![]() ![]() With Slack now off the table, analysts expect Salesforce’s rivals to make big bets too. The search giant is keenly interested in growing its cloud computing division alongside its business collaboration tools, yet its many attempts at developing chat services-Allo, Duo, Hangouts-have floundered. ![]() Salesforce is also trying, preemptively, to keep ahead of rising rivals like Google. ![]() Videoconferencing service Zoom added to Slack’s challenges.īut there’s more to the Slack-force combo than joining forces against Microsoft. Slack was wounded by the surging use of Microsoft Teams, the company’s newly popular teleconferencing tool. Salesforce and Slack are most obviously taking on Microsoft, the Office juggernaut whose grip on virtual workplaces tightened this year as the number of people working remotely soared during the pandemic. The jumbo-size deal for the workplace instant messaging service, announced Tuesday, can be viewed as a salvo directed at a common foe. Salesforce’s nearly $28 billion Slack-quisition is shaking up the software world by pushing competitors to consider big bets of their own. ![]()
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