Together, Salesforce and Slack will shape the future of enterprise software and transform the way everyone works in the all-digital, work-from-anywhere world. “Stewart and his team have built one of the most beloved platforms in enterprise software history, with an incredible ecosystem around it,” said Marc Benioff, Chair and CEO, Salesforce. Here is what the executives of both companies had to say: With the combined resources of Salesforce and Slack, who knows what type of new fruit that will spawn. What you see today is not what you may end up getting in the future. AWS, a spin-off of Amazon, could one day become the most valuable company on the planet.ĭigesting these big business chess moves as they happen to figure out what it will mean to everyone down the road is very difficult. Amazon has become one of the biggest winners in the Pandemic. Tomorrow, they will be selling health care. Today, they sell food and everything in between.
We are all experiencing in real time how Amazon is eating the breakfast, lunch and dinner of retail. It’s giving us a good glimpse into the future if big business as they continue to carve out their exclusive piece of the planet’s economy. Apple just did it again with the introduction of their own M1 chip. As companies build out their exclusive platforms to reach deeper into all connectable areas, it makes you wonder just how many horses will be left in the race.īig companies are always buying into their competitor’s technology strongholds as they push to own and control their entire ecosystem and marketplace. We could see how Microsoft’s CRM platform would leverage a massive B2B social network of prospects.
It reminded us of when Microsoft bought LinkedIn for $26 Billion. Maybe the new dynamic duo just wanted to accelerate into the future of digital work. Slack is competing with Microsoft Teams so maybe there were some challenges brewing when the usage of Teams exploded as a result of the pandemic. It seems like the combination could create a powerful new operating system that will enable companies to work in the brave new digital-first world. Salesforce just picked up Slack for a cool $27.7 billion based on the closing price of Salesforce’s common stock on November 30, 2020. It caught many off guard as the reasons for the big spend are still being digested.Ĭombining Slack with Salesforce Customer 360 could be transformative for customers and the industry.
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