Overview

Hubot

Stacks276

Followers236

Votes60

Microsoft Teams

Stacks2.4K

Followers1.7K

Votes144

Hubot vs Microsoft Teams: What are the differences?

# Introduction

The Key differences between Hubot and Microsoft Teams are as follows:

1. **Integration with Chat Platforms**: Hubot is a chatbot developed by GitHub, which can be integrated with various chat platforms like Slack and HipChat, while Microsoft Teams is a collaboration platform that includes a built-in chat feature, limiting the scope of integration with other chat platforms.

2. **Customization and Development**: Hubot allows for extensive customization and development with its open-source nature, enabling users to create their own scripts and plugins easily. In contrast, Microsoft Teams offers a more limited customization capability, primarily focusing on integration with Microsoft tools and services.

3. **Hosting Options**: Hubot can be hosted on a self-managed server, providing users with full control over the deployment and maintenance of the bot. On the other hand, Microsoft Teams is a cloud-based platform hosted on Microsoft Azure, offering convenience but limiting customization options for hosting.

4. **User Interface**: Hubot primarily interacts through text-based commands in chat platforms, offering a straightforward and efficient way of communication. Microsoft Teams, in addition to text-based interactions, provides a graphical user interface for collaboration, file sharing, and video conferencing, enhancing the overall user experience.

5. **Integration with Tools and Services**: Hubot has a wide range of integrations available for various tools and services, making it versatile for different use cases. Microsoft Teams, while offering integrations with Microsoft tools like Office 365 and Azure, has a more limited scope in terms of third-party integrations available.

6. **Deployment and Management Complexity**: Hubot requires more technical expertise for deployment and management due to its open-source nature and self-hosting options. In contrast, Microsoft Teams simplifies the deployment process by being a cloud-based platform managed by Microsoft, reducing the complexity for users.

In Summary, the key differences between Hubot and Microsoft Teams lie in their integration capabilities, customization options, hosting solutions, user interfaces, available integrations, and deployment complexities.

Advice on Hubot, Microsoft Teams

carlche0616

Oct 11, 2020

Decided

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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Mohammad Hossein

Chief Technology Officer at Planallay Sdn Bhd

Jan 17, 2020

Decided

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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Hirotaka

Undergrad at DCSIL

Oct 7, 2020

Decided

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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Detailed Comparison

Hubot	Microsoft Teams
Hubot is a chat bot, modeled after GitHub's Campfire bot, hubot. He's pretty cool. He's extendable with old community scripts, or new community org and your own custom scripts, and can work on many different chat services.	See content and chat history anytime, including team chats with Skype that are visible to the whole team. Private group chats are available for smaller group conversations.
We ship Hubot with a small group of core scripts: things like posting images, translating languages, and integrating with Google Maps;Open source, written in CoffeeScript on Node.js;Extensible;Standardized way to share scripts between everyone's robots	All your content, tools, people, and conversations are available in the team workspace;Enjoy built-in access to SharePoint, OneNote, and Skype for Business;Work on documents right in the app
Statistics
Stacks 276	Stacks 2.4K
Followers 236	Followers 1.7K
Votes 60	Votes 144
Pros & Cons
Pros 14 Easy setup 13 Extendable 12 Slack integration 11 Free 9 HipChat integration	Pros 29 Work well with the rest of Office 365 work flow 24 Mobile friendly 19 Free 12 Well-thought Design 12 Great integrations Cons 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
Integrations
No integrations available	Skype

What are some alternatives to Hubot, Microsoft Teams?

Slack

Imagine all your team communication in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. That’s Slack. All your messages. All your files. And everything from Twitter, Dropbox, Google Docs, Asana, Trello, GitHub and dozens of other services. All together.

HipChat

HipChat is a hosted private chat service for your company or team. Invite colleagues to share ideas and files in persistent group chat rooms. Get your team off AIM, Google Talk, and Skype — HipChat was built for business.

Zulip

Zulip is powerful, open source team chat that combines the immediacy of real-time chat with the productivity benefits of threaded conversations. Zulip allows busy managers and others in meetings all day to participate in their teams chats.

RocketChat

Rocket.Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework. It is a great solution for communities and companies wanting to privately host their own chat service or for developers looking forward to build and evolve their own chat platforms.

Mattermost

Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.

Gitter

Free chat rooms for your public repositories. A bit like IRC only smarter. Chats for private repositories as well as organisations.

Flowdock

Flowdock is a web-based team chat service that integrates with your tools to provide a window into your team's activities. With the team inbox, everyone on your team can stay up to date. Stay connected with Flowdock's iOS and Android apps.

Users can send messages and exchange photos, videos, stickers, audio and files of any type. It provides instant messaging, simple, fast, secure and synced across all your devices.

Keybase Teams

Keybase is for anyone. Imagine a Slack for the whole world, except end-to-end encrypted across all your devices. Or a Team Dropbox where the server can't leak your files or be hacked.

Fleep

Leave email behind and manage all conversations with your team, partners and clients in Fleep. If some of them are not Fleep users yet, they will receive all messages as normal emails.