Overview

Mattermost

Stacks488

Followers582

Votes302

Microsoft Teams

Stacks2.4K

Followers1.7K

Votes144

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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

Advice on Mattermost, 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

Mattermost	Microsoft Teams
Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.	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.
All your team communication in one place, searchable and accessible anywhere; Slack-compatible, not Slack-limited. Imports Slack channels, users and themes. Offers Slack-compatible webhooks and integrations including Hubot, Jenkins, GitLab and others; Self-host ready with System Console and IT admin tools for managing dozens of team sites. Installs with Linux binary, plus Docker, Heroku, AWS, Azure and Cloud Foundry options	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 488	Stacks 2.4K
Followers 582	Followers 1.7K
Votes 302	Votes 144
Pros & Cons
Pros 60 Open source 41 On-premise deployment 26 Free 22 Built using golang 21 Fast and easy to use Cons 2 Many basic features are enterprise only 2 Custom sidewide themes only in enterprise 2 Less integrations and plugins than slack 1 Not compatible with Telegram keys, which used by FSB 1 Basic permissions only in enterprise edition	Pros 29 Work well with the rest of Office 365 work flow 24 Mobile friendly 19 Free 12 Great integrations 12 Well-thought Design Cons 17 Confusing UI 12 Bad performance on init and after quite a use 10 Bad Usermanagement 6 Can't see all members in a video meeting 6 No desktop client (only fat and slow electron app)
Integrations
AWS Elastic Beanstalk Amazon EC2 Segment Jenkins GitLab Microsoft Azure Google Compute Engine Hubot Cloud Foundry Amazon SES	Skype

What are some alternatives to Mattermost, 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.

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.

Let's Chat

Let's Chat is a persistent messaging application that runs on Node.js and MongoDB. It's designed to be easily deployable and fits well with small, intimate teams. It's free (MIT licensed) and ships with killer features such as LDAP/Kerberos authentication, a REST-like API and XMPP support.