Upon close of the transaction, Slack will become an operating unit of Salesforce and will continue to be led by Butterfield.įrom a technology point of view, Slack’s platform already integrates with more than 2,400 apps that people use to collaborate, communicate and get work done. This is clearly a huge gain for Salesforce and will enable the company to expand its presence in the enterprise, not just among Salesforce customers but with any company undergoing digital transformation. PHOTO: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield will stay on after the acquisition (Courtesy Photo). What Slack Brings to Salesforce: An Ecosystem of Apps More to the point, according to Benioff, Slack will be deeply integrated across the entire Salesforce portfolio and into every Salesforce Cloud. In the aftermath, Salesforce will pull Slack together with Salesforce Customer 360, making Slack the interface for the company's tool that allows companies to connect Salesforce apps and build a single view of the customer. For his part, Stewart Butterfield, the co-founder and chief executive of San Francisco-based Slack, said of the deal: 'As software plays a more and more critical role in the performance of every organization, we share a vision of reduced complexity, increased power and flexibility, and ultimately a greater degree of alignment and organizational agility.'

Salesforce bought slack