won't notice such discussion is in progress.

we was paying for office 365 and thought why not give the teams a shot. we won't be in worth situation than we are. we moved to teams and we loved it instantly, we had a separate tab aggregated all the files upload. we could reply on other talk. no need of creating a new room. this way room belongs to a team and not a certain topic. our sub discussion was visible to the whole team. enjoyed integration with azure and unlimited history. the best part was integration with outlook. it was a full suit solution. our stats become busy on outlook meeting events. we get weekly analyse. we didn't need to host our wiki seperated. we've created wiki per team. the communication was much more fun.

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Pros of Mattermost
Pros of Microsoft Teams
  • 60
    Open source
  • 41
    On-premise deployment
  • 26
    Free
  • 22
    Built using golang
  • 21
    Fast and easy to use
  • 14
    Docker image provided for easy setup
  • 14
    Full text search
  • 12
    Built using react
  • 11
    Supports multiple teams
  • 11
    Search and data archiving
  • 11
    Very professional
  • 8
    Keeps us focused, effective, concise
  • 7
    Clean and simple look
  • 7
    Integration with Gitlab
  • 7
    Webhooks support
  • 6
    Well documented
  • 6
    Use #Hashtags like Twitter
  • 3
    Import Slack logs
  • 3
    Reactive community and ease of use
  • 2
    Self managed data
  • 2
    On-premises Deployment
  • 2
    Secure
  • 1
    Markdown support
  • 1
    On premise installation
  • 1
    Kanban
  • 1
    Checklists
  • 1
    Slack-compatible integrations
  • 1
    Easy webhook integration
  • 28
    Work well with the rest of Office 365 work flow
  • 24
    Mobile friendly
  • 19
    Free
  • 12
    Great integrations
  • 12
    Well-thought Design
  • 10
    Channels
  • 8
    Easy setup
  • 6
    Unlimited users
  • 5
    Strong search and data archiving
  • 5
    Easy to integrate with
  • 4
    Multi domain switching support
  • 3
    Web interface
  • 3
    Same interface on multiple platforms
  • 2
    Great voice quality

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Cons of Mattermost
Cons of Microsoft Teams
  • 2
    Less integrations and plugins than slack
  • 2
    Many basic features are enterprise only
  • 2
    Custom sidewide themes only in enterprise
  • 1
    Basic permissions only in enterprise edition
  • 1
    Not compatible with Telegram keys, which used by FSB
  • 17
    Confusing UI
  • 12
    Bad performance on init and after quite a use
  • 10
    Bad Usermanagement
  • 6
    No desktop client (only fat and slow electron app)
  • 6
    Can't see all members in a video meeting
  • 5
    Unable to Mute users
  • 5
    No Markdown Support
  • 4
    You don't really own your messages
  • 4
    MIssing public channels
  • 4
    Forced WYSIWYG
  • 3
    Stubborn, unused friendly
  • 3
    Challenging Onboarding
  • 3
    No linux support
  • 1
    Audio support problems

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Slack
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RocketChat
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HipChat
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Gitter
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