3 Ways Salesforce’s Purchase of Slack Will Shake Up Corporate Travel đź”’
Photo Credit: Slack listed on the New York Stock Exchange in June 2019. Slack
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The $27 billion software deal creates a new melting pot of users for travel tech platforms to tap in to. The race is on.
A coming together of two software titans will not only impact the way most companies do business in the future, it could redefine how they manage and book their travel.
Salesforce, a customer relationship management platform, entered into an agreement last week to acquire messaging service Slack for $27 billion.
In essence this creates a new entity that brings together sales and marketing teams from its 150,000 client companies with Slack’s 10 million daily users under the same roof.
Both are platforms that encourage users to make their own tools. “Together, Salesforce and Slack will create the most extensive open ecosystem of apps and workflows for business and empower millions of developers to build the next generation of apps, with clicks and not code,” Salesforce said in its statement announcing the deal.
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