Important Highlights –

• Slack will be included into Salesforce Cloud.
• Salesforce will be acquiring Slack for $27.7 billion
• It’ll acquire in stock and real money

The messaging platform Slack with stock deal and money will be deeply incorporated into each Salesforce Cloud, said the companies. Salesforce said on Tuesday that it would secure Slack for $27.7 billion in stock and real money. The companies wrote in a statement that into every Salesforce Cloud, the messaging platform would be deeply integrated.

At the point when the transaction closes, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield will keep on driving the stage and Slack will be Salesforce's operating unit.  

Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO said through a statement that Stewart and his group constructed one of the most beloved platforms in business software history with an extraordinary ecosystem around it. It added that Slack and Salesforce together would shape the enterprise software future and change the manner in which everybody work-from-anywhere and works in the all-digital world.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the acquisition comes in the midst of a jump in remote work. Slack in October teased new features, including Instagram-like stories, push-to-talk sound calls, and the capacity for individuals from any organization to send users direct messages.

The companies stated that Slack and Salesforce would provide organizations and companies one source of truth for their enterprise and a unified platform for associating customers, employees, and partners with each other and the application they using each day, all inside their current work processes.

To shut in the Salesforce's fiscal year 2022's second quarter, the transaction is required, regulatory approvals, pending approval by Slack stockholders, and other closing conditions.

Source : https://z365setup.com/salesforce-acquiring-slack-for-nearly-28billion/

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