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What is Stack Overflow for Teams?

Stack Overflow for Teams is a knowledge-sharing platform that facilitates the collection, curation, and dissemination of your company’s knowledge. We do this by providing a platform that’s familiar to developers, embedded into developer workflows, and closes the distance between people and the knowledge they need, using gamification to encourage contribution and engagement. The community-based platform connects knowledge seekers and domain experts through an easy-to-use Q&A tool developers already know with additional functionality built in to ensure institutional knowledge is validated, accessible, and up-to-date both now and in the future. OverflowAI, our new GenAI-powered features for Stack Overflow For Teams Enterprise, helps connect technologists to solutions faster by doing the heavy lifting of searching for technical and institutional knowledge by surfacing and sourcing answers in natural ways, in the environments developers work in.

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Stack Overflow for Teams is a knowledge sharing and collaboration platform that helps teams solve challenges at each stage of the development lifecycle. Access the knowledge you need, when you need it, to build better products.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Developers and technologists are habitually on Stack Overflow searching for solutions, asking questions to get help, sharing their knowledge, and advancing their skill sets. In fact, over 50 million developers rely on Stack Overflow with 81% visiting the site at least a few times per week. It’s critical to their career success, but not all knowledge belongs in the public domain.

That’s where Stack Overflow for Teams comes in - it’s a private instance of Stack Overflow for your company so you can discover both public and private knowledge. Since Stack Overflow is already integral to how technologists work, Stack Overflow for Teams makes it easy to share institutional knowledge in a private, central place.

Stack Overflow for Teams is used by companies of all sizes and across a wide range of industries, looking to boost productivity and collaboration with persistent, just-in-time knowledge sharing.

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Stack Overflow's public platform serves 100 million people every month, making it one of the 50 most popular websites in the world. Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow’s public platform is used by nearly everyone who codes to learn, share their knowledge, collaborate, and build their careers. Our products and tools help developers and technologists in life and at work. These products include Stack Overflow for Teams, Stack Overflow Advertising, and Stack Overflow for Talent and Jobs. Stack Overflow for Teams, our core SaaS collaboration product, is helping thousands of companies around the world make the transition to remote work, address business continuity challenges, and undergo digital transformation.

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Florian W.

Chief Development Architect

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/11/2021

"Getting rid of knowledge silos and making a corporate culture shift"

5/5

What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

Stack overflow is a great tool to make knowledge reusable. It brings down knowledge silos within your organization since people from all over the company can ask and answer questions.

By surfacing the knowledge hidden in your employees' heads, you make it reusable - and that can save you a lot of time your employees might otherwise spend in meetings.

On top of this, Stack Overflow for Teams comes with integrations into MS Teams and Slack, which makes it an integration point for the various channels that we hide knowledge in today. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

The UI can sometimes be a bit messy. The UI for asking, answering, commenting, and voting on questions is OK - these are the essential parts of the UI. The UIs for moderators, user profile management, and dashboards used to inspect statistics are sometimes messy, and things can be hard to find. Unfortunately, the help center is also not very prominently accessible, and although there is a host of helpful information in it, it's not easily accessible and not very well structured. For example, navigation between the help topics is not easily possible.

Also, the Stack Overflow instance is initially empty. Although a lot of the initial content needs to come from the company that deploys Stack Overflow, Stack Overflow could also provide some initial content. That mainly comprises best practice knowledge base articles and how-to's that people can read to get started quickly, e.g., how to ask questions correctly, answer them properly, what Stack should be used for, and whatnot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stack Overflow for Teams:

I think there is hardly a better tool for Q&A than Stack Overflow. It is well known from the public Internet. It is easy to use and supports markdown for asking and answering questions. We are running it as a pilot project before hopefully rolling it out to the entire company. We are generally pleased with the experience and support of Stack Overflow for Teams. I can recommend that product and the effect it may have on a large company where sharing knowledge is often a problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

We try to solve several problems with Stack Overflow. First, due to the company's size, there are many different departments, and exchanging knowledge between them is difficult. Usually, meetings are held to exchange knowledge between colleagues of differing departments. That is usually a point-to-point communication, and so the same information needs to be shared over and over again.

Additionally, a lot of the knowledge already shared in a reusable fashion is mainly hidden in various channels (Slack, MS Teams, Wikis, etc.).

We, therefore, need a tool that breaks down knowledge silos, makes knowledge reusable, and integrates our existing communication channels to surface the knowledge hidden there. Additionally, we position Stack Overflow as a central tool for employees to address their questions and answers. It is our central entry point for Q&A. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

rustyn c.

Technical Writer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/10/2021

"A Worthy FAQs System"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

The best part of Stack Overflow for Teams is the polished Q&A style of Stack Overflow in a private instance to share among our technical teams. A close second is the live and robust search that helps uncover FAQs so users can get their answers fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

Honestly, the toughest thing about Stack Overflow is trying to decide to ask questions in Slack or in Stack. We're currently in the habit of doing everything on Slack, which is nice for instant answers, but has poor search and no tagging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stack Overflow for Teams:

My best advice when adopting Stack OF for Teams is to have a strategy in place for WHEN & WHY your folks should use Stack Overflow instead of <other location>. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're solving the problem of a single SME answering the same question every week - every day, sometimes - and could be using that time to do more valuable things if only the Q&A were captured in a searchable location. That's where Stack OF comes in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Steve H.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/13/2020

"Great Way to Ask a Question Once and Find It Easily"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

Our development team uses Slack heavily but it was becoming difficult when a question was asked to make the proper answer clearly noted for everyone. Additionally it was very difficult for someone to come back and find the question and answer at a later date. If someone wasn't involved in the conversation or was a new hire forget about them even knowing where to look in Slack.

SO for Teams gives our team the ability to branch quickly from Slack into SO to record important questions/answers so that they're properly documented, a true answer is noted, and its easy to search/find later.

The Articles expansion was great for "non question" documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

No major complaints. Looking forward to feature expansion to get into some more wiki-light type documents which will really expand our ability to leverage the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/15/2021

"The 'Stack Overflow for Teams' experience"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

It's like being in the "regular Stack Overflow"... You know to handle it, and you know how everything works right from the start...

You don't need to learn a new thing to get the most out of it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

If it is a private work team, and you bring a lot of "know-how" to the team, if one day you have to change your company, you could lose access to all that knowledge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stack Overflow for Teams:

If you use StackOverflow in your company and you need a place to centralize your"know-how", this is your product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Old problems solved with 'Stack Overflow for Teams' remain accessible to new team members, so they have access to all this knowledge, even if they were not there when the problem occurred. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zelmarie H.

Intermediate Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/9/2021

"Great for sharing knowledge within a team."

3.5/5

What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

It is a great platform to share knowledge with team members. It is also centralized and can be consulted by future colleagues too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

You can't preview the markdown of a comment or question. Or maybe I just haven't figured it out yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Stack Overflow for Teams:

If you do not have a space to ask questions or even the time to document post mortems, then this is the platform for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

Any problems that the team struggles with, from the environment setup to why some functionalities or resources are being used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/27/2022

"Great way for a company to centralize knowledge with a Q&A format."

5/5

What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

The Q&A format incentivizes employees to ask pressing and common questions. I find this better than explaining everything you know in several Confluence pages where important issues might get lost.

Also, it can be easily integrated with Slack for new questions notifications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

I don't know if it can fully replace a knowledge base like Confluence. Sometimes you need to write a big post with different steps and explanations, and I don't know if it fits in an answer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Justin M.

Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/30/2021

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"An excellent way to build an in house knowledge base"

5/5

What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

Everyone on the team is already familiar with the Stack Overflow interface and workflow, and it's precisely the same for teams. After being finely honed for many years now, it is certainly a tried and true way to ask questions and get answers. In other words, it just works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

The private team is only a razors edge separated from the public site. Though it hasn't happened yet, it may be too easy to post a question publically by mistake. It may be better to have a separate subdomain or something. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Meghnadh G.

Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/17/2022

"Best knowledge sharing platform for Software"

5/5

What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

Feature to add QA content to share with peers or teammates. Teams feature is also great. Posting Questions and QA content is easy. It's compact and simple to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

Nothing in particular. But the new Collectives feature can be improved even better. Overall it's a great platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sergey V.

Customer Support Advocate

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/30/2021

"Very useful tool for searching and exploring the previous experience with the colleagues, smart UX."

5/5

What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

Intelligent search experience makes the perfect condition for smooth workflows and assisting the colleagues when they are in the challenge and need some help. The keywords catch is incredibly useful and the system let's to track all the articles that might interest you based on your previous searches. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Stack Overflow for Teams?

The recommendations can be improved based on your search and in the meantime, more interactive bot can be implemented in the website to help with real time-assistance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Stack Overflow for Teams solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm solving support-related issues, and reading through the articles/questions that have been posted by my colleagues eases the process of not referring to escalating the issue once you have all the answers located with the keywords. Also, the voting is really awesome, so you can know how legit/valid is the article. The benefits are to decrease the case-solving lifetime, also not to use the senior agents but instead looking through the previously asked and submitted questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jordan B.

Engineering Consultant

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/15/2021

"Great for teams on internal projects"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Stack Overflow for Teams?

Stack Overflow for teams is like a quick easy way to create documentation that can be referred to by others in the company. We have little resources and time to document everything while we're working, so this serves as a good reference until we can go back and document things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.