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I don't get it. Slack needs a productivity suite to fight off Microsoft eating their lunch with teams getting bundled for free with everything. Salesforce has n

by dyeje 6y ago

I don't get it. Slack needs a productivity suite to fight off Microsoft eating their lunch with teams getting bundled for free with everything. Salesforce has no synergy with Slack that I can see. I guess you could deeply integrate with the CRM... but why would you want that abomination? The advantage of Slack is that it's centralized communication for the whole company. If it becomes bolted on to the CRM I guarantee other departments at companies will find a new tool.

umeshunni 6y ago
Salesforce is building its own productivity suite - they have acquired Quip and continues to push it as a "live editing intelligent document linked with data"-type thing.
twblalock 6y ago
Quip is probably where they think the synergy is. Quip could provide the productivity suite features, and Slack could provide the chat features. An integrated Slack and Quip product could be a decent competitor to Microsoft Teams, especially for the large amount of customers who already pay for either Salesforce, Quip, or Slack separately. It would probably be a lot easier for existing customers to add new features to what they are already paying for than it would be to switch to Microsoft Teams.
lobotryas 6y ago
Salesforce does have a productivity suite they purchased and built upon a few years ago called Quip.
hw 6y ago
I don't get it either. Great exit for Slack though, which has done nothing in terms of its stock price since IPO. Slack doesn't really have a moat, and they're slowly getting eaten up by Teams and other companies like RingCentral who also have their own chat app. Wouldn't be surprised if Zoom came out with one.
- skinnymuch 6y ago
  Zoom has had a weak plain Slack copy cat for some time now. They bring it up in their change log a lot (Zoom Chat), but I only know of 1-2 people who use it.

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I don't get it. Slack needs a productivity suite to fight off Microsoft eating their lunch with teams getting bundled for free with everything. Salesforce has n

by dyeje 6y ago

umeshunni 6y ago
Salesforce is building its own productivity suite - they have acquired Quip and continues to push it as a "live editing intelligent document linked with data"-type thing.
twblalock 6y ago
Quip is probably where they think the synergy is. Quip could provide the productivity suite features, and Slack could provide the chat features. An integrated Slack and Quip product could be a decent competitor to Microsoft Teams, especially for the large amount of customers who already pay for either Salesforce, Quip, or Slack separately. It would probably be a lot easier for existing customers to add new features to what they are already paying for than it would be to switch to Microsoft Teams.
lobotryas 6y ago
Salesforce does have a productivity suite they purchased and built upon a few years ago called Quip.
hw 6y ago
I don't get it either. Great exit for Slack though, which has done nothing in terms of its stock price since IPO. Slack doesn't really have a moat, and they're slowly getting eaten up by Teams and other companies like RingCentral who also have their own chat app. Wouldn't be surprised if Zoom came out with one.
- skinnymuch 6y ago
  Zoom has had a weak plain Slack copy cat for some time now. They bring it up in their change log a lot (Zoom Chat), but I only know of 1-2 people who use it.