Shlomi Lavi / Oct 09, 2020

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Google drive or Slack?

• Slack is ranked 2nd while Google Drive is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose Slack is: Slack integrates with tools like Trello, GitHub, Dropbox, Mailchimp, and dozens of others, so you can have a centralized event feed of your project right alongside your chat. This is tremendously useful for keeping context with your discussions.
• In Slack, search for the Google Drive app using the search bar up top. Open the 'app' in Slack like you would a conversation and click 'About', then click 'Configuration.' Under 'Authentication', you'll see that Google Drive is authenticated to one of your Drive accounts, and I'm guessing it's the one you don't want. Click the 'X' next to it.
• Google Drive integrations with Slack Use Zoho Flow to integrate Google Drive with Slack, in atleast 50 different ways, without writing code. Automate any tasks that keep you away from what you do best.

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Slack is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Google drive, Slack is rated higher (100/100) than Google drive (99/100). Slack offers more features (5) to their users than Google drive (0). There is a clear winner in this case and it is Slack!

Looking for the right File Sharing solution for your business? buyers like you are primarily concerned about the real total implementation cost (TCO), full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, pros and cons. In this article we compare between the 2 software products:

How Google compares with Slack?

Google: Google Inc. is an American corporation which provides Internet-related products and services, including internet search, cloud computing, software and advertisingtechnologies.[6] Advertising revenues from AdWords generate almost all of the company's profits.

Slack: Slack is a messaging app for teams. It brings all your communication in one place, integrating with the tools and services you use every day. Slack is free to use for as long as you want, with teams big and small. Slack is on a mission to make your working life simpler, more pleasant and more productive.

Who's more expensive? Google drive or Slack?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of File Sharing software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance & support and other related services. When calculating the TCO it's important to add all of these 'hidden cost' as well. We prepared a TCO calculator for Google drive and Slack.

Google drive price starts at $1.99 per month , on a scale between 1 to 10 Google drive is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of File Sharing software.Slack price starts at $6.67 per user/month , when comparing Slack to their competitors, the software is rated 2 - much lower than the average File Sharing software cost.

Bottom line: Google drive cost is around the same cost of Slack.

Which software includes more/better features?

As with any business software solutions, it’s important to consider the features & functionality. The tool should support the processes, workflows, reports and needs that matter to your team. To help you evaluate this, we've compared Google drive Vs. Slack based on some of the most important and required File Sharing features. Google drive: We are still working to collect the list of features for Google drive. Slack: Document Management, Project Management, Task Management, Document Publishing, Document Versioning.

Target customer size

Google drive's typical customers include: Small, medium and large size businesses, and Slack's target customer size include: Small, medium and large size businesses.

Google Version Of Slack

Author

Shlomi Lavi

Shlomi holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Information System Engineering from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Shlomi brings 15 years of global IT and IS management experience as a consultant, and implementation expert for small, medium and large size (global) companies.

Slack is designed as a platform rather than a product, because replacing your existing tools is annoying but integrating them is convenient. For example, I do all of my writing and spreadsheet work in Google Docs and Sheets respectively.

I have no desire to switch into another system to share these files when I am already doing all of my workplace communication with Slack. The Google Drive Integration for Slack has made it so I can seamlessly use both products together.

Once installed on your Slack Team, this integration allows you to share files by simply sending the URL to the Google Drive file in a Slack Message. The file will then appear right in the channel, shared with anyone else who is a member.

Slack Google Drive App

1. Click the down arrow next to your Slack team name
2. From the menu select “Apps & Custom Integrations”
3. Use the search bar to find “Google Drive”
4. Select the team you would like to which you would like to add the integration
5. Click “Add Google Drive integration”
6. Copy and paste the Drive files URL into a Slack message to share