Mattermost vs Webex

Overview

Webex

Stacks165

Followers231

Votes14

Mattermost

Stacks480

Followers582

Votes302

Mattermost vs Webex: What are the differences?

Developers describe Mattermost as "Open-source, self-hosted, Slack alternative". Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall. On the other hand, Webex is detailed as "Connect with anyone, anywhere, any time". Collaborate with colleagues across your organization, or halfway across the planet. Meet online and share files, information, and expertise. Collaborate from wherever you are with WebEx mobile apps for IPhone, iPad, Android, or Blackberry. If you can get online, you can work together.

Mattermost and Webex are primarily classified as "Group Chat & Notifications" and "Web and Video Conferencing" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Mattermost are:

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

On the other hand, Webex provides the following key features:

Invite and remind participants - invite participants to an online meeting that has already started via email, voice conference, or instant messenger, and send reminders about your upcoming meeting.
Use integrated WebEx audio – create a more productive meeting experience with integrated WebEx audio.
Record your meeting - record your actions during your meeting so you can review the discussion at a later time, or send to colleagues who couldn’t attend.

Mattermost is an open source tool with 15.4K GitHub stars and 3.14K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Mattermost's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Mattermost has a broader approval, being mentioned in 38 company stacks & 24 developers stacks; compared to Webex, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 10 developer stacks.

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Advice on Webex, Mattermost

Lisa

Mar 20, 2020

Needs advice

Hi, I am helping teachers in my kid's schools to set up distance learning and wanted to see what is better between Webex, Zoom, and Skype (although only putting this one in as most parents probably have it). The children are 8-9, so they won't be using it on their own and the parents have no experience using Webex or Zoom.

The main use will be for the teacher to explain what they will be covering in the week and enable some social interaction between the kids.

I need to be easy to use for about 20-25 people.

Thanks for your advice, Lisa

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Detailed Comparison

Webex	Mattermost
Collaborate with colleagues across your organization, or halfway across the planet. Meet online and share files, information, and expertise. Collaborate from wherever you are with Webex mobile apps for IPhone, iPad, Android, or Blackberry. If you can get online, you can work together.	Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.
Invite and remind participants - invite participants to an online meeting that has already started via email, voice conference, or instant messenger, and send reminders about your upcoming meeting; Use integrated Webex audio – create a more productive meeting experience with integrated Webex audio; Record your meeting - record your actions during your meeting so you can review the discussion at a later time, or send to colleagues who couldn’t attend; Share content - get everyone on the same page. Open any document or application and discuss it in real time with other participants; Pass the ball - let other participants share and present documents from their computers and assign privileges to individual participants; Transfer files - avoid sending emails back and forth by exchanging files – no matter how large – in your meeting quickly, easily, and securely; Interact within a meeting - use polling and chat, and learn how to integrate webcams into your meeting for a more personal experience.	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
Statistics
Stacks 165	Stacks 480
Followers 231	Followers 582
Votes 14	Votes 302
Pros & Cons
Pros 5 Secure 3 Easy to Use 3 Good branding - Cisco 3 High Quality Cons 1 Horrible voice quality, voice gaps, drops	Pros 60 Open source 41 On-premise deployment 26 Free 22 Built using golang 21 Fast and easy to use Cons 2 Less integrations and plugins than slack 2 Custom sidewide themes only in enterprise 2 Many basic features are enterprise only 1 Not compatible with Telegram keys, which used by FSB 1 Basic permissions only in enterprise edition
Integrations
No integrations available	AWS Elastic Beanstalk Amazon EC2 Segment Jenkins GitLab Microsoft Azure Google Compute Engine Hubot Cloud Foundry Amazon SES

What are some alternatives to Webex, Mattermost?

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.

Discord

Discord is a modern free voice & text chat app for groups of gamers. Our resilient Erlang backend running on the cloud has built in DDoS protection with automatic server failover.

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.

Skype

Skype’s text, voice and video make it simple to share experiences with the people that matter to you, wherever they are.

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.

Zoom

Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, and cross platform group chat into one easy-to-use platform. Our solution offers the best video, audio, and screen-sharing experience across Zoom Rooms, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and H.323/SIP room systems.

Google Meet

It is the business-oriented version of Google's Hangouts platform and is suitable for businesses of all sizes. It allows users to dial in phone numbers to access meetings, thus enabling users with slow internet connection to call in.

Related Comparisons

Some of the features offered by Mattermost are:

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

On the other hand, Webex provides the following key features:

Invite and remind participants - invite participants to an online meeting that has already started via email, voice conference, or instant messenger, and send reminders about your upcoming meeting.
Use integrated WebEx audio – create a more productive meeting experience with integrated WebEx audio.
Record your meeting - record your actions during your meeting so you can review the discussion at a later time, or send to colleagues who couldn’t attend.

Mattermost is an open source tool with 15.4K GitHub stars and 3.14K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Mattermost's open source repository on GitHub.

Mattermost vs Webex